Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [verb] [adv] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On June 22 , West Germany agreed to restructure over a 14-year period a debt of DM3,000 million due for payment by March 1991 . |
| 2 | But since Rayful 's father started him off in the business with a packet of cocaine from New York , prosecutors allege that Mr Edmond has built up a vast business concern , generating sales of up to $2m ( £1.25m ) a week . |
| 3 | In his four years as an MP Mr Devlin has kept up a high profile . |
| 4 | The sums of money at stake are large — Grampian has drawn up a six-year programme envisaging spending around £33 million on the north-east fishing communities and west Aberdeenshire . |
| 5 | Neal Zaslaw has pointed out a semantic correspondence to this : in German usage , the difference between ‘ old-fashioned church practices ’ and opera/concert practice ( dual-system ) was manifest in the two words tactieren ( literally , ‘ giving the tactus ’ ) and dirigieren . |
| 6 | Well as Mike said , since the inception of the Service for Industry programme in nineteen eighty , the University of Sussex has helped nearly a hundred local companies . |
| 7 | COMIC Mike Harding saw how Middlesbrough has turned over a new leaf at the weekend . |
| 8 | Thanks to Peterborough 's Hospital at Home ( HAH ) system , Jessica has spent only a few days in the local district hospital . |
| 9 | Laughton has splashed out a further £500,000 on former Wigan favourites Andy Gregory , Kevin Iro and Andy Goodway , ex-Warrington second rower Gary Mercer and Bath rugby union winger Jim Fallon . |
| 10 | While Payton has struck up a sound understanding with Frank McAvennie , Celtic 's greatest asset today may be their desire for victory . |
| 11 | We 'll have to check them out of course , but it looks as if Comrade Chatterton has sold over a hundred thousand pounds ’ worth of wine in the last ten years . ’ |
| 12 | Michael Roberts has picked up a two-week ban in South Africa for the second time this winter . |
| 13 | National minority rights came into question in January when Romanians , Croats and Slovaks in Hungary began to set up a joint organization which intended to help the government prepare decisions affecting minority rights . |
| 14 | After Richard Eaton had cancelled out a second minute opener from Kenny Morris on 20 minutes , John Stephens shot Annadale into the lead with a superb finish to two minutes into the second period . |
| 15 | Bragad had brought quite a few men with him — a dozen or so though some , of course , were Mugeary 's , if that made any difference . |
| 16 | The Nobel had afforded only a temporary alleviation of this condition : indeed , the abbreviated stay in Princeton , the rush back to England , and the trip to Stockholm made him feel worse rather than better . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The luthier , Tony Rockett attempted to track down a new steel rod for my bass , only to discover that nobody in this country supplies Warwick spares . |
| 19 | Right so on on top of all this , we 've actually got as Sue 's mentioned quite a few times , we 've actually got to keep the damn thing afloat , well after introducing all this . |
| 20 | Pat anticipates receiving quite a few requests in the near future . |
| 21 | Pat anticipates receiving quite a few requests in the near future . |
| 22 | Hampshire has set up a new post for housing and care in the community . |
| 23 | Budget personal computer manufacturer OCT Systems Inc of Seattle , Washington has lined up a new UK distributor , following the demise of Olympic Technology Ltd , which went into liquidation in January . |
| 24 | IBM has set up a toll-free number to handle calls : ( 800 ) IBM-CALL . |
| 25 | Barnes has fired up a powerful B side and told them : ‘ We are going to set down a performance that will make the selectors take notice . |
| 26 | While Lady Chatterley outrages viewers on BBC1 , and Carlton Television invest in a major three-part drama called A Woman 's Guide to Adultery ( to be screened in the autumn ) Ray has pulled off a major scoop now . |
| 27 | British Telecom wants to set up a global framework which can offer a complete telecommunications service package to multinationals by reselling spare capacity on the international private line circuits of other US carriers . |
| 28 | Over the years Beverley has taught nearly a hundred people how to make monoclonal antibodies in their laboratories . |
| 29 | When North tried to set up a tax-exempt corporation to take in contributions to the contras , he thought it should acquire ‘ a Post Office Box 1776 in Gettysburg , Philadelphia or Yorktown ’ . |
| 30 | The river has curved round and Odd-Knut has drawn up a few metres from the edge of a very steep drop . |