Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] a [adj] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The winter of commissions that promoted or predicted a sovereign Quebec has faded . |
| 2 | Or take a white Rolls Royce into Los Angeles gangland to interview Raul ( ‘ Pinky ’ ) Estoban — who gave story and photographs in return for being allowed to drive the car himself ? |
| 3 | Now , with the division of Germany almost at an end , there are uncomfortable questions about the future of the two alliances , and how , if at all , they can be fitted into a Europe that includes a re-unified Germany . |
| 4 | He took out the biggest picture of all , the one that showed a distraught Harriet Shakespeare supported by another woman . |
| 5 | Intel told it that running a current SCO binary on Pentium would win it only twice the performance of SCO Unix on the 80486 , compared with a fourfold increase it could expect with code recompiled for Pentium , although it would mean giving up on backwards compatibility . |
| 6 | However , you will go no further than two miles from the barracks , you will behave in a manner that befits a Royal Fusilier and you will report back to the guardroom sober as a judge at one minute before nine . |
| 7 | THE ALBUM that launched a thousand NME headlines and , more pertinently , confirmed once and for all that rap was no passing fad and was , in fact , nothing less than an art form . |
| 8 | Other quick-growing plants are tomatoes and runner beans , but these plants that mature in the autumn are not really suitable for schools that have a long August holiday , as continuity is lost , even if help is available to care for the plants . |
| 9 | The Turks and Caicos Islands were a Jamaican dependency from 1859 to 1959 , and became a separate United Kingdom Dependent Territory in 1962 after Jamaican independence . |
| 10 | That is with no fancy graphics chips and using a standard VESA video adapter board . |
| 11 | That is with no fancy graphics chips and using a standard VESA video adapter board . |
| 12 | Would it not be nice for the SRU to encourage the latter course and pick a full Scotland team to meet them , treating the match as a full ‘ capped ’ game ? |
| 13 | He roused and saddled a snoring Philomel and took the road to London Bridge . |
| 14 | As long as the Bill goes through Committee and receives a Third Reading , the King 's Cross project will go ahead regardless of the timing of the link between the channel tunnel and London . |
| 15 | QPR have told Dalglish to postpone his spending spree until the spring as they try to recover their bright Premier League start and launch a concerted FA Cup challenge . |
| 16 | Not in the same way that I knew of his brother , who made money in biscuits and owned a gleaming Daimler car which he drove very cautiously over the potholes in the road outside our house . |
| 17 | Ultimate intentions are to house the new Tate Gallery of British Art at Millbank and to establish a new Tate Gallery of Modern Art in a new home elsewhere in London by the end of the century . |
| 18 | It is the largest cycling organisation in the UK , and has a flourishing Ulster branch . |
| 19 | He added : ‘ Clarke has long-standing links with north london and Merseyside and has a slight Liverpool accent . |
| 20 | Bardolino is a very pretty traditional resort , and has a relaxed Mediterranean feel about it . |
| 21 | ] Will the ‘ Twelve ’ have established a relatively open trading relationship with the rest of the world or will it , accepting that a common external tariff will remain , have gone the opposite way and created a protectionist Europe what is often referred to as Fortress Europe ? |
| 22 | In addition to opening up the northern prairies , it produced a land boom in northern British Columbia , where land values rose from 50 cents an acre to 30–60 dollars an acre in the space of a few years , and created a new Pacific port at Prince Rupert , 500 miles north of Vancouver , a new town where the population reached 5,000 in the space of two years . |
| 23 | A week later I transferred an Emperor Peckoltia ( which I have had over a year ) and added a new Emperor Peckoltia which was purchased from Wholesale Tropicals of Bethnal Green . |
| 24 | Much as I like my Barbour , I have to admit it is not a safe colour and wear a reflective Sam Browne belt in poor weather . |
| 25 | As part of the Society 's work to protect children from abuse and neglect a national NSPCC Child Protection Help Line is being launched in the Spring of 1991 . |
| 26 | As part of the Society 's work to protect children from abuse and neglect a national NSPCC Child Protection Help Line is being launched in the Spring of 1991 . |
| 27 | There is also locally written email which is heavily used and includes a full JANET interface . |
| 28 | The race has cut up badly with virtually no other opposition from England although the Irish team is a strong one , but Opera House , who is trained by Michael Stoute looks to have the credentials to take this one in style and give a rejuvenated Michael Roberts another big race success . |
| 29 | It then copies your Autoexec.Bat to a file called Auto.Bat and creates a new Autoexec.Bat file which is both hidden and read-only . |
| 30 | Being Mbus-based , the unit could house a uniprocessor Viking chip and produce a low-end Sparc 10 clone priced between $12,000 and $13,000 . |