Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pos pn] [noun] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hotel has targeted its occupancy for the first year at 55 per cent , which , Mr Nitschke says , is realistic . |
| 2 | A used car dealer is offering a ten thousand pound reward to track down arsonists who 've attacked his premises for the second time in two weeks . |
| 3 | Kim Bailey 's gelding , a promising runner-up to Remittance Man at Wincanton recently , booked his place for the big race with a satisfactory two mile gallop after racing at Newbury yesterday . |
| 4 | should now have received their list for the next two months . |
| 5 | Listening in their Castle Park home , his wife Virtue said Moore had altered her life for the worse . |
| 6 | One Sunday morning , about a week after I had seen my dad for the second time , I was lying in bed when I heard voices in the street below . |
| 7 | I said , ‘ You have n't seen my work for the past year , have you ? ’ |
| 8 | But now it has revealed its plans for the next generation of VAXes to be built around the new Alpha RISC chip , DEC is again keen to push the advantages of staying with VAX . |
| 9 | In the seventeen years since his birth she had stopped being a dancer in Miami , become the straight lady to entertainer pinky Lee for a time and , during the war , done her bit for the American effort in the control tower at Willow Run , the central domestic sending centre for the military . |
| 10 | Mrs Hancock , the girl from the other side of the tracks , had always professed her love for the rough , tough ex-miner who made a fortune and espoused the most outlandish ideas . |
| 11 | In 1948 , Francis Rogallo and his wife Gertrude were granted their patent for the flexible kite that has been credited so often as the origin of the ‘ modern ’ species . |
| 12 | Perhaps she had known it would happen , perhaps he had answered her call for the same reason . |
| 13 | Essex Middleton cup manager Norman Groves has selected his side for the second trial match against Berkshire Under-35s to be played at the Esso BC , Abingdon , on Sunday morning . |
| 14 | Martinho had lost no time in recounting the true details of Osvaldo 's moment of weakness , the point at which he 'd flipped his lid for the first and last time in his career , that murderous aberration which had been the doom of old friend and new foe alike . |
| 15 | THE North Staffordshire Railway at Cheddleton , near Leek on the Churnet Valley Railway , has recently opened its doors for the 1992 season of running dates . |
| 16 | A new club which aims to give homeless and unemployed people what could be their only good meal of the day has opened its doors for the first time . |
| 17 | Anyway we 've only got her word for the whole story . |
| 18 | Intergraph Corp , Huntsville , Alabama warns that while it has not yet closed its books for the first quarter , preliminary estimates indicate that turnover will be lower than expected at between $280m and $285m , and that all geographic segments were below expectations for the quarter , and price reductions on older products combined with lower sales volume resulted in reduced gross margins ; the company expects a loss from operations excluding restructuring charges of $8m to $10m or $0.11 to $0.13 per share and restructuring charges and non-operating items during the quarter will increase the losses by an additional three cents a share . |
| 19 | General Nocenzi had offered his office for the young Prince 's use , and it was there , at the very top of the vast , three-hundred-level fortress , that he planned to meet the boy . |
| 20 | I 'll have to do some more calls on Friday night to try and get those appointments , and if necessary , I 'll have to come in on Saturday morning , because you do n't finish a week until you 've got your appointments for the following week . |
| 21 | She just hoped he had n't recognised her start for the violent sexual reaction it had been — a totally ridiculous reaction , she told herself , since she was n't in the least attracted to Fenton Marshall . |
| 22 | His wife , Sonia Gandhi , was an Italian-born Christian who had made known her distaste for the political life imposed on her husband ; their son Rahul , 21 , and daughter Priyanka , 19 , were too young even to enter the Lok Sabha . |
| 23 | Among some fine town houses are Moray House , built after James VI had abandoned his capital for the greater adulation of London but when a Scottish parliament still endeavoured to preserve its autonomy in Edinburgh ; and relics of ancient inns more accessible to coaching traffic than those in the congested upper reaches . |
| 24 | He is said to have affirmed his support for the new fourth clause of the coronation oath at this time . |
| 25 | He observed the introspection and its richness of imagination with a certain alarm ; Benson looking into himself and finding there , as Ramsey put it , ‘ a huge world of fantasy ’ , which caused him distress and yet conditioned his affection for the human race . |
| 26 | But although the Criminal Law Revision Committee has declared its support for the present age of consent , its proposals concerning the mental element in sections 5 and 6 can serve only to undermine it . |
| 27 | Time Out has repeatedly pledged its support for the Famous Compere 's Policedog ( alternative cabaret event ) through sponsorship and advertising . |
| 28 | Brokers have cut their expectations for the full year from £30m to £28m , suggesting earnings of just under 15p . |
| 29 | Here , within three minutes , Mark Bailey had rounded their defence for the first of his side 's dozen tries . |
| 30 | De Klerk did not specify the length of the executive council 's term in office , but he had previously indicated his desire for the interim leadership body to remain in power for several years [ see p. 38798 ] . |