Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] [noun prp] [to-vb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bicentennial fever , and aggressive marketing by Sotheby 's Australia , which opened in 1983 , spurred businessmen Robert Holmes à Court , Laurie Connell and Alan Bond to compete for authentic images of their homeland . |
| 2 | He took to the front on the second lap and left Dave Milling , Woolsey Coulter , Phillip McCallen and Alan Irwin to go for second best . |
| 3 | The pleasantly incoherent CIA/FBI mindgames-in-the-desert thriller White Sands may be stronger on visuals than plot or dialogue but it does allow Willem Dafoe and Mickey Rourke to bounce off each other moodily in an attempt to discover who is the bigger existential dude . |
| 4 | Rain spoiled the opening day of Durham 's first match as a first-class county to the extent that play was possible for only the morning session , which allowed Paul Parker and John Glendenen to put on 119 in an untroubled manner off 34 overs . |
| 5 | MICROSOFT AND TIME WARNER TO EXPERIMENT WITH TWO-WAY TV |
| 6 | She seems certain to survive comparisons with Kate Bush , Patti Smith , and Joni Mitchell to emerge as one of the great , idiosyncratic talents of the Nineties . |