Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] a [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Planning involves simulating a difficult or irreversible search . |
| 2 | Right , so if it goes say a hundred and twenty six miles or a hundred and twenty miles , to the nearest ten miles , it goes a hundred and twenty miles in two hours how far would it go in one hour ? |
| 3 | Stephen Kunz , Technical Manager at Douglas Reyburn , has developed a new and unique method of dyeing yarns that contain many different colours . |
| 4 | The SGB Group — with 5,000 employees in various size units throughout Britain — has developed a fast and flexible computerised personnel records system used by personnel management . |
| 5 | Mr Lamont said : ‘ This is the best possible news for everyone who wants to see a modern and competitive British economy succeeding in world markets in the 1990s . ’ |
| 6 | And Mr Howard Brown ’ ( Morse hesitated ) ‘ has given a full and fairly satisfactory account of his own whereabouts that afternoon , an account which has since been substantially corroborated . ’ |
| 7 | But Norris has given a further and suggestive explanation : ‘ The possession of a written Constitution whose principles are yet open to all manner of far-reaching judicial review … gives a political edge to questions of textual and interpretative theory that they do not have in the British cultural context . ’ |
| 8 | Although it achieved sales of £65 million in the last financial year , it has shed a hundred and twenty of its six hundred staff . |
| 9 | Moreover , entry into the EC has added a new and ever-expanding dimension to the Prime Minister 's homework , more than doubling it . |
| 10 | But the Hodgkin Quadrangle has added a handsome and valuable array of buildings to the college stock , and this report ends by expressing gratitude to those who have helped raise money for it , and by looking forward to the celebrations to mark its completion in the late spring of 1991 . |
| 11 | Sara Keays , the former mistress of the former Conservative Party Chairman , Cecil Parkinson , has won a hundred and five thousand pounds libel damages from a magazine in the High Court . |
| 12 | Otherwise , Mr Kaifu has won a small but notable victory . |
| 13 | Nonetheless , like all Lloyd Webber 's works , it has undergone a painstaking and methodical process of gestation . |
| 14 | Both the founders sold out , and over the last decade Heidrick and Struggles has undergone a long and painful reorganisation . |
| 15 | Thames Valley Police says Mr. Clarke has seen a professional and efficient service . |
| 16 | So far , such encouragement has seen a small but significant increase in the numbers of acrylic courts being laid . |
| 17 | The past eight years has seen a steady and clever manipulation of the so-called thinking minority : the wheezes and schemes of cheeky pop entrepreneurs like Morley and McLaren have been championed in the rock press and elsewhere as a perfect parallel to the upwardly mobile mentality of the calculator and computer generation , the complete full circle from sixties hippiedom . |
| 18 | In particular , the transition to democracy has seen a condensed and accelerated process of institutionalization of industrial relations , and of accompanying political exchange between the labour movement , employers and the state that would normally only be observable over a far longer period . |
| 19 | The court heard that Lucy who is thirty three has suffered a serious and intractable illness for thirteen years . |
| 20 | It has the speed , the stamina and the ability to think as it moves in for the kill and needs to out-think a twisting and turning rabbit . |
| 21 | A chain of kitchenware shops has made a hundred and twenty people redundant and called in the administraors because of financial difficulties . |
| 22 | Alternatively , if the OR feels that the debtor has made a full and honest disclosure and that there are no suspicious circumstances , he may dispense with the public examination . |
| 23 | McLaren boss Teddy Mayer as much as admitted at the end of 1975 that he thought Emerson wanted to move — or that he was in personal trouble of one kind and another — but the official news reached Hunt before it got to the team , and got to Hunt through Domingos Piedade , an eccentric figure close to the cheerful groupie Googie Zanon , a wealthy ( textiles ) Italian aristocrat whose support has been crucial to many drivers at critical points in their career , then ‘ manager ’ to Emerson and now to Ayrton Senna — a fringe career from which Domingos , hugely personable , but also often more a talker than a doer , has made a more than reasonable living . |
| 24 | It is against this background that the Economic and Social Research Council ( ESRC ) has made a timely and substantial grant to the British Library of Political and Economic Science ( BLPES ) , working in conjunction with the Institute of Contemporary British History , to conduct a major survey of just this area . |
| 25 | Lloyds has made a clandestine but vigorous pass at Midland and still thinks it is in with a chance and can outbid Hongkong if it can make savings through ruthless high street rationalisation — in effect , putting two banks ' business through one 's network . |
| 26 | At its best the religious life for women has shown a sure and thorough knowledge of the difference between function models and role models . |
| 27 | John Wilson , Cambridge coach , who was with the victorious Oxford camp last year , considers he has produced a fitter and more professional crew for the four-and-a-quarter-mile . |
| 28 | Certainly , in many of his works the Prince has juggled well with the varied problems of painting and has produced a sensitive and interesting result . |
| 29 | It has had a long and complicated history ; but , at the present day , the form required by law for the creation and transfer of estates and interests in land is both uniform and simple . |
| 30 | Super-SARA has had a long and troubled gestation period . |