Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [verb] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although a military coup seems unlikely in these democratic times , Mr Kim does not want to risk rattling the top brass or provoking earnest young turks unless , or until , a glaring new scandal emerges — and one may be brewing over fighter-aircraft procurements . |
| 2 | Both governments agreed to try to restart the political talks on Northern Ireland early in 1993 . |
| 3 | By this time I was becoming a little dissatisfied with the imprinting set-up that had become the stock in trade of my lab over the past few years , and I planned to try using an alternative form of learning in the chick . |
| 4 | Mr Nathan said that once he was jailed , members of the Knesset planned to try to call a special session . |
| 5 | Before the anniversary I had intended to try to mark every hundred days of John 's captivity in some way , but the prospect of battling through another summer of silence seemed impossible . |
| 6 | cleani , co cos I got caught pulling a little girl 's pigtails . |
| 7 | Conversely , if we are concerned about ex post outcomes , we would not be happy about treating the person as receiving the average , or actuarial , benefit from government spending ( e.g. , on health ) , and would want to try to measure the actual provision in relation to need . |
| 8 | They 're the side of Freud , that has tended to be ignored , even by the people you would 've expected to take the greatest notice of them . |
| 9 | and nineteen fifty so you would 've expected to see the same sort of increase . |
| 10 | She could not say it in front of him , nor he in front of her , even though it is probable that he too would prefer to try living the next life differently , without Agnes . |
| 11 | He studied again the letter he had found in the wallet , then got to work making a careful copy of it . |
| 12 | The criticism the Oregon experiment has received highlights the general difficulties of moving towards this kind of explicit rationing system . |
| 13 | Since then a strong movement has developed using the oral history/life story method to document the tragic experiences of the ordinary population over the last seventy years . |
| 14 | However , exports to non-E.E.C. countries in their currencies will still be subject to fluctuating exchange rates and Northern Ireland exporters will need to continue using the various mechanisms available to them to minimise exchange risks . |
| 15 | He was expected to continue to pursue the broad objectives of the outgoing government , including regional peace in accordance with President Arias 's 1987 peace plan ( Esquipulas II — see p. 35441-42 ) , to which he had initially been opposed . |
| 16 | I expect to continue to make the same kind of pictures . ’ |
| 17 | Branson understood media manipulation as well as anybody , and had much enjoyed helping to orchestrate the on-going controversy around the Sex Pistols once they had signed to Virgin . |
| 18 | Our second bureau is based on or around a traditional typesetting service where they have seen customers moving to in-house production using desktop publishing and want to continue to service the high quality end of the market . |
| 19 | If it is possible , I want to continue to build a lasting basis for US-Soviet co-operation , for a more peaceful future for all mankind . |
| 20 | He swore his family to secrecy and tried to continue living a normal life , making regular stage appearances and several movies . |
| 21 | Considering he was four over par after the first three holes of the New Orleans tournament , Faldo 's 11 under for the remaining 69 on a course he found demanding looks a useful dress rehearsal for the first of the year 's majors . |
| 22 | One of the Festival 's six major themes is that of ‘ Recreation and Sport ’ and the Scottish Sports Council through Actionsport Scotland has undertaken to organise a daily programme of sports activities . |
| 23 | But it does not follow that there may not be a difference in the procedures which are appropriate on the one hand in requiring the driver to provide a specimen of blood or urine under section 7(4) where it is obligatory for him to do so because one of the circumstances specified in section 7(3) has arisen , and on the other hand in informing the driver of his right under section 8(2) to claim that the specimen of breath which he has given containing the lower proportion of alcohol should be replaced by a specimen of blood or urine under section 7(4) . |
| 24 | He should be told that the specimen of breath which he has given containing the lower proportion of alcohol exceeds the statutory limit but does not exceed 50 microgrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath ; that in these circumstances he is entitled to claim to have this specimen replaced by a specimen of blood or urine if he wishes ; but that , if he does so , it will be for the constable to decide whether the replacement specimen is to be of blood or urine and that if the constable requires a specimen of blood it will be taken by a doctor unless the doctor considers that there are medical reasons for not taking blood , when urine may be given instead . |
| 25 | The driver is faced with the prospect of conviction on the basis of the breath specimen which he has given containing the lower proportion of alcohol . |
| 26 | In developing the short list of manufacturing locations he proposed to establish to produce the new products which would incorporate all the latest technologies , he had detailed the comparative costs of manufacture per country and identified the economic and commercial advantages and disadvantages of selling components into specific European countries from single and dual manufacturing sources . |
| 27 | Rolle has to try to meet the linguistic challenge which faces any mystical writer : to define and point towards the nature of an experience which is in essence ineffable . |
| 28 | During the same period , it has voted to change the Russian constitution — itself new — on roughly 50 occasions . |
| 29 | The attention these centres have attracted has made the illegal trade in baby orangs hard , if not impossible . |
| 30 | Instead , I want to try to develop a further view of what it means to see criticism as a significant feature of higher education . |