Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [vb pp] [v-ing] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Interim Committee 's programme also envisaged making a levy on oil-producing countries which benefited from the crisis through higher prices , to help other IMF members pay interest on their borrowings from the fund . |
| 2 | Cadbury Schweppes and Sainsbury would not consider calling in headhunters to search for jobs paying less than £35000 : Sainsbury once considered employing a search firm for a £25000 post as manager of a depot , but decided this would be a waste of money , and gave the assignment to one of Britain 's largest search/selection/advertising businesses , MSL . |
| 3 | In a 90-minute presentation he and other directors also proposed classifying the company 's borrowings as A or B category . |
| 4 | Early methods of breaking rock and winning hard ore often involved heating the face with fires of wood , bracken , gorse bushes and any other dry combustible material . |
| 5 | The council even suggested resolving the dispute by building a meeting-house next to St Paul 's for him and his followers to use . |
| 6 | ‘ The new job mainly entailed selling the company 's equipment to the big stores in the Los Angeles area and to some of the bigger golf courses . |
| 7 | They approached the steps and Rain fastidiously avoided touching the rail as she descended . |
| 8 | Merseysider Glenice Inglis-Moore vividly described seeing the city that is home to Hollywood being torched by rioters . |
| 9 | The changes also included reducing the sentence for security offences from life imprisonment to 10 years . |
| 10 | i also missed buying a programme — question : why do n't they sell programmes after the match as well so that people who arrived late can still buy one without having to find the club shop ? |
| 11 | The food is very wholesome with free-range eggs and lambs , salmon from the River Tweed , local shell fish and pigs once seen roaming the orchard , featuring on the menu . |
| 12 | The European Commission even intervened saying an assessment of environmental impact had n't been carried out properly . |
| 13 | Members of the British Cabinet actually considered restoring a member of the old Qajar dynasty to the throne ; unfortunately it emerged that the man in question did not speak a work of Persian . |
| 14 | It can be money well spent making the place smarter and safer . |
| 15 | House of Representatives and Senate Democratic leaders intentionally delayed sending the bill to the White House prior to the election after some Democrats and special-interest groups became convinced that Bush might sign the bill once free of campaign pressures . |
| 16 | Room maids also suggested improving the honeymoon suite , so we gave them a project to look at suitable fabrics and rival hotel suites . |
| 17 | I found him with Liza sitting on the edge of the bed fully dressed reading a comic . |
| 18 | Antislavery history thus entailed building a monument to the sect . |
| 19 | Then Wyllie just kept thumping the ball downfield and soon time ran out on Musselburgh , whose only crumb of comfort is that their coach , Raymond Clark , who had planned to call it a day , is now likely to stay on next season . |
| 20 | Unfortunately , or fortunately , depending on your point of view , these towers of power usually seen gracing the backline of mega guitarists cost a severe amount of wonga . |
| 21 | Even after such a long absence from home , Leopold could not bear to waste any opportunity of showing off his brilliant children , so , instead of going straight back to Salzburg , they took a tortuous route through Dijon , Lyons , Switzerland , Donaueschingen and Augsburg to Munich , where Leopold even contemplated extending the trip to Italy . |