Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [verb] [adv prt] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Technically , they are European institutions carrying on home-regulated investment business in the UK for the purposes of the Banking Co-ordination ( Second Council Directive ) Regulations 1992 ( the Banking Co-ordination Regulations ) . |
| 2 | New American money is watched very closely ; old money flogging off Grand Tour treasures ( the Duke of Beaufort 's cabinet sold for £8.58 million to baby- powder heiress Basia Johnson ) ; even auction-house staff ( how many people are in love with Grey Gowrie ? |
| 3 | Some old dears coming out bleeding apathy ! |
| 4 | This struggle revolves around opposing material interests of competing classes and groups in all countries . |
| 5 | But nothing prepares you for four and a half hours climbing up crumbling ice . |
| 6 | Marine bid to make up lost ground in the HFS League when they take on Gainsborough Trinity at College Road . |
| 7 | Some have romantic visions of crouched and muffled figures dragging log-laden sledges through a savage landscape of snow and ice ; frost-bearded Vikings with massive axes , round great fires of pine logs ; or raw-boned Northerners squatting over faggot-heated porridge pots . |
| 8 | In the far South-west , Cornish mining took on female labour to a degree unusual in the southern part of the country . |
| 9 | It spent a third of a million pounds on this flare siphoning off dangerous methane gas — and has these Nigerian Lanner Falcons on constant guard against flocks of seagulls which can be a danger to planes from nearby RAF bases . |
| 10 | There is a strong ‘ old boy network ’ among German banks and industry , and this is reflected in the high degree of control which the German banks exercise over German industry through their shareholdings . |
| 11 | And when he tried transparent tricks to pull up vital business buried at the end of the list , he found himself making a number of enemies in the group . |
| 12 | Some have a marked reluctance to break out new growth from the base , and are more ready to sprout shoots from growth high up . |
| 13 | Heating water etc. to cope with large quantities of laundry made for a periodic need to bring in extra labour over that maintained in the household . |
| 14 | When this war broke out organised Labour in this country lost the initiative . |
| 15 | This team carries out information-related analysis and programming for all teaching and non-teaching departments . |
| 16 | For instance , some British libraries take out institutional membership with Law notes , to give themselves access to a quick loan service for expensive textbooks in law . |
| 17 | The answer to this is surely a date stamp which will force the disorganised or unscrupulous outlet to sell off old stock cheaply or discard it . |
| 18 | Given what has happened in Britain , certain enterprises could lend themselves to being sold to the Polish public who , surprisingly , might have few difficulties putting up hard cash to buy shares . |
| 19 | Sayre used di-gram and tri-gram statistics to rule out implausible letter string combinations . |
| 20 | Enabling technologies include the Bull Product Data Management System , which it says applies concurrent engineering to cut down design-to-manufacturing time and reduce costs , and ‘ integration enablers ’ , which Bull says connect two or more manufacturing applications ‘ without the time and cost of customized development ’ . |
| 21 | One explanation for this might be that , rather than using this method to bring in temporary labour , service establishments with a predominantly low skilled labour force rely on casual workers . |
| 22 | ‘ You can tell that sadistic bastard to cut out bloody gunnery practice in the pouring rain' |
| 23 | An excessively elevated sense of standards means that there are difficulties about English Departments taking on overseas research students in numbers sufficient to help the university in its financial difficulties . |
| 24 | For those with energy to spare , another path runs up Rocky Valley to the Bronze Age labyrinth — its rock carvings are 3,500 years old . |
| 25 | Naturally this aspect takes on heightened importance when money is tight and harder , ‘ pay-your-way ’ attitudes emerge . |
| 26 | This ability to live off poor vegetation is likely to have been crucial in the evolution of the mountain goat . |
| 27 | Some councils set up new industry or employment committees , staffed by their own departments . |
| 28 | The government had hoped to make the private sector take over nuclear power stations , but John Wakeham eventually had to admit that no one wanted them . |
| 29 | Each proposal to carry out genetic manipulation was assessed on a case-by-case basis by an Advisory Committee on Genetic Manipulation , which had representatives of trades unions and employers as well as expert scientists , he explained . |
| 30 | Only the complete work turns up new ground . |