Example sentences of "[verb] [art] [adj] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She knew stories about Anancy the spider and the Maroon people who fought the British in the mountains . |
| 2 | The details of the liberal programme ( attack on regional , ecclesiastical , and aristocratic privilege , guilds , and the Mesta ) were inherited from regalists and political economists , from the servants of Charles III who had attacked the privileged in the interests of a modernized monarchy unencumbered with private jurisdictions . |
| 3 | The only basic concession we made to the Chancellor was to exclude the self-employed on the grounds that they were not covered by SERPS in any event . |
| 4 | Valentine 's pertinent comments about the origins of different behaviour originating in structural constraints which excluded the poor from the life-styles of the more affluent have lost none of their force , but any consideration of everyday life in Cramlington and North Shields has to address the issue of different and distinctive life-styles which are none the less embedded in a common cultural matrix . |
| 5 | Subsidence Claims Advice leaflet ( PC17 ) should be issued to policyholders in every case where a subsidence claim has been intimated as this will forewarn the insured of the procedures and timescales likely to be involved . |
| 6 | Opening the summit , UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher announced a six-point plan to : ( i ) educate the young on the dangers of drug-taking ; ( ii ) start a high-profile anti-drug publicity campaign ; ( iii ) exert pressure on parents and society to set an example ; ( iv ) improve the early identification of drug takers ; ( v ) increase treatment and rehabilitation ; and ( vi ) campaign against any legalization of drug-taking . |
| 7 | I outlined to him a scheme for an organisation that would provide the disabled with the cars they required in return for an assignment to that organisation of their mobility allowance . |
| 8 | It shaped the aesthetic of the lyrics and meditations concerned with the life of Christ which they wrote to convey their understanding imaginatively . |
| 9 | A puff shook a glittering from the thorns , |
| 10 | When will the Opposition tell Labour councils to open those houses , and get the homeless off the streets and into the empty dwellings that those Labour authorities control ? |
| 11 | This was against all that was implicit in the way I had been taught — people increased in wisdom as they grew older , so that they were able to guide the young in the paths they should follow . |
| 12 | To his left Corbett heard a slithering on the cobbles . |
| 13 | Almost as he spoke they heard a crashing in the bushes at the top of the ridge above them . |
| 14 | There is a more complicated echo of Shakespeare in the scene when Aragorn , as the true king , revives the sick in the Houses of Healing with his touch and the herb athelas . |
| 15 | Nobody believes that is going to happen , least of all Jack Charlton , who says taking the Irish to the finals will give him as much satisfaction as he drew from winning the competition with England in 1966 . |
| 16 | But I left the first of her three Sunday night shows feeling vaguely let down after a set that mixed the great with the gaffs . |
| 17 | By removing their normal protective cover from those who commit moral wrongs , the ancestors ( or other central powers ) deliver the guilty into the hands of their secret police — the witches and sorcerers . |
| 18 | But the spokeswoman said the concession in no way gave the allclear for the brewers to delay action . |
| 19 | He discards the assumption to which most of us still cling ( if only because the ground seems to melt under our feet if we think otherwise ) that we can clearly distinguish the literal and metaphorical uses of a word , fix the literal by definition , and leave the metaphorical to the poets . |
| 20 | But if he accepted , and then resigned the archbishopric into the hands of the pope , as he continued to wish to do , the responsibility for a new appointment would lie with the pope , and Anselm would ‘ justly ’ be free from a position which he hated . |
| 21 | A detective-sergeant told Belfast Magistrate 's Court that when Hill was formally charged he replied ‘ no ’ to all four charges , but he said he believed he could connect the accused to the offences . |
| 22 | The detective chief-inspector said he believed he could connect the accused to the charges . |
| 23 | The RUC officer said he believed he could connect the accused with the charges . |
| 24 | His skies boiled and burned , or they reflected the eternal in the eyes of a baby . |
| 25 | And when we had a down near the banks dyke and it was fenced round and we used to carry the hens down there at night in a sack on your back . |
| 26 | but erm , had a little with the children 's Christmas presents |
| 27 | The Sandals , Mother Earth , Diana Brown & Barrie K Sharpe are among the entertainers hoping to introduce the Dutch to the joys of corduroy . |
| 28 | In the years following the violence of the Mexican revolution , great attention was paid to the content of education , in an attempt to involve the young in the principles of the revolution , but this emphasis has declined in the second half of the century . |
| 29 | But Julian Meldrum , of the National Aids Trust , said the report showed that HIV infection , the early stages of full-blown Aids , was increasing among gay men following a levelling-off in the mid-1980s . |