Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [prep] [art] [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However I am pursuing that with the Property Services Department , who act for both the Council and the Board , and they have given authority for us to enter the land for the purpose of drilling bore-holes etc . |
| 2 | In natural fibre-rich foods the taste-evoking substances appear to remain intact within the cell walls which have not been stripped away by refining processes . |
| 3 | Their first album , THE BONE DANCE ( More Protein ) , is a wonderful concoction of mood music , soul and rap , made stranger by the guest vocalists , including Tara Newley and Beverley Skeetes . |
| 4 | He said that in his opinion the lift had stopped due to the lift buttons being pressed rapidly and randomly , or through a mechanical fault . |
| 5 | Again , the same question may be asked as that which I have asked in relation to Schüssler Fiorenza 's work : given that in every age women have been mistreated at the hands of men , how much do present-day women really have in common with biblical women ? |
| 6 | She had succeeded in putting Luke out of her thoughts by concentrating purely on each present moment , each new impression , with the same degree of single-mindedness that he himself was capable of , and with a sense of pleasant anticipation she studied her map and set out to see some of the art treasures . |
| 7 | Well I got interested in the trade unions because at that time more or less eighty five of the workers went to the trade union meetings . |
| 8 | Swifts rode high above the roof tops , screeching , swooping after summer gnats . |
| 9 | The second shake-up in the past 12 months is expected to streamline internal services and review some of the marketing structures . |
| 10 | The second part of study will focus on the problem areas identified in a number of firms through the initial survey ; the researchers will work with these firms to give small amounts of assistance aimed at easing some of the marketing bottlenecks . |
| 11 | An effort to restore half of the production funds failed in the full Senate . |
| 12 | It is disappointing that Management has failed to provide this information on the issues raised by IBOA and IBOA has referred this to the Labour Relations Agency for a Conciliation Meeting . |
| 13 | ‘ We will only go as far as suggesting some of the market leaders like Sage and Pegasus , then we let the customers decide ’ . |
| 14 | Most amplifier/speaker setups begin to sound different as the volume increases . |
| 15 | The importance of the Union Treaty was emphasised by Gorbachev 's invitation to the presidents of the RSFSR and Kazakhstan to attend some of the summit meetings in Moscow on July 30-31 [ see pp. 38320-21 ] with US President Bush . |
| 16 | I 'm sure she 's right and I hope that 's given some of the shop leaders who are sitting round about me , some ideas . |
| 17 | Officers say prosecutions are likely and anyone found guilty under the Video Recordings Act faces fines of up to twenty thousand pounds per tape . |
| 18 | Having made these clarifications , let us now consider each of the registration requirements at issue in turn . |
| 19 | British firms or consortia have won two-thirds of the consultancy contracts for the territory 's £8.5 billion port and airport project . |
| 20 | Wycliffe showed no interest in Riddle 's study or his bedroom , instead he tried another of the mahogany doors . |
| 21 | It challenges some of the teaching methods that have been used in recent years and it suggests that schools should concentrate on commonsense , practical teaching . |
| 22 | In one of the most recent textbooks ( Goudie , 1981b ) the approach adopted was to review the impact of man on environment and processes generally but in this section the purpose is much narrower : to indicate some of the research investigations pursued by physical geographers and to refer to the attitudes which this engendered . |
| 23 | And in exceptional circumstances , microscopic intestinal parasites have survived to indicate some of the health problems that people suffered . |
| 24 | Despite some conciliatory moves on both sides ( notably , an offer to meet some of the pay claims , though not , significantly , on piece rates ) the masters remained adamant on the main demand of reduced hours . |
| 25 | As the weeks and months went by and the war seemed turning in favour of the Allies , I became more and more attached to the Semmens household , even to the point of getting to know some of the family friends such as Mrs Helen Margo and her sister , who owned and managed a shop of Oriental goods on Howe Street . |
| 26 | Ernst Haeckel ( who described some of the Challenger specimens ) argued that Hensen 's sampling techniques must have been faulty , but further studies gradually confirmed his results . |
| 27 | While Gabriel was emptying the cart of all remaining rubbish , ready for painting , he found some of the parchment petitions . |
| 28 | The hydraulic pump and the winding gear , the great pipes which brought the water down from the fell above to drive the engine , were almost intact , although somebody ( a famous industrial museum , it is rumoured ) has pinched some of the valve rods . |
| 29 | It is through change that we grow and discover ourselves , that we begin to actualise some of the myriad possibilities of our lives . |
| 30 | Packet stuffings are quick to use , but it 's a good idea to make them up drier than instructed to absorb some of the turkey juices . |