Example sentences of "[adv prt] [noun sg] [noun pl] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thiam , 58 , a former banker , named a 27-member power-sharing government the following day , bringing in opposition figures including the controversial Abdoulayé Wade , leader of the Democratic Party of Senegal ( PDS ) who had come second to Diouf in the presidential elections in both 1983 and 1988 . |
| 2 | In 1981 a tentative move in this direction occurred with the publication of a government guide ( Non-Departmental Public Bodies : A Guide for Departments ) laying down ground rules on the future nature of quangos and their relationships with departments . |
| 3 | ALTON Townswomen 's Guild handed over charity cheques at the annual general meeting . |
| 4 | IBM Corp is said to be going to relieve the Open Software Foundation of one of its heaviest burdens and take over integration responsibilities for the Distributed Management Environment . |
| 5 | IBM Corp is reportedly going to relieve The Open Software Foundation of one of its heaviest burdens and take over integration responsibilities for the Distributed Management Environment ( DME ) . |
| 6 | AN ageing French woman ekes out a privileged life pulling off jewel heists with a decrepit sidekick . |
| 7 | Strangely , in writing off pop programmes as a lost cause , British TV seems to have ignored the example of MTV , which has come to define that genre across much of the world . |
| 8 | His mouth gave a wry twist as he remembered an old lady in his home town who used to buy up sympathy cards by the dozen . |
| 9 | Anglian DTI spokeswoman , Sarah Squire , said money taken from the EICS would be used to fund the new One Stop Shop scheme , where Training and Enterprise Councils set up consultancy services at a single location . |
| 10 | At home , the SPB ( it became the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds only in 1904 ) began to set up Nature reserves during the 1880s , as the decline in some native species became apparent . |
| 11 | A report from US National Park Service scientists has argued that the proposed use of underground water systems by the city of Las Vegas may dry up water supplies in a large area of the National Park system . |
| 12 | No it 's four hundred gallons , it 's , it 's , it 's , they do n't like to take any more than that because of the , the weight of water , it 's quite heavy er although they have one special equipment here again one of these roll-on roll-off ones , which is a water tank equipment , and er it carries about a thousand gallons or two thousand gallons of water , er in a tank , water tank and that if you are very short of water will be sent on as well to boost up water supplies in a particular area , so erm that was another one of these pods that we , we designed and , and put on the run . |
| 13 | Working with Thirkell , Pilger had drawn up sample pages of a new design , using gobbledegook text except for the headlines . |
| 14 | The Central Statistical Office has beefed up output figures for the first three quarters of 1992 , as a result of revised figures showing farm production in the first three quarters averaged 5 per cent more than originally estimated . |
| 15 | The Organization of American States ( OAS ) , meeting on May 17 in Nassau , the capital of the Bahamas , agreed to step up trade sanctions in a renewed attempt to persuade the military-backed provisional government to restore constitutional rule . |
| 16 | Small enterprise schemes , such as helping to set up engineering workshops in the Third World , can look very attractive on the face of it . |
| 17 | But despite the difficulties of reaching the camps , relief workers and supplies are getting through , A doctor and a nurse from the British charity Oxfam are already at Ebenat camp , and Danish health workers are setting up health services for the 5000 people there . |
| 18 | But Daly has had the big finger pointed at him before , for excessive drinking , for allegedly smashing up hotel rooms on the minor tours , for his whole attitude . |
| 19 | The Cabinet did what it could both to promote talks and also to set up emergency procedures under the Civil Contingency Unit chaired by Merlyn Rees , the beleaguered Home Secretary . |
| 20 | Setting up production facilities in a new target market will often be risky , even though labour might be much cheaper in the targeted country . |
| 21 | A WORD of warning to those of you who 've taken out endowment mortgages in the past five years . |
| 22 | So , for example , we think that it would be reasonable if credit notices setting out instalment terms on a particular purchase included something on these lines : |
| 23 | Kinnock seeking strategy to speed reform in East Patrick Wintour sounds out Opposition views on the two Germanys question and Britain 's proper response to it .. |
| 24 | Five or six other kids — who , says Grassmuck , would probably be called otaku today — carried out copycat crimes in the following months . |
| 25 | He stands there , carving knife and fork poised over the remains of the gigot aux haricots , and looks inquiringly round the table at the brightly coloured shirts and three-piece suits , and sees , beneath the surface , emaciated men in rags and footclouts , holding out tin bowls for a little soup , their eyes reflecting the freezing emptiness of the tundra . |
| 26 | Rescue workers found no sign yesterday of 39 crew members from two large container ships that disappeared after sending out distress signals during a fierce storm in the Gulf of St Lawrence . |
| 27 | Higher quality printers should be acquired for the heavy-duty work involved in printing out student theses in the third year , and for printing out graphic output from garden design software , which should be purchased from 1993/94 . |
| 28 | Besides working out space requirements in the new location , the planners have to decide whether the organisation needs any special facilities both for its own operations and for its employees . |
| 29 | In addition to writing plays by the dozens , D'Urfey turned out song lyrics by the hundreds . |
| 30 | Put back bed pushers into the blocking rail . |