Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [art] [adj] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Radio in the 1940S and television under the Fifth Republic enabled de Gaulle to ‘ commune ’ with the French people : circumstances frequently conspired to dramatize the stark alternatives associated with his name ; in 1940 the rejection of collaboration and defeat ; from 1946 to 1958 , when out of power and largely absent from the radio , he slowly became ‘ le recours ’ , the possible saviour from the ‘ regime des parties ’ , party factions and divisions ; when President ( 1958–69 ) , and master of the airwaves , the recurrent implicit or explicit message was ‘ but for me , France faces chaos ’ — ‘ moi ou le chaos ’ — the twentieth-century equivalent of Louis XIV 's celebrated ‘ l'état c'est moi ’ — ‘ I am the state ’ . |
| 2 | The protesters were demanding to see a confidential document written by Anglian Water to the Scottish Office about the reorganisation of Scottish water . |
| 3 | Perhaps I should n't interfere but I hate to see a young man throwing his life away . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I hate to see a decent man making a mess of his life . |
| 5 | He said his was perhaps an ‘ old-fashioned ’ view — that he did not want to see the entire world addicted to drugs , like the synthetic existence described in Brave New World — but it was an enormous leap , he thought , from ‘ smoking a little grass to that grim picture ’ . |
| 6 | WBC holder Hodkinson wants a £250,000 purse but Warren , who is McMillan 's promoter , said : ‘ I do n't want to see the big contests slip away because the fighters are too greedy . |
| 7 | I would prefer to see a straight Rocky-Strachan swap ( as I expected last year ) but I guess the wee man is still playing to well for this . |
| 8 | ‘ I would prefer to see the medical charities emphasizing the large amount of research they sponsor into alternatives to the use of animals , rather than making a big fuss out of this ’ , says Michael Balls , chairman of the trustees of the Fund for the Replacement of Animals in Medical Experiments , and until recently professor of medical cell biology at the University of Nottingham . |
| 9 | The payroll is calculated using the permanent data stored on the employee record as well as temporary information , such as payroll exceptions , temporary upgradings , etc. from a holding file made up of the input from the batch screens . |
| 10 | The physical nature of her work needs only dimmed lighting and a place to sit to enable the full impression to take hold . |
| 11 | So I would emphasise then , again , that the resolution is intended to enable the present position to continue , and to enable your trustees to manage the funds effectively in setting the policy and benefiting from the advice which is available . |
| 12 | Ron lived to see the latter ambition fulfilled from the foundations he laid as Chairman of the racing section of the British Canoe Union and Olympic Team Manager . |
| 13 | It was the latter 's son Joseph , now about 55 , who lived to see the whole enterprise brought to a halt by the hostilities . |
| 14 | Basically this involves using the right foot to draw the ball into the post from the left side of the field and the left foot to do the same from the right side . |
| 15 | One of these involves using the hind leg to scratch an area of skin to which an irritant has been applied . |
| 16 | The tough love hurts the family member not simply because it involves allowing the primary sufferer to experience the full painful consequences of addictive disease but also because it involves the family member in resisting his or her own addictive urges to " fix " all the problems and manage the life of the primary sufferer . |
| 17 | iv A family has received £400 in compensation after a coach holiday firm failed to provide the smoke-free transport specified in the brochure . |
| 18 | Opposition Members are desperately struggling to find every conceivable thing to carp at , because they know that the scheme will be relatively speedy to introduce and that it will work effectively . |
| 19 | Mayer was trying to console Gilbert on the day of what should have been his wedding to Garbo , but when the bride failed to appear the forsaken groom fled to the men 's room where Mayer found him crying . |
| 20 | Nutritionists and doctors agree that the food we eat has an enormous amount to do with the way we look and feel . |
| 21 | Mr Bill Loveluck-Edwards , voted best-dressed solicitor in town two years ago , failed to meet the high standards required by the bench in Bridgend , Mid Glamorgan . |
| 22 | Most important was that the Association had lost a high proportion of the key members by death or removal from the area , and failed to attract the younger men coming home from war service who found an outlet in more direct political activity . |
| 23 | Thus , when in November 1947 a resolution was put to the United Nations General Assembly ( UNGA ) Committee for Political and Security Questions , calling for a reaffirmation of the December 1946 resolution , it failed to secure the two-thirds majority required for adoption . |
| 24 | They agreed to establish a working group to formulate an accord of " neighbourliness , friendship and co-operation " . |
| 25 | ‘ We want to see a coherent strategy drawing together Mr Hunt 's disjointed range of projects under global themes such as climate change , waste management , energy efficiency and biodiversity . |
| 26 | He told a Westminster press lunch : ‘ I want to see a Conservative government returned at the next general election under Margaret Thatcher 's leadership . ’ |
| 27 | In the long term , we want to see a united Ireland achieved by consensus and without violence . |
| 28 | ‘ A group of businessmen who , like me , want to see a British team regain the trophy . |
| 29 | ‘ The only way we can know that people want to see the Fun Factory becoming a success is if they vote with their feet and come to a meeting to show their support . ’ |
| 30 | Women 's Design Service has received a small grant to carry out research into housing design for older women . |