Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb -s] [vb pp] [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Marcos fairy tale A touching story has reached me from the Manila Times of how Ferdinand Marcos had planned to bequeath more than £2.5bn in gold to his beloved people , but fell ill before he could sign the will . |
| 2 | John Major has made one for citizens , British Rail has done it for their passengers , the banks have formulated one for their customers and now the JS distribution division has done it for the branches . |
| 3 | The age of the PC has left us with a messy low grade grumbling crisis . |
| 4 | This accursed recession has blinded us to the fact that we are well placed , vis-a-vis our competitors in Europe , to create wealth . |
| 5 | YOUNG accountants at top City firms , recruited in the late 1980s boom when one in 10 graduates trained as an accountant , are being encouraged to take unpaid leave or extended holidays because the recession has left them with no work to do . |
| 6 | Perhaps racism has conditioned us to a greater extent than we expected . |
| 7 | She plans to launch her own designer clothes label but that is one area where her younger sister has pipped her at the post . |
| 8 | My own experience has led me to the conclusion that at the present stage of development of comprehensive education , a purely individual-based approach to support teaching is likely to prove counterproductive for a combination of three reasons : |
| 9 | This experience has left me with a love of the East and an ability to feel at home there which has been an immense help in my business life . |
| 10 | His crime has brought him to the extremity which Marmeladov was telling him about and tasting at the bottom of his own vodka jug in the opening pages of the novel . |
| 11 | One research scientist , a friend of mine said that the setting up of a particularly apt experiment has lead him to a sense of the beautiful . |
| 12 | Dear Rothenstein , Now that the Mexican president has provided you with the beak and talons of an Aztec eagle you may perhaps feel better equipped to face me in open contest . |
| 13 | Although he left no explicit statement of belief , recent scholarship has shown him as a consistent sponsor of reform , both in his local activities and as an intermediary between suitors and the Crown . |
| 14 | Deeper study has convinced me of the opposite . |
| 15 | His research has taken him through the alpine and arid zones of Australia ; botanical history is one of his many interests , and he specialises in the ‘ Compositae ’ family . |
| 16 | Pleased , that is , until I discovered that I had forgotten to bring the tea bags — the subsequent ‘ Well , why did n't you bring them then 's , ‘ Why is it always my fault 's reminded me of the Quentin Crisp line that marriage was impossible for him because he could not have tolerated an endless succession of mornings when the first words he heard were , ‘ And another thing ’ — and that there were no birds . |
| 17 | Its widespread influence in architecture has linked it with a joyless form of economic and technological functionalism that was not the intent of the originators . |
| 18 | Stephen Thomas says the ordeal has driven him to the brink of suicide . |
| 19 | That dialogue has lead me to the point of issuing a joint statement with Mr Addams . |
| 20 | Fate has placed you in a situation of subservience ; but in the sight of God you are the equal of an emperor . |
| 21 | Her fate has taken her on a different journey , a route where the monarchy is secondary to her true vocation . |
| 22 | But the local council has put it in the highest council tax band — for houses worth at least three hundred thousand pounds . |
| 23 | She 's bitterley disappointed that the council has sold it to a local businessman who wants to use the premises to repair binoculars . |
| 24 | Hello there … this week summer sport has brought us to the south coast to take a look at a sailing revolution that 's being pioneered from the heartland of Central South … we 're going out on the solent to sea test a boat which is reckoned to be the formula one of the water |
| 25 | Your shopping 's transferred it to the pantry . |
| 26 | When nature has provided you with a highly efficient set of incisors capable of cutting down more than 100 trees in one season , and an overriding instinct to build complex dams up to 4,000 ft. long and 12 ft. high , you can regard yourself as one of her senior architects and master builders . |
| 27 | As described earlier , they include those who lack other supportive relationships , or whose previous relationship with the deceased has left them with an overwhelming sense of guilt , leading to self-punitive grief . |
| 28 | Since then her work with the band has taken her on a Scottish tour which included the Edinburgh Folk Festival , and she also performs with the four other ladies who make up Belfast 's first close-harmony vocal group ‘ Cuigear Ban ’ . |
| 29 | IT is probably unwise to record in print that a man who is not your lawfully wedded husband has taken you to the heights of unbridled rapture . |
| 30 | ‘ Candy 's kept me in the picture . ’ |