Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] [noun pl] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this notebook , recording my random thoughts day after day as I work on the big glass , I can keep my distance from the big glass . |
| 2 | So I was quite pleased , at the end of my United Airlines flight to Chicago , to discover merely that one of my two bags was missing . |
| 3 | While my hard-nosed companions dream of war |
| 4 | It was just four months ago that met my first contras face to face . |
| 5 | Maybe we 've just misunderstood , even though we 've been around for a long time , my own trades council in Battersea and Wandsworth celebrated its hundredth anniversary this year . |
| 6 | So I 've spent my recent years sort of learning about movements , about emerging feminisms in other countries and I suppose contributed my bit in imparting that information . |
| 7 | Wessex Water has received acceptances for 93 per cent of its one-for-six rights issue at 480p per new share . |
| 8 | Within the last 18 months , the company has sold : its European silicones business to Rhone-Poulenc for £30million ; four businesses from its Canadian offshoot CIL ; a computer software company to managers ; a West German printing inks business ; its over-the-counter drugs business in the US and Savlon in Britain ; a Canadian building products business to Trafalgar House ; and its Coopers Animal Health , which it owned with Wellcome , to Chicago-based Pitman-Moore ; During the period it has bought : Cambridge research Biochemicals ; a privatelyowned US acrylics company , K-S-H ; Rayca Chemical Corporation , which makes chemicals for the US textiles industry . |
| 9 | As part of its general consultation process , Greater Glasgow health board consulted in respect of its acute services strategy for Glasgow . |
| 10 | Insurance group Guardian Royal Exchange has broken new ground by publishing a review by auditors Price Waterhouse in its interim results statement for the first half of 1992 . |
| 11 | Guinness , the international drinks business , has included an audit review from Price Waterhouse in its interim results statement for the six months to 30 June 1992 . |
| 12 | the Daily Minor almost halved its public affairs coverage as a proportion of space in 1937 compared with 1927 ; |
| 13 | One such indication is the readiness with which some philosophers talk of a person locating a pain in another person 's body , or in an article of furniture . |
| 14 | About this time , the Reichmanns divested themselves of their English Properties company in London for a profit of £90 million . |
| 15 | But if their record was added to last season 's run-in , which yielded five wins from the last six , then their 12 victories amount to the number Neston secured to win in 1992 . |
| 16 | Borland International Inc reports ‘ strong initial reception ’ to its long-delayed Windows version of Paradox , and says it expects to report profits of 10 cents a share for its fourth quarter to March 31 , double the average analyst forecast ; Microsoft Corp said it had sold about 700,000 copies of its new Access database program , and Borland says that its Paradox for Windows has done about as well . |
| 17 | The central bankers have a vested interest in allowing their Japanese counterparts room for further interest rate cuts in Tokyo in an attempt to prevent further haemorrhaging on the Tokyo stock market which has hit stock prices in New York . |
| 18 | Rentokil has expanded its tropical plants business with a £6.5m deal in the US . |
| 19 | Following Big Telly 's sell out tour with John Godber 's comedy ‘ Teachers ’ last year , Flowerfield Arts Centre is delighted to have its resident theatre company open its Annual Arts Festival with another riotous comedy . |
| 20 | Her annual Sports Afternoon for the Physically Disabled at Luton was a successful as ever , and was attended by the mayors of Dunstable and Luton . |
| 21 | We shall also be receiving £11 million from as their contribution towards putting their organic chemicals business into a joint venture with . |
| 22 | Within the last 18 months , the company has sold : its European silicones business to Rhone-Poulenc for £30million ; four businesses from its Canadian offshoot CIL ; a computer software company to managers ; a West German printing inks business ; its over-the-counter drugs business in the US and Savlon in Britain ; a Canadian building products business to Trafalgar House ; and its Coopers Animal Health , which it owned with Wellcome , to Chicago-based Pitman-Moore ; During the period it has bought : Cambridge research Biochemicals ; a privatelyowned US acrylics company , K-S-H ; Rayca Chemical Corporation , which makes chemicals for the US textiles industry . |
| 23 | The cider and wine company has been building its soft drinks portfolio with the acquisitions of the Piermont and Sorelle brands earlier this year . |
| 24 | ICL has also swapped its retail systems business in Australia for Fujitsu 's in North America . |
| 25 | The young St Dominic 's student smashed the stage record in the Under-17 race by a massive 28 seconds , clocking 8.77 for her 2400 metres race around the park . |
| 26 | The girl who marked a Moscow Games ' baptism by placing sixth in a final at the age of 14 is coming for a Tuesday night clinic in which she will demonstrate her famous shrug-of-the-shoulders technique on breaststroke . |
| 27 | Now she lies on her back , her head propped against one end , her legs bent , her bare feet flat on the cushion . |
| 28 | The key symbolic issue upon which agreement was reached in this area was the decision to exempt third-generation Koreans from the mandatory fingerprinting to which all aliens resident in Japan were subjected . |
| 29 | Operators of many of the nation 's largest power stations are challenging the government 's new environmental policy in an effort to keep details of their polluting activities secret from the public . |
| 30 | Stamford , Connecticut-based General Signal Corp signed a letter of intent to sell its Integrated Solutions business to the company 's management on undisclosed terms : the Andover , Massachusetts company provides support services to semiconductor manufacturers that use General Signal 's microlithography equipment and also provides third party sales and support services . |