Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [adj] [conj] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even with Sackville 's favour Bowyer failed to secure more than the reversion in 1597 to the clerkship of the parliaments , the successful candidate averring that he was unfit ‘ by reason of a great imperfection he hath in his speech ’ . |
| 2 | Pulling it over to frighten it , he failed to jump clear and the pony fell on him , smashing his thigh . |
| 3 | The example of an infant 's fear of strangers shows , as we move from the detailed anatomy of behaviour to the rich , ambiguous concepts we use to make sense of everyday social intercourse , that the particular acts referred to matter less than the way they are organised , just as our interest in houses , rarely focuses on mud or wood or bricks . |
| 4 | Les , 61 , whose wife Tracy , 40 , is expecting their first child , has stopped smoking since the health scare that led him to quit a show last year . |
| 5 | Investment is expected to remain subdued and a period of destocking is possible as firms respond to lower demand . |
| 6 | Given his many commitments and the preparations for the new play , his second , The Family Reunion , on which he probably worked harder than on any other — it was understandable that he could not consider sparing more than an evening away . |
| 7 | There was something like a regular cursus honorum : the capable chaplain was provided with endowment in the form of canonries and dignities in this and that cathedral , for which he was expected to perform little or no duty , and eventually with a bishopric . |
| 8 | It is said by the appellant … that International Law has firmly fixed that a locus such as this is beyond the limits of territorial sovereignty ; and that consequently it is not to be thought that in such a place the legislature could seek to affect any but the King 's subjects . |
| 9 | Although SunSoft — indeed Sun as a whole — has given little or no ground on the issue of direct support for the Open Software Foundation 's Motif graphical user interface on its own Sparc systems , Watkins says the company is more than happy for third parties to supply it . |
| 10 | Alternatively , if you are not happy with your design , perhaps because some of it has come unglued or a crease has formed in the backing material , then you will have to remove the glass and rectify the problem before starting this process all over again . |
| 11 | The director had a knack of giving elegant voice to exactly the thought that was currently in poorish shape at the back of Arthur 's head , and this was infuriating , though to feel resentment at having your skull so stylishly looted seemed small-minded and a blunder of taste . |
| 12 | They say the introduction of the new national curriculum has made little or no difference . |
| 13 | It wishes to promote more private health schemes although it has made clear that the NHS will remain a largely state-financed service . |
| 14 | It has never been a strong language because it has produced little or no literature , so that it has seemed to have more of folklore about it than utility . |
| 15 | The role of generalization decrement in these experiments can be investigated by comparing the effects on excitatory responding of an added stimulus that has had little or no pre-exposure with those produced by a stimulus that has undergone latent inhibition training . |
| 16 | The consumer has had little or no choice in the matter : without organic food widely available it has not been possible to choose to avoid creating nitrate pollution by avoiding conventionally grown crops ( in any case , organic farming can still create some nitrate pollution , see also below ) . |
| 17 | The woman is often regarded as the nutritional head of the household , and yet she has had little or no training for this job . |
| 18 | It has had more than a century and a half to prove its worth in the demanding environments of Queensland , New South Wales and even the hot , dry north west of Western Australia . |
| 19 | Fouling of the churchyard by dogs has got worse and the PCC are considering erecting notices asking owners to control their pets . |
| 20 | The thirty-four acre farm is expected to fetch more than a quarter of a million pounds . |
| 21 | Does the Minister recognise that the question of loan sharks has been on the agenda for the past 12 years , but that nothing positive has occurred other than the report to which he referred ? |
| 22 | Two operators work best when the first starts to apply chemical while the other assembles the machine and gets it running . |
| 23 | It was particularly galling for the greens to see themselves overtaken by the extreme right National Front , which was being credited last night with 12.5 per cent of the vote but was not expected to win more than a couple of seats . |
| 24 | The Labour leader has to do that after the Budget — an art Neil Kinnock never mastered — but it falls to the Shadow Chancellor to reply to the Autumn Statement . |
| 25 | The trial is expected to last more than a month . |
| 26 | Well , I reckon that 's a bit of a cheek , really , if you prefer to affirm and swear on the bible , I do n't see why they should challenge why you want to do one or the other . |
| 27 | If he does , it may signify that the cheek has become sore and the teeth need attention . |
| 28 | It has become apparent that the success of evolution theory in the late nineteenth century was not based on acceptance of what we now regard as the most important components of Darwin 's thinking . |
| 29 | In the course of this discussion it has become apparent that the CMHT model is a varied animal , that teams have not fully resolved problems of integrating different professional and agency interests and approaches into streamlined service delivery systems , that a simple organisational re-shuffling of staff does not surmount tensions over professional relationships and responsibilities . |
| 30 | It has become apparent that the lifts in this building have been increasingly subject to abuse . |