Example sentences of "[adj] and [be] [adv] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has both acquired computer maintenance firm , Barcelona-based Morsa Mantenimiento de Ordensdores SA , which turned over $2.7m in 1991 and was also part of the Auguas de Barcelona Group , and last year , set up a subsidiary in Portugal , which it called LUMA . |
| 2 | Mermaz , who had been president of the National Assembly from 1981 to 1986 and was briefly Minister of Transport in 1988 , had been leader of the Socialist group in the Assembly since 1988 . |
| 3 | The original was acquired recently by sporting-trophies specialist John Bowles , who is trying to trace its origins : ‘ It was originally made in Birmingham in 1891 and was obviously part of a very important piece of cricketing silver , ’ says Bowles . |
| 4 | It was formed in 1981 and is now part of the new 101 ( London ) Engineer Regiment , the bomb disposal experts of the TA . |
| 5 | Microsoft Corp chairman Bill Gates , generally regarded as the wealthiest person in the US , is no longer the country 's most eligible bachelor — he became engaged over the weekend to 28- year-old Melinda French , a Dallas-born product manager at Microsoft who joined Microsoft in 1987 and is now product manager for the Microsoft Publisher desktop publishing programme . |
| 6 | Height judgement above that height is not essential and is largely guesswork . |
| 7 | Richard Blakey worked his way quietly and efficiently to 38 and was then lbw playing across the line at Kevan James and there was a late scare when Phil Carrick and Peter Hartley fell in one over from off-spinner Shaun Udal . |
| 8 | Joined the Group in 1982 and is now Group director responsible for Safety , Health and Environmental matters . |
| 9 | She was elected Chairman of Kent Teachers in 1982 and is currently Treasurer , she also coaches the Kent Display Team . |
| 10 | Dr Pertwee , of Aberdeen University 's Department of Bio-Medical Sciences , has been studying cannabis since the late 1960s and is now secretary of the International Cannabis Research Society . |
| 11 | Many of these hills have become known as holy and were often beacon sites . |