Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Male and female take turns to perch on the bulky drum-nest of seaweed , incubating the single stained white egg . |
| 2 | After 25 years in Rosemary Lane , Thatch Hair Technique has moved to a new prestigious salon in St Albans Walk , Carlisle known as Sweaty Betty 's ! |
| 3 | The dual colour technique has resulted in a renowned piece of photography which has been translated into quality national press advertising . |
| 4 | The nearest any western fighting technique has come to the eastern martial arts , is in the French art of ‘ la Savate ’ . |
| 5 | IBM Corp has gone to the Distributed Computing Solutions arm of General Atomics Inc , San Diego for its UniTree file and storage management software ‘ for use and distribution on the entire line of IBM computers , ’ although it seems likely that it will be confined to running under Unix for now . |
| 6 | Electronic Data Systems Corp has laid off an undetermined number of staff at its offices worldwide to increase efficiency and cut costs . |
| 7 | If the Church and secular press is anything to go by , a period of intense lobbying has begun with the various groups and interests within the Church of England backing their preferred candidates , or perhaps as significant , blacking others . |
| 8 | The financial strength that the trade union link has brought to the Labour Part Party is vital . |
| 9 | British Rail has turned to the privately-owned North York Moors steam railway at Pickering instead of Brel workshops to repaint six carriages in the colours of Regional Railways . |
| 10 | Contracting out by local authorities has increased under the Conservative government — partly voluntarily and partly as a response to changes in the law requiring them to do so for certain activities . |
| 11 | Much of his new support has come from the left , however . |
| 12 | Erm that factor has enhanced its value for agriculture and intensification has led to a wholesale loss of features . |
| 13 | Thus , pump-priming has turned into a bottomless pit for the Treasury , in spite of the reinvestment of large receipts from land sales . |
| 14 | WALLASEY-based same-day courier service Mercury Express has embarked on a national expansion . |
| 15 | Apart from Mrs Thatcher 's unqualified declaration of support , the only other comment on the events in Panama has come from the Spanish Prime Minister , Mr Felipe Gonzalez , who told the Cortes in Madrid that his government ‘ condemned outright all foreign intervention ’ . |
| 16 | Although the prime responsibility for rural housing provision has rested with the rural district councils ( district councils since 1974 ) , they must work within a strategic planning framework laid down by county council planning authorities . |
| 17 | The Londoner has starred at the Upper Malone arena for the past three meetings and his clashes with arch rival Colin Jackson have been something special . |
| 18 | On occasions Strach has played on the left — To accomodate Hendrie in the promotion year , and when Batty , Macca had a go at right-back last season . |
| 19 | This controversial decision has led to a great deal of difficulty ; but the decision demonstrates the current trend in arbitration which , like references to experts , is another form of machinery for resolving disputes outside the court . |
| 20 | But for accident victims like Marie Moore from Darlaston , today 's decision has come as a bitter blow . |
| 21 | The recognition that , given appropriate opportunities , time , and carefully devised teaching strategies , even people with very severe learning difficulties can make progress has led to a new commitment . |
| 22 | ‘ Preoccupation with Cd values has led to the boring shapes we have become all too familiar with . ’ |
| 23 | Quizmaster Magnus Magnusson KBE has landed in the hot seat himself . |
| 24 | Bill : I was wondering recently what effect the AIDS hysteria has had outside the gay movement and I was talking about it a bit in a pub I use down in Sussex . |
| 25 | In recent years a growing sophistication in tachistoscopic half-field investigations has derived from a conceptual and methodological framework known as information processing theory . |
| 26 | BREATHLESS PHONE calls first thing in the morning ; indecipherable typescripts bristling with spidery illustrations ; wild-eyed magnetic levitationists turning up at reception — New Scientist has dealt with the British inventor in his most extreme forms . |
| 27 | The Cappielow striker has scored in every round and includes the only hat-trick of the competition among his seven strikes . |
| 28 | So far , change has occurred without the chaotic excesses , random U-turns and destructive instability that have characterised communism 's demise in some other former Eastern Bloc states . |
| 29 | Just as McBride and Doyle before him , Ciaran Fitzgerald has suffered from the Irish notion that Messiahs work . |
| 30 | The second kind has to do with the conceptual coherence of the theory that the empirical investigation is designed to support . |