Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [art] [adj] [noun pl] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You failed to connect the various elements together or to move through the detail to the larger issues of the painting . |
| 2 | In his spare time , however , he is constructing a Silence of the Lambs-style cage in his garage near Armadale which is intended to frighten the living daylights out of anyone who enters it . |
| 3 | Erm I know some companies actually sell send the large ones out |
| 4 | After the breakthrough with Chaman it still took two months of regular visits with Zakir before I got to know the other eunuchs properly . |
| 5 | The name of the shops is a little misleading ; many of the plants are made from synthetic materials and scores of people have stooped to smell the waxy lilies only to find that they are plastic through and through . |
| 6 | A joint British and French attack on the Somme was part of this coordinated strategy , designed to hammer the Central Powers simultaneously from all sides . |
| 7 | I E do we need to know that the trend is changing or do we need to know the particular slots where we get non performance . |
| 8 | This was designed to replace the existing arrangements whereby restrictive agreements had to be registered centrally , and it thereby brought the UK into line with the EC . |
| 9 | Despite holding plenty of cash , Cofir has made no significant acquisitions recently . |
| 10 | For example , Paddy Ashdown has made the Liberal Democrats much more of a free-market party than the old Alliance , with its occasional excursions into corporatism , ever was . |
| 11 | However , we can not even be sure that it has got the causal effects absolutely right . |
| 12 | Robin commented : ‘ The operation of the monthly audit has drawn the regional operations closer and assisted us in meeting even higher customer service standards . |
| 13 | After a while the British press stopped reporting the Indian gifts out of sheer embarrassment . |
| 14 | And latterly , the Festival has employed the multicoloured ribbons informally describing the letters EIF , first introduced in 1979 . |
| 15 | Something fell in greenhouse and broke the pane to allow the wind to get into the greenhouse , which is oh dear me , as soon as the wind got into the greenhouse as I say blowing the other panes out |
| 16 | By challenging the right of Parliament to agree to the social chapter against the wishes of the Government and proposing that the treaty will be ratified without the decisions of Parliament , it has underlined the very reasons why there is a need for referendums on the crucial constitutional questions that face us . |
| 17 | On the assumption that the local authority has acted in good faith , and has followed the statutory procedures correctly , this will require him to satisfy the court not merely that the court itself would regard the accommodation as unsuitable , but that no reasonable council could regard it otherwise than as unsuitable . |
| 18 | Recession has finally reached Japan but because its investments were so overvalued , it has hit the financial markets far harder . |
| 19 | In the simple type of quantification that we used , it is clear that we would need to quantify the long-vowel environments separately from the short-vowel ones , as the potential for variation is different in each case . |
| 20 | It was not so warm today , so Edith had stopped eyeing the bathing machines wistfully and wondering if she dared . |
| 21 | I worked in England but I always seemed to miss the good jobs abroad ; every time I started rehearsing for something special , my mother would drag me away . |
| 22 | What he had just said hit her like a douche of cold water , and instantly Leith , while wanting to hammer the living daylights out of him , — although still forgetful of her tenuous job position — was otherwise working on full brain power . |
| 23 | With the old logo on the cover , though , we figured that many people would only expect to find the old-style pages within . |
| 24 | In answer to the hon. Gentleman 's point about travel — which is what I think that he had in mind when he referred to ’ communication ’ — by hon. Members to European Community institutions , I hope to table the necessary resolutions very soon . |
| 25 | I 've actually seen erm er been in a workshop as a participant where a chap who was excellent at this had what he did was while while the participants were doing some sort of an exercise he was actually making these tiny notes up in the top corner for himself so that when he when he came to the next sort of section that he wanted he 'd he 'd got he 'd got the odd notes just up there in the corner . |
| 26 | ‘ He sent him back to the pub ; he sat there for a while , and when he came back he 'd got the front shoes on . |
| 27 | At least he 'd kept the vital figures away from her . |
| 28 | The likeliest explanation is that Greek settlers moving in from the south gradually came to dominate the many hill tribes of the region — much as , a little later , Chinese moving into what is now Vietnam came to dominate the local tribes there . |
| 29 | The technology that was needed to cultivate the high-yield grains successfully often had to be imported , which led to the suggestion that food dependency was being exchanged for technological dependency . |
| 30 | It 's just so lazy and unimaginative — the editors could n't be bothered juggling the various matches around and giving the Northern Ireland game what it 's worth . |