Example sentences of "[noun] [noun prp] [verb] [vb infin] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On subsequent visits to Spain Minton did reveal enough knowledge of Spanish to engage locals in conversations in bars , but in 1949 the only Spanish Bernard heard him say was ‘ No , melón ! ’ to a waiter . |
| 2 | This does not necessarily disprove the contention that TNCs exploit women workers in particular in the Third World , though it does modify the thesis to the extent that in some developing countries TNCs do provide some good jobs for women that help them to fulfil relatively freely chosen cultural needs . |
| 3 | Arnold Kaech did have one advantage denied to William Arbuthnot ; his monument could be landed on the spot by helicopter . |
| 4 | Mr Winner did have such a picture . |
| 5 | No such retreat exists with the economy ( though Mr Lawson did abandon pure monetarism ) . |
| 6 | At about this time Mr. Tee did have some connection with Winchester , but the extent of that connection and what was to remain of it are matters in dispute between the parties . |
| 7 | Robert Urquhart did know more than he pretended , Blanche was convinced , but she was not convinced about the thoroughness of his investigation into Mills ' murder . |
| 8 | UN information sources in December reported that emergency food aid to the value of more than US$16,000,000 had been provided by the WFP to four countries in West Africa to help feed 380,000 victims of civil strife in Liberia . |
| 9 | Daniel Becker , director of the global warming programme of the US environmental group , the Sierra Club , declared that : " The United States helped make this conference a failure . |
| 10 | In the present case Booth J. did take that into account . |
| 11 | hold on a minute Les lets turn these off |
| 12 | But traditionally such people would have done , er and perhaps in earlier times you know , er maybe Mrs Thatcher does say some prayers , I do n't know , but maybe prayers would be said . |
| 13 | He points out that when , in 1990 , the recession forced Robson Rhodes to let go 12 students who were under contract , all of them were placed in another firm of chartered accountants . |
| 14 | And indeed the reflections on art by modernists such as Flaubert , Klee , and Auguste Macke did hold that literature and painting should be like music in a quest for the attainment of formal qualities and in a departure from realist notions of representation . |
| 15 | Liam Brady yesterday pinned his faith in winger Joe Miller to help extricate Celtic from the hole they dug for themselves in Switzerland two weeks ago . |
| 16 | But despite the fact that he has been ‘ steadily critical ’ of successive governments ' housing policies , Prof Greve does see some hope for the future — and even for some of the tower blocks . |
| 17 | However , Webern 's Six Orchestral Pieces and Berg 's Songs to Picture Postcard Texts by Peter Altenberg did pose acute problems for listeners . |
| 18 | She had been right to say it was people like that who do terrible things , and if Timothy Gedge did do terrible things it would not be because he was different and exotic but because he was possessed of an urge to become so . |
| 19 | The Court of Appeal admitted that Ms Mountford did have exclusive possession of the property and that this might be important evidence in determining the intentions of the parties . |
| 20 | He had to admit that the charge-sheet read out by Angela Cartwright did contain some remarkable offences . |
| 21 | But when Covent Garden does put black dancers on its payroll , what then ? |
| 22 | She might well be capable of attacking someone who threatened Lesley-Jane or the girl 's career , which she lived with such fierce vicariousness , but there was no sign that Michael Banks did represent any such threat . |