Example sentences of "[noun] [adv prt] [prep] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Along with Siemens Italia SpA president Giorgio Scanavacca , Italian legal authorities arrested Davide Giacalone , former advisor to Oscar Mammi , former minister of post and telecom , on bribery charges : Giacalone is charged with having accepted $5.3m from Giuseppe Parrella , former managing director of ASST , Azienda Telefonica dello Stato SpA , in the minister 's study ; Giacalone has already told the police that he passed the money on to representatives of the Republican party ; for his part , the former PTT minister declared his innocence : ‘ That I was involved in a history of billion-lire bribes is as unfounded as it is untrue — at whatever moment the magistrates tell me it is necessary to investigate my accounts , I will liberate myself immediately from parliamentary immunity , ’ he said . |
| 2 | Software Developer 's Co has turned in third quarter net losses of $461,000 down from losses of $3.8m last time , after $200,000 gains from discontinued operations this time and $2.6m losses last time as well as $429,000 restructuring charges last time , on turnover down 22.1% at $7.9m ; net losses for the nine months stood at $361,000 down from losses of $3.6m last time , after $2.7m losses from discontinued operations last time , on turnover that fell 3.2% to $26m . |
| 3 | Centennial Cellular Inc saw third quarter net losses of $5.7m down from losses of $7.4m last time , on turnover up 34.3% at $11.1m ; net losses for the nine months stood at $19.1m down from losses of $23m last time , on turnover up 38.6% to $31.1m . |
| 4 | Aeromagnetic surveys over the United Kingdom and the North Sea provide plentiful data on the intensity of the crustal anomaly field down to wavelengths of about 1 kilometre , but not on its direction . |
| 5 | Around a surrealistic voice sampled from some US TV slot ( where a female patient is explaining her habit of grinding her teeth down to stumps in her sleep ) and a garbled vocal , Therapy ? build up a wall of solid playing that only they can eventually tear down . |
| 6 | Identix Inc has turned in second quarter net losses of $727,000 down from losses of $990,000 last time , on turnover that rose by 314.8% at $2.6m ; mid-term net losses amounted to $1.2m down from losses of $1.9m last time , on turnover that rose by 161% to $3.7m . |
| 7 | Before the heaviest snowfalls he would need to read the advance signals in the weather and move the sheep down into groups round the storage points , making them more accessible for feeding and , he hoped , cutting down losses in drifts . |
| 8 | Chester City Council spent £28,000 trying to scrub off his tag along with others from almost every street in the city . |
| 9 | Despite such setbacks , the Germans continued their infantry frontal attacks with supporting parachute infantry outflanking Allied positions , and after nearly a month of confused fighting the Independent Companies were withdrawn through Bodö along with elements of the 24th Guards Brigade and Norwegian troops . |
| 10 | What really disturbed the Under-Secretary was the report he had received two days ago about the smuggling in of arms for this new Volunteer army . |
| 11 | Dotronix Inc has reported second quarter net losses of $181,331 against profits of $212,710 last time , on turnover down 21.6% at $4.3m ; mid-term net losses amounted to $138,101 down from losses of $333,250 last time , on turnover down 5.4% at $10m . |
| 12 | The slave trade and slavery subsumed many of these tensions and ambivalences , giving a focus to the categories of question troubling many English men and women and did so by directing powerful anxieties on to phenomena at some geographical and social distance from most people . |
| 13 | Mobile Telecommunications Technology Inc has turned in third quarter net losses of $171,859 down from losses of $3.7m last time , on turnover that rose by 29.4% at $29.5m ; net losses for the nine months stood at $4.2m down from losses of $6.1m last time , on turnover that rose by 27.6% to $83.8m . |
| 14 | If your camcorder is one of the new low-light models which can take pictures down to levels of 2 lux , you could simply switch on the normal top lighting in your lounge and start recording some perfectly adequate pictures . |
| 15 | Alias Research Inc saw fourth quarter net profits of $274,000 against losses of $9.5m last time , after $1.7m restructuring charges and $182,000 losses from discontinued operations last time , on turnover up 19% at $8.5m ; net losses for the year to January 31 stood at $15.6m down from losses of $17.4m last time , after $650,000 restructuring charges this time and $3.2m last time as well as $9.3m losses from discontinued operations this time and $135,000 gains last time , on turnover that fell 4.1% to $26.9m . |
| 16 | Celutel Inc has turned in third quarter net losses of $1.5m down from losses of $1.7m last time , on turnover up 69.4% at $5.8m ; net losses for the nine months stood at $3.9m down from losses of $5.2m last time , on turnover that rose 52.2% to $15.3m . |
| 17 | On ‘ the day ’ I spend the entire morning inspecting the aircraft in between spells of taxying and short hops . |
| 18 | The publishing director of Burke 's Peerage is apparently concerned that the Prince ( and even more so the Princess ) of Wales are letting the side down in matters of etiquette . |
| 19 | But on summer nights she lifts her ‘ tail ’ and on the underside of her abdomen are two tiny oblong patches of bright green florescent Lucifer in with reflectors of minute crystals . |
| 20 | Software Developer 's Co has turned in third quarter net losses of $461,000 down from losses of $3.8m last time , after $200,000 gains from discontinued operations this time and $2.6m losses last time as well as $429,000 restructuring charges last time , on turnover down 22.1% at $7.9m ; net losses for the nine months stood at $361,000 down from losses of $3.6m last time , after $2.7m losses from discontinued operations last time , on turnover that fell 3.2% to $26m . |
| 21 | In the summer of 1918 he began to devote more time to the club in between duties at the arms factory in Barnbow , but , perhaps sensing that trouble was brewing , he suddenly resigned as secretary-manager on 16 December to go into full-time industrial management with Joseph Watson & Sons at the Olympia oil and cake works in Selby . |
| 22 | Data Switch Corp has reported fourth quarter net profits down 74% at $233,000 , on turnover down 36.3% at $18.6m ; net losses for the year to December 31 stood at $1m down from losses of $32.4m last time , after $425,000 extraordinary gains last time , on turnover that fell 18.4% to $84m . |
| 23 | She had spoken eloquently — and not without quoting American authors — of the opportunities facing Britain in 1988 , of Mrs Margaret Thatcher 's remarkable drive to revive the economy , and at the same time of the considerable drawing in of horns to which the University had been forced . |
| 24 | I 'm just sitting wondering whether the in light of the problems we 've had in the Gulf , there 's no doubt about it the strengthening of the relationship between this country and the States is certainly there for all of us to see , so do you think that 'll have a spin off in terms of people wanting to come here and visit us ? |
| 25 | Rogers Communications Inc saw fourth quarter net losses of $56.1m , after $18.8m pre-tax charges from the write-down of an investment , up from losses of $30.2m last time , on turnover up 15% at $250.1m ; net losses for the year to December 31 stood at $144m up from losses of $47.9m , after $42.7m pre-tax gains on the sale of stock this time and $74.9m gains last time , on turnover up 15.4% to $91.7m . |
| 26 | I have had lots of tanks almost from the beginning , and have probably worked out most of my fantasies regarding sizes from 15″ × 10″ × 10″ up to 48″ × 18″ × 18″ — the only problem has been that I always want to keep more species than I have room for . |
| 27 | Operating margins have increased to 30% or so , putting garbage up with pharmaceuticals in terms of profitability . |
| 28 | It says nothing about the setting up of programmes of screening by invitation or the use of desk top analysers . |
| 29 | This urge to preserve the valued and precious non-material things that seem to come inevitably into human life , has found its expression in the setting up of idols in every conceivable form . |
| 30 | The setting up of routines for this communication is another aspect of ergonomics . |