Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adj] [noun] [adv prt] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Financially troubled Sequoia Systems Inc says it is no longer looking for a buyer — it did n't get any acceptable offers in the first place — and is talking to minority investor Hewlett-Packard Co about new funding to get development its PA-RISC-based fault tolerant machines back on the tracks . |
| 2 | But while Scotland 's men were toiling , the women got their challenge for the Home International championship off on a winning note . |
| 3 | October 8 : Avia 14–40 B-4211 of Wuhan Air Lines crashed near Dingxi , Gansu Province , north-western China , after the pilot reported engine failure 45 miles out on a charter flight from Lanzhou to Xian and was attempting to return to Lanzhou. 21 killed . |
| 4 | The word EMPTY lit up on the dispenser . |
| 5 | Men , he said , used to approach the nest 60 yards down on a rope , and holding a piked stick in one hand to protect themselves from the parent birds ’ attacks , with the other hand seize the eggs or chicks , the latter was a valued object and the former they could sell for 5/ each . |
| 6 | The new works was originally an old depot and now treats water , from two borehole 100 metres down on the site , for 35,000 customers . |
| 7 | He contrasted the " long rearguard action " that EC car makers fought a few years ago against tougher emission controls with the " very encouraging " willingness by industrial producers and users of chlorofluorocarbons ( CFCs ) to phase these substances out on a largely voluntary basis . |
| 8 | Having built their cult reputation four years back on a rib-tickling broadside against bar-room self-aggrandisement called ‘ Preposterous Tales In The Life Of Ken McKenzie ’ and the hilariously deadpan ‘ Three English Football Grounds ’ , this South London duo now augment their tinny beatbox-plus-guitar formula with throbbing keyboard moodscapes as in current single ‘ We Stand Around ’ , the most unnerving paean to soccer obsessives ever recorded . |