Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pron] [adj] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition other purchasers , not wishing to miss a golden opportunity because they can not react quickly will attempt to insist that the seller grants them exclusive negotiating rights for a reasonable period of , for example , six weeks during which they should be able to agree a deal ; a so called lock out agreement . |
| 2 | He fingers my red rose brooch . |
| 3 | He snatches my two dollar tip like a starving dog , and tucks it deep into his pocket . |
| 4 | I picked up the stack of mail from the coffee-table and dealt myself one off the bottom : the envelope that contains my monthly bank statement , with its familiar brown matt and the wax seal like a blob of blood . |
| 5 | ICL 's second trophy went to its Bracknell , Berkshire-based Mid Range Systems division for the volume of DRS 6000 series systems and associated Unix products and services shipped abroad — its revenues are reckoned to have trebled over the past three years to over £250m ; Cambridge-based IXI Ltd was recognised for its success in the open systems software arena with its X.desktop product for Unix , and Chalfont , Buckinghamshire-based Madge Networks Ltd , which ships its high performance Token Ring networking products across the world , and finds it necessary to kid the locals that it 's an American company when it is doing business in the US , also wins an Export award . |
| 6 | This company , funded by Shell Ventures ( UK ) , ships its epitaxially-coated semiconductor wafers to the US , Europe and Far East . |
| 7 | Oxfordshire 's Julie Bradbury defends her English badminton title this weekend at Torbay . |
| 8 | Each develops its own behaviour pattern . |
| 9 | Every city has its central business district ; the focal point of the whole urban complex . |
| 10 | Below The parlour chamber has its early-17th-century wall studs picked out in red to denote its higher status than the other , grey-painted , rooms . |
| 11 | Wales has its main upland areas in the northwest ( Snowdonia ) , central Wales ( Cambrian Mountains ) and in south central Wales ( Brecon Beacons ) , rising to a maximum altitude of 1,085m at Snowdon ( Figure 2 ) . |
| 12 | It is the place for black-necked swans , a superb bird which has its main breeding grounds in the southern parts of Chile and Argentina . |
| 13 | Tony 's Beaver still has its original inertia starter using a comparatively weak electric motor to spin a small flywheel up to high rpm , when the stored energy rotates the engine . |
| 14 | With Schloss Dyck , the provenance is impeccable ; each weapon has its 1906 catalogue inventory number and many have the family stamp of two addorsed salmon ( Salm ) . |
| 15 | If we consider a solid and a liquid separately , each being in contact with air , then of course each surface has its own surface energy . |
| 16 | The resulting ‘ plant ’ has its own habitat requirements and unique reproductive structures , as if it was a single biological entity . |
| 17 | The Department also has its own teaching programmes . |
| 18 | The British Library also has its own newspaper library with a vast holding both historically and in range , much of which is now in micro form . |
| 19 | The Plaza Azul has its own cocktail bar where party nights are held , and its own restaurant . |
| 20 | The pretty garden has its own trout lake . |
| 21 | The Institute has its own seminar training programme , offering one and two day courses on a wide range of export-related topics . |
| 22 | Midland bank has its own Customer Code and will always do everything it can to maintain the standards set out in the Code . |
| 23 | The company has its own customer information system named CARGOLINK and by the end of the present year all the company 's offices will be using this system thus enabling the organisation to control each individual consignment during the transport from booking to final delivery to end user . |
| 24 | It seems extremely unlikely that light single production at Piper would continue , since Socata has its own TB range to push in the States . |
| 25 | The S120 has its own stereo chorus which is dealt with by the remaining two rotaries on the front panel , the second of which doubles as a presence control . |
| 26 | The train has its own telephone exchange and electricity generating car , plus office accommodations and restaurant cars for the royal entourage . |
| 27 | The shop has its own colour room , containing two colour mills and one white lead mill , these being worked by electricity . |
| 28 | As Robin Gedye reports from Bonn , each country has its own specialist racket |
| 29 | Do something now before rugby has its own Taylor Report . |
| 30 | Felbrigg has its own cookery book of the period , written by Katherine Windham , widow of William Windham I , who kept house here for her son Ashe for sixty years . |