Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [adj] [subord] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet they moved with more than usual purpose towards the hills ; and it was always a possibility , however remote , that some vagabond poacher or time-expired soldier living wild had hit upon Owen 's outposts without being detected , and thought it worth his while to carry a tale to Ruthyn . |
| 2 | SHARES boomed on better than expected inflation figures for both Britain and Germany yesterday . |
| 3 | Its finest episodes are the central ‘ Dirge ’ ( sung by Brian Rayner Cook a little insecurely ) which is a memorial to Parry 's brother- in-law , who died at 45 while this work was being written , and the subsequent chorus ‘ Man , born of desire ’ ( which Holst also set in his Choral Fantasia ) . |
| 4 | Advertising revenue fell by less than 1 p.c. to £88.2m , and the 23 p.c. fall in pre-tax profits to £8.62m was more than accounted for by a £1.6m rise in its Channel 4 subscription and by £2.36m of exceptional staff cutting costs . |
| 5 | It had not taken her long to discover the team 's skills ran to more than mere mountaineering . |
| 6 | He retired in 1991 as senior partner of Reiach and Hall , architects , Edinburgh , but is still involved with the practice , currently consulting on matters of design policy and participating in project design reviews . |