Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [noun] [adj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 1 Hear how the dawn wind whis-per-ing moves all the palm leaves , |
| 2 | Mr Smith said that unemployment at this ‘ tragic level ’ was an economic millstone round the country 's neck costing £27 billion a year and 780 million working days . |
| 3 | From 1990 there would be a core research and development programme costing £10 million a year , just enough , in the government 's view , to allow continued collaboration with the French and Germans on the European Fast Reactor ( EFR ) . |
| 4 | This was partly in response to a recommendation from the EEC to cut sulphur emissions to one-third the present level , a step which it has been estimated , would cost £4 billion in flue gas desulphurization equipment adding £700 million a year to the CEGB 's operating costs . |
| 5 | The regional council gives £30 million a year in subsidies to ScotRail and is providing £150 million in capital for service improvements . |
| 6 | Because if it is n't Dorrainge telling you how we 'll be defeated , it 's Lugh Longhand making speeches half the night . ’ |
| 7 | We can see that God wants us to take the initiative to put things right no matter who is at fault . |
| 8 | Tourism adds £25 billion a year , or 3.4% , to Britain 's GDP , and earns 4.2% of total exports . |
| 9 | The proposal to transfer Chinon , Loudun and Mirebeau to a mere child was surely just a trick giving Henry II an excuse to keep these three important castles in his own hands for many years to come . |
| 10 | That would be a crude and non-selective instrument of social policy costing £470 million a year . |
| 11 | As a bishop his hospitality was such that ‘ his guests would often profess … that his Lordship kept Christmas all the year ’ . |
| 12 | His Lordship kept Christmas all the year . |
| 13 | Under the Trade Disputes Act 1906 no action for conspiracy would lie unless the act would be unlawful if done by a person alone . |
| 14 | Third , there would frequently be discrepancies between the meanings of sentences with a predicate qualifier and " fuller versions " when it is replaced by a clause ; for example , consider : ( 31 ) the jury found Ernest guilty the jury found Ernest ; Ernest was guilty ( 32 ) Alastair likes his beef tea strong Alastair likes his beef tea ; his beef tea is strong In the latter case , for instance , there may not be any strong beef tea at all ; the point of uttering the sentence may be to complain about that very point . |
| 15 | One compelling reason for trying to improve selection methods is that poor personnel selection practices can be very costly to an organisation : Schmidt and Hunter ( 1981 ) estimated that poor or non-existent selection by the US Federal Government costs $16 billion a year . |
| 16 | Transport Secretary Cecil Parkinson is hitting out at the dirty habits of the British public ; he says mountains of litter dumped along motorways is forcing the government to spend £3 million a year cleaning it up . |
| 17 | In lobbying for the law , the brand-name manufactures announced that their research spending exceeded $400 million a year . |
| 18 | An agency costing £6 million a year to run could bring hundred-fold benefits . |
| 19 | It is common ground that in the year starting September 1991 the school had more applicants for admission than it could accommodate without prejudicing the provision of efficient education . |
| 20 | But , with the budget deficit seeping £1 billion a week , the Government 's response is not greatly different from a decade ago . |
| 21 | We are busy redrawing the specification of Microconcord , in particular working on the user interface and considering whether we can in fact make Version 1 an indexing concordancer . |
| 22 | Because as I heard my mother speak Italian all the time and my cousins , you really ca can in my , you know in your |
| 23 | The environmental pressure group calculates that the wasted energy costs £12 million a year and generates nearly 200,000 tonnes a year of extra carbon dioxide ( the primary greenhouse-effect gas ) from power stations . |