Example sentences of "[adj] [noun prp] [noun sg] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the British Telecom privatisation issue for instance , Harvard Securities had planned to start dealing at 9.00 a.m. on the earliest allowable morning . |
| 2 | But any display of his wry sense of humour made the brave BBC man wince with pain at the agonising stitches in his stomach . |
| 3 | In late May the FBI admitted that it had questioned thirty-one year old Brian M. McDevitt in connection with the theft , in which two robbers cut such masterpieces as Vermeer 's ‘ The concert ’ and Rembrandt 's ‘ The storm on the Sea of Galilee ’ from their frames . |
| 4 | of a much more basic malaise and structural phenomenon , namely the inability of the marketable output ( largely industrial ) sector to grow as fast as productivity growth without the economy coming up against a balance of payments constraint , due to a high U.K. income elasticity of demand for imports , coupled with a much lower world income elasticity of demand for U.K exports . |
| 5 | With an exciting Essex run chase in prospect , play was abandoned without a ball being bowled the second washout of the match , and Lancashire 's fourth in the Championship this season after their rain-ruined trip to Aigburth . |
| 6 | She had an armed Scotland Yard bodyguard for company , Chief Inspector Paul Officer , a philosophical policeman who is fascinated by runes , mysticism and the after-world . |
| 7 | The other design in the offing was the two-axle railbus which had started life as a Research Division project aimed at combining high-speed freightvehicle technology with that of the standard Leyland road bus in order to produce a low cost diesel train . |
| 8 | Looking in detail at an RFC squadron on the Western Front , a typical RAF fighter sweep during World War Two . |
| 9 | She appears in the video wearing a lime green mini-dress , surrounded by impassive Schwarzenegger beefcake types in dinner suits , her face fully made up , her mouth gleaming with bright red lipstick . |
| 10 | Indeed , the creative and performing arts never seem to have become entirely integrated into the system — they do not quite fit standard CNAA validation procedures for example — and this is perhaps no bad thing . |
| 11 | In Central Newbury Car Auctions v. Unity Finance ( 1957 C.A. ) a customer wished to acquire a car on hire purchase . |
| 12 | The composition of foods represents the largest single set of official UK food tables to date . |
| 13 | I agree with them about the need for a comprehensive UK energy policy in order to provide primary energy substitution for oil . |
| 14 | Music of the Cavaliers and Roundheads. 3rd Annual Dover Castle Festival of Archery . |
| 15 | To see this method in action let the pulse of figure 11.3(a) be applied to the basic C-R low-pass filter of figure 4.11(b) with the capacitor initially uncharged . |
| 16 | A transformer can also serve as a current comparator in a conventional Wheatstone bridge type of circuit as shown in figure 7.14 . |
| 17 | HOW WOULD you like a nifty , highly collectable Morrissey promo single for Christmas ? |
| 18 | The benefits became clearer as companies , like the multinational Philips , fired their workers and contracted work out , often to the hundreds of small outfits that had sprung up in the surrounding Lima shanty towns of Villa El Salvador , Comas , or Independencia . |
| 19 | A GREAT BSB PACKAGE DEAL FROM RADIO RENTALS |
| 20 | RUSSIA 'S first championship golf course is being built near Moscow by Bristol-based HTC Project Management as part of a £100m leisure complex . |
| 21 | Fury at savage Saddam prison sentence on Brit |
| 22 | Current EC research workplans in biotechnology ( See below ) offer the possibility of collaborative training and research programmes between institutions , and this would offer our own staff the opportunity of acquiring the necessary information and expertise to plan our own future requirements in this field . |
| 23 | Having played in the previous winning Eisenhower Trophy team with distinction I think he can feel hard done by . |
| 24 | Concise Oxford Dictionary definition of counselling and counsellor . |
| 25 | There was a low US energy dependence on coal ( only 18–20 per cent ) ; several months ' stockpiles of coal were held by key consumers ; UMW-dominated mines held a low share of the total number of national contracts ( around 52 per cent , compared with 67 per cent in 1974 ) ; there was a growing influence on the markets of western strip mines ( which tended to be non-union organised by the International Union of Operating Engineers ) who would not be sympathetic ; and finally , the petroleum crisis of the early 1970s had prompted the re-opening of many smaller mines ( 6,100 operating units in 1969 to 7,000 in 1977 ) which were non-union . |
| 26 | A computermail database network has even been set up around the country for fans to debate the killer of Laura Palmer , the lovely blonde homecoming queen whose body mysteriously washes onto a river bank near a lumbermill in the fictional Pacific northwest town of Twin Peaks . |
| 27 | Fifty Super Nintendo Entertainment System plus Scope lightgun and six Blast-Em-Up games from the August Power Up Pete contest were won by : Richard Kavanagh , Southampton ; Stephen Mahoney , Port Talbot ; Philip Gray , Barrow-in-Furness ; Lisa Smith , Cwntillery ; Kevin Latham , Preston ; P A Lean , Southport ; Mrs H Gilbertson , Leeds ; Mrs L Phillips , St Albans ; Michael Tierney , Great Yarmouth ; C Clark , Wolverhampton ; Andrew Beasley , Walsall . |
| 28 | The only US Senate seat at issue , in Pennsylvania , was won by the Democrat Harris Wofford , who overcame an early 44-point opinion poll deficit to take 55 per cent of the vote against Dick Thornburgh , a former two-term governor who had in June announced his resignation as Attorney General in order to enter the contest [ see p. 38279 ] . |
| 29 | OBVERSE : View of Victoria ( capital of Mahe ) with miniature Big Ben lookalike clock at crossroads . |
| 30 | Many years and many visits later I was invited by Tim Littler to become the official wheel tapper for his exotic Orient Express voyages to Champagne being launched in August this year . |