Example sentences of "[adj] [noun prp] [vb mod] [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ That Friday will go down as one of the most — if not the most important days in the history of our sport in this country , ’ said Bob Moffatt , President of Tennis Canada . |
| 2 | As with the DeskPros , a full Pentium upgrade is available for existing SystemPro/XL users , but old Prosignias must put up with Overdrive . |
| 3 | Royal Dutch Shell Plc has given its contract for payphones at 660 UK petrol stations to British Telecommunications Plc after Mercury Communications Ltd to give up the private site end of the business to concentrate on high street sites ; British Telecom will install up to 840 more pay telephones for Shell under the £10 five-year contract . |
| 4 | She was only forty-six at the time , but sheer hardship and constant exposure to the worst elements the high Pennines could mete out had drained her youth away . |
| 5 | THE European Commission sought to play down fears yesterday that new European Community rules limiting imports of cheaper bananas from Latin America would force up prices for consumers . |
| 6 | But joy of joys , the New Moon in Scorpio on the 29th and some stunning planetary aspects in early November should spark off some kind of personal revival and no matter how many times you have been let down or left in the lurch in the past , emotionally this can and ought to be one of the happiest times you have ever known . |
| 7 | She was convinced Springsteen would come out of the catflap like a bullet and zip up her trouser-leg . |
| 8 | The obvious danger is that if they are unable to earn a living for themselves , that states of Central Europe will slump back into their earlier condition . |
| 9 | Lord Owen rejects the idea that the Bosnian Serbs can hold on to all the territories they now occupy . |
| 10 | That 's all Bernard could find out from Al-Makesh . ’ |
| 11 | At this rate poor Ollie will end up a Mr Mopp . |
| 12 | And I 'm sure Miinnehoma will come on for the race , ’ he said . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm sure Joe would go out if he had the chance , ’ said Cheryl . |
| 14 | The report made a series of recommendations on increasing CID strength , which has fallen sharply from 10 per cent of the force in 1973 to 7.4 per cent , despite an overall large increase in numbers and a recommendation by Her Majesty 's Inspectorate that provincial CIDs should make up 12.4 per cent of police . |
| 15 | Im sure Gav will fill in any bits I missed out … |
| 16 | Black Agnes would leave along with her brother and sister , having no wish to co-operate in the treachery of her peculiar husband nor to act hostess to Edward Plantagenet . |
| 17 | The signs were so varied , so liable to misinterpretation , all Dexter could rely on was instinct . |
| 18 | ‘ Fiona 's sure John will find out , before Doone does , who set that trap for Harry , ’ Mackie said . |
| 19 | This tidal wave is a product of the combined efforts of the jostling of the crustal plates and the behaviour of the deep Ocean through which the resulting shock waves are transmitted : a small nudge in southern Chile can set up a wave that streaks across the entire Pacific in a matter of hours , with unimaginably enormous force . |
| 20 | Clare served supper early so that four-year-old Josh could stay up late and eat with them . |
| 21 | The third reason why we 're , we 're pleased to see you here is that erm as a trades council , we 've and this er and Dick mentioned this in his introduction , we 've initiated a major international programme , major in terms of our size obviously as er as a local body , involving links between union activists here primarily in France er , in northern France , but also links now developing in Spain with the new ferry going between Portsmouth and Bilbao , we 're starting to meet with the unions in Spain who are interested in speaking about the , the , the differences in wages in terms and conditions working for the same ferry company , doing the same jobs in the port , a comparative look at how the , the wages terms and conditions differ and we want to , we want to go and visit them in the autumn and , and work out , and work on more links on a sector basis , so that our colleagues down in Bilbao in northern Spain can link up with people in the , in the , in similar sectors here and we 've done this over the last three and a half years with the unions in France , we 've had exchanges of all sectors , the public sectors , transport , erm , health , social services , shop workers . |
| 22 | The case of DEC is tantalising : either the Alpha will do for the company what the VAX 8600 — quickly supplanted by the VAX 8650 — did for it in the 1980s , and the vast installed base of VAX machines will be replaced by Alpha AXPs , giving the company three years of fantastic growth that propel it to $25,000m , or the desperately late Alpha and the new OpenVMS will turn out to have too many bugs and glitches to be trusted , in which case , DEC will be trotting off after IBM . |
| 23 | Two Gazelles will go out together and find vantage points from which to observe notional enemy positions . |
| 24 | UI president Peter Cunningham believes the new ABI could mean up to 75% commonality between the systems for the software programmer , initially on the client side and then moving to the server . |
| 25 | With a loyal and loving woman behind him and the semblance of domestic life , he hoped that at last Modi would settle down and produce more paintings . |
| 26 | Friday 18th June will go down as being Black Friday in the minds of certain men at the Institute . |