Example sentences of "and [verb] [adv] [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | People who bought Dixons traded options on Tuesday and sold once news of the bid was released yesterday made a 100 per cent profit in 24 hours . |
| 2 | Food industry sources described the prediction as ‘ alarmist ’ and insisted only part of the increase in the farmgate prices would be passed on to the customer . |
| 3 | Audrey , a lively girl ( previously the leader of her own gang and described in the book as a ‘ misfit ’ ) , develops as a decidedly sympathetic character and elicits mainly admiration from the reader . |
| 4 | He exchanged ideas and information with other early practitioners and invested much thought in the technical and artistic refinement of his chosen medium . |
| 5 | Joseph Chamberlain as Chairman of the Local Government Board in 1885 was responsible for the Medical Relief ( Disqualifications Removal ) Act which removed the pauper stigma — disfranchisement — from inmates of Poor Law infirmaries who made no other demands on poor relief and increased both use of the infirmaries by respectable working people and their willingness as ratepayers to finance them . |
| 6 | The Bolsheviks recognised the crises of the autocracy and harnessed there party to the revolutionary mood of the masses . |
| 7 | Our research suggests that after the sale of the music business to Thorn , the trusts would have got about four hundred and fifty million pounds , even after paying off debts and setting aside money for the initial expansion of Virgin Atlantic , that would still leave about two hundred and fifty million . |