Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [conj] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Case studies showed that employers made savings arising ‘ mainly from temporary workers having less beneficial ( or no ) entitlement to holiday and sickness pay , and particularly to occupational pensions ’ ( Meager , 1986 , p. 12 ) . |
| 2 | The story goes that Blackburn chairman Jack Walker was unimpressed by Thomas 's contribution in the 3–3 draw at Selhurst Park and refused to sign another of his famous cheques with all those zeros . |
| 3 | The story goes that James Gilbey , pulled into a lay-by somewhere in Oxfordshire on New Years Eve 1989 and used his car phone to call the Royal residence at Sandringham in Norfolk . |
| 4 | The story goes that James Gilbey , pulled into a lay-by somewhere in Oxfordshire on New Years Eve 1989 and used his car phone to call the Royal residence at Sandringham in Norfolk . |
| 5 | The story goes that Ghar Hasan was used by a Saracen , over eight hundred years ago , as a hiding place , to avoid expulsion . |
| 6 | The opportunity arose when Michael Barry , the BBC 's longstanding Head of Drama , resigned in 1961 to join the new Irish television network , Telefis Eireann in Dublin . |
| 7 | At last her opportunity arose when Collin Brooks , a friend of both Eliot and her own family , suggested that she apply for the post of Eliot 's secretary which had fallen vacant . |
| 8 | Finally , there is strong evidence to show that humus in the soil can confer a remarkable degree of resistance to plant and animal pests and diseases . |
| 9 | At its sister hotel , L'Hotel , also in Toronto , $25,000 was saved in one year when it swapped its 40W fluorescent tubes for 30W tubes ; the Hotel Vancouver has installed a computer to monitor and control energy use throughout the building and received a $19,000 rebate from the power company in one month ; and the Hotel Macdonald , Alberta , is saving $1000 a month on waste collection . |
| 10 | His platelet count begn to fall and bone marrow biopsy showed viral haemophagocytic syndrome . |
| 11 | She and sister agreed that Mr Brown would need additional help . |
| 12 | Er just for the record Chairman to confirm that Selby District has no argument with the County Council on the Greater York . |
| 13 | Now for instance using that A P I , I could write a piece of C code , a piece of Three G L , which could access the database as if it was local to my machine on the client . |
| 14 | With an hour to go before Betty Boothroyd faced her destiny , I suggested to a leading Tory fixer that his party was in a bit of a pucker over who its preferred candidate should be . |
| 15 | In it we incredulously quoted a Guardian story suggesting that Bishop Auckland born Meale defending a tiny Labour majority in Mansfield bore a resemblance to Clark Gable . |
| 16 | Cleo sighed , and opened her mouth to speak , but at that moment the door to the parlour creaked and Drago Dratslinger and his mistress brought in the meal they had prepared for their guests , and the talk turned to that of wood and spirits , of how to trap a wandering soul . |
| 17 | As play evolves and B t 's beliefs alter there is a shift in the optimal action for player A. Player A's actions in each period will thus vary as the state of B t 's information varies . |
| 18 | Erm permission to proceed and product recommendations you went through . |
| 19 | The effective teacher of the 1990s can not simply be the skilled , classroom practitioner ; the evolution of the National Curriculum and the dominant consumer ideology mean that history teachers should be as careful and professional in the presentation of the case for history as they are in their curricular activities . |
| 20 | A 1988 survey by Tony Dickson and others at Glasgow College and Strathclyde University found that IBM employees had no aversion to unions — just felt they did n't need them . |
| 21 | The board found that Maj. Courage Quashigah , arrested on Oct. 6 , had been motivated by political ambition in planning an attempt to assassinate PNDC chairman Flt. -Lt . |
| 22 | Investigations by the Mid-Western Health Board found that grass samples showed readings six times over the maximum contamination levels allowed by EEC regulations , while Mrs Minogue 's vegetables had over twenty times the normal contamination level . |
| 23 | It is more demanding for a computer to process and store strings than numbers . |
| 24 | By 1991 , as the recession deepened and unemployment rose , male unemployment grew by 13 per cent and female unemployment by 11 per cent in the first six months ( Employment Gazette , Table 2.1 , various volumes 1986–91 ) . |
| 25 | This is set out as follows : ( 2 ) Where a person has entered into a contract after a misrepresentation has been made to him otherwise than fraudulently , and he would be entitled , by reason of the misrepresentation , to rescind the contract , then , if it is claimed , in any proceedings arising out of the contract , that the contract ought to be or has been rescinded , the court or arbitrator may declare the contract subsisting and award damages in lieu of rescission , if of the opinion that it would be equitable to do so , having regard to the nature of the misrepresentation and the loss that would be caused by it if the contract were upheld , as well as to the loss that rescission would cause to the other party . |
| 26 | For cutting bricks and blocks , you need a brick bolster and club hammer ; do n't try to emulate the professional and cut bricks with the edge of your bricklaying trowel . |
| 27 | Mr Mandela , thus , has already begun on his own the negotiating process that Mr de Klerk 's government claims to seek with black leaders . |
| 28 | Maureen 's doing the Civil Defence driving and Anne helping at Atlantic House . |
| 29 | The annual statements of accounts indicated that the costs of organising and mounting courses were frequently in excess of the combined income from total grant earned and student fee-income . |
| 30 | 2.8 USING A COMPUTER TO FIND AND STORE INFORMATION |