Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun sg] [conj] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This exercise revealed that the elderly in Britain were characterized by less income inequality than their European counterparts . |
| 2 | I think you 'd better take your Scots Park jumper and your red cardigan in case you manage to spill |
| 3 | The whole bar was up on its feet to watch even before she had finished laying down the opening phrases ; by the time she was into the full fury of the aria , with its demanding coloratura decorations , its elaborate breathing technique and its famous placing of the pauses , we were all applauding and whistling . |
| 4 | The BR board chairman and his senior colleagues meet with union leaders to discuss a wide range of policy issues at an early stage . |
| 5 | The Greek Defence Ministry and their Secret Service are bound to have some cryptologists on their staffs . |
| 6 | Compaq Computer Corp and its 80486 interests , not any technical or manufacturing woes , are behind Intel Corp 's decision to delay the Pentium until May , BusinessWeek claims : well , schucks , that 's not what we hear — our sources , who are cooling their heels waiting for chips , continue to think that Intel is having problems making the parts in quantity ; given the new timetable , it still says samples should be more available than they are . |
| 7 | BusinessWeek claims Compaq Computer Corp and its 80486 interests , not any technical or manufacturing woes , are behind Intel Corp 's decision to delay the Pentium until May ( UX No 423 ) . |
| 8 | In these circumstances the British were able to exert more influence over the development of defence thinking than their physical strength strictly warranted . |
| 9 | This support need not be related to departmental business : in her diary entry for 4 March 1976 Barbara Castle , then Secretary of State for Health and Social Security , bewails the fact that she had no briefing for the Cabinet discussion of the defence review because her political adviser , Jack Straw , was out of action because of a family bereavement . |
| 10 | Though this project is principally concerned with the city of Edinburgh its relevance is much wider , to British cities in general and it is expected that it will demonstrate how land-owners , builders , house factors and other interests in property were able to control the pace and pattern of urban development largely to their own ends without recognising the long term consequences for the physical shape and quality of the housing and building stock and its long term impact on modern society in terms of street lay outs , maintenance and repairs , and the availability of open spaces . |
| 11 | The Crime Survey is a victimisation study and its main conclusion is one that has been noted , in a less systematic way , many times before : working-class crime is a problem , and it is a problem for the working class , since they are its principal victims , as they are of all types of crime : |
| 12 | Also totally demolished by Hurricane Andrew were Homestead Air Force Base and its adjacent GA field . |
| 13 | And are you happy with your pointlessly expensive urban house with its coffee-and-cream décor and its bristling gadgets , your sixty-five-minute slog into work every day , your overheated office with the 'phone shrilling in your ear , your tiresomely predictable holidays , your interests in food , jogging and American films of the 1940s , your car which is always getting scratched , and your kids and the mortgage and the bills and all that ? |
| 14 | Up until then the beleaguered Addamax stood to win no matter how the government decided since it was being bid by both Planning Research Corp and its rival Control Data Systems Inc . |
| 15 | GTE Corp 's GTE Telephone Operations in Irving , Texas has signed definitive agreements to sell its telephone service areas in North Dakota and South Dakota for an undisclosed sum : it will sell its 10,200 access lines in North Dakota to TPC Inc , owned by United Telephone Mutual Aid Corp , Dakota Central Telecommunications Cooperative and Polar Communications Mutual Aid Corp and its 8,000 access lines in South Dakota to Golden West Telecommunications Co-operative , GTE said . |
| 16 | His right hand caressed the gear stick while his left hand constantly fiddled with the knobs on the radio cassette , ensuring that the coach was flooded with , continuous stream of heavy metal . |
| 17 | Taken together , even with this small sample , these results seem to indicate a significant correlation between readers ' familiarity with the SF genre and their likely perception of the meaning and coherence of the text . |
| 18 | But it is tactically more defensively-minded on the football field than its Latin counterparts and typically operates a catenaccio system of man-to-man marking , more in line with European soccer style . |
| 19 | On the ‘ beefed-up ’ engine front we have Genicom making more of the speed advantage than their increased resolution while Agfa are hardly making any noise at all about either of their 400dpi devices — although they may feel the same anxiety pangs as AM Varityper given that they also own Compugraphic . |
| 20 | Next V-1 sortie was a daylight one at Beauvoir on June 29 , R5868 's first daylight sortie since its fourth operation with 83 Squadron on July 18 , 1942 , when it bombed the Krupps works at Essen . |
| 21 | She had promptly dropped her tin tray and her shrill shrieks began to split the crisp winter air . |
| 22 | And finally the tale of a little village football club and their little football pitch . |
| 23 | The road dipping down into town and the bar with its brown tin roof and its dusty verandah , and a woman running out into the street , hair horizontal in the air behind her , strings of wooden beads swinging in a loop around her neck like a cow 's jaw chewing , her mouth wide open , a wedge hewn out of her face , as if someone had taken an axe to her , as if her mouth was a wound and her screaming the bleeding . |
| 24 | NORTH Armagh Car Club and their consistent backers , Burmah Oil , are continuing to buck the current trend . |
| 25 | We 've made applying for the Income & Growth PEP as easy as possible , because the sooner you invest the sooner you will start to benefit from a professionally managed investment portfolio and your tax-free returns . |
| 26 | Every hour on the hour there we were , slaves to that teleprinter machine and its little bell . |
| 27 | The physical characteristics of weathering profiles depend upon the rock type and its structural properties and mineralogy as well as the intensity and nature of the chemical weathering processes . |
| 28 | He was not exactly the Australian Rugby Football Union 's pin-up boy when his Italian club Milan initially refused him permission to participate in the parade . |
| 29 | Find out from your Local Council or recycling action group where your nearest collection points are for glass , metals and paper . |
| 30 | It catered for three Wehrmacht officers , the Danish research engineer and his chief assistant , and a young SS officer who was the Dane 's personal security escort . |