Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [vb pp] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | IBM Corp duly announced a whole string of speech recognition products , ranging from basic personal computer applications to leading-edge speech technology , developed at the Thomas J Watson Research Center . |
| 2 | Intel Corp duly launched a new copyright infringement case against Advanced Micro Devices Inc over the latter 's just-announced Am486 parts that include Intel microcode . |
| 3 | Rebate-only plans apparently offered a free pension , as all the money came from the Government . |
| 4 | Profits are well up , cost reduction obviously played a major part in this and the F T group is er , fifty five percent up on last year and this is against the background of a five percent drop in advertisement volume and we have an eleven percent drop in advertisement volume from the continent of Europe erm , which of course does n't affect other national newspapers . |
| 5 | The stone-floored basement was converted into a huge , communal changing room , one of the first of its kind , and Bernard thoughtfully provided a large leather armchair for bored husbands or partners . |
| 6 | If they were relatively inactive and presented their demands through what the councillors defined as the " proper " ( private ) channels then their demands rarely secured a favourable response . |
| 7 | WEST HAM have paid £225,000 for Partizan Belgrade central defender Budimir Vujacic after the central defender successfully completed a ten-day trial at Upton Park . |
| 8 | The Civil Service Department eventually lost a running battle with the Treasury and was disbanded in 1981 , with some of its functions returning to the Treasury . |
| 9 | In the present study distention of the oesophagus alone caused a significant increase of 12 mm Hg , and concurrent acidification had not added effect . |
| 10 | That farewell to the coaches was going to be ‘ Hello ’ until a few minutes ago when the British Olympic Association suddenly cancelled a meet-the-press day . |
| 11 | Magnus was a great orator whose rousing speeches soon created a massive following among the common folk of the Empire . |
| 12 | As with most other new communications industries in the twentieth century , the United States quickly established a huge computer lead over the rest of the world . |
| 13 | Her face went blank , but this time Guy saw the effort it cost her to regain that air of remote calm , and her eyes still held a mute appeal that stabbed him to the heart . |
| 14 | The Defence Department also proposed a possible reduction to a level of 150,000 of US troops stationed in Europe over the five years to 1995 , provided that the Warsaw Pact reciprocated and on the assumption that the Soviet Union could no longer depend upon its Warsaw Pact allies to support any military action it may take . |
| 15 | It is he also who , just when the publisher is cock-a-hoop at having reprinted a hot new novel within a week of publication , will telephone the sales department earnestly requested a single copy of the first impression . |
| 16 | This study also introduced a different test task using not a successive but a simultaneous discrimination in which the subjects had to choose ( for the reward of a marble ) one of the two faces . |
| 17 | ‘ For the education or instruction of Boys and Young Persons ’ , John Dakyn also established a free school with Richard Cook , a priest , as the first schoolmaster . |
| 18 | Little by little , however , the force of this long glen beneath the austere greyness of the Five Sisters touched Johnson , and he moved his position from that of first considering the political role of such remoteness , and the opportunities it gave for military strategies and subsequent escapes — Glenshiel had been the scene of a battle fifty-four years earlier in which local Highlanders unsuccessfully reinforced a Spanish invasion force — to being lulled by the sight of so many waters , brooks , burns , and silver rivulets , ‘ which commonly ran with a clear shallow stream over a hard pebbly bottom ’ . |
| 19 | ‘ Oh , ’ the Prior added almost as an afterthought , ‘ the courier also brought a personal message from Thomas . ’ |
| 20 | CURIOUSLY , The Echo also struck a modern note . |
| 21 | The China Airlines Boeing 747-200 cargo carrier also suffered a double engine failure . |
| 22 | While these authors also noted a slight decrease in the proliferative activity of the distal colon , they found that this difference remained constant regardless of the risk status of the subject ( normal controls , small or large adenomas , colon cancer ) . |
| 23 | The poor girl had gone off to her camp before she had formulated any hypotheses ; she had no idea as to what theory or concepts her work was to throw new light on , and so , to be on the safe side , she had recorded everything she could think of over a period of about six weeks and her notebooks practically filled a medium-sized suitcase . |
| 24 | But pale eyes often held a far-away look which he tended to associate with insanity . |
| 25 | By solving a physiological conundrum Hubel and Wiesel immediately created a psychological puzzle : how is visual perception possible in a system that only relays information about the location and orientation of edges ? |
| 26 | It had further taught them that bomb casualties in Protestant districts frequently included a substantial proportion of Roman Catholics . |
| 27 | Many quite fluent Dyirbal speakers simply represented a dead end in that their intuitions could not be accessed . |
| 28 | In 1958 the car ambitiously featured a large tableau along one side , showing the Mayflower crossing the Atlantic . |
| 29 | Ernie intitially bought a Siberian Husky as a pet . |
| 30 | The following day , the opposition again called a general strike and a rally which attracted a crowd independently estimated at 300,000 . |