Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [noun] [verb] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania-based Cimflex Teknowledge Corp has terminated its agreement to sell the assets of its Automated Factories Division to Flexpack Corp because prospects for the unit deteriorated significantly since the deal was signed . |
| 2 | Using a fake scent for the hounds to track rather than a live fox would take the blood out of this sport and opposition would cease . |
| 3 | But even I could n't blame him for the phone ringing just as I was at the front door . |
| 4 | Indication can be quivertip or butt indicator and generally I wait for the reel to revolve slowly so I know it is not a line bite . |
| 5 | This makes it very difficult for the gent to aim straight when he next visits the loo . |
| 6 | Publicity for the film started badly when the American distributors flew 140 journalists and potential exhibitors to Britain . |
| 7 | A secret agreement was made for the marriage to continue only after the Queen held the most extraordinary royal meeting in history in her drawing room at Windsor Castle when the monarch personally saved the marriage . |
| 8 | ‘ We are appealing for the mum to come forward because she could need urgent medical attention . |
| 9 | First , because rule 14A in any event expressly provides for the court to order otherwise if appropriate . |
| 10 | Negotiations for the deal took more than 14 months . |
| 11 | The technology is being developed to allow for the sound to continue even when the picture is " frozen " on the screen . |
| 12 | An eight-band spear gun took too long to load for the fisherman to have more than one shot . |
| 13 | It said 1,200 of the 1,700 employees that left during the quarter did so after voluntarily accepting severance packages , and it expects more departures as the job-cutting programme spreads to new countries . |
| 14 | If the report is seen and used as a reminder note of discussions that took place during the consultation meeting rather than a stand alone document then the task of report writing becomes significantly easier . |
| 15 | In Nigeria , freedom of the mass media seems to be valued mainly as the freedom to criticize rather than to discover something worth reporting . |
| 16 | A very large economy such as the U.S.A. has more than 100 million workers , the large European countries have about 25 million workers . |
| 17 | This decision can only be based on the spacing between the sites chosen rather than the importance of the sites themselves , ignoring even the cross-routes . |
| 18 | Differences between the records arise mainly because of the different bandwidths of the filters used . |
| 19 | The most dramatic feature about the genes mutated so as to cause muscular dystrophy and cystic fibrosis , however , is that they were discovered by reverse genetics — neither dystrophin nor cystic fibrosis transmembrane receptor were known to exist in the body before they were discovered by Kunkel and Tsui respectively . |
| 20 | From that day on , nothing about the mill went well -unless Neva had a hand in it . |
| 21 | Production is said to be continuing after the company recruited more than 100 employees . |
| 22 | After a siege lasting more than three hours , members of the RUC Mobile Support Unit stormed the house , smashed in the door and fired tear-gas inside . |
| 23 | The justices heard oral evidence , and after a hearing lasting more than six hours they deferred the statement of their decision and reasons for 10 days . |
| 24 | Eleven of 23 patients and none of the controls had more than 0.083 abnormal subareas ( p<0.001 , Fisher 's exact test ) . |
| 25 | This form is to be used in respect of the resolutions mentioned below as follows : |
| 26 | This form is to be used in respect of the resolutions mentioned below as follows : |
| 27 | But much of the problem dissolves immediately once we recognize that there is a confusion of categories at its root . |
| 28 | If a total of less than 1% of the population is undefined then the errors are unlikely to be great , but the reliability of the moments decreases sharply as the proportions of undefined materials increases , and the technique should not be used with a higher proportion of unknowns notwithstanding the convenience and availability of pocket calculators suitable to perform the arithmetic . |
| 29 | This is true of the novel considered both as commodity and as mode of representation . |
| 30 | Such examples confirm the view of the infinitive proposed here because they evoke its lexical content as something prospective . |