Example sentences of "[coord] [adj] [verb] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | WALLPAPER designer Osborne & Little has taken a pasting in France . |
| 2 | WALLPAPER designer Osborne & Little has taken a pasting in France . |
| 3 | If your opinion is asked , it may be gently given but , in nearly every case , it is neither right nor effective to try to end a relationship forcibly . |
| 4 | And that does include a policy fee |
| 5 | But there are tickets left for the ESC 's other production Twelfth Night next week and that does have an interval . |
| 6 | We have suffered from the same thing as the other two er Abalance have said today of money being used from our surplus to provide for redundancy and erm i it 's been exacerbated by money being available from the people who are made , made redundant , going to the company and swelling their balance sheets , while all the cost side of it comes out of the pension fund and that has caused a lot of ill-feeling particularly from the older pensioners who have seen years of inflation when their pensions were not made up to the same extent . |
| 7 | We have suffered from the same thing as the other two er Abalance have said today of money being used from our surplus to provide for redundancy and erm it 's been exacerbated by money being available from the people who were made , made redundant going to the company and swelling their balance sheets while all the cost side of it comes out of the pension fund and that has caused a lot of ill-feeling particularly from the older pensioners who have seen years of inflation , when their pensions were not made up to the same extent . |
| 8 | That was a Day Centre for erm mentally handicapped people , and that 's got a reprieve . |
| 9 | The earlier Welsh campaigns of 1277 and 1282–3 had cost a sum approaching £150,000 , while the building of the castles had added another £80,000 to this throughout the reign . |
| 10 | Each draws significantly upon previously existing courses and each attempts to fill a gap in the current national provision of undergraduate education . |
| 11 | Eschewing both rutted ‘ autoroute ’ and Paris-Dakar ’ engineering , ten couples somehow cajoled their 2CVs across the Sahara and eight survived to turn a brain-storm into an annual rally . |
| 12 | Eschewing both rutted ‘ autoroute ’ and ‘ Paris-Dakar ’ engineering , ten couples somehow cajoled their 2CVs across the Sahara and eight survived to turn a brain-storm into an annual rally . |
| 13 | And some like to keep a check on fat or other nutrients . |
| 14 | Both pockets have two retaining straps with quick release buckles and this does mean a lot of excess strapping when the pockets are n't full . |
| 15 | We had instilled in all of us a very strong sense of timing , which had to be to the second , and this had become a habit . |
| 16 | During the treatment his back was x-rayed and this involved injecting an oil based substance into his spine to help show up the nerves . |
| 17 | There is some evidence that relationships between local government and business interests have become closer and more institutionalized , and this seems to support an interpretation which identifies a significant shift ( or structural change ) between the late 1960s and the late 1980s . |
| 18 | There has always been some concern over levels of public spending and taxation , and this has played a part in the arguments about the scope and direction of social policy that are described in Chapter 13 . |
| 19 | ‘ We are already behind on our non-professional staff training programme and this has necessitated a review of training methods . |
| 20 | The interior of Hermiston Village , once torn apart by unremitting heavy traffic has now been bypassed by the realignment of A71 and this has provided an opportunity to improve the local environment immeasurably by the adoption of various hard and soft landscaping measures . |
| 21 | GRIST regulations ( section 9 , DES , 1986 ) allow the curriculum component of advisers ' work to be a charge against DES funds and this has released a number of posts frozen by local government cut-backs . |
| 22 | This leaves pension funds with a very wide range of powers over the selection and management of investments and this has attracted a degree of adverse attention in recent years . |
| 23 | Twenty-two patients complained of angina ( 16 with Grade 1/2 using the New York Heart Association classification ) , 5 had cardiac dyspnoea ( all Grade 2 ) , and 2 had suffered a reinfarction within the first year period . |
| 24 | The young orang-utans are sold abroad ; in Taiwan , where a television series portraying them as cute and cuddly has created a demand for orang-utan pets , they fetch up to £6,000 . |
| 25 | The English poll tax returns of 1377 , 1379 and 1381 have left a wealth of documentation , mainly in the form of indentures recording the number of 1377 tax-payers by vill and detailed rolls for 1379 and 1381 listing the names , assessments and often the occupational details and relationships of the tax-payers . |
| 26 | ) The unifying concepts such as ‘ capital ’ ( all organizations have capital and all need to have a measure of the capital they own ) outweigh the differentiating concepts such as ‘ profit ’ . |
| 27 | Most of the older officers have worked in pollution control for several years and many have had a number of years experience in industry , which , they are quick to point out , affords them an ‘ insider 's ’ sympathetic understanding of the difficulties and costs which arise in complying with standards . |
| 28 | We are thus faced in his later years by the paradox of a ruler who had spent his life in efforts to make his subjects prosperous and happy compelled to create a system of secret police and to hold down considerable parts of his territories by armed force . |
| 29 | The aim of a capital shares tax is to enable people starting out on their careers and those wishing to make a mid-career switch to have some ‘ seed money ’ to test their entrepreneurial skills . |
| 30 | ‘ Both Villa and United have spent a lot of money on quality players . |