Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] [vb -s] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Of course Prince has got some very nice publicity by saying people who had tickets for Blenheim Palace can go to one of his concerts this June . ’ |
| 2 | But the milk board refuses to consider that . |
| 3 | An important consideration is that multiple drug resistance has rendered many low-cost drugs useless for this purpose . |
| 4 | Dell Computer Corp has reported that fourth quarter net profits soared 102.9% at $31.3m on turnover that leaped 117.1% at $620.3m ; net profit for the year to was up 99.6% at $101.6m on turnover up 126.3% to $2,014m . |
| 5 | Compaq Computer Corp has reported that first quarter net profit soared 125.8% at $102.4m , on turnover more than doubled , up 105.7% at $1,611m ; net earnings per share leaped by 132% to $1.23 . |
| 6 | update the Change Review Forms to reflect these decisions |
| 7 | In comparison to speech , automatic handwriting recognition has received little attention . |
| 8 | University college has denied any link with a racist newsletter circulating in the North-East . |
| 9 | Management in the building industry has devised many , varied types of financial incentive . |
| 10 | A culture of sharing knowledge and experiences is also evolving and the Support Force has helped that development . |
| 11 | A murder trial has heard that tyre tracks found near where a woman drowned in the boot of her car were not consistent with an accident . |
| 12 | Since his tragic mishap , the former marathon runner has accomplished many projects including an outward bound course , abseiling and canoeing . |
| 13 | Nevertheless , any account of the undergraduate curriculum has to address such issues , not because the questions must be asked , but because they have already been answered — in the institutional , professional and curricular structures that exist — and these answers must be examined . |
| 14 | Now , at a time when recession has badly hit ad hoc charter revenues , the Royal Mail reorganisation has thrown this sector of the industry into chaos . |
| 15 | The concept of excluded investment activities serves to remove some of the uncertainty in respect of industrial and commercial companies which may be involved in investment activities but whose mainstream business is not in the financial services sector . |
| 16 | The current research programme aims to bridge this gap by looking at the interplay between organizational processes of technological change and economic consequences . |
| 17 | The US Semiconductor Industry Association has denied those claims by Japan that US companies cancelled semiconductor shipments to Japanese firms after orders had been placed . |
| 18 | After protracted negotiations , the Scottish Machinery Ring Association has reached that agreement with the Inland Revenue . |
| 19 | Mr Ben Ali had a few minor constitutional changes to offer , but the absence of substantive concessions to the opposition parties has taken some of the gloss off his big day . |
| 20 | Any screening programme needs to fulfil several clear conditions : the disease should be common ( or important in its effects ) ; there must be a reliable screening procedure to detect disease early ; and treatment should be available to modify the outcome . |
| 21 | A Pakistani Foreign Ministry spokesman on Dec. 2 denied the latest allegations , stressing that " Pakistan 's nuclear programme is for peaceful purposes " , but added that " in the evolution of this programme Pakistan has acquired some technical capabilities " . |
| 22 | The employment action programme has created more places . |
| 23 | Moreover , unless the United Kingdom is taken to be consciously disregarding the very international obligations on the basis of which it claims that the requirements at issue are compatible with Community law , the fact that those requirements are applicable only to fishing vessels tends to show that , in the United Kingdom 's eyes also , they are not the sole requirements suitable for ensuring the existence of a ‘ genuine link ’ as required by international law . |
| 24 | Rhodes considered that there had been an improved performance in services which were the sole responsibility of either the GLC or the boroughs : but of those services which were shared ‘ only the group of transportation functions seems to show any marked advantages ; over both housing and planning there hang certain question marks ’ ( Rhodes 1972:468 ) . |
| 25 | Sigglesthorne Hall has housed most of the well-known members of the community . |
| 26 | The cost of redundancies in the Agricultural and Food Research Council has absorbed half the planned increase in research grants . |
| 27 | As the litigation epidemic sweeps the US , a Toronto accounting consultant has urged all Canadian firms , and not just those in high risk brackets , to practise safer auditing . |
| 28 | This form of specialisation is attractive to potential clients , particularly where the executive search consultant has undertaken many assignments successfully and has a functional discipline that works across a diversity of industries . |
| 29 | The administration costs would be endless and it would be difficult to prove exactly how many times a local pub rock group has played any one song . |
| 30 | ‘ During the spring Cry hopes to gather many thousands of signatures all over real Yorkshire in order to convince the Local Government Commission that Yorkshire people wish to see their county made whole again , ’ he said . |