Example sentences of "[vb pp] [art] [noun pl] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 'll all be given the instructions for the small group sessions for bail today . |
| 2 | By the end of it , some members may have forgotten the reasons for the whole idea , so let us recap briefly : there are economies of scale , certainly , though the addition of 6,500 members to 100,000 does not in itself produce any great saving in CIB operating costs ( we used to recruit nearly three times that number of new members from the banks alone in a good year in the 1980s ) ; there is potential recruitment , from more than 60,000 building society employees ; but , above all , the merger demonstrates to the public that two major parts of the much maligned financial services sector are keen to improve their standards , and gives commercial rivals an exceptional opportunity to enjoy the benefits of co-operation in educational endeavour . |
| 3 | The Gnomes had rolled the designs for the new Crown Jewels into cylinders and packed them carefully into long , hollow tubes , which they had brought with them for the purpose . |
| 4 | When the athletic Can Can girls had done the splits for the umpteenth time , the old master , 83-year-old George Williams , played on the state of his health . |
| 5 | He was descended ( though not through the male line ) from the family that had built the ships for the old Fowey Gallants of fourteenth-century fame , whose piratical seamen who had dared disobey the Sovereign by plundering Frenchmen and had had their fleet confiscated and sent to Dartmouth for their pains . |
| 6 | But you 've had no dealings for the past six or seven years ? |
| 7 | Attempts were made to root out those businessmen who had supported Hitler and to break up the industrial cartels which had provided the materials for the German war efforts . |
| 8 | He had provided the foundations for the strategic and tactical mobility that enabled the small regular Army to meet its commitments in the mid-1960s — but only just . |
| 9 | Each will receive a golden medal , plus £1,000 worth of books to donate to any organisation they choose , provided by Peter 's Library Service , which has sponsored the awards for the past three years . |
| 10 | He was successful in the former , and he thought that he had laid the foundations for the latter . |
| 11 | Accountancy Television has announced the rates for the first annual subscriptions . |
| 12 | For the MA in Architecture and the BCom the decision is made at the end of the third year , by which time the student should have satisfied the requirements for the general degree . |
| 13 | He did this after he had cut the grooves for the second time in the stretchers . |
| 14 | In order to assess how ‘ fair ’ the warranted Accounts are and to verify or compare profit/and/or net asset growth it is useful to be able to assume that previous accounts have been drawn up on a similar basis and that , for example , the Vendor has not unfairly weighted the profits for the warranted Accounts . |
| 15 | They were standing on the terrace just before lunch , watching the shrinking white mantle that had covered the slopes for the last two days , when a dark shape moving fast appeared further up the valley . |
| 16 | Coopers & Lybrand 's insolvency team has analysed the reasons for the many unnecessary corporate failures it has recently dealt with . |