Example sentences of "[vb -s] [noun] [noun sg] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The customer accounting department receives 2.25m customer contacts a year , which are handled on a workflow system provided by IBM . |
| 2 | On or near this spot , now next to the Police House , stands Glebe House continuing the old association . |
| 3 | For example if a person who has £3,000 capital receives a monthly pension of £200 paid into their bank account , this should not be assessed as an increase in savings unless it remains unspent at the time the next payment is due . |
| 4 | Conder Projects has planning permission to build a three-storey office on part of Russell Street long stay car park . |
| 5 | A LUXURY country house hotel has planning approval to build an 18-hole golf course after an earlier application was turned down . |
| 6 | Wordsworth contributed to the growth of ‘ Humanity ’ , the climate of opinion in which Shaftesbury was able to proceed with factory legislation ; and surely his attitude of reverence towards landscape formed public opinion , so that one now needs planning permission to site a factory and the line of a motorway has to be negotiated ; certain areas have become National Parks , and one can not help noticing how many of these were districts where Wordsworth lived or with which he was in some way associated ( see Gazetteer ) . |
| 7 | Though it needs Unix software to scale the enterprise , Microsoft is not necessarily partial to a solution such as NuTcracker . |
| 8 | The radio/cassette player is security coded and for convenience has satellite volume controls a rare attraction . |
| 9 | The Oakes Report , which appeared exactly one year after the setting-up of the committee , made a number of recommendations of which perhaps the most important was that an independent national body be set up with specific terms of reference to include the ‘ general oversight of the development of maintained higher education ’ and the responsibility to ‘ collect , analyse and present where appropriate in conjunction with the Department of Education and Science and the University Grants Committee information affecting the demand for and supply of higher education in the maintained sector ’ . |
| 10 | It simply uses surface combustion to spread the gas flame uniformly over the entire grilling area to eliminate hot spots and cold corners . |
| 11 | Everyone says Remittance Man improved a lot afterwards but what about The Fellow ? |
| 12 | When Nausicaa meets Polypheme beauty meets the beast . |
| 13 | ‘ My nan waited up till half past three to see us on The Chart Show , ’ says guitarist Rat shaking a tousled head . |
| 14 | ‘ My nan waited up till half past three to see us on The Chart Show , ’ says guitarist Rat shaking a tousled head . |
| 15 | Urban farm wins cash pledge to aid the disabled |
| 16 | UK drinks tax policy sets a bad example to our export markets . |
| 17 | It costs £1,500 minimum to stage a court case . ’ |
| 18 | Donovan waives £200,000 award to save The Face |
| 19 | This reduces surface tension allowing a better oxygen mixture therefore making the fuel easier to burn . |
| 20 | It requires Governemnt permission to call a college a university . |
| 21 | 23 May 08.00 Ray Taylor phones Peter smith to explain the problem . |
| 22 | The Harcros Timber & Building Supplies Stayers Handicap looks a great deal more competitive , but firm preference is for Dreams End . |
| 23 | This approach is broadly statistical in nature , as it involves corpus analysis to determine the empirical likelihood of various syntactic combinations . |
| 24 | It seems police failure to raise a national alarm may have fooled Stewart into lying low rather than making a run for it . |
| 25 | Sunderland made Terry Butcher their manager this morning … they 'll want to win for him … lets hope Town do the carving … |
| 26 | Receiving a copy of the AGM Minutes from the Branch prompts Air Mail to give a little space to describe the activities and efforts being made by the Branch Committee , a committee which has been virtually unchanged since the Branch was re-activated six years ago . |
| 27 | The Conservative Party during the 1990s will dominate British politics much as America dominates world politics following the Soviet Union 's collapse . |
| 28 | ‘ In our view the principle of making an allowance for each child of the income tax payer is a sound one , in practice the middle class parent who pays income tax receives a family allowance from the state . |
| 29 | Treasury does , however , recognise a social dimension to education and recommends government intervention to help the disadvantaged . |
| 30 | But perhaps worst of all , it has been clearly demonstrated that while a change in attitudes to a brand or product can precede a purchase of that brand , it can equally well follow the purchase : does attitude change influence a purchase , or does it merely result from it ? — since people often feel the need to justify a purchase , especially a major purchase , after they have made it . |