Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [adv] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It is also true that studies of this kind tend only to highlight differences without revealing the qualitative nature of the differences .
2 McGregor et al have shown that dextrose given intravenously inhibits meal stimulated intraduodenal bilirubin output .
3 He could n't be sure she would have the heart to go on running racehorses if she were forced to believe Harry a murderer … if she thought he had left her without warning , without a note , if she were worried sick by not knowing where he 'd gone , and was also haunted by the thought of Harry with Angela Brickell . ’
4 Having mastered aerobatics in his little Deaky before the war , he had gained Hitler 's permission to go on bombing runs , although — boringly — only as a gunner .
5 The female sits inside the nest while the male goes off collecting nest material .
6 Rajmapata found the best surface up the far rail in the Carrie Red Fillies Nursery , Flight Lieutenant got up to beat Roberty Lea in the Harcros Timber & Building Supplies Stayers Final , and Tickerty 's Gift collected the Cowies PLC Limited Stakes .
7 Expressing such a duty as a duty to further the interests of the enterprise is unhelpful , however , since the formulation has very limited information content : it fails to identify the relevant constituencies and gives no indication of what priority should be afforded to them inter se .
8 For the busy housewife has also found time to help with the Romanian Convoyaid , sending special parcels to thousands of orphans .
9 Digital Equipment Corp has just named company veteran John O'Keefe , formerly vice-president , channels marketing , to the post of vice-president , Unix marketing , reporting to vice-president , Bill Demmer .
10 Meanwhile , Cadence Design Systems Inc , San Jose , California , says it plans to use ObjectStore , to develop the next generation of its electronic design automation tools and its Design Framework II product , and Digital Equipment Corp has also taken ObjectStore with plans to use the database as a data repository with its PowerFrame software .
11 Nippon Steel Corp has now reached agreement for Hitachi Ltd to transfer to it the technology to manufacture 4M-bit memory chips : the chips will be made at NMB Semiconductor Ltd , which will become Nippon Steel Semiconductor Corp when the steel company acquires the Minebea Co unit later this month ; Hitachi will take some of the parts and sell them under its own name ; Nippon Steel says it has already concluded similar agreements with Intel Corp and Sony Corp on production of other types of memory chip .
12 Bell Atlantic Corp has now reached agreement to sell 108.9m shares in Telecom Corp of New Zealand Ltd to BZW New Zealand Ltd , leaving it with 29.56% of Telecom , in line with government demand ; settlement is due next week ; no price given .
13 A SERIES of team-building initiatives have been taking place across AEA to give staff at all levels the opportunity to work together to formulate team action plans which can be applied in the workplace .
14 Dust has gathered in inaccessible places , walls have faded and paintwork has subtly changed colour .
15 British Rail has already accepted responsibility for the matter , as the Secretary of State has pointed out .
16 A leading French economist believes that the defeat of communism has merely presented capitalism with a new crisis .
17 Despite formidable predictions for the growth of low-alcohol ale when brewers imagined that the ‘ less is more ’ formula would apply to anything , no brand has yet provided momentum enough to sustain firm growth .
18 Nella was thirty-two , an age by which if a blonde woman 's hair has n't turned dark , it never will .
19 Despite the extent of union influence and the predominantly co-operative patterns of industrial relations , collective bargaining has not brought BR and RENFE workers great financial rewards , even as a quid pro quo for job loss and changing working practices .
20 The registrar will probably require to be satisfied that severance has actually taken place .
21 This mare has just given birth to a foal .
22 The second largest mare has just given birth to a foal .
23 Salt has received much bad publicity in recent years as a major contributory factor to heart disease , but the initial hysteria has now given way to the theory that salt in quantity will only be to the detriment of those people prone to heart disease from other causes .
24 Toby spent some time smoothing the ruffled sensibilities of Corbett Farraday ( ‘ I mean , after all , when you n–y to give them a bit of fun … ‘ ) , then he went to check the changing huts , which Bill Muggeridge usually forgot to lock after his afternoon tearing round blowing whistles at the boys .
25 The striker has also passed John Richards ' all-time 195-goal record at Wolves .
26 Its new approach of competitive bidding has already galvanized towns and cities into bringing forward imaginative proposals for regeneration .
27 The five-point try has not stopped teams looking to put points on the board through taking kicks , though a bird in the hand is still worth two in the bush .
28 St James 's Park has always had Blaydon Races as its anthem but in the Sixties and Seventies there were many others .
29 Change has also taken place in the size of practices since the early 1980s .
30 Some change has inevitably taken place but it has been less significant than many would have predicted .
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