Example sentences of "[adj] [noun prp] [vb past] [adv] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thank God British Telecom did n't send bills like that . |
| 2 | The disruption to the shipping and insurance markets is expected to be limited but British Telecom moved quickly to restore services and provide the affected companies with links to ensure that callers could dial the usual numbers . |
| 3 | Pre-colonial Africa did not lack entrepreneurs who managed trading companies , in some cases stretching well beyond contemporary national frontiers , and which had the capacity to invest profits from trade in production . |
| 4 | Relations of production were in some cases clearly oppressive , but that was more attributable to the nationalism of the government and the ethnic prejudice of the employers than to their capitalism : relations of wealthy to poor Zuwaya did not constitute class relations , and secondary characteristics of class — segregation in housing , schooling and medical care — — were absent . |
| 5 | The PA 's international director Ian Taylor reported that the government through its Know How Fund for aid to eastern Europe had recently contributed £30,000 to the Senior Managers Attachment Programme ( SMAP ) . |
| 6 | A strike beginning in late April had reportedly halted production at the El Cerrejon coal mine , the largest export mine in the world . |
| 7 | Medium-pacer Waugh bowled superbly to dismiss Brian Lara for 74 , skipper Richie Richardson ( 61 ) , Keith Arthurton ( 9 ) , Junior Murray ( 5 ) and Cummins ( 2 ) . |
| 8 | And not long before leaving England I 'd read a newspaper item revealing that a Gauguin landscape bought by another novelist , Hugh Walpole , in 1924 for £145 would now in the thirties be worth around £6,000 , and that Hermann Goering in Nazi Germany had recently paid Alfred Krupp the armaments boss 10,000 Reichmarks for another of the wayward artist 's pictures . |
| 9 | But Britain and the Austrian Habsburgs did not follow suit until 1742 , and France and Spain not until three years after that . |
| 10 | Post-war Bob went on to fly Vampires in the Middle East , eventually becoming CO of a Royal Indian Air Force squadron . |
| 11 | I would have suspected nothing if the counterfeit Taplow had not made reference to Purgatory . |
| 12 | NEW Yorkers awoke yesterday to find boats in their front gardens and neighbours swimming down their street after the region 's worst storm in decades . |
| 13 | A distraught Leonie tried unsuccessfully to contact Hugo to warn him and the first he knew of the débâcle was when he was summoned to Nicholson 's cramped stale-tobacco smelling office . |
| 14 | He bit his lip as he said it , for of course in the past Sylvie had often wanted Katherine to be miserable . |
| 15 | The Royal Harbinger went ahead to make arrangements for the King and his Court to be quartered in the Cathedral Close . |
| 16 | The urban Midlands had traditionally had difficulty in filling posts . |