Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [verb] [adv] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We hear that Intel Corp has written up a bunch of Q&As for its people to use answering questions that touch on Digital Equipment Corp 's rival Alpha chip , while Microsoft Corp has written up a similar document on Unix compared with NT . |
| 2 | We hear Intel Corp has written up a bunch of Q&As for its people to use answering questions that touch on DEC 's competitive Alpha chip , while Microsoft Corp has written up a similar document on Unix compared with NT . |
| 3 | Mirroring Sun Microsystems Inc 's efforts in this area ( UX No 386 ) Hewlett-Packard Co has rolled out a new range of ISDN connectivity enabling standalone workstations to communicate over public or private ISDN networks . |
| 4 | Parliament has set up a statutory framework and delegated the task of balancing the interests of the community against those of individuals and of holding the scales between individuals , to the local planning authority . |
| 5 | Mr Hanley said the Department agreed to set up a top management support group , a separate policy planning group and to group finance and personnel functions into a single division following the probe . |
| 6 | The 91,000-member Ramblers ' Association has put forward a three-point plan aimed at giving a better deal to urban pedestrians and those who prefer to travel on foot . |
| 7 | He added : ‘ My horse has got quite a high cruising speed and , even if we stay in the middle , he is more than capable of galloping his way back into the reckoning . ’ |
| 8 | One reason why the modern reader has difficulty with a positive evaluation of the term ‘ national prejudices ’ is that , in the twentieth century , prejudice has taken on a substantive meaning . |
| 9 | There also must be people backing them up , and AIDS has wiped out a vast number of support staff ’ . |
| 10 | LABOUR has set up a confidential hotline for NHS whistleblowers so that staff who want to raise concerns about standards of care can do so in confidence . |
| 11 | When the grunge gets too much , at least 1992 's relentless targeting of the American underground has flushed out a few dissonant rumbles . |
| 12 | I understand that the Scottish Home and Health Department has set up a working party to consider this issue , but as yet no recommendations have been made . |
| 13 | In Britain , the electronics industry has set up a working party to look at the options . |
| 14 | The huge world market out there was worth $330 billion between 1989 and 1992 , but the industry has won only a small share of that business . |
| 15 | The seemingly inexorable march of new technology in the newspaper industry has taken on a new complexion over the last couple of weeks . |
| 16 | Meanwhile another Felling employee has chalked up a different achievement . |
| 17 | ‘ Solitude enflamed the imagination of Henri K — , and gradually the parrot began to take on a rare significance in his mind . |
| 18 | After the line , ‘ gradually the parrot began to take on a rare significance in his mind ’ , he made the following annotation : ‘ Change the animal : make it a dog instead of a parrot . |
| 19 | • Scotland 's Sunday Mail managed to satisfy quite a few fishkeepers ' preoccupations by combining beer and fish in not just one but two stories . |
| 20 | This factor … should make the court the more cautious before holding that the defendant had had both a factual possession and animus possidendi sufficient to confer on him a possessory title … |
| 21 | In another case , the Court of Appeal held that a prosecution had been properly discontinued when a defendant had taken out a private prosecution for perjury against a witness who had given evidence against him at committal proceedings . |
| 22 | It ran down between my eyes and made me see everything blood-red , even though seconds before my mind had conjured up a pleasing vision : the English boy 's sister . |
| 23 | And while research continues to build up a clearer picture of the distribution of radon across the country , environmental health officers are hoping that the new results will encourage local authorities to enforce strict building regulations . |
| 24 | The survey briefing had included only a verbal specification . |
| 25 | This was , of course , the reason why eating had become almost a physical impossibility with the result that Molly was virtually starving . |
| 26 | Syl 's previous engagement had ended only a few months before . |
| 27 | Labour had taken on a flagging government in the midst of the longest recession since the last world war . |
| 28 | ‘ Nuclear Electric have carried out a similar study , which also showed Deferred Safestore as the best option . |
| 29 | Spokesmen for the insurance companies seeking to justify this practice have wheeled out a few explanations which include ‘ the client understood that by settling for a poor return on death his ultimate retirement fund would be higher . ’ |
| 30 | Today Councillor I M Green , Chairman of Girton Health and Housing Committee , challenged residents at the start of a campaign to promote recycling over a thousand plus tonnes of waste , generated weekly within Girton District . |