Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [adv prt] [art] [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Nutcracker suite in this charming 17th-century inn is so called because the low-ceilinged doorway has an exposed beam which has caught out the unwary and cracked a few heads in its time . |
| 2 | Since appearing on a BBC Christmas programme from Pebble Mill in 1981 Fine Arts Brass has built up a long and varied list of TV and radio credits , including its own series of light entertainment shows on BBC Radio 4 , now in its third series . |
| 3 | We did discover , however , that one called Mait — his officially registered name is Gilles Lemaitre — has built up a small but powerful network of his own , and that they have performed many cochon gris ceremonies . ’ |
| 4 | AT ABOUT this time of the year and for every year since 1973 , the Laing Construction Company has set about the long and complex business of arriving at the six illustrations that will ultimately grace its calendar . |
| 5 | It is not merely that ‘ state capitalist trusts ’ compete on the world market , but that their creation has brought about a new and different model of production relations . |
| 6 | Unemployment , however , has brought about a simultaneous and contrary downward social movement . |
| 7 | BORDERLINE , I Munro Terrace , SW10 ( 823 3567 ) , has brought out a small but ravishing collection . |
| 8 | One consequence of these modes of thought is that the service has to live out a continuous and enormous paradox . |
| 9 | The Cherry and Whites ca n't wait to ring out the old and ring in the new . |
| 10 | Finally , when the war was over , the political groupings which had given the Nationalists their moral and material support would not only not disappear , but would expect to be duly recompensed and might even expect to take over the legislative and executive control of the New State . |
| 11 | The leaves when crushed give out a pungent or acid smell . |
| 12 | In a land where trendy cafés display neon signs reading SMACK BAR and SNATCH BAR , no one 's going to pick up the linguistic and social markers that pin the native Brit down like so many Lilliputian bonds . |
| 13 | And if I 'd known he was going to turn out a stupid and objectionable youth I 'd never have employed the foolish boy . |
| 14 | So if Mains ' lean face did begin to take on a grey and grim hue it probably began in 1972 when the All Black selectors began shuffling around their fullbacks , with Mains conspicuously absent . |
| 15 | She picked it up and set it on her knee , then began taking out the yellow and black wooden pieces and setting them on the board . |
| 16 | As the creatures soared up and down , their laughter began to take on an eerie and mournful tone . |
| 17 | In 1988 Brazil decided to set up a unified and decentralised health system and this process is now under way . |
| 18 | Proper notice through registry recordings can be accomplished without having to set up a universal or central registry . |
| 19 | Mahogany was once prolific in the tropical forests , and having logged out the Caribbean and West Africa , merchants are now moving back to Brazil . |
| 20 | Gon na have to start changing up the hundreds cos we 've run out in the bank . |
| 21 | Such a girl is being asked to behave in many ways like an adult ( mother ) in that she is being asked to carry out the nurturing and supervisory procedures which properly belong to adulthood and , traditionally , to motherhood in particular . |
| 22 | Thus , if in a set of decimals to be compared , the longest one really is the smallest , it will attract such pupils when they are asked to pick out the smallest as well as those who select it for the correct reason . |
| 23 | Only in this way , Brunner felt , could a theology based , quite properly , on the revelation in Jesus be preserved from operating in a vacuum , and enabled to open up the apologetic and educational perspectives essential to the missionary and pastoral work of the church . |
| 24 | Man 's increasing domestication meant he became more interested in the appearance of his home , and in the materials he wore to keep out the cold and wet . |
| 25 | And thirdly , the care and trouble he took to build up a splendid and lovely collection of contemporary , original works of art , to be displayed in schools . |
| 26 | He did n't want to end up a mean and ignorant man like his father , or spend the years bickering with brother Shamus . |
| 27 | Even on the assumption that Yusuf Bali did draw up the original and not just the copy , it does not by any means necessarily follow that he was acting as in so doing ; nor , further , does it necessarily follow that if he were acting as he was doing so in his father 's absence from Bursa , much less his absence on the pilgrimage . |
| 28 | Ardrey may well have a point here , but there is no way we can afford to leave out the social and political ( or ‘ cultural ’ ) relations and processes underlying such conflicts . |
| 29 | The chairman of the Conservative party , the right hon. Member for Bath ( Mr. Patten ) , and the hon. Member for Stockton , South have tried to knock down the political and economic case for regional policy that has been advanced by the Labour party . |
| 30 | His belief is that work has to go on all year round , whether or not that means taking on the hazardous and snow-covered Carpathian mountains . |