Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pos pn] [noun pl] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | And Julie Goodyear — Coronation Street 's Bet Gilroy — has given her earrings for a separate celebrity sale in aid of Romanian children . |
| 3 | Now the junior minister says she is pleased ‘ that the West Midlands County Council have accepted my proposals for a sensible and reasonable division of responsibilities . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | If , instead , the tax payers had sold their shares for a larger amount , sufficient to enable them to repay the loans , they are likely to have been personally better off , because of indexation allowance to reduce the additional gain deriving from the sale of the shares , and because they would not have suffered an income tax charge under either ss421 or 160 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Brokers have cut their expectations for the full year from £30m to £28m , suggesting earnings of just under 15p . |
| 11 | Jane had removed her specs for a short myopic rest , but now put them on again , quickly . |
| 12 | Many councils have employed too many staff over the years , have been too inefficient , and have not maintained their homes for the elderly and residential care homes as well as they should have done . |
| 13 | Nirex , the nuclear waste disposal company , has unveiled its plans for an underground research laboratory to test geological conditions at the site of Britain 's proposed nuclear waste repository in Cumbria . |
| 14 | There was a silence in the room as we all simultaneously racked our brains for a missing disease . |
| 15 | Vial is said to have published his proposals for a veterinary school in September 1788 , and also in October 1789 , and he had issued his plan ( perhaps as revised by Granville Penn ) in March 1790 . |