Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb -s] [adv] [vb pp] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Expressing such a duty as a duty to further the interests of the enterprise is unhelpful , however , since the formulation has very limited information content : it fails to identify the relevant constituencies and gives no indication of what priority should be afforded to them inter se . |
| 2 | For the busy housewife has also found time to help with the Romanian Convoyaid , sending special parcels to thousands of orphans . |
| 3 | Digital Equipment Corp has just named company veteran John O'Keefe , formerly vice-president , channels marketing , to the post of vice-president , Unix marketing , reporting to vice-president , Bill Demmer . |
| 4 | Meanwhile , Cadence Design Systems Inc , San Jose , California , says it plans to use ObjectStore , to develop the next generation of its electronic design automation tools and its Design Framework II product , and Digital Equipment Corp has also taken ObjectStore with plans to use the database as a data repository with its PowerFrame software . |
| 5 | Nippon Steel Corp has now reached agreement for Hitachi Ltd to transfer to it the technology to manufacture 4M-bit memory chips : the chips will be made at NMB Semiconductor Ltd , which will become Nippon Steel Semiconductor Corp when the steel company acquires the Minebea Co unit later this month ; Hitachi will take some of the parts and sell them under its own name ; Nippon Steel says it has already concluded similar agreements with Intel Corp and Sony Corp on production of other types of memory chip . |
| 6 | Bell Atlantic Corp has now reached agreement to sell 108.9m shares in Telecom Corp of New Zealand Ltd to BZW New Zealand Ltd , leaving it with 29.56% of Telecom , in line with government demand ; settlement is due next week ; no price given . |
| 7 | Dust has gathered in inaccessible places , walls have faded and paintwork has subtly changed colour . |
| 8 | British Rail has already accepted responsibility for the matter , as the Secretary of State has pointed out . |
| 9 | A leading French economist believes that the defeat of communism has merely presented capitalism with a new crisis . |
| 10 | Despite formidable predictions for the growth of low-alcohol ale when brewers imagined that the ‘ less is more ’ formula would apply to anything , no brand has yet provided momentum enough to sustain firm growth . |
| 11 | Nella was thirty-two , an age by which if a blonde woman 's hair has n't turned dark , it never will . |
| 12 | Despite the extent of union influence and the predominantly co-operative patterns of industrial relations , collective bargaining has not brought BR and RENFE workers great financial rewards , even as a quid pro quo for job loss and changing working practices . |
| 13 | The registrar will probably require to be satisfied that severance has actually taken place . |
| 14 | This mare has just given birth to a foal . |
| 15 | The second largest mare has just given birth to a foal . |
| 16 | Salt has received much bad publicity in recent years as a major contributory factor to heart disease , but the initial hysteria has now given way to the theory that salt in quantity will only be to the detriment of those people prone to heart disease from other causes . |
| 17 | The striker has also passed John Richards ' all-time 195-goal record at Wolves . |
| 18 | Its new approach of competitive bidding has already galvanized towns and cities into bringing forward imaginative proposals for regeneration . |
| 19 | The five-point try has not stopped teams looking to put points on the board through taking kicks , though a bird in the hand is still worth two in the bush . |
| 20 | St James 's Park has always had Blaydon Races as its anthem but in the Sixties and Seventies there were many others . |
| 21 | Change has also taken place in the size of practices since the early 1980s . |
| 22 | Some change has inevitably taken place but it has been less significant than many would have predicted . |
| 23 | The Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change has constantly warned governments that the business of reducing carbon dioxide emissions ( by 60 per cent over the next two or three decades ) can not be put off any longer . |
| 24 | Economic and political change has now blurred differences between ways of life then distinct . |
| 25 | This view of prose narrative is rather different from the one implied in the Anglo-American tradition which , in its reading of fiction has systematically subordinated questions of ryuzhet to questions of realism . |
| 26 | Fumigation of vineyards with Telone has improved conditions , but no control measure has yet eradicated nematodes on a field scale . |
| 27 | Organ donation has not kept pace with the demands for transplantation , and a considerable minority of patients die having been accepted for , and while waiting for , transplantation . |
| 28 | This was just another example of the way in which the Major camp has consistently missed opportunities . |
| 29 | The exceptions may , however , be relevant where the buyer has unlawfully obtained possession . |
| 30 | The third category of river or lake is never acid because of high alkalinity. pH is usually above 6 and the catchment has well buffered soils . |