Example sentences of "[coord] [vb -s] [adv] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Peter is a contender for a gold medal in Barcelona and has already beaten the reigning Olympic champion in the world championships in Australia . |
| 2 | However , its sale plan has been halted by a court action over the trusteeship of the collection and has already provoked the National Art Collections into stripping it of a grant . |
| 3 | As Gargy Patel reports , it intrigues detectives to this day , and has also inspired the latest Inspector Morse novel . |
| 4 | It 's already won international acclaim with a Grand Prix for the Best European short film … and has just clinched the prestigious Golden Gate award in the United States . |
| 5 | Bowled over by their demo , Weatherall offered his remixing services and has just put the finishing touches to their delicious debut LP ‘ Breakdown ’ . |
| 6 | One way and another , it appears that the search for a new chief executive for IBM Corp is not going too well as one after another , the most fancied candidates declare that they are non-runners — so long after their names were first widely canvassed in the press that they leave the strong impression that they have considered or been considered for the job , but after having looked into it , decided that they would n't touch it with a bargepole : latest to declare his belated non-candidacy is former Hewlett-Packard Co chief executive John Young , who says he is ‘ definitely not a candidate ’ — ‘ He 's enjoying retirement , ’ said a Hewlett spokeswoman ; all attention is now focussed on the thought-to-be front runners that have n't ruled themselves out — Paul Stern , recently retired chairman and tough manager of Northern Telecom Ltd , who could be planning to repeat his double act at that company with another former IBMer , Edward Lucente , who has also just resigned from Northern Telecom ; the other two whose odds have shortened are George Fisher , chairman and chief executive of Motorola Inc , Morton Myerson , chairman of Perot Systems Corp , and Louis Gerstner , head of RJR Nabisco Co ; industry sources told Reuter that the name of Michael Armstrong keeps coming up within IBM — but he quit only a year ago , and has just taken the top job at Hughes Aircraft Co . |
| 7 | Diploma Plc , holding company for a portfolio of electronic and construction products businesses , reporting pre-tax profits up 225% at £8.1m , says that industry may be broadly much weaker following a long and debilitating recession , but Diploma has maintained a good level of investment in people as well as plant , and has generally considered the recent years as an opportunity . |
| 8 | Abbey National wrote its first major piece of leasing business in December 1990 and has since become the fastest-growing company in the field . |
| 9 | At the same time , the Secretary of State has revealed his attitude to developments in his response to structure plan policies ; in many cases , while approving the general outline of the structure plans , he has also given more emphasis to permitting further development in rural areas and has substantially reduced the proposed limits for some green belts ( Elson 1981 ) . |
| 10 | Systems will simply not change as easily as Shapland and Hobbs seem to hope ; for police society is extremely conservative and masculine in outlook , and has long reflected the low esteem women are given in wider society , as I will describe in more detail in Chapter 4 . |
| 11 | I take as typical of my difficulty a sentence from item six in your summary of your campaign : ‘ The need for the silent majority to assert itself in order that politicians and judges fully understand the true feelings of the public . ’ |
| 12 | Grassland life is much the same the world over , and horses and litopterns independently evolved the same qualities to cope with the problems of grassland life . |
| 13 | Educational practice in this country has acknowledged the cognitive side of learning but has often neglected the affective side . |
| 14 | The word brezkr may mean something as general as British , but seems usually to denote the Welsh . |