Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adj] [art] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | In Makassar harbour they saw the great black-sailed trading schooners of the piratical Bugis tribe , with whom , just 120 years previously , the remarkable naturalist-explorer Alfred Russel Wallace had sailed on his historic odyssey through the Spice Islands to become the first Westerner ever to see alive the Greater Bird of Paradise . |
| 2 | It left me fatigued and in the mood to fall asleep every time I sat down . ’ |
| 3 | In the first place it was his duty to preserve intact the lands and rights entrusted to his care . |
| 4 | ‘ I said some time ago that there was a mile to go and we had to go half a mile each , and the Community went more than its half a mile . |
| 5 | but it 's not though , it 's not , it 's her fault for being so bloody stupid and not telling us A , what we 're supposed to be doing and B , the fact that I was not having any lunch to go half an hour , what do you mean ? |
| 6 | ‘ That typewriter used to go half the night . |
| 7 | One morning he woke up to discover the entire ‘ ARCHITECTURE ’ section stacked so high around his desk he had to wait half the day before pupils managed to free him . |
| 8 | and we still have to wait half an hour ! |
| 9 | There was a token minority of conservationists and poor Eric Langmuir , having to wear half a dozen recreational hats . |
| 10 | At meetings of the European Parliament 's Human Rights Committee ( at which even the French Communists stayed silent ) , Newens compared Ceauşescu 's plan to demolish half the villages in Romania and to relocate millions of people into standardized concrete blocks with the effects of redevelopment around Kings Cross on his own constituents . |
| 11 | Goal for weight change To lose half a pound ( 0.25 kg ) of fat . |
| 12 | ( The following week the goal is again to lose half a pound of fat ( 0.25 kg ) , so she would hope on Week 2 to be below her starting weight by at least 1 lb ( 0.5 kg ) on most days ) . |
| 13 | Verdun was to lose half a foot in the pits and use the £300 compensation to buy an upright piano ( although he could not play it ) . |
| 14 | It is very easy to lose half a letter of the headline , or a key element of the illustration , unless both typographer and art director are very careful ; and it is very easy , too , to find you have produced two separate , incomplete pages of advertising with no real link between them . |
| 15 | I did manage to lose half a stone ( 7lb/3kg ) , but I was so hungry all the time that I would not keep the diet up for longer than a month . |
| 16 | It 's a rare character who commits murder in order to lose half a million pounds . |
| 17 | Naturally , Mrs Thrigg might not want to lose half a dozen agreeable jobs . |
| 18 | get the figures , do I mean , we 're talking generalities , if you 're saying from what you know already the , the remote control gear is going to be sixteen double O four six eight O seven , and that is the best bearing arrangement that anybody could , anybody could produce , then , if that 's the answer , then for goodness sake get the figures , stick 'em in a memo so we can go and hit Peter , and make it quite clear to them that over the next year they 're going to lose half a million six double O ones , or whatever it is |
| 19 | To realize this the corporatist state operates according to a number of principles of administration . |
| 20 | Unless a really short-field ( e.g. a precautionary ) landing is required , the manual recommends using only 45 ° , and to confirm this a panel warning light illuminates once that setting has been exceeded . |
| 21 | They only had to miss half a dozen meals and they started to complain . |
| 22 | Shall lure it back to cancel half a line , |
| 23 | Shall lure it back to cancel half a line |
| 24 | To combat this the regulations stipulated that compensation would be paid in full to landowners , including any lost profit , should their land be taken away from them . |
| 25 | To try to combat this the police have organised an educational play warning of the dangers of talking to strangers . |
| 26 | To like this a lot you probably need to be able to handle silent movies — though dialogue suddenly breaks out in the final scene , powerfully underlining the film 's more serious side . |
| 27 | The wife , if she so wishes , will be able to claim half the allowance as of right . |
| 28 | . Senior Buckingham Palace aid confirmed last night the Duchess is entitled to claim half the sum now contained in that fund . |
| 29 | Expect things to go wrong a lot of the time . |
| 30 | To accommodate this a new boiler house and latex tank were built . |