Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] [vb pp] [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Marcos fairy tale A touching story has reached me from the Manila Times of how Ferdinand Marcos had planned to bequeath more than £2.5bn in gold to his beloved people , but fell ill before he could sign the will . |
| 2 | SUN man Paul Welford has reported him to the police , and Flashman said : ‘ If people want to do that , then fair enough . |
| 3 | John Major has made one for citizens , British Rail has done it for their passengers , the banks have formulated one for their customers and now the JS distribution division has done it for the branches . |
| 4 | The age of the PC has left us with a messy low grade grumbling crisis . |
| 5 | This accursed recession has blinded us to the fact that we are well placed , vis-a-vis our competitors in Europe , to create wealth . |
| 6 | YOUNG accountants at top City firms , recruited in the late 1980s boom when one in 10 graduates trained as an accountant , are being encouraged to take unpaid leave or extended holidays because the recession has left them with no work to do . |
| 7 | Perhaps racism has conditioned us to a greater extent than we expected . |
| 8 | She plans to launch her own designer clothes label but that is one area where her younger sister has pipped her at the post . |
| 9 | My own experience has led me to the conclusion that at the present stage of development of comprehensive education , a purely individual-based approach to support teaching is likely to prove counterproductive for a combination of three reasons : |
| 10 | This experience has left me with a love of the East and an ability to feel at home there which has been an immense help in my business life . |
| 11 | As for their laying the birch on my pocket , I compute that my support of Lewis and Brzeska has cost me at the lowest estimate about £20 per year , from one source alone since that regrettable occurrence , since I dared to discern a great sculptor and a great painter in the midst of England 's artistic desolaton . |
| 12 | His crime has brought him to the extremity which Marmeladov was telling him about and tasting at the bottom of his own vodka jug in the opening pages of the novel . |
| 13 | For one thing , his obsession with tactics has led him into an absurd devaluation of the merits and achievements of Peter Beardsley . |
| 14 | One research scientist , a friend of mine said that the setting up of a particularly apt experiment has lead him to a sense of the beautiful . |
| 15 | Dear Rothenstein , Now that the Mexican president has provided you with the beak and talons of an Aztec eagle you may perhaps feel better equipped to face me in open contest . |
| 16 | Although he left no explicit statement of belief , recent scholarship has shown him as a consistent sponsor of reform , both in his local activities and as an intermediary between suitors and the Crown . |
| 17 | Deeper study has convinced me of the opposite . |
| 18 | Nicholson 's new boy Adrian Maguire has thirty four winners already … but a double from Richard Dunwoody has taken him into the twenties |
| 19 | Henry is , or whether Mrs G. has presented you with a little Tasmanian , or likely to do so , a point upon which her mother is so exceedingly anxious that on finding it was not mentioned she sat down and cried with vexation . ’ |
| 20 | His research has taken him through the alpine and arid zones of Australia ; botanical history is one of his many interests , and he specialises in the ‘ Compositae ’ family . |
| 21 | Pleased , that is , until I discovered that I had forgotten to bring the tea bags — the subsequent ‘ Well , why did n't you bring them then 's , ‘ Why is it always my fault 's reminded me of the Quentin Crisp line that marriage was impossible for him because he could not have tolerated an endless succession of mornings when the first words he heard were , ‘ And another thing ’ — and that there were no birds . |
| 22 | Thus , a consideration of earlier work on DMVs has led us to the conclusion that the settlement patterns we actually see on the maps and in the landscape consist of a range of settlements , at various stages of development at all periods ; everything , in fact , from surviving medieval villages to totally abandoned farm sites . |
| 23 | Alexander III of Scotland has left us as an heir a three-year-old Norwegian princess . |
| 24 | But while many small traders blame the lenders for many of their difficulties Mr Miller says the Royal Bank of Scotland has helped him through the downturn by being flexible . |
| 25 | His belief in independence for Scotland has drawn him to the heart of the Scottish National Party . |
| 26 | Its widespread influence in architecture has linked it with a joyless form of economic and technological functionalism that was not the intent of the originators . |
| 27 | Stephen Thomas says the ordeal has driven him to the brink of suicide . |
| 28 | KIND-HEARTED Jimmy Savile has fixed it for a badly-burned Romanian boy to have surgery in Britain . |
| 29 | That dialogue has lead me to the point of issuing a joint statement with Mr Addams . |
| 30 | Trading in these securities has been sparse since the crash in October 1987 , and the recent withdrawals of marketmakers such as Warburg Securities , UBS Phillips & Drew and County NatWest from dealing in the securities of many smaller companies has left them without the mandatory two marketmakers for inclusion in the SEAQ system of continuously updated two-way prices . |