Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [prep] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was determined to restore order in the countryside , to avoid giving the impression that nobles could force him into concessions , and to silence the most determined of his critics , but he neither abandoned the task of implementing the emancipation statutes nor fought shy of enacting the additional measures to which freeing the serfs gave rise . |
| 2 | Well you better er sticking that on getting a fifty in your lap . |
| 3 | Almost before he got used to wearing the famous blue and white , Agnew suffered an injury which put him on crutches and out of action for virtually a season . |
| 4 | The royal commission 's report countered this by reasserting the fundamental difference between occasional soliciting by a man ( ‘ addressed to a woman who does not resent it ’ ) and the prostitute 's immoral business , which was offensive to public decency . |
| 5 | The latest goal to Brann was given on a dubious penalty in overtime and there should probably have been given a free-kick for handling — for — Lyn just before the last Brann goal — the ref admitted this after seeing the whole situation on video-tape . |
| 6 | It can end in silence , this being considered preferable to choosing an incorrect word or phrase , and this is clearly nonsense . |
| 7 | In 1988 , he told an Iranian living on social security , found guilty of using a forged rent book and inflicting grievous bodily harm , that in his own country he would have had an arm chopped off ‘ or something similarly spectacular . ’ |
| 8 | THE girl found guilty of giving a religious education teacher a sweet spiked with the hallucinogenic drug LSD has branded the schoolpals she says tricked her into handing it over as ‘ stupid ’ . |
| 9 | The commuter was prosecuted , found guilty of carrying an offensive weapon , and fined . |
| 10 | Coun Cresswell said : ‘ Labour are trying to appear generous by providing a wooden pavilion , whereas this is really a kick in the teeth for bowlers . ’ |
| 11 | LIFESPAN will assume that all the workspaces and the process directory are on the same device ( ie. |DEVICE| ) , but you can over-rule this by using a system-wide logical name . |
| 12 | In many societies , the clothing , ornaments and tools belonging to an individual may be considered so integral to him or her that to touch or do harm to these inanimate objects is considered indistinguishable from taking the same action against the person . |
| 13 | He is an accomplice , in the sense that everyone who joins another in decoding a linguistic sign co-operates with them in the establishment of its meaning ; but we can see that the sign Iago offers him is just the opposite of what Othello wants to believe , or has believed till now . |
| 14 | It also stands accused of murdering the much-loved area around the old Bull Ring market that had grown up in piecemeal fashion over the 800 years since Birmingham was granted a market charter in 1150 . |
| 15 | To appreciate why certain questions are currently preoccupying psychobiologists , why they favour the particular answers that are in vogue , and why they seem to have neglected , until recently , many of the issues that non-psychologists would consider central to understanding the biological bases of behaviour , a short lesson on the history of psychobiology is relevant . |
| 16 | Children in an orphanage in the Romanian town of Sighisoara were becoming ill after sucking the old lead paint on the cots . |
| 17 | It is this factor which may be significant ; otherwise the act of breaking and defacement , common to most of the sculptured stones , may have been considered effective in destroying the pagan influence . |
| 18 | We 're becoming involved in helping the nuclear operators in Eastern Europe to upgrade their plant . |
| 19 | At the insistence of the USA , the Convention stopped short of setting a binding target date for emission reductions , but recommended that industrialized states should aim to stabilize CO 2 emissions at 1990 levels by the year 2000 ( a target already agreed by the European Community " see p. 37784 " and Japan ) . |
| 20 | At the insistence of the USA , the Convention stopped short of setting a binding target date for emission reductions . |
| 21 | Akihito expressed his " deep sadness about this " but stopped short of issuing an outright apology . |
| 22 | And yet , for this crucial deciding match , they stopped short of picking the best XI for the circumstances . |
| 23 | Jean Chrétien , the leader of the main opposition Liberal Party of Canada , welcomed the proposals but stopped short of endorsing the whole package . |
| 24 | Although the Bush administration stopped short of making a full protest , its official statement described the remarks as " not helpful " , and the issue added to the political pressures already mounting in the USA for protectionist action against Japan . |
| 25 | But the bishops stopped short of making a direct voting recommendation on the three polls expected to be held on November 25 , the day of the general election . |
| 26 | The following summarises the arguments which the Board found persuasive in framing the principal proposals in the Discussion Paper and the FRED . |
| 27 | In practice , functionalists appear preoccupied with discovering the positive functions , the beneficial effects of social institutions . |
| 28 | The government of the ROK was considered capable of performing the customary functions of a government and to offer the prospect of eventual unification , particularly through fostering economic links . |
| 29 | The latter region incorporates the material that is oligomeric , and the line separating II and III represents the oligomer-polymer transition where the chains begin to become long enough to be considered capable of adopting a gaussian coil conformation . |
| 30 | It was at this stage , too , that the fields were granted an independence of their own and the aether , which had been considered necessary for providing a mechanical basis for the fields , was dispensed with . |