Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [verb] [adv prt] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1868 a flood of unprecedented proportions washed away most of the caissons ( the strong cases keeping out water while the foundations are built ) while the Skerne 's trusses were found to be flawless . |
| 2 | The notion of ‘ policy ’ is insufficiently precise to indicate the role of members , for example in the consideration of the scope and content of cost-improvement programmes to free up resources for developments and unfunded elements of pay awards . |
| 3 | Their belief in ‘ maximum self-reliance ’ with regional parliaments retaining ‘ most legislative powers ’ did not prevent the British manifesto from declaring that a Green government would use the European courts to speed up UK compliance with EC environmental directives . |
| 4 | THE GOVERNMENT is ready to abandon its controversial plans to set up registers of land which may be contaminated . |
| 5 | Given the thriving circular trade , it was easy for counterfeit manufacturers to pass off goods which they know would not be checked , said Mr Lumley . |
| 6 | Announced last autumn , the initiative brings together public and private sectors to carry out regeneration . |
| 7 | In order to identify those most at risk and encourage potential restorers from the public and private sectors to take on buildings in need of rescue , the Buildings At Risk Service has been set up . |
| 8 | This square is very large and was originally faced with 70 offices carrying on trade with the whole ancient world . |
| 9 | Well last Friday a man with a white wig , Lord Justice McCowan used five even more devastating words to sum up life in The Sun : ‘ Sensational , inaccurate and misleading coverage . ’ |
| 10 | Even more did this apply to economic power — witness the failure of repeated attempts to build up copartnership or anything resembling profit-sharing in industry . |
| 11 | Gareth 's eventual ambition is to become a freelance commercial artists taking on commissions for a living . |
| 12 | Few hats hanging on OSF/1 peg |
| 13 | The Scottish giants splashed out £1.5million for the 23-year-old Suffolk boy . |
| 14 | They hacked and sliced at one another till there was no meaning left , only a confusion of bloodthirsty syllables spelling out absurdity . |
| 15 | The hit man has been called in a few times to finish off Jeffrey Probyn yet never once has he managed to carry out his murderous brief . |
| 16 | Commercial activities brought in 4.7m and there was a further 2.7m from tv and broad- casting . |
| 17 | Top cyclists ride over hills rather than up them , the gradients scarcely affecting their rhythm , the gears helping to keep the pedalling rate more or less constant . |
| 18 | In West Africa and South-East Asia , commercial loggers cut down hardwoods to supply rich consumer countries — but they rarely replant . |
| 19 | Izetbegovic appealed to Turkey and the EC for support in resisting Serbian plans to divide up Bosnia-Hercegovina between Serbia and Croatia with a Moslem buffer state between the two , a proposal in which Tudjman had also expressed interest . |
| 20 | Not only do they tolerate the fast-food shops serving up nutriment that top breeders would n't recommend for Fido , they go as far as purchasing two expensive weeks in a gruesome timeshare apartment , and sit smoking all day on a balcony overlooking the A9 . |
| 21 | The ‘ Edenderry Memorial Calendar ’ raised £270 and in 1975 two further 1-day shops brought in £500 , while Bread and Soup lunches contributed £171 . |
| 22 | Some offices send out information automatically while others wait for you to approach them . |
| 23 | After completion a random block of 12 months brought in £172 : 1s. : 3d . |
| 24 | However , a Kuwaiti official told reporters that the talks had collapsed " because Kuwait did not give in to Iraqi demands to write off debts and to relinquish some of its territory " . |
| 25 | ‘ With the exception of a few broken computers sliding off desks , and other such minor damage , the plant came through the quake in good condition . |
| 26 | Tax encouragements to foreign companies setting up UK headquarters . |
| 27 | He held that section 238 applies to British subjects , companies registered in England , foreigners present in England and , possibly , foreign companies carrying on business in England . |
| 28 | FOUR would-be killers took over Ulster Tory Lawrence Kennedy 's home but were thwarted by his wife pressing a secret alarm button , Belfast Crown Court has heard . |
| 29 | I went over to his home for a few days to sort out helmet and leather contracts . |
| 30 | Earlier expeditions , in the wars against Louis XIV , had twice failed to make any progress up the narrow estuary of the St. Lawrence ; the new expedition under Wolfe sailed up the river and established itself outside Quebec , the capital of New France : British troops took up positions east of the city and also on the south side of the river , but there was no attempt at a seige and the routes north and west of the city remained open . |