Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An Edinburgh man who 's fought for eight years to overturn a conviction for armed robbery says he 's prepared to go the European Court of Human Rights . |
| 2 | I do n't think Lawrence got any convictions for armed robbery has he , or that there are any subsequently ? |
| 3 | As The Lord of the Rings was coming to the end of its gestation it became possible for the first time for political leaders to say they wanted nothing and make it come true . |
| 4 | I wrote to Radio Four 's ‘ In Touch ’ programme , venting my frustrations and asking for like-minded people to contact me . |
| 5 | Total output as measured by real gross national product ( GNP ) expanded at an annual rate of only 0.5 per cent in the final quarter , the smallest rise since mid-1986 , but an unexpected increase of 2.5 per cent in orders for durable goods made it difficult to formulate firm economic forecasts . |
| 6 | It is easy to say now that the potential for cellular telephones made it easy to focus on that business . |
| 7 | I began by describing the position as Labour Members see it . |
| 8 | La Tribune said the government would not be against Bull selling Zenith outright , naming Hewlett-Packard Co , Canon Inc and NEC Corp as possible candidates to buy it . |
| 9 | The high prices of industrial consumer goods deterred the peasants from buying , and the low prices offered by the state for agricultural produce deterred them from selling or even sowing . |
| 10 | In Zanzibar , where Idris Abdul-Wakil ( the President of Zanzibar and thus Second Vice-President of Tanzania ) had announced earlier in the month that he would not seek re-election , Salamin Amour was chosen by the CCM as sole candidate to succeed him . |
| 11 | The student will no doubt come across scores in which these numbers are exceeded ( e.g. among the works of Wagner , Strauss , Mahler , Stravinsky , Holst , etc. ) , but the above specification is , as we have said , the normal one and it is inadvisable for economic reasons to expand it unless , of course , extra instruments are absolutely indispensable for the full expression of the composer 's ideas . |
| 12 | During Hungarian-Soviet trade talks it was revealed that total Hungarian exports to the Soviet Union were expected to reach $1,500 million by the end of 1991 . |
| 13 | King 's head for funny business has him periodically indulge in what Lewis describes as the ‘ tactics of fear ’ and the latest example has been to publicly demean Maloney 's management of Lewis . |
| 14 | In a hired car , a motorhome or even on horseback , America is the place for British visitors to go it alone . |
| 15 | A spokesman for British Rail said it would cost millions to put a railway link back into Guisborough and BR could not afford to do the work . |
| 16 | Ion deposition has never laid claim to be a quality method but for high volume work it 's the way to go as it is a virtually indestructible technology . |
| 17 | Communication Intelligence Corp , Redwood Shores , California has filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission to offer 3m shares , 2.7m of them new , to raise an indicated $10.75m , which the manufacturer of components for pen-based computers says it plans to use for working capital and its proposed joint venture in China . |
| 18 | We are only able to present the figures for 1987 in Table 12.1 because the House of Commons Social Security Committee commissioned the Institute for Fiscal Studies to calculate them . |
| 19 | Santa Cruz Operation Inc 's prospectus for public offering indicates it will offer an initial 6m shares , 3.6m of them new , with 1.2m to be sold outside the US , at a target price of $12 to $14 a share ; it does n't give any plans for the $14m or so net proceeds . |
| 20 | The car has made it that way and it would be almost impossible for public transport to knit it together in the way that the railways did in the nineteenth century . |
| 21 | ‘ The experience we gained through High Island gave us the confidence to know we could successfully work with Tatham , ’ Broussard says . |
| 22 | The real problems came from studies by people like Tolman ( 1932 ) , Crespi ( 1942 ) , and Lashley ( 1963 ) , who showed that behavioural change can come about too rapidly for incremental learning to explain it and that what animals learn is not a set of reflexes but the location of desirable objects and events . |
| 23 | Paul Harford , leader of Cleveland County Council : ‘ This is a standstill Budget offering little or no hope to those who are unemployed or dependent on benefit , or hoping for proper training to help them escape the poverty trap . ’ |
| 24 | You 'll need a video card capable of displaying over 256 colours quickly ; for proper image editing it needs to be 24-bit or 32Kb . |
| 25 | The sharp hiss of an angry breath drawn through clenched teeth stopped him in his tracks . |
| 26 | Tragedy of twin too weak to survive alone Three-year-old girl dies after 15-hour surgery to separate her from Siamese sister |
| 27 | We may think we are an uncaring society but in this matter of looking after our own , we are most emphatically not : for every hundred old people only one is in a home and then often after enormous efforts to help them at home have failed . |
| 28 | The hard rock band were also ordered to leave the country by government officials after religious groups dubbed them ‘ Devil worshippers ’ . |
| 29 | You know we went up new year , after new year to see her er , it were , a lovely , nice Christmas tree in the foyer . |
| 30 | We 're not talking about individual members saying I wan na go here or I wan na go there , we 're talking about groups of memberships within these sorts of branches . |