Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] [to-vb] [prep] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maria paused in the doorway , surveying her new colleagues and their partners , a handful of them local people but mainly men and women from all over the English-speaking world , because radio people had a gypsy tendency to move on every few years . |
| 2 | The US decision was the decisive factor in persuading the military-backed interim government and local business groups to agree on the same day to renewed negotiations with the Organization of American States ( OAS ) . |
| 3 | 700 the area of circulation of the sceatta or penny , introduced probably in Kent in the 670s , was widening to embrace the Thames valley and Hamwic , near Southampton , was emerging as an important trading settlement to become within a few decades ‘ possibly the largest and most densely populated town in eighth-century England ’ . |
| 4 | It became the Chancellor 's habit to interrupt his morning procession to work for a few minutes of Cabinet Room conversation with the Prime Minister . |
| 5 | Such a split should clarify the distribution of costs and make it easier for competing train services to run on the same track . |
| 6 | ‘ But if one of our lads had done something similar , I would have expected the Manchester City players to respond in the same way . |
| 7 | It was left to Unix System Labs to step in a few weeks later and take the reins of ANDF by licensing the Ten15 technology from DRA , saying it would productise ANDF in a future release of its Unix SVR4.2 operating system ( UX No 390 ) , see front page . |