Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The air above and beyond the ridge became filled with wind-swirled smoke and the echoes of distant blasts . |
| 2 | When William left school at about the age of twelve , he hoped to become a gardener but his skin became inflamed with constant outdoor work . |
| 3 | The framework developed distinguishes between different ways in which prevention may be understood . |
| 4 | In Counterpurchase , the buyer agrees to purchase on normal commercial terms , including making foreign exchange available . |
| 5 | So in March 1866 he offered eight to the town and the Local Government Board agreed to lay on free water . |
| 6 | More intensive agriculture has led to increased concentrations of nitrate in groundwater in many areas . |
| 7 | Shifting agriculture is not in itself environmentally harmful , as is evidenced by the long and generally successful history that this type of agriculture has enjoyed in tropical regions . |
| 8 | The search for a new chief executive for IBM Corp has moved into top gear and could be complete by the end of next month , the Wall Street Journal reports . |
| 9 | Santa Clara , California-based Software Publishing Corp has responded to widespread complaints that US software companies rip off their European customers by adjusting the prices of its products in Europe to conform with the prices in the US . |
| 10 | And this type of stereotypical link has led to various experiments . |
| 11 | THE BOARD of Irish Rail has decided to rebuilt the Carriage Shop at Inchicore Works , Dublin , which was completely destroyed by fire last September . |
| 12 | Communism has collapsed in Eastern Europe , and the Soviet Union has fallen apart . |
| 13 | A lot of support has come from local firms and from individuals like electricians and plumbers , said Mrs Coates . |
| 14 | Similarly , so-called ‘ pattern ’ bargaining has occurred in certain industries . |
| 15 | If damage has occurred to internal decorations and/or contents through ingress of water unaccompanied by storm conditions there is no cover under |
| 16 | Bourdieu has written on traditional societies and modern society , but does not at all on the face of it seem to have a theory of modernization . |
| 17 | The pattern of change has lead in recent years to the growth of large book retailing groups , some with a ready will to diversify into other product ranges . |
| 18 | ‘ This idea of a job change has come with perfect timing , has n't it ? |
| 19 | It is difficult to make a case that the time lag in getting innovations to the market-place has decreased in recent years . |
| 20 | The major conclusions are therefore that the market economy is a remarkably efficient way of creating wealth largely because it succeeds in utilising more information than alternative economic systems ; that for a market economy to work , the society of which it is part needs to believe in certain kinds of values : it must lay great store by individual responsibility and also have a non-egalitarian view of what constitutes social justice ; that the so called ‘ crisis ’ of capitalism results from a prevailing set of cultural values , typified by Freudianism and Marxism , which are contrary to those needed for the market economy to prosper , that humanism as a philosophy can not guarantee to generate the appropriate values , and that Christianity can provide such values and has indeed done so during the period of industrialisation throughout much of the Western world , but in consequence the kind of market economy which is then championed is different from that currently defined by the libertarian philosophy of Professor Friedman and Professor Hayek . |
| 21 | Shell has submitted for environmental approval a £1.5 billion plan to clean up its oil refinery at Pernis , near Rotterdam . |
| 22 | The goods remain the Seller 's property until the Buyer has paid in full 8.1.1. all sums due to the Seller under this contract ; and 8.1.2. any other sums due from the Buyer to the Seller . |
| 23 | Retention of title 8(1) The goods remain the Seller 's property until the Buyer has paid in full ( a ) all sums due to the Seller under this contract ; and ( b ) any other sums due from the Buyer to the Seller . |
| 24 | Hewlett-Packard Co has teamed with Banyan Systems Inc to put Banyan 's Vines and enterprise network services up under HP-UX Unix on Precision Architecture machines , and provide Vines users with easier means of using HP printers with a network adaptor to work with the new MIO interface . |
| 25 | The parliament has called for other EC countries to follow the Dutch lead . |
| 26 | The resulting debate was the first the parliament has held on green issues . |
| 27 | The importance of these statutory provisions appears to me to be that Parliament has considered at various times and in various contexts the need for recovery of imposts paid but not due and has legislated in a manner which suggests that no such general principle as the Woolwich contends for was thought to be in existence . |
| 28 | The current deteriorating standards of living and acute social problems that owe so much of their origin to the decline in the economy suggest that the inheritance at the time of Independence of a highly developed mining sector was a very mixed blessing : the lack of balance it occasioned in the economic base has resulted in serious economic and social disequilibrium with the locus of control resting as much with decisions made in the London Metal Market as with policies established in Lusaka . |
| 29 | Consumerism has led to high expectations and increased litigation , which in turn has led to increasingly expensive professional indemnity insurance . |
| 30 | In winter , skin has to contend with central heating and cold temperatures ; conditions which can cause even the oiliest of skin types to become dehydrated . |