Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [conj] [noun prp] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had been widely expected that President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali , whose distaste for capital punishment for politically motivated crimes had been well publicized , would commute the death sentences . |
| 2 | The tests were carried out by Coopers and Lybrand who apparently found that Borland Quattro Pro for Windows outscored both Excel and Lotus 1-2-3 in 6 out of 10 categories . |
| 3 | IN OUR June edition we wrongly stated that Sutton Coldfield RFC were bringing a £500,000 civil action against a referee who presided over a game in which the club 's colts captain , Ben Smolden , broke his neck . |
| 4 | It was almost a relief when the door opposite suddenly opened and Ettore Di Leonardo appeared , immaculate as ever in a dark suit and sober tie . |
| 5 | It so happened that Mr. Allan Levy was appearing before him . |
| 6 | It would be much appreciated if Mr John Devaney , managing director of Eastern Electricity explained in detail what the figure of 50p really relates to . |
| 7 | Of course , Thomas Luis de Victoria is better known than Juan Gutièrez de Padilla but , as Bruno Turner points out in his informative programme note , he is ‘ undoubtedly the finest composer of the colonial period to come from Old Spain and spend nearly all his productive life in the New Spain ’ . |
| 8 | Important steps in reforming the structure of the economy during June included the launch of a mass privatization scheme , while the position of Yegor Gaidar , who was closely associated with the reform programme , was apparently strengthened when President Boris Yeltsin named him as Prime Minister on June 15 . |
| 9 | OWING to an error in a report supplied by a news agency in last night 's Echo , it was wrongly stated that Mr Bryan Williams , of Wye Street , Walton , Liverpool , had been found guilty of conspiracy to rob and sentenced to four years in jail . |
| 10 | We have heard on the television that there will be another and there are lots of people who are in , in absolute despair , because of what happened to their houses and their properties and their furniture and everything else and I think it is only right and proper and I can only say that West Sussex County Council has by so many people that it has |
| 11 | They were therefore unable to ensure that justice was duly done because Amanieu de Fossat was protecting him . |
| 12 | If , as everyone now insists , Noah had made up his mind not to continue as Davis Cup captain well before the match against Switzerland , then the decision can not have had anything to do with his obvious annoyance that , in his eyes , neither Henri Leconte or Guy Forget had properly prepared for the tie . |
| 13 | There is a suggestion that the Soviet Union would not object if Mr Alexander Dubcek succeeded Mr Husak . |
| 14 | Not a bit of it — do not know if W. J. Jakimiuk who was responsible for the Chipmunk 's lovely qualities also devised the Beaver 's agile handling , but I should not be surprised if he did , for it flies like a smaller aeroplane , with light forces and a roll-rate much better than that long high-aspect-ratio wing might suggest . |
| 15 | Dr James said he did not know if Tayside Health Board is to continue providing money for treatment . |
| 16 | ( The courts finally decided that Indiana state law governed the purchase but examined Swiss law because important parts of the transaction had taken place in Switzerland ) . |
| 17 | But I do not believe that H. Ward Marston 's transfers are surpassable , and am grateful that the surface noise of the original discs remains intact rather than being artificially eliminated . |
| 18 | In our report on the verdicts of the Giacometti fake trial in The Art Newspaper No. 15 , February 1991 , p.3 we incorrectly stated that Mr David Bernstein was given a two-year jail sentence and fined . |
| 19 | One was Lord Parker ( who had just retired as Lord Chief Justice ) and another was Lord Gardiner ( who had been Lord Chancellor from 1964 to 1970 ) . |
| 20 | I just know that Wood End Way is really crap . |
| 21 | It was not known if Koos van der Merwe , an advocate of the negotiations process who was expelled from the CP in April [ see p. 38850 ] , had joined to the new party . |
| 22 | He is as impulsive and easily distracted as KLF leader Bill Drummond , and similarly shifts queer guises ( with scant regard for commercial consequences ) at an extraordinary rate . |
| 23 | Most supposed experts in paranormal phenomena emerges as self-promoting cranks , as easily discredited as Erich Von Däniken 's ludicrous Chariots Of The Gods . |
| 24 | It is now generally acknowledged that Helicobacter pylori infection is the major cause of antral gastritis . |
| 25 | In the realm of the print , however , it is safe to say that paper napkins and chewing gum wrappers occupy the lower depths ( though let's not forget that A. Hyatt Mayor , the legendary Curator of Prints at the Metropolitan , acquired torn-off New Yorker covers for the collection as well as Tiepolo etchings ) . |
| 26 | I am not sure how the law-breaking campaign is working or whether other companies would have joined B & Q , but the chief executive of my council felt that he was not in a position to commit the poll tax payers of Hull to what could have amounted to several million pounds , and a deal was finally struck that Hull city council would refrain from taking out an injunction and the cross-undertaking was therefore withdrawn . |
| 27 | Face had just realized that Sir Epicure Manhom has erm seen Doll , which he should n't have done , and Manhom calls Face out and says stay Lungs . |
| 28 | Under the terms of the deal purportedly sealed in Paris , the Iranians would not free the US hostages until after the 1980 presidential election , thus ensuring that President Jimmy Carter 's bid for re-election would gain no credit from an " October Surprise " release . |
| 29 | The letter was from Her Grace 's private secretary and gladly agreed that Lord John Rossendale should be given a ticket for the ball . |
| 30 | Rother 's woes were further compounded when Richard Whitmore Jones was injured in the first game and took no further part in the match . |