Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | The Navigation Acts were not in the first instance devised to make up for the fact that some English revenue was devoted to colonial defence , but defending the colonies came to be seen as an integral part of the Old Colonial System . |
2 | The Australian & Oversees Telecommunications Corp has come up with a novel scheme to motivate its staff : alongside an immediate pay award of 3% and the prospect of a 5% over the next 18 months the company has promised $340 for each of 70,000 of its workers , the payment of which depends on customers ' rating of the service which they receive ; surveys will determine what proportion of customers are satisfied with billing , connections and fault-finding . |
3 | Toshiba Corp has come out with a low-price , high performance version of the Dynabook laptop , the Dynabook 486E J-3100VS , which uses an 80486SX and has a 9.6″ 16 grey-scale monochrome display on the $2,390 version , with a colour thin-film transistor screen available for an additional $2,133 ; the unit weighs 5 lbs and takes up to 16Mb memory ; a desktop version , the J-3100S/VX , based on the Intel 80486DX2 , at $3,440 was launched at the same time . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | He 's done all the work at the scene — all anyone can do — and then he has to cool his heels with the rest of us , waiting for God 's gift to forensic pathology to come screaming up with a police escort and break the news to us that what we all thought was a corpse is — surprise , surprise indeed a corpse , and that we can safely move the body . " |
6 | Each time she does so , the male has to dig down to the buried vegetation and cover it over again . |
7 | The user simply selects available options based on what the user wants to get out of the system . |
8 | The prince has come in for a lot of criticism from the UN and the West for spending most of the past few months in China . |
9 | The name change has come about as a result of LASMO plc 's reduction in its interest in the Canadian company . |
10 | Harris Corp 's Fort Lauderdale , Florida-based Computer Systems Division has moved up to the second generation 88110 version of Motorola Inc 's RISC family with the Night Hawk 5000 series — which ca n't be called Night Hawk in the UK . |
11 | The Department of Trade and Industry 's Companies Division has come up with a new model form , intended to help companies to investigate ownership of their shares under s 212 of the Companies Act 1985 ( p 100 ) . |
12 | The Department of Trade and Industry 's Companies Division has come up with a new model form , which it believes will help companies investigate their shares under s 212 of the 1985 Companies Act . |
13 | Mountain View , California-based , Network Computing Devices Inc PC-X Division has come up with a $200 software package that lets a personal computer at home or in the field access applications on remote Unix- or VMS-based host computers . |
14 | During the Stephanian the main area of sedimentation has shifted out into the North Sea . |
15 | SHELL has lost out on an oil bonanza worth at least £1 billion through a decision to cut its stake in exploration territory west of Shetland . |
16 | Suppose the night porter has gone through to the kitchen to make a sandwich . |
17 | Hewlett-Packard Co has swung back on the offensive in the US with a predatory enhanced workstation trade-in programme , which it says accepts the broadest range of workstations , personal computers and X terminals in part exchange for new Precision Architecture RISC workstations and X stations . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | A baffled ox has horned in through the wall . |
20 | Obviously a lot of this racism has seeped down from the top ; for example the police are part of a racist legal system so you 've got to expect them to hold those views . |
21 | probably , a bar with nuts and raisins called raisin natural bar I 'm sorry about loo loosing the keys mum , mum tt the noise has gone the noise has come back by the way |
22 | 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 . |
23 | IN THE first part of this book Michael Shallis gives an interesting non-technical account of how modern physics has gone on from the common-sense notion of time to a whole series of fundamental changes . |
24 | hurricane has gone out of the news now , once something like that has happened there 's always another disaster coming behind that actually takes over the headlines , so , about six months , a year , two years afterwards they were still finding that in parts of Europe the general level of nuclear activity was higher than it had been before Chernobyl , why would that happen ? |
25 | If that money has to come out of the existing budget , then we should , or the Chief Constable , or the Police Committee ought to look at the priorities again . |
26 | A third source of opportunity has opened up by the increased willingness of many firms to contemplate non-traditional forms of investment ( NFI ) , also in their marginal territories . |
27 | It 's estimated the case trial has cost up to a quarter of a million pounds . |
28 | It 's reassuring to know that even beautiful actresses worry about what they 're gong to wear to go out in the evening . |
29 | Attempting to make a detour , the car got bogged down in a salt lake and was abandoned . |
30 | ‘ Yes , winter , The funeral car got bogged down in a snow drift . |