Example sentences of "[noun] [vb base] [vb pp] [adv] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The American Canoe Association have set up an international pen pal scheme for children . |
| 2 | ‘ Nuclear Electric have carried out a similar study , which also showed Deferred Safestore as the best option . |
| 3 | J. Sainsbury , Britain 's biggest food retailer argues that discount shops have received only a temporary boost from the recession . |
| 4 | Spokesmen for the insurance companies seeking to justify this practice have wheeled out a few explanations which include ‘ the client understood that by settling for a poor return on death his ultimate retirement fund would be higher . ’ |
| 5 | Michael Attenborough of Hodder commented : ‘ For any publisher , losing an author all of whose books have sold over a million copies in their UK editions — and I have no doubt that As the Crow Flies will join them soon — is very regrettable . |
| 6 | Even though the certificates have taken on a different appearance , their structure remains the same . |
| 7 | I think Derbyshire have done quite a big thing and had some publicity for theirs . |
| 8 | The committee have set up a working party to look into the proposal . |
| 9 | But John King has stuck to his principles and Rovers have strung together an impressive home record . |
| 10 | But already the Countryside Commission and the Nature Conservancy Council have drawn up a short list of natural sites suitable for World Heritage status . |
| 11 | THE organisers of Colchester 's annual fire-swim have sent out an urgent appeal for sponsorship cash still outstanding from last year 's event . |
| 12 | T'WIT to woo owls Eddie and Edwina have struck up a tender relationship . |
| 13 | Contrary to your impression matters have moved forward a considerable way in relation to the Church Road stop . |
| 14 | Kasparov and Short have set up a breakaway Professional Chess Association , and are considering bids for a title match , which would almost certainly be staged in London . |
| 15 | The Ford Pay claim coincides with negotiations at Vauxhall where leaders of the 9,000 manual workers have turned down a two-year offer giving 9.1 per cent in the first year and inflation plus £3 in the second . |
| 16 | Aids have claimed quite a few victims now |
| 17 | Graduates in German have taken up a wide range of jobs in recent years , in advertising , journalism , local government , tourism , banking , insurance , hospital administration , librarianship , the Civil Service , broadcasting , and in industry and commerce , in Britain and abroad , as well as in teaching . |
| 18 | In the shadow of that history there is all the more to appreciate about the way progressive movements in our time have turned things around , and begun positively to identify the difference of the other : ‘ the emphasis on discontinuity , the celebration of difference and heterogeneity , and the assertion of plurality as opposed to reductive unities — these ideas have animated almost an entire generation of literary and cultural critics ’ ( Mohanty , ‘ Us and Them ’ , 56 — 7 ) . |
| 19 | DARLINGTON health officials have drawn up a smart new logo as part of their plans to revamp the service 's image . |
| 20 | Stove specialists Morso have brought out an environmentally-friendly cast iron stove ( left ) . |
| 21 | Here the organisers have set up an international event where walkers , climbers and people everywhere can do something they enjoy doing and benefit others at the same time . |
| 22 | Of course , the historical analogy is not a completely valid one , for history only concerns the interactions within a single species during a few thousand years , in connection with which geological and climatological changes have played only a minor role ( as in the extinction of Carthage and of the Viking settlements in Greenland ) . |
| 23 | Occupational safety officials in South Africa have set up a public inquiry to investigate mercury poisoning of at least three employees of a British-owned toxic waste reprocessing plant at Cato Ridge in Natal . |
| 24 | With the express intent of reducing dependence on South Africa , nine states of southern Africa have set up an economic cooperation association , SADCC . |
| 25 | GARRYOWEN have pulled off a major coup with the appointment of former All Blacks captain Andy Leslie as coach for the next two seasons . |
| 26 | The Women 's Committee of the Carnegie Museum of Art have brought about an unusual act of collaboration between a museum and a commercial enterprise . |
| 27 | Undeniably the birth certificates of such as Jeff Probyn , Wade Dooley , Mike Teague and Peter Winterbottom have taken on a new significance since 4.30pm on Saturday . |
| 28 | Over the decades film editors have built up a classical ‘ syntax ’ of editing , which circumvents the lack of three dimensions by showing the same scene from various viewpoints , rather in the way an observer will watch a conversation by switching his attention from one speaker to the other . |
| 29 | First , a return to viewing the landscape in totality , rather than the sum of its component parts , and second , a much greater emphasis on the preferences of the general public , rather than professional people , even though some studies have shown quite a good correlation between the two ( Preece , 1980 ) . |
| 30 | But I think those days are now over and anybody who 's been in building societies , there 's now a feeling er that things have altered quite a long way . |