Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [adv] [vb pp] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ This is one of the Australian birds ’ , noted Gould in his Handbook , ‘ which particularly attracted the notice of the earlier voyagers to that country , by nearly every one of whom it is mentioned as being very plentiful on all the islands in Bass 's Straits , and so tame that it might be easily knocked down with sticks or even captured by hand ; during my sojourn in the country I visited many of the localities above mentioned , and found that , so far from being still numerous , it is almost extirpated ; I killed a pair on Isabella Island , one of a small group near Flinder 's Island , on the 12th January 1839 . ’ |
| 2 | MAI Systems Corp , the Irvine , California maker of small business computers that just filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection ( CI No 2,147 ) , listed $26.1m in assets and $145.0m in liabilities ; Brooke Group Ltd , which is controlled by MAI chairman Bennett LeBow , owns 82.3% of MAI 's voting securities ; the largest unsecured creditor listed in the filing was Chemical Trust Co. of California , trustee for $40m of 11.75% senior subordinated debentures ; the obligations listed for most of the other creditors were mostly for $4m or less . |
| 3 | Three times last week cars were stolen by reckless drivers and then set on fire . |
| 4 | Plenty of mysteries have lasted for centuries and finally yielded to explanation . |
| 5 | The tissue was fixed using Brunnels primary fixative ( Laboratory Supplies and Instruments , Antrim , UK ) , processed by conventional methods and then embedded in paraffin . |
| 6 | 8.2 In the event of the Publisher making any payment to the Authors or the Company prior to the first accounting date such payments shall be treated as an advance on royalties unless otherwise agreed in writing . |
| 7 | Poisoned by pollution , hunted for meat , drowned in fishing nets or simply bored to death in captivity , the toll is growing by the day . |
| 8 | These conversion schemes aim to foster industrial diversification in areas that formerly relied on iron and steel production , coal mining and shipbuilding . |
| 9 | Yet a civilization existed between 1880 and 1945 , reaching its greatest coherence and strength just before 1914 , which was European in its origins although already transplanted to North and South America and the British white colonies and although unevenly spread among European countries themselves . |
| 10 | The One Source database can first be screened for quoted companies and then screened by activity . |
| 11 | All engines were stopped , the troops given a meal and then , in orderly fashion , embarked on lighters and later transferred to rowing boats , which put them ashore . |
| 12 | The cosmic gods were explanations of natural elements and firmly fixed in nature . |
| 13 | stable over long periods when sweatily enclosed in plastic bags |
| 14 | During April a Swedish-registered Zlin Z242L ( OATS 's parent company CSE Aviation is Swedish-owned , and the Swedish parent has a Zlin dealership ) spent a week in England , where it was evaluated for 23 flying hours by RAF personnel and also flown by OATS instructors . |
| 15 | These three fires are each at different times and well dated by samian burnt in situ and they can be attributed to accident . |
| 16 | Given the wide definitions accorded to LIFESPAN modules and packages , the various stages of software production , from design and implementation through to issue , can all be planned out as packages and thereby brought under control from the outset . |
| 17 | Each view is essentially contemptuous of popular judgement , relying on the idea that people are dupes , unable to form their own ideas and easily swayed by press magnates/communist agitators . |
| 18 | According to Spanish press reports , the most recent migrants , who joined around 7,500 Moroccans already living there , were photographed and given voter registration forms by Moroccan officials and then provided with shelter . |
| 19 | In Britain alone , Glasgow St Enoch 's was torn down in European Architectural Heritage Year ( 1975 ) ; Birmingham Snow Hill was allowed to rot for years and finally demolished on safety grounds , epitomizing a technique in all too frequent use — deliberate and wanton neglect given as a justification for removal . |
| 20 | He had been fully retired for three years and happily occupied with reading and local committee work before Pat retired as home help supervisor for a London borough . |
| 21 | The room , which overlooked the booking hall or the station , was large enough for their purposes and grandly panelled in mahogany . |
| 22 | These machines were small in capacity , had primitive communicative abilities but slowly increased in power and capability . |
| 23 | They were then unskilled builders but quickly developed in technique and understanding . |
| 24 | Having studied the proposals on behalf of the assembly 's Environment Committee , German MEP Mrs Ursula Schleicher said : ‘ The problem is immense , the substances involved — approximately 100 000 — are produced in anything form massive to minute quantities , dangerous to widely varying degrees and either known to possess dangerous properties or else shrouded in mystery on that point . |
| 25 | The Alpha project replaces an Intel Corp-based i860 workstation that Olivetti built in prototype quantities and originally planned for volume manufacture . |
| 26 | Arms salesman ; okay the Avenger the Equaliser the Total Fucking Nutter went for the legs too but still , and the editor spiked , and the rapist-lenient judge raped and the pornographer poisoned and stroked and the man who was so callous about the bloodshed in the Iran/Iraq war forced to watch his penned animals die like cattle like soldiers like cattle and then bled to death in his own private fountains of blood and the businessman who put profits before safety and not only helped kill a thousand people but then tried to get out of paying the survivors and dependants any compensation gets his own gas explosion — blevey is the technical term apparently — and fuck me whoever he is ( assuming he is a he ) , he 's got a sense of humour or at least irony why he 's produced what 's almost a snuff video effectively a snuff video if you mean brain-death anyway it 's the closest anyone will admit to ever having seen or found one even the Obscene Pubs Squad who 've been looking for years but although everybody assumes they exist nobody 's ever seen one until old gorilla man comes along and just makes his own , specifically to warn off any other porn merchants thinking of dealing in snuff ! |
| 27 | The same regions that once benefited from growth in these industries have , subsequently , suffered economic decline and depression . |
| 28 | Once transferred , the ( 4.5Mb ) full-colour images can be retouched , enhanced , colour corrected or otherwise messed around using Adobe Photoshop , saved as TIFF files and then placed in DTP . |
| 29 | We will see later that a model of the company infused with the imagery of contract , suggesting negotiation and mutually beneficial exchange , or at least optimal , market-induced equilibria , supports a different analytical and evaluative approach to current corporate governance arrangements from one which views those arrangements as partially shaped by management power , but that is a different debate from the one in which we are currently engaged . |
| 30 | They are class-blind , in that the programme may reach only a minority , and separates this elite from the bulk of girls who are defined as failures and frequently pushed into opposition to the school 's programme . |