Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] [vb pp] [adv] [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lord King has handed over executive authority at British Airways to his deputy , Sir Colin Marshall . |
| 2 | Kev Knowles has signed from local Jehovah 's Witness side Armageddon Wanderers and at his own expense has taken over match programme production , re-naming it the ‘ Whaddon Watchtower ’ . |
| 3 | Tough action has cut down football hooliganism . |
| 4 | a body corporate which has more than 20 members ( or is the subsidiary of a holding company which has more than 20 members ) and it , or any of its holding companies or subsidiaries has called up share capital or net assets of not less than 500,000 |
| 5 | The paper is ambitious and given its scope , inevitably , some interesting assertions are not fully developed , inter alia that using psychodynamic theory at different times will have different meanings for practitioners ; and that in the UK a preoccupation with anti-discriminatory perspectives has slowed down theory building . |
| 6 | Until now , Atkinson has played down title talk , referring to his team as ‘ half decent ’ and describing their position as bookies ' favourites as ‘ barmy ’ . |
| 7 | Chairman John Reeve said Severfield has taken out credit insurance to offset future bad debt problems . |
| 8 | The Librarian has carried out information science research in the field of evaluative bibliometrics — the use of data derived from publication and citation measures to influence research policy-making . |
| 9 | Anecdotal evidence , however , suggests that the follow-through has been patchy , and very few retailers are assuming anything other than that the consumer has put away cheque book and credit cards and is unlikely to venture forth until confidence begins to build again . |