Example sentences of "[coord] [pos pn] [noun pl] [verb] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The information obtained will enable the offeror and its advisers to build up a public profile of the target . |
| 2 | Regardless of what the manufacturers of integrated software may tell us it can still be a time consuming process to off-load the document from the wordprocessor and pull in the data base and its files to look up a simple telephone number . |
| 3 | Because of the limits on income support payments there is increasing evidence of a shortfall between benefit levels and home fees , with resulting pressure on individual residents and their families to make up the deficit . |
| 4 | Just before dawn on 1 October , six generals and brigadiers were murdered and their bodies thrown down a well at a nearby military base , Halim . |
| 5 | Shultz and his associates carried out a series of studies to investigate children 's understanding of intentions . |
| 6 | He dug his hand through the aromatic blanket and his fingers closed round an unmistakeable shape . |
| 7 | In the end Purvis and his records opened up a new world for me , starting on that very first dinner when we played Beethoven 's Archduke Trio , the one in B flat major , ‘ Opus 97 , ’ he added casually . |
| 8 | Bohr and his friends hammered out an approach to the understanding of quantum theory which hardened into a rigid orthodoxy prescribed for the faithful . |
| 9 | General Alexander and his troops carried out a magnificent fighting retreat and held up the Japanese advance until the rains broke , thus saving four months ' valuable time in which preparations could be made to repel the Japs if they attempted to invade India . |
| 10 | In 1951 , during the period of the Vietnamese uprising against the French colonial rule , he walked through his country 's rich tropical forests to China , where he and his colleagues set up a temporary university . |
| 11 | Thus , McConaghy and his colleagues carried out a series of experiments on what they call ‘ allusive thinking ’ , a concept similar to overinclusive thinking and actually measured by them with a clinical , thought disorder test . |
| 12 | Unusually , Abramson and his colleagues spell out the potential preventive implications of their ideas . |
| 13 | In a book significantly entitled American Multinationals and American Interests , Bergson and his colleagues worked out the percentage of key minerals and metals supplied by imports in 1976 ( Bergson et al. , 1978 , Table 5.1 ) . |
| 14 | In Devon , the farmer and his workers stood around a tree in the orchard and drank a toast to the apple trees . |
| 15 | Mikey Smith was stoned to death but his words live on de same |