Example sentences of "[coord] [adj] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Tories have more or less run out of good ideas which inspired them in the early Thatcher years , and are left only with a few bad ones : the creation of new , ever more incompetent ‘ private ’ monopolies ; the vindictive pursuit of aged war criminals ; the idiotic struggle to knock a penny off income tax , which will benefit nobody , when so much more could be achieved with a little imagination — by abolishing all discriminatory rates , abolishing capital transfer tax and other taxes on savings , allowing domestic wages ( as all other forms of employment are allowed ) against personal taxation … |
| 2 | Says Jim Whiston , ‘ This time next year we 'll have double the number of accreditations and by 1990 the vast majority of businesses in C&P , ICI Films and ICI Advanced Materials will have attained BS standards or those laid down by manufacturers . ’ |
| 3 | He explained that there were a limited number of places , with sixteen or seventeen taken up for September already ( I wondered whether this meant Balbinder might be unlucky , but did not like to ask ) . |
| 4 | You get the same piece of pizza whether it 's two shared out between six , four shared out between twelve or one shared out between three or twenty four shared out between a lot of people . |
| 5 | And there would be always a beast or two cut up for to be given to the village . |
| 6 | I had few friends , just one or two left over from school , but on the infrequent occasions when we met I could see from their faces that they pitied me , finding me foolish and Syl a bore . |
| 7 | I felt that this was possibly a chap I should look at — quite apart from the fact that I knew little of him except that he had somehow or other got out of Holland and become the ADC to Queen Wilhelmina at the Dutch headquarters in London . |
| 8 | Fierce local loyalties and rivalries were the life-blood of the amateur football leagues just as they had been in parish recreations a century before , and this carried over into commercial spectator sport , which offered a new kind of community life and identity . |
| 9 | So the encampment and the monastic township was scoured for foodstuffs and provisioning for the besieged — unfortunately no powder and ball was found — and this loaded on to horses . |
| 10 | And these because you always wanted to be able to adapt rooms for different purposes and this folded back against the wall . |
| 11 | Then once this morning Fred 's bum was on his blanket and Windy curled up by the side of him . |
| 12 | With most of 1962 and 1963 taken up with stage , television and film work , Crawford could reflect that his career was moving in the right direction . |
| 13 | In these respects , it can certainly be claimed that the polytechnics have by and large measured up to their original specification . |
| 14 | Another dead kid , and all dressed up in Mosse 's old clothes . |
| 15 | She 'd never seen so much silverware , and all laid out for one person . |
| 16 | That was a signal for the class to enter into the fun and one and all scrambled over to Mademoiselle . |
| 17 | The Sun had pages 1 , 2 , 4 , 5 , 15 , 16 , 17 and 18 given over to the story , while the others managed with only one or two pages fewer . |
| 18 | Now at last this has been achieved , first in Scotland by the Law Reform ( Parent and Child ) ( Scotland ) Act 1986 , and then in England and Wales by the Family Law Reform Act 1987 , with the result that in law there is now no distinction made between those born in and those born out of wedlock . |
| 19 | But there is a world of difference between these patients , discharged carefully to a community hostel , and those sent out at short notice after a few months in an acute psychiatric ward . |
| 20 | There are some significant differences however : the Tate magazine will be published by the architectural monograph publishers and publishers of Blueprint , Wordsearch , who will make the financial commitment to the project , aiming to sell a steep 25,000 copies each issue including the copies sent to the 8,000 Friends of the Tate and those bought in by the gallery ; the Royal Academy Magazine is published ‘ in-house ’ and supports itself through its advertising revenue , capitalising on the fact that it has a guaranteed audience of 67,000 Friends . |
| 21 | The Research Councils , through the Advisory Board for the Research Councils ( ABRC ) have commissioned a number of studies of research policy , in order to determine the best measures for the objective assessment of research productivity , and those carried out by the Science Policy Research Unit ( SPRU ) at Sussex University have been fundamental in reviewing existing measures , and suggesting new indicators which may be used singly or in combination . |
| 22 | 4 chose to fight ; I did not re-stand and 3 linked up with it in constituencies where UUUC support was strong . |
| 23 | There were variations in the accuracy of these figures according to time and place , but these evened out over fairly large geographical areas and periods of time . |