Example sentences of "[vb pp] [art] [adj] [noun pl] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have recently received the new Waterways Code produced by British Waterways in which is outlined etiquette for anglers , boaters , canoeists and walkers alike . |
| 2 | Having raised turnover from £9m at its float six years ago to £118m last year , the 165-year-old group has outgrown the unlisted securities market and will move up to a full quote in May . |
| 3 | The secretary of state has given the Joint Consultants Committee ( JCC ) an assurance that the Department of Health will deal firmly with specific cases of abuse that are notified to the department , and , indeed , certain trusts have already been made to reverse inappropriate appointments . |
| 4 | Such a state of affairs would be highly unsatisfactory , given the civil liberties implications for both the police and the individuals who are subject to the Act . |
| 5 | Daum claimed that his players had been given the new sports designer drug Clenbuterol simply to heal persistent muscle injuries . |
| 6 | After 1999 , Aegon will be able to inject any amount of new capital and should this be approved by the voting trust — which must be likely should it wish to generate more profits through business growth for the with-profits policyholders — then the with-profits fund must match Aegon 's injections ( which must be considered unlikely given the huge resources Aegon has access to ) or see its stake in the company diluted . |
| 7 | Indeed , given the high claims monarchs made for themselves , and the excesses of adoration with which they were treated — and by the time of Mary Queen of Scots , this had reached a very high level indeed — we may wonder that so many of them retained any sense of balance at all . |
| 8 | ‘ The Slav idea , indirect Austrian control over Serbia or even German domination of the Straits do not , in the light of cold reason , ’ concludes a recent review of Russia 's options , ‘ seem to have justified the appalling risks Russia faced in entering a European war . ’ |
| 9 | The same sort of guilt by association which had tainted Keynesian economics in the wake of the Phillips curve débâcle has tainted the rational expectations hypothesis owing to its close connection , through Keynesian eyes , with the policy inefficacy proposition of the new classical macroeconomics . |
| 10 | During a recent promotion , the Great Central Railway has undertaken the 1992 visitors survey and questionnaires were given to visitors and passengers arrival with a closing date of August 7 . |
| 11 | The rally to launch ZANU-PF 's election campaign on March 4 had only half filled the national sports stadium in Harare ( capacity 70,000 ) , despite the presence of Nelson Mandela , who was on his first foreign tour since his release in February from prison in South Africa . |
| 12 | The 17-year-old English Schools youths 200 metres bronze medallist has now joined the senior boys ranks . |
| 13 | He 's dropped the long-redundant Associates moniker and is standing alone , on his own merits . |
| 14 | As intelligence tests had not superseded the older attainments tests , so school records did not supersede the test battery . |
| 15 | we have not organised the civil rights movement and we have not infiltrated it … |
| 16 | Joseph followed Suit with Dong , and when the commotion died own and they had bidden the Annamese boys goodnight , he and Paul stripped off their shirts and walked over to the bamboo skinning platform where Chuck was already back at work on his buffalo hide . |
| 17 | Computer Sciences Corp has won a multi-year facilities management contract from Sun Microsystems Inc that is expected to generate $27m a year : under the agreement , Sun will temporarily transfer all its mainframe data centre activities in Milpitas , California to a Computer Sciences data centre in San Diego , enabling Sun to convert its mainframe systems , which oversee its worldwide manufacturing operations , to a client-server environment , with help from Computer Sciences , and the El Segundo company will run Sun 's day-to-day operations , supporting applications maintenance for its Manufacturing Resource Planning software , while the client-server system is developed and installed . |
| 18 | Growth-hungry pubs and hotels group Greenalls has wrestled a tiny profits improvement out of a difficult year . |
| 19 | The National Economic Development Office has organised a specialised organics seminar , Chemistry for a better environment — environmental challenges and opportunities in the specialised organics sector , on 17 March 1992 in Manchester . |
| 20 | It gave me a temporary Equity card — mind you they took it away again as soon as I had done the four weeks work . |
| 21 | He had done the Royal Marines commando training , he had insisted on parachute jumping and escaping from a tank in 100 feet of water in a simulated exercise — an exercise that killed two men over the next two years . |
| 22 | Saw Maung had relinquished the Foreign Affairs portfolio to U Ohn Gaw in September 1991 and the Defence portfolio in March 1992 . |
| 23 | This series has answered the detailed questions people are asking about the Health Service , about Yugoslavia and so on . |
| 24 | While it was generally considered to be almost impossible to prove bribery charges against those in receipt of such payments — the success of such a charge would require specific evidence of mutual benefit — the sums received by individual politicians were large enough to have contravened the Political Funds Control Law which restricted the size of political donations and required those over 1,000,000 yen to be registered along with the donor 's name . |
| 25 | While it was generally considered to be difficult to prove bribery charges against those in receipt of such payments — the success of such a charge would require specific evidence of mutual benefit — the sums received by individual politicians were large enough to have contravened the Political Funds Control Law which restricted the size of political donations and required those over 1,000,000 yen to be registered . |
| 26 | it was like Windows One that was it said the last Windows version that would run on Two Eight Sixes . |
| 27 | Following the recent press statement by Mr Michael Forsyth MP , Scotland 's Sports Minister , I write to inform you that Mr Forsyth has accepted the Scottish Sports Council 's view that the system first introduced at its request in 1987 whereby senior staff of the Council serve also as Members of the Council , should be discontinued . |
| 28 | He had , correctly , seen the civil rights movement as a realisation of one aspect of the new republican strategy and he had observed that the turn to legal and open political work had not resulted in an elimination of the IRA 's military capacity . |
| 29 | I have been to the Holy Land twice this year and have seen the appalling conditions Palestinians are living under . |
| 30 | For the past two years Brand has seen the same sports psychologist , John Allsop , who helped Peter Baker earn a cup debut this month . |