Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb -s] [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ITN has recruited American investment bank Lehman Brothers to steer it through the restructuring . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Someone has to make sure Wellington has heard this news . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Over the last two decades ICI has made significant progress in improving energy efficiency [ see graph ] . |
| 12 | Between the Sidlaw Hills and the Braes of Angus , the red loam of Strathmore has provided healthy cropping and stock-rearing since the twelfth century in spite of disruptive wars and civil strife . |
| 13 | On one artefact from Nevada , for instance , Newman has identified big cat , sheep , bison and bear blood residues . |
| 14 | During over 30 years of adventures Bonington has faced great danger — he admits he is lucky to be alive — and lost many friends . |
| 15 | A history of English brutality , for which Sir Ian has collected fascinating material , is only tangentially relevant to the fear of riot as an effective factor in parliamentary govern-ment . |
| 16 | Ian has had this experience in reality and is all it with some explanation . |
| 17 | Yes thank you Chairman erm I think important question very similar question I think we 're we 're all wondering whether the changed landscape of West Sussex , the changed use of West Sussex has had any influence on the flooding and as the County Council has pointed out worst amount of rain we 've had for about seventy years or so I think it 's very useful and important er to ask questions an and when this crisis is over we reflect on what we can learn from it , but I must bear in mind that it is first and foremost extraordinary climatic conditions which have caused these problems and that in itself of course might have implications erm the whole of global warming does tend to come to mind when you see what 's happening in Australia as well as what 's happening here erm that 's certainly not anything that agencies great or small can have any control over . |
| 18 | But with ‘ Boss Drum ’ , Colin has gone one step further . |
| 19 | And , despite untold pressure from within his own circle of friends and from rugby league officials , Ofahengaue has shown remarkable strength to resist the most tempting of offers . |
| 20 | More recently Rudolf Herr has had overall responsibility for the road haulage interests of the group , and until his promotion , was Chairman of the management board of Rhenania . |
| 21 | To help its VAX or Mips users move to Alpha platforms , DEC has developed binary translation tools which can recompile programs for Alpha without using source code , to which customers may not have access . |
| 22 | Y. Radday has used Hebrew stylometry to address the problem of the unity of Isaiah and to argue against the standard critical theory which sees the book of Genesis as woven from three disparate strands of tradition . |
| 23 | Richard Charkin is in no doubt that Reed has gained competitive advantage . |
| 24 | Last season definitely took a turn for the better when Kerslake came , and Kelly has made this season 's success in no small part . |
| 25 | The North Ormesby area of Middlesbrough has suffered serious discolouration and solids in its drinking water . |
| 26 | Rugby has become big business and a spectator sport . |
| 27 | Thérèse Oulton has survived art-world fashion to re-direct her career . |
| 28 | While the nation mourns ( not ) over the sudden cancellation of the SHAKESPEAR 'S SISTER mega-tour , it would seem that the reason behind the decision had little to do with SIOBHAN 's nervous exhaustion and more to do with the fact that hubbie DAVE STEWART wants to spend more time with his wife and less time on his Jack Jones , staring at his fibre-optic carpet . |
| 29 | The nationalist fervour in Romania has fuelled virulent anti-Semitism , a thriving ultra-right , bloody ethnic violence in Transylvania and regular pogroms against the gypsies . |
| 30 | Two senior boys have expressed an interest in attending a course to enable them to participate more in the running of the club [ the J.G.V.A. has agreed to pay their fees ] a volunteer Diane Prior has joined the staff , Laura Brown has been given a date for mini bus driving test , two staff members have attended a Youth Work Conference for South West Edinburgh — G. Lightheart has ordered new equipment . |