Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [v-ing] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though its original statute forbad lending to foreign-controlled firms , a 1986 policy statement softened this policy by implying inclusion of local firms with minority shares held by multinationals ( Brazilian Government , 1986 ) . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's about time you and Mummy stopped going to that dreary old Richardson in the High Street and switched to Mr Vigo . ’ |
| 3 | He was walking with his mum in Chicago when two men in a car began firing at three others . |
| 4 | With candlelight the day could be stretched from 5 a.m to 7 p.m. in winter , and in summer daylight permitted working from 5 a.m. to 9 p.m . |
| 5 | Small talk kept erupting into some new accusation or burst of crying from Jacqui . |
| 6 | The commission 's decision to allocate £1 million of its budget for hospital and community health services to support developments in primary care illustrates the imaginative approach now being adopted by managers who have broken free of a mind set concentrating on acute hospital services and have started to use their resources to respond to need and not demand . |
| 7 | Dutch police have the power to confiscate a vehicle found speeding at 70 kilometres per hour more than the legal level . |
| 8 | Herbert 's work involved travelling to various parts of Africa , Europe and the Middle East , and although theoretically based in Johannesburg , he told an interviewer that he had never spent more than six weeks continuously in his office there . |
| 9 | A worry-gut with too many improbable questions but also — so far as most of the forty others in his class were concerned — shamefully many of the right answers when the tough old lady with tightly bobbed hair and long blackboard pointer came stalking in squeaky lace-up boots up the narrow aisles between the desks . |
| 10 | And then ( as he stood and stared through the window at the magazine ) Boy imagined sleeping with these men , actually sleeping , sharing a bed with them for the night . |
| 11 | Dickinson was the last to empty his tins , and so he was the top plane when bits of wood began spitting in all directions . |
| 12 | A researcher sent to report back to the Jane Goodall Institute kept hearing of captive chimps under sentence of death unless a place was found for them . |
| 13 | The video for the smash hit Walking On Broken Glass — this week 's No. 9 , features stunning period costume — and hundreds of candles . |
| 14 | February 1904 , the Russo-Japanese War commenced ending on 5th . |
| 15 | The disc went missing for many years , and was the subject of at least one book . |
| 16 | The Brahmins who , thanks to the British , had been not merely a caste but a class , declined in economic status , and a new bourgeoisie appeared consisting of better-off farming families . |
| 17 | For the same reason , when her husband considered moving to better employment elsewhere they were persuaded to stay . |
| 18 | Table IV gives rates of self reported smoking in 1989 and 1990 among pupils who were never smokers in 1988 . |
| 19 | He was good at them , linking all the stories together with more gum and spit , reintroducing the characters with , ‘ You know that bad bad man who was caught naked in the bathing hut ? ’ , as in a wild soap opera , until he knew that at the end of her day spent sucking on dusty brain juice , her maddening mouth would inevitably say , ‘ Hey , Changez , husband or whatever you are , do n't you know any more about that politician geezer that got thrown into jail ? ’ |
| 20 | It was a tall dune head stuck nodding towards distant Norway or Denmark , grass like hair swept over the brow and pointing . |
| 21 | ( c. 36 ) Whereas outside the realm , the king needed warning of any rebellion by subject peoples , or any imminent attack , " inside the realm [ the vital point was to find out ] if the people ( populus ) in any part , region or corner of the realm was in a state of disturbance , then what was the cause of it , and if a complaint of the people was becoming serious or if a noise was being made about some injustice about which it was necessary for the general assembly to deal " . |
| 22 | But Hop + Jump started laughing at this , saying ‘ You 're not Nutmeg ! ’ |
| 23 | To try and get to it by going round outside the garden wall meant ploughing through waist-high nettles and clumps of bramble . |
| 24 | The chief magistrate kept referring to this point and my opponent could not answer it . |
| 25 | The VAX has a vast , complex instruction set consisting of 243 instructions . |
| 26 | Charlemagne had begun with the clergy , encouraging them to learn and write correct Latin for the liturgy ; two generations later , the lay elite in Charles 's kingdom used writing in several different forms , from books of private prayer to family archives , while many laypeople of lesser rank wanted documents as evidence of their own property claims and legal status . |
| 27 | Geneva was still technically under the Holy Roman Empire where the Justinian code allowed burning for those who denied either infant baptism or the divinity of Christ . |
| 28 | That fancy feast at the Mamounia was a fitting end to a week spent loitering in hushed palace courtyards and lush palm-tree gardens , staring at the marble mosaic walls and the carved cedarwood ceilings in the palaces and in the Museum of Moroccan Art . |
| 29 | Vertical markets comprise professional accounting — although the small accountancy practices to which the group sells have been hard-hit by recession , it has managed to maintain stable revenues by selling upgrades of existing accountancy software ranges ; retail — while Radius started selling to this sector only about two years ago , it ‘ performed above expectations ’ , having won a new £500,000 contract from Dixons Group Plc , a £400,000 contract from Southern Electric Plc and a £25,000 contract from Ing C Olivetti SpA ; the public sector — the company has built on its traditional strength in local government to move into health and central government ; fuel distribution — another new area of activity which Bland said is ‘ growing ’ , although he could provide no figures ; and finally , the printing industry — while Radius has in the past concentrated on big customers such as Bowater and Smurfitt , it has now released a ‘ stripped-down ’ version of its management software to attract smaller users . |
| 30 | The ships then set out to return to base at speed of 10km/h. at 8 p.m. the cutter increased speed to 20 km/h while the launch kept going at 10 km/h . |