Example sentences of "[vb -s] [art] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The exchange involves the handing over of 24 convicted West German agents for four high calibre Communist spies held in West Germany . |
| 2 | One technique involves the picking up of spread cells from the surface of a saline or sucrose solution onto a slide and is generally used for spermatocyte spreading when an abundance of cells is available in suspension . |
| 3 | The new four-cylinder engine — the one that still powers the Excel and the Esprit — was dreadfully unreliable at first , but went quite well by the time the Elite was launched . |
| 4 | The ‘ yes ’ precedes the agree statement , while the ‘ but ’ prefaces the counter-argument . |
| 5 | This minimises the pulling up effect , while still allowing any one needle to slip four or six rows . |
| 6 | On the 36in. and 32in. screens the zoomed format made the pictures look very coarse . |
| 7 | It represents the spear-head of a possible ‘ tourist imperialism ’ , with all the unsatisfactory consequences that this might engender . |
| 8 | For Bultmann , the resurrection is not an event in our world ( for resurrections he would hold , as I , do not occur in our world ) , but something of far greater magnitude , an eschatological event which represents the breaking in of another world order . |
| 9 | On the other hand , the stage represented by the gens in The Origin , a stage which owes something to Morgan and something to Engels , represents the coming together of the rhetorical and the historical . |
| 10 | In this case , however , it may be that present sea level coincides with an older sea level to so close a degree that the erosion platform merely represents the trimming up of an earlier one . |
| 11 | little resistance goes thorough there , heats the metal very rapidly , melts the metals and then turns the turns the molten metal into vapour |
| 12 | Charlie loves the did n't he ? |
| 13 | The trouble is caused by thermal expansion and contraction , which causes the read/write head to write in slightly different positions depending on the temperature , and therefore diameter , of the disk itself . |
| 14 | The Princess Royal , President , Save the Children Fund , visits the Save the Children Fund Shop at 104 High Street , Orpington , Kent ; opens and tours the new Head Office Building of the Woolwich Equitable Building Society , Watling Street , Bexleyheath , Kent , and receives a cheque from the employees for the Save the Children Fund ; as Chancellor , London University , visits the Institute of Zoology , London Zoo , Regent 's Park , in celebration of the accession of the Institute of Zoology of the Royal Zoological Society to the University of London ; and , this evening , as Patron , The British Nutrition Foundation , attends a dinner at the Natural History Museum , South Kensington , London SW7 . |
| 15 | ROYAL ENGAGEMENTS The Princess Royal , Patron , The British Nutrition Foundation , today visits the Foundation 's Conference for Teachers of Nutrition at Exeter Court Hotel , Kenford , Exeter , Devon ; as President , The Save the Children Fund , visits the Save the Children Fund Shop , 17 Paris Street , Exeter , Devon ; and , as President , the British Academy of Film and Television Arts , attends and presents the Annual Tribute Award at the Odeon , Leicester Square , London W1 . |
| 16 | Near to it stands the Wailing Wall which is all that remains of the ancient Jewish Temple , . |
| 17 | ‘ ( 1 ) In this Act a ‘ self-regulating organisation ’ means a body ( whether a body corporate or an unincorporated association ) which regulates the carrying on of investment business of any kind by enforcing rules which are binding on persons carrying on business of that kind either because they are members of that body or because they are otherwise subject to its control . |
| 18 | ‘ ( 1 ) In this Act a ‘ self-regulating organisation ’ means a body ( whether a body corporate or an unincorporated association ) which regulates the carrying on of investment business of any kind by enforcing rules which are binding on persons carrying on business of that kind either because they are members of that body or because they are otherwise subject to its control . |
| 19 | It descends steadily along the line to Leicester where it joins the Soar Navigation , continuing through Leicester and Loughborough on its way to Trent Junction . |
| 20 | From Brunnen landing quay go past the Casino on the road which soon joins the bypassing main road from Luzern . |
| 21 | Johnson 's approach represents an advance on classic statements such as , for example , that of Carr-Saunders and Wilson ( 1964 ) ; first , because it is relational ; second , it questions the taken for granted desirability of professionalism and third , it departs from empiricist nominalism . |
| 22 | Resistor R22 is a current sensor which develops the triggering voltage ( nominally 0.8V ) for the thyristor , CSR1 , when the output current exceeds 8A . |
| 23 | So it is the dietary fibre which has the slowing down and filling up effect . |
| 24 | ‘ When you weigh it up ’ Johnson Matthey has the know how by Barry Connelly , Brimsdown |
| 25 | " D'ye no' ken , " he said at length , " that ye get — leave when yer wife has the wean ? " |
| 26 | Has the has the centre in any sense erm political linkings ? |
| 27 | ‘ Never has the saying ‘ a prophet is without honour in his own land ’ been more true than in the case of Thomas Crapper , ’ asserts Wallace Reyburn in his lively , informative eulogy to the unsung hero who invented the modern WC cistern . |
| 28 | In reality , the cost drops the further you are from retirement , as there is longer for the benefits to accumulate . |
| 29 | The Bush team wants the Fed to follow up the cut in its discount loan rate to banks from the 3.5 per cent it reached in December to perhaps as low as 3 per cent . |
| 30 | If an error in a DATA statement causes a READ to fail , ERL will return the number of the line containing the READ statement , not the number of the line containing the DATA . |