Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun sg] [verb] [adv prt] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An electronics specialist called Colin Crook set up Zynar three years ago as a subsidiary of the Rank leisure group . |
| 2 | During July 1690 , demonstrating the French command of the Narrow Seas , small landing parties were put ashore on the Sussex coast to put up posters urging local residents , and especially army and navy officers , to support their former king , a somewhat pointless propaganda exercise , but a much more serious incursion followed . |
| 3 | PARTICK THISTLE take on Hibs at Firhill tonight in the throes of a long , destructive run which has seen them win only one of their last 12 league matches and slip towards relegation , writes Hugh Keevins . |
| 4 | There is a famously long time-lag between when work is done and when the Nobel committee doles out accolades for it . |
| 5 | In 1737 a Falmouth merchant buying up corn for shipping to London was warned : |
| 6 | When the £5 million Juventus midfielder leads out England for the first time he will spare a thought for the man who captained England to 1966 World Cup glory , just 48 hours after Bobby Moore revealed that he was battling cancer . |
| 7 | The AP man rushed up tot the Shah with a wire that announced : " Teheran : Mossadeq overthrown . |
| 8 | The Jordanian government had been under heavy United States pressure to carry out sanctions . |
| 9 | The 30 youngsters from Keldholme School took up plastic sacks and gloves as part of a three-day litter pick to learn about the environment as they help to protect it . |
| 10 | Somehow I ca n't imagine a Park Avenue matron shelling out $200,000 to hang this startling pre-connubial portrait on her living-room wall — no matter that the work is executed by an artist who has been likened to Marcel Duchamp and Andy Warhol and called the genius of his generation . |
| 11 | It was awfully sporting of IBM Corp to set up consultancy , systems integration and facilities management ventures in an attempt to put to profitable use the surplus skills of so many of its employees , and only curmudgeons asked if IBMers were actually the right people for the job : sad to say , the curmudgeons were right , and according to Computerworld , the head of the new IBM Consulting Group in White Plains , New York , Robert Howe , says that it is having to hire people from the likes of Andersen Consulting and Coopers & Lybrand , because as he told the paper , ‘ we 've tried IBMers , but frankly we 've had to send some home — some IBM people did n't get the notion of the service business — they did n't understand that we did n't want administrators and middle managers ’ . |
| 12 | Title VI of the Maastricht Treaty sets out provisions on cooperation in the fields of justice and home affairs . |
| 13 | N Ireland win sets up Dublin showdown Albania1 |
| 14 | Initiated by the CBSO under its electrifying young conductor , Simon Rattle , it will soon receive another boost , when Sadler 's Wells Ballet takes up residence in the refurbished Hippodrome under its new name , the Birmingham Royal Ballet . |
| 15 | Last year Warren Spring carried out research worth £5 million for the DoE and some current work may now have to be put out to tender . |
| 16 | A SCRAMBLED second-half goal by Worrell Sterling knocked out Kingstonian and completed the irony of an FA Cup replay no one wanted . |
| 17 | Yorkshire Region takes up Playsafe initiative |
| 18 | The reader in men and masculinity from Bradford University conjured up images for me of a muscular man walking in with a few four-packs of larger under his arms ready to address BASW delegates . |
| 19 | Stephanie Middleton was yesterday voted one of the two runners-up in the 1992 Livewire UK Business Start Up Awards , winning herself £1,000 to invest in the business . |
| 20 | The first and best example of the ‘ hard-boiled ’ thriller , with private dick Sam Spade chewing off chunks of lousy life in a lousy world , and spitting them right back in your face . |
| 21 | IPC launch sparks off puzzle war |
| 22 | His Portsmouth side take on Liverpool in the FA Cup semi-finals . |
| 23 | She has written to President Bush offering to hand over part of her late husband 's fortune for distribution to the poor in the Philippines . |
| 24 | The toilets at Piccadilly Circus closed down years ago . |
| 25 | Kinnock reshuffle brings back Clare Short and puts more women into traditional male jobs Boateng first black to join a front bench . |
| 26 | ‘ The Geiger counter picked up levels of radiation but we already knew those kegs had been stored in that particular freight car . |
| 27 | To say that one copy is sufficient and that it is probably available at the British Library is good enough grounds for an organisation such as Brent Library to throw out books that are ideologically unsound , as unquestionably it did . |
| 28 | The festival was hosted by Misión de Amistad ( Friendship Mission ) , which is an ecumenical organisation formed in 1953 by the Disciples of Christ Church to carry out development projects among marginalised communities . |
| 29 | From Scarth Gap ascend up Haystacks ( 0.25 miles ) and once you 've reached the top , navigate south-westwards towards Gillercomb Head ( 2 miles ) , the gap between Brandreth and Green Gable . |
| 30 | Not really well we the Blackstone engineer fitting up engines , he stayed with us for a while to show us the ropes like you know . |