Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [vb pp] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Out of the dust of the Bodleian , Dr Lonsdale has resurrected more than a hundred witty women and set them glistening and pulsing with life and spirits before us ; and through their fresh and often subversive eyes , the Augustan age seems much closer than it did . |
| 2 | The EEC has banned BST until further research has been completed . |
| 3 | Page 21 Latin debt : Venezuela has paid more than $900m in overdue interest on its public sector debt owed to commercial banks , according to Chase Manhattan . |
| 4 | With the crowd pleading for more it was a far cry from the wastelands of the south-west where Mr. Baker has met less than rapturous welcomes in the past . |
| 5 | Several European countries have taken in large numbers of refugees : Germany has accepted more than 200,000 ; Austria and Hungary 50,000 each ; and Sweden 45,000 . |
| 6 | The Federal Republic of Germany has had both because of its electoral system and the decentralised way in which so much of Germany is governed , where many decisions are taken by the regions . |
| 7 | My right hon. and learned Friend has said more than once , and I have repeated it , that it is the Government 's avowed intention to deal with that subject . |
| 8 | Drilling Engineer Perry Hill notes that BPX has drilled more than 10,500 feet of pay in horizontal wells within the last year . |
| 9 | To date , Christo has produced more than eighty drawings of various sizes related to ‘ Wrapped Reichstag ’ , over one hundred collages , and three models , the earliest of which dates from 1977 and was acquired by Teheran 's Museum of Modern Art . |
| 10 | So far , the LDDC has overseen more than 13m sq ft of Docklands ' office completions ; about 38% are still vacant . |
| 11 | The houses were scattered around , low-slung , timbered , with a thatched roof and small porch ; it was a village scene similar to many Corbett had seen elsewhere except for the small dark people , their furtive looks and quiet ways . |
| 12 | So troubled was he for a girl who , after all , was of age , high-spirited and clever , that after she had gone , and Matey had answered reflectively when he had asked her if she knew where McAllister was going , ‘ I do n't know . |
| 13 | So far , Marie had lasted longer than either of them : it was n't that she was better at her job than they were , it was just that she did n't expect so much of people . |
| 14 | Japan 's exports to the United States had totalled more than US$100,000 million in 1989 , against imports of some $50,000 million , and popular pressure was mounting in the USA to list Japan among the countries applying " structural impediments " within the definition of the " Super 301 " clause of the 1988 Omnibus Trade Act [ see pp. 36925-26 ] ; the clause , if invoked , would have entailed trade sanctions unless Japan agreed to changes within 12 months of its listing . |
| 15 | To her surprise Broom-Parker had phoned shortly after she 'd returned home , pleading with her not to mention his name to the police . |
| 16 | The Volvo had arrived less than twenty minutes later . |
| 17 | I 'd be surprised if any of them besides Platt and Adams have scored more than 1 goal for for England . |
| 18 | Residents in Saltburn have sent more than 50 letters to Langbaurgh council protesting at the planned closure of the town lavatories . |
| 19 | Pakistan have failed badly when overseas , being walloped in the Caribbean and losing badly down under , even after beating all comers in Sharjah only weeks before . |
| 20 | The Russians say that work on Energiya and Buran has yielded more than 20 new metals , alloys and materials which can operate in temperatures from minus 253C to 800C . |
| 21 | He continued : ‘ It is perhaps encouraging that Scotland has suffered less than most regions , however , although the average fraud perpetrated in Scotland tends to be smaller than in some regions , the impact on Scottish businesses can be just as damaging . ’ |
| 22 | Boeing has bagged more than $8 billion of firm orders so far this year , and made sales of $30 billion last year . |
| 23 | The Brundtland Commission may have made sustainable development the end-of-century watchword , defining it as ‘ development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs ’ , but even Tolba has wondered aloud whether it amounts to much more than a shibboleth . |
| 24 | At Millbank , RAAB has assembled more than thirty international and gallery artists , including Baselitz , Rainer Fetting , Ken Currie and Mimmo Paladino , for ‘ Fantastic Works on Paper ’ ( to 14 November ) . |
| 25 | Nigel has left more than one thumbprint of his time in North Devon . |
| 26 | Mr Taylor told the gathering at Darlington Police station PC Khaliq had made more than 85 arrests during the year . |
| 27 | Grimm 's attitude to Moma Parsheen had altered drastically since she revealed her sabotage of Stalinvast 's future . |
| 28 | Yesterday the market came under heavy selling pressure in the afternoon as investors sought to take advantage of a morning bounce in which the Nikkei had risen more than 400 points to 17,585 . |
| 29 | The figures showed that the jobless total for January had reached more than 7,700,000 or 6.2 per cent of the workforce , up from 6.1 per cent the previous month , with an increase of 230,000 in unemployment outside the farming sector . |
| 30 | But Hodkinson had seen more than enough . |