Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb -s] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Motability has arranged special schemes with motor manufacturers , wheelchair manufacturers , insurance brokers , and other so that today a variety of schemes can be offered which not only help disabled people become mobile but also give them a chance to be truly independent . |
| 2 | Motability has earned one peerage and an OBE or two , but otherwise virtue is its own reward , and so far as I am concerned , it has been the most successful achievement of my career and the most fortunate thought that ever came into my head . |
| 3 | Under the agreement , Fisons has given English Nature 8,000 acres of lowland peat bog on Thorne and Hatfield Moors , in Yorkshire , but with the reservation that it will continue to extract peat from the site for a further 30 years . |
| 4 | ITN has recruited American investment bank Lehman Brothers to steer it through the restructuring . |
| 5 | Mooney has hit 11 goals this season and been the side 's most dangerous striker . |
| 6 | Unger wants to revise psychological theory , but retain psychology 's emphasis on objectivity , since ‘ feminist scholarship can be as objective as any other scholarship with a particular theoretical bias ’ ( 1979 : ix ) . |
| 7 | More recently , the BLM has leased large tracts of wilderness to be used as garbage dumps for cities in the Los Angeles area . |
| 8 | In order to accommodation those people who wish to visit the fair for just one day , Ian Allan has arranged scheduled flights on British Midland at a cost of £189 . |
| 9 | A week earlier , Arsenal 's George Graham blamed a referee for his side 's defeat and indiscipline and Manchester United 's Alex Ferguson has blamed other teams for trying too hard ! |
| 10 | Gooch has scored 2124 runs at an average of 50.57 , whereas Gower has made 2183 runs at 50.76 . |
| 11 | It could even put a question mark over the future of England captain and selector Graham Gooch , whose fitness and discipline regime have become a hallmark of the current side , and which Gower has had some difficulty fitting in with . |
| 12 | Finance director Keith Todd announced that ICL has gained one point of market share in the UK , in a declining overall market — stealing back a little of the market share that IBM UK has won from ICL over the past 20 years . |
| 13 | Jenkins has enjoyed great success with Llanelli : the Schweppes Cup in 1988 , the Welsh Merit Table and Cup final in 1989 , the Cup and second place in the inaugural Heineken League in 1991 . |
| 14 | Lisa has written eleven songs — she writes her own melodies and lyrics — and three of these will be chosen as a follow-up to the video demo . |
| 15 | Although Lukic has made bad mistakes at ( unfortunaltely ) critical times I do n't think he is a complete donkey . |
| 16 | The hotel leaflet ends a few paragraphs on : ‘ The Newton has had many celebrities who have stayed with us over the years , including the late Harold Macmillan and Charlie Chaplin … ’ |
| 17 | Jim has made some enquiries through Italian legal colleagues and by all accounts the man does come from a very good family — very good indeed — so at least he has n't told her a tissue of lies about his background . ’ |
| 18 | Since 1982 , Heinrichsmeyer has sent various Documenta participants small cardboard questionnaires along with three dice ; each roll of the dice yielded a particular choice of colour . |
| 19 | I believe , however , that Schröder has amalgamated two issues — screening and treatment of early prostatic cancer — into one when they should be argued separately . |
| 20 | He says the Hercules has had 30 years service , and there are 2,000 of them . |
| 21 | Director Caroline Fitzgerald has coaxed fine performances from a generally strong cast — in particular from O'Meara and Graham Arnold as the colourful butterflies that fly so distractingly around Alec 's head . |
| 22 | In T. H. White 's book , ten-year-old Maria has to learn similar lessons when she discovers a group of Lilliputians . |
| 23 | Hirst has missed 11 games with an ankle injury , and played when short of fitness , but his pace and power have still made an impression this season . |
| 24 | TYCOON Peter de Savary has sold 300 acres of mudflats and salt marsh at Hayle , Cornwall , to the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds for £1 . |
| 25 | Ray Cochrane has expressed similar sentiments . |
| 26 | Someone has to make sure Wellington has heard this news . ’ |
| 27 | Lancastrian Peter Ellis has spent 12 months at the town 's Arts Centre working with everyday objects and fashioning them into works of art for his Funny Energy exhibition . |
| 28 | Since 1980 , MacDonald has run three companies . |
| 29 | In his well-known book Feudal Society , the historian Marc Bloch has laid particular emphasis on the fact that in the Middle Ages men found it difficult to appreciate the significance of time because they were so ill-equipped to measure it . |
| 30 | The advent of powerful desktop computers and the introduction of the technique of running spectal analysis by Van der Schee has allowed objective analysis of the recorded signals , superceding the use of visual analysis techniques . |