Example sentences of "a [adv] [verb] [noun sg] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Synergy ( that is , 2+2 = 5 ) is a vastly overstated belief of systems theorists . |
| 2 | Banque Worms , a wholly owned unit of Union des Assurances de Paris , will increase to 5 per cent from 2 per cent . |
| 3 | Cimflex Teknowledge Corp of Pittsburgh is selling the unit that represents the first part of its name , its Automated Factories Division , to Flexpack Corp , a wholly owned unit of Julius Capital Partners LP.The price includes assumption of some liabilities , about $160,000 in cash and potential royalty payments dependent on future Flexpack sales . |
| 4 | The PEP invests exclusively in the Capital House Income & Growth Trust , an authorised unit trust managed by Capital House Unit Trust Managers Limited [ Member of IMRO , Lautro and AUTIF ] , which is a wholly owned subsidiary of Capital House Investment Management Limited ] |
| 5 | With revenues of $77m in 1991 , 800-Software will maintain its current management infrastructure , becoming a wholly owned subsidiary of DEC. 800-Software will continue to market the 12,000 non-Digital products already on its books . |
| 6 | Wedging itself in between Texas Instruments Inc 's announcement of the Tsunami Sparc chip on October 9 ( UX No 406 ) , and Sun Microsystems Inc 's expected introduction of the first Tsunami box on November 10 , MIPS Technologies Inc , now a wholly owned subsidiary of Silicon Graphics Inc , is due to upgrade its 64-bit R4000 chip to the R4400 this week with a major performance boost . |
| 7 | The company , which is a wholly owned subsidiary of AGB Research , had been chosen by Ben Lowe partly because it had done market research for other papers , including an abortive workers ' co-operative , the Scottish Daily News . |
| 8 | ANGUS Fine Chemicals Ltd , a wholly owned subsidiary of ANGUS Chemical Company , Chicago , having established a new substantial fine chemical multi-purpose custom manufacturing facility at Ringaskiddy , Co . |
| 9 | Thomas Cook is a wholly owned subsidiary of Midland Bank , Pickfords is owned by the National Freight Consortium ( previously the National Freight Corporation until its de-nationalization in 1983 and ‘ buy-out ’ by management ) and Lunn Poly is owned by Thomson Holidays . |
| 10 | Assume also that the trustee of the trust is a wholly owned subsidiary of Newco resident for tax purposes in the Channel Islands , so as to fall outside the definition of a collective investment scheme for the purposes of the Financial Services Act . |
| 11 | NeXT Computer Inc has been banging the drum for its forthcoming NeXTstep 486 object-oriented operating environment for 80486-based personal computers , reporting that Chrysler Financial , a wholly owned subsidiary of Chrysler Corp , will buy 2,500 copies of NeXTstep 486 . |
| 12 | Digital Equipment Corp is the first US computer major to open a wholly owned subsidiary in Romania , its seventh in the old Eastern Bloc . |
| 13 | First , it seems as though we can identify a locally based form of politics , arising from local social relations and social processes . |
| 14 | In classical tragedy as we know it , [ the tragedy of Aeschylus ( 525–456 ) and Sophocles ( 496–406 ) ] , the drama , as represented in the dialogue , gives a uniformly Apolline impression of form , precision , lucidity and beauty , much like Homeric epic . |
| 15 | In a while we had drawn close enough to sight the planet itself — a slowly enlarging spot of brightness on the ceptor screens — by which time Posi had contacted the spaceport . |
| 16 | And she trembled , yielding , softening , flowering against him as a slowly swirling vortex of yearning began to build to an urgency . |
| 17 | At the second and subsequent prunings , a widely advocated rule of thumb guide is to reduce the stem length by about a half . |
| 18 | Or the Queerfella , a widely dispensed sobriquet of Preston 's nan , not knowing then how queer a fella Barry Moxton really was . |
| 19 | In a widely reported speech to police chiefs at the time of the disorders Hurd made this point clear : |
| 20 | Furthermore the overall effect of this circulation is to link together into a widely ramifying network of relationships a great number of individuals of quite different status and quite different cultural background . |
| 21 | The processes of school internal evaluation are recommended by the Hargraves Report , ‘ Planning for School Development : Advice to Governors , Headteachers and Teachers 1989 ’ , as the way to organise School Development Planning , a widely endorsed approach to management for the effective school of the 1990's . |
| 22 | There was a widely held view amongst sentencers at the time that these powers were too limited ; while the furtherance of types of punishment not necessitating the deprival of liberty had been a perennial cause of penal reformers . |
| 23 | There is a widely held view in Leicestershire , Derbyshire , Nottinghamshire and the east midlands in general that British Rail is riding rough shod over many thousands of people and their elected representatives merely by failing to take the opportunities available . |
| 24 | Probably he was his ancestors were from Gascony and came over with William the Conqueror like the name Norman it 's a widely known name in England . |
| 25 | With encouragement from the paper 's enlightened sports editor Clifford Makins — ‘ he was a widely read man with respect for The Word , who believed that sports writers who are insular are doubly boring ’ — and a chance opportunity to write a boxing piece , McIlvanney was on his way , armed with Makin 's almost religious guidelines . |
| 26 | Among the many things we hear in that oracular phrase is , against the odds , a bitterly won conception of language as rescue . |
| 27 | Churches : A Question of Conversion was produced with Derek Latham , an architect who specialises in historic buildings and runs his practice from a skilfully adapted church in Derby . |
| 28 | We agreed that the accusation was obviously nonsense , but I warned him that rape , like child abuse , was a powerfully charged topic at present in England . |
| 29 | Exuberantly believing that he alone was responsible for the separation and still moved by a powerfully purifying sense of goodness and rightness , Hope paid his modest bill the next morning , left a parting note for George , checked himself from asking to see Mary , promised — though he lied — to return and set off at a tremendous pace for Hause Point . |
| 30 | He does a little Dirty Dancing with Demi Moore in the absurd phallic pottery scene . |