Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | veteran cars , who wants to , who wants to drive around in an old Ford Poplar of of twenty , twenty five , thirty years ago ? |
| 2 | Ishida Aerospace has picked up on an Eighties Cold War idea generated by the US military , which has financed the design , construction and flight testing of a propeller-driven VTOL plane , namely the Osprey , whose features were shown in your illustration . |
| 3 | Junkers has come up with an ecological alternative to worktops made from tropical hardwoods . |
| 4 | Ernst & Young in the US has come up with an interesting new way to reduce overheads , according to the Public Accounting Report . |
| 5 | Thomson-CSF SA has come up with an undisclosed sum to buy the company as a present for Alsys SA , the company sold to Thomson by Ada only begetter Jean Ichbiah in September 1991 . |
| 6 | The city of Budapest has come up with an imaginative solution to the problem of where to put over forty years worth of statues , sculptures and monuments dedicated to the heroes and events of communism . |
| 7 | Providing something that is high on most corporate users ' wish lists , Hewlett-Packard Co has come up with an SQL-based interface that can read and update data in a non-relational network database , and reckons it is the first vendor to do so . |
| 8 | Unisys Corp has come out with an enhanced version of its one-year-old Open/OLTP on-line transaction processing environment , which uses Unix System Labs Inc 's Tuxedo TP monitor . |
| 9 | These examples may seem to be somewhat removed from the experience of a child who has grown up in an inner-city slum . |
| 10 | UNIVERSITIES ' rugby , poised to sign a long-term sponsorship contract , has missed out on an immediate injection of £35,000 after an embarrassing hitch resulted in the deal being kicked firmly into touch by student authorities . |
| 11 | NEW LIFE : A new branch of the Society for the Protection of the Unborn Child has got off to an encouraging start at St Winefride 's parish in Neston , where Jim Hallis is the chairman , Margaret Unsworth is the secretary and Debbi Trotman is the treasurer . |
| 12 | He criticises their lack of any real depth of Gaelic culture , and with the exception of Machair , which has got off to an excellent start , all the other programmes seem to be shallow or merely ‘ Mickey Mouse ’ . |
| 13 | Your marriage has got off to an unfortunate start but it does n't warrant the last rites just yet . |
| 14 | The supernatural performances of the characters of traditional mythology have become the natural real-life activities of twentieth-century space travellers ; and this has occurred along with an apparent lessening of the gap between man and other animals . |
| 15 | But he added : ‘ Everybody recognises that the Government has to hold on to an existing policy until the replacement is ready to put in place , and clearly the Secretary of State has to hold to his policy until an alternative has been agreed . ’ |
| 16 | The Defence Intelligence Agency ( DIA ) , has to get along with an annual budget of only $1 billion . |
| 17 | Every spare moment of John Drake 's time is devoted to the two-acre garden he has carved out in an open and exposed part of the Fens near Cambridge . |
| 18 | Just a few miles west in the grounds of Nuneham Conference Park stands another folly which has ended up in an unexpected place . |
| 19 | Recent investment in manufacturing capacity and quality systems has paid off with an increased share in the markets for sputtering targets , metal seal lids for semiconductor packages and fabricated metal products for electronic applications . |
| 20 | Moreover once inflation has levelled out at an acceptable rate , aggregate demand can be expanded once again with the result that the actual unemployment rate will fall back towards NAIRU . |
| 21 | So , whilst this definition obviously includes jetting off to an exotic resort with a fortnight 's stay in a hotel , the definition also catches the hotel which offers an inclusive theatre weekend — one price covering the stay in the hotel and tickets for a show . |
| 22 | The new models are about 20% more expensive than the models they replace , but are about three times more powerful , which it reckons works out at an average 2.5-fold improvement in price-performance . |
| 23 | The new models are about 20% more expensive than the models they replace , but are about three times more powerful , which it reckons works out at an average 2.5-fold improvement in price-performance . |
| 24 | The idea that the only way of coping with the desuetude of the age , its profound certainty that everything has been said already , is by openly proclaiming this fact as itself the new fact , the idea that the only way of selling your article as original is to declare that it is repro , seems to run up against an ethical objection in a writer like Palandri , however sophisticated his own literary apparatus undoubtedly is . |
| 25 | For the rest , if it does blow up into an open accusation , he 'll have to come clean . |
| 26 | He 's come up with an organic binder which makes it possible to turn the left-over dust into briquettes which burn for two and half hours . |
| 27 | But credit to the lads , very very good to keep fighting and plugging away ; Andy Melville 's popped up with an important one , Steinie 's gone and done his job erm that 's what subs are there for . |
| 28 | If you apply to the fund at the beginning of the month you 'll likely to get something , but hard luck if you apply later on in the month , but that she 's taken up as an open letter to Jerry Hayes , but so far I have n't seen it in the press . |