Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] [adv] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What it does n't do is offer an escape route to a Chancellor who can see public borrowing spiralling out of control yet can not afford to increase taxes substantially to keep the public spending deficit under some sort of control . |
| 2 | ‘ They say foxes just take the weaker lambs , ’ Small said , ‘ but I do n't think that 's true . |
| 3 | I HAD particular reasons for enjoying an article in the Sunday Times last weekend which suggested that only on three occasions in recent decades has satire actually had a real impact on our political life . |
| 4 | Ministers believe that with several months leeway , they can overcome public fears and backbench resentments sufficiently to reduce the potential Tory rebellion from 50-70 votes — which could spell defeat — to a manageable 20-30 . |
| 5 | Ministers believe that with several months leeway , they can overcome public fears and backbench resentments sufficiently to reduce the potential Tory rebellion from 50-70 votes — which in tandem with Labour could spell defeat — to a manageable 20-30 . |
| 6 | He fails to spot that the core element of consent is action in the belief that it changes the normative situation , and that the justification of the binding force of valid consents is the desirability of enabling people purposefully to change the normative situation in certain circumstances . |
| 7 | These seating arrangements thus provided a visual reflection and reinforcement of the social divisions within the parish ; when Richard Gough set out at the end of the seventeenth century to write the history of his parish of Myddle in Shropshire , he decided that the most natural way to organize his account was to consider in turn the occupants of each pew in Myddle church . |
| 8 | In the kitchen she found Ling busily filling the two food hampers , but when she offered to help his refusal was firm but polite . |
| 9 | Has logic ever produced a good museum ? |
| 10 | Analog Devices also has a tarnished image with its C compiler for the ADSP-2101 ; it was not until version 4 that the maths runtime library became available — surely a little late in the day for a fundamental component . |
| 11 | Morocco 's King Hassan has long entertained Israeli leaders in secret ; last week , for the first time , an Israeli minister visited Morocco openly to attend a regional environment conference . |
| 12 | THE Australian-born composer Barrington Pheloung , creator of the chart-topping theme music for the television series Inspector Morse , visited Glasgow yesterday to put the final touches to one of his latest compositions . |
| 13 | THE Australian-born composer Barrington Pheloung , creator of the chart-topping theme music for the hit television series Inspector Morse , visited Glasgow yesterday to put the final touches to one of his latest compositions . |
| 14 | He found time too to father an illegitimate child , shortly afterwards abandoning both child and mistress for the woman he might well eventually have married , Margot Heinemann . |
| 15 | DOCTORS will today start tests on Essex toddler Rhys Daniels , who looks set soon to have a life-saving bone marrow transplant . |
| 16 | DOCTORS yesterday began tests on toddler Rhys Daniels who looks set soon to have a life-saving bone marrow transplant from an unrelated donor . |
| 17 | Oskar Lange once characterised the Soviet economy as ‘ a sui generis war economy ’ . |
| 18 | Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp still out-invests the New Common Carriers by a considerable margin however : $16,480m total investment compared with $3,672m in total by all New Common Carriers . |
| 19 | The new concept of form reached its fullest expression to date in the work of Picasso done at Horta de San Juan , and some sheets of drawings which date from the early days of his return to Paris , show Picasso methodically applying the Cubist concept of form to objects of different kinds and shapes : to a human head , a box , an apple and so on . |
| 20 | As You Like It is also very British — it mixes ages and accents and acting styles enough to suggest an island-full of people falling in and out of love , or at least bumping into each other . |
| 21 | Though a little patchy , there is more than enough to keep fans happy and several killer cuts that show Nirvana already distilling the heady brew of metal , punk and pop which was to lead to Smells Like Teen Spirit — the track critics have called the best rock song ever . |
| 22 | For this reason , owners often call them ‘ dummies ’ or ‘ barker ’ foals as these that show convulsions also produce a barking sort of sound . |
| 23 | Of course , preventing accidents and promoting safety also costs a great deal of money . |
| 24 | book , commandos would be — I believe — the first to accept that those who received awards usually owed a good deal to the support of their fellows , in spirit if not by arms . |
| 25 | Gary Sick , the aide to Zbigniew Brzezinski on Iranian affairs , has written that the Shah 's last minute decision to visit Egypt completely disrupted the complex arrangements made for his arrival in the US " and gave rise to concern about the Shah 's real intentions . " |
| 26 | She had a primly censorious mouth above a slightly receding chin already showing the first slackness of a dewlap . |
| 27 | The Joint Commission soon became bogged down in renewed argument over the eligibility of various groups for consultation , with the Russians reiterating refusal to consult rightists currently denouncing the Soviet Union vehemently and demonstrating noisily in Seoul . |
| 28 | She says sufferers often think the worse . |
| 29 | We stayed only one night in Luxor before turning downriver again to visit the great temples of Abydos and Dendera which we had passed on the barge . |
| 30 | Most recently the Welsh Affairs Select Committee vividly described the appalling burden borne over many decades by communities surrounded by opencast workings ( ‘ The Future of Opencast Mining in Wales ’ , 1991 ) . |