Example sentences of "[noun pl] [noun] [verb] [verb] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the intervals between his military activities Karadjordje had carried on a successful business as a livestock trader , selling pigs across the border into Austria , and he had acquired a modest level of prosperity . |
| 2 | When they met at parties Nigel continued to keep up a surface friendship . |
| 3 | Since appearing on a BBC Christmas programme from Pebble Mill in 1981 Fine Arts Brass has built up a long and varied list of TV and radio credits , including its own series of light entertainment shows on BBC Radio 4 , now in its third series . |
| 4 | Over the centuries carving has built up a range of chisels and gouges , the names of which are as esoteric as the craft itself |
| 5 | Many law firms have already laid off employees : a large Midlands firm has got rid of 35 ; a firm in East Anglia is about to shed some conveyancing staff ; and the Law Society 's Young Solicitors Group has set up a helpline to provide counselling and advice for young lawyers who have been made redundant . |
| 6 | Many law firms have already laid off employees : a large Midlands firm has got rid of 35 ; a firm in East Anglia is about to shed some conveyancing staff ; and the Law Society 's Young Solicitors Group has set up a helpline to provide counselling and advice for young lawyers who have been made redundant . |
| 7 | And of course , ’ her eyes narrowed shrewdly , ‘ with women 's magazines these days warts have taken on an entirely new dimension ! |
| 8 | BLANTYRE 's Jim McCann and Richard Corsie , from Edinburgh , go into action in today 's semi-finals of the Midland Bank World Indoor Singles Championship attempting to set up the first all-Scottish final for four years on Sunday . |
| 9 | The Rangers Service has to carry out a fine balancing act — too many visitors could destroy the very habitat the rangers are trying to conserve . |
| 10 | This should do much to ease the burden the arms race had put on the Soviet economy . |
| 11 | Victims of the Maxwell pensions scandal have set up an action committee to press the Government for compensation . |
| 12 | Even though X/Open no longer has any formal relationship with the Foundation , following the Cambridge , Massachusetts-based group 's withdrawal from its board at the end of last year , the open systems standards body has nailed down an agreement with OSF which will see all DCE specifications integrated into its Common Applications Environment , CAE , interfaces over the next 12 to 18 months . |
| 13 | Now the county 's Police Federation has set up a helpline to give advice to officers facing complaints . |
| 14 | On a lighter note police radios have picked up a Christmas tree decoration 's rendition of Jingle Bells , and their portable radios have operated the police car locking systems . |
| 15 | To study the benefits of downsizing a corporate information system , Sun Microsystems France has set up a ‘ club de reflexion ’ of approximately 40 French directors of information technology , says Eric Saillard , manager of rightsizing marketing at Sun 's French subsidiary . |
| 16 | The Blaggers ITA have put out a limited edition one-sided EP of which by far the best track is ‘ It 's Up To You ’ , which features the sampled words of Thomas Mensford ( ex-singer with The Angelic Upstarts and alleged Morrissey mucker ) in which Mensi accurately dissects the filth that is fascism . |
| 17 | East Anglian surveyors Bidwells have taken up the cudgels on behalf of farmers not only at the timescale for completion of claim forms for area and set-aside payments and ewe and beef premiums , but also at the fines which could result from late or incorrect returns . |
| 18 | Stove specialists Morso have brought out an environmentally-friendly cast iron stove ( left ) . |