Example sentences of "[verb] [noun pl] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those of Gide 's travel journals published as Amyntas are even more revealing of this process whereby loss of self becomes a discovery of self ; both selves , the centred and the dispersed , being kept alive , both being necessary for the lyrical , unorthodox Western narrative which Gide maps on to the African landscape and his own illicit sexuality within it . |
| 2 | The most important factor in keeping arrears down to the lowest possible level was exercising proper care in granting mortgage loans , checking the applicant 's income , his previous borrowing record , verifying that the property was relevant to the borrower 's needs and his ability to maintain it in good order . |
| 3 | A lack of vision has pegged Rovers back in the last month , plus diligent homework by the likes of Spurs … not any fall from grace on Shearer 's part . |
| 4 | The newly enthroned Tsar Nicholas I moved troops up to the Turkish frontier and forced the sultan to sign the Convention of Akkerman ( October 1826 ) , by which the Turks agreed to implement the clauses of the Treaty of Bucharest which recognised the rights of the Romanians and Serbs . |
| 5 | They will try to frighten voters back to the two old parties . |
| 6 | Taras dies but his prophesy lives on in a resplendent welter of organ ( now assertively prominent ) , chiming timpani and bells . |
| 7 | Ravi Shankar 's score , drawing elements in from a wide range of sources , is both seductively lyrical and at times rhythmically complex . |
| 8 | Then I put labels on about every single pot I could find that 's got all these various mixes in . |
| 9 | British Rail recently put fares up on the affected routes saying customers had to pay for the vast improvements they 'd made . |
| 10 | In the immediate vicinity , sensitive monitors relay readings back to the central control room . |
| 11 | One might do things out of a self-loving pride , but this is not benevolence ; and though a benevolent person may gratify himself , this is not what he is aiming at , and is not the principle of his action . |
| 12 | The Czechs put Rangers out of the European Cup in the first round on goal difference . |
| 13 | Few now want to follow Philadelphia 's lead and cut museums off from the public purse altogether — a policy that would surely up-end the Met 's unrivalled success at striking the right balance between showbiz and the unworldly . |
| 14 | The leadership of the NECC is well aware of the contradictions in urging children back into the overcrowded classrooms of a system still based on apartheid principles . |
| 15 | When Glass ( 1954 ) studied trends up to the 1950s , he found that although many men experienced mobility , most of this was short-range and across the middle levels of the hierarchy in a ‘ buffer zone ’ . |
| 16 | Nominated care district judges can : ( a ) transfer cases up to the High Court following transfer from the family proceedings court ; ( b ) consider " appeals " against a justices ' clerk 's refusal to transfer a case ; ( c ) make emergency protection orders in proceedings issued in the county court or transferred up from the family proceedings court ; ( d ) give directions and make uncontested public law orders ; ( e ) make some public law orders in contested cases , eg education supervision orders . |
| 17 | He wandered aimlessly around Pooley 's flat , glancing at magazines , pulling books out of the huge collection of crime fiction , reading a page or two and replacing them . |
| 18 | Belgrade radio said Croatian forces fired mortars on to the Serbian town of Sid and attacked Yugoslav Army positions in central and eastern Croatia . |
| 19 | The organisers of the annual EAA Convention , held at Wittman Regional Airport , Oshkosh , Wisconsin , have got things down to a fine art , the event runs like clockwork , in fact it would probably do some airshow organisers in Europe a power of good to pay a visit to Oshkosh and see for themselves how fly-ins , airshows and ground exhibitions can , and should , be run . |
| 20 | In the Middle Ages it was generally accepted that women 's ears turned men on to the same extent as the more obvious feminine attributes ; that is why so may medieval headdresses ensured that women 's ears were discreetly covered . |
| 21 | Er I I 'm most er grateful to my honourable friend for giving yet another example of how the social chapter has exported jobs out of the eleven into Britain . |
| 22 | But er there were so many open cars and we had an upholsterer who er made the hoods and repaired the hoods and upholstery and er we even made things out of the old scraps of these er just to , we made bags for , for carrying trade plates for er people going away for cars . |
| 23 | The trade unions are a problematic force both in and on the uneasy edges of the system of power ; a variety of factors have conspired to produce an upsurge of competing participants and conflicting demands ; elected governments have frequently shown themselves to be weak and vacillating in the face of pressures and problems ; and certain democratic aspects of the British polity have heaped problems on to the capitalist economy in a way that has " crowded out " opportunities for growth . |
| 24 | ‘ He said it had hardly ever been used intentionally to murder people in Europe , though it 's being used all the time out East for helping relatives on to the next world . |
| 25 | The Mary Chain got things off to a low-key start with tasteful semi-acoustic versions of three songs and were followed by Collins in an extremely silly hat ( see above ) who chundered through his first solo single , ‘ Do n't Shilly Shally ’ . |
| 26 | The Mary Chain got things off to a low-key start with tasteful semi-acoustic versions of three songs and were followed by Collins in an extremely silly hat ( see above ) who chundered through his first solo single , ‘ Do n't Shilly Shally ’ . |
| 27 | Sergeant Allen always liked to be ready early , to have everything buttoned up before the Troop Commander arrived : it got things off to a good start . |
| 28 | I TRY TO WORK AGAINST THE WAY I WAS TAUGHT , WHICH WAS TO WORK ON THE PAINTING AS A WHOLE AND BRING THINGS UP TO A CERTAIN DEGREE OF FINISH |
| 29 | I try to work against the way I was taught , which was to work on the paintings as a whole and bring things up to a certain degree of finish . |
| 30 | why they ca n't make aeroplanes out of the same stuff |