Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [pron] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first hint that Hills might be interested in a group pensions plan came when the company 's Board asked him to arrange a formal briefing . |
| 2 | Presumably there are adaptive strategies to enable us to endure the unendurable . |
| 3 | But I did wonder , after a year or more , how it was that he and Mme G expected me to use the public baths rather than offer me the convenience of the bathroom in the pavillon . |
| 4 | Naturally he encountered no opposition based on nationalism , but his fervent support of Islam led him to abandon the tolerant policy his predecessors had adopted towards the Hindu majority , and this probably intensified resistance to his advance . |
| 5 | The accent made it sound a strange new game . |
| 6 | These attitudes led them to adopt an interventionist style in the management of local authorities that differred in many ways from the more orthodox approaches discussed in Chapter 5 . |
| 7 | Enough of him had , however , remained in the present to enable him to present a powerful case for the area 's preservation and to prophesy that the objectors would win . |
| 8 | As he took her on a guided tour of the eight-bedroomed mansion , the Prince asked her to organize the interior decoration . |
| 9 | Judith Pallan recommended she try a light matte foundation , such as Estée Lauder 's Lucidity Light Diffusing Makeup in Sun Beige ( £16.50 ) , to tone down the natural ruddiness of Helen 's complexion . |
| 10 | Section by section it was being revised in the commissions and then approved during the general congregations — despite last-minute attempts to modify it to contain an explicit condemnation of communism . |
| 11 | Germany found itself facing an expansionist Europe and a booming industry . |
| 12 | He retired from active service at the end of the war but was recalled in the early summer of 1648 when Parliament found itself facing a serious mutiny in the fleet . |
| 13 | But instead , for a dizzying instant , as he wrapped his cloak about her , Isabel found herself savouring a delicious sensation of feeling small and infinitely fragile , enclosed within his arms . |
| 14 | But when Patrick found him scoffing a large tea in the Royalbion marquee that was not the reason for his jubilation . |
| 15 | The melt usually has to be supercooled by about 5 to 20 K before a significant number of nuclei appear which possess the critical dimensions required for stability and further growth . |
| 16 | So he was operated on , and the vets found he had a misplaced colon , put it right and stitched him up . |
| 17 | Middlesbrough tried everything to complete a grand slam of derby wins , but the midfield prompting of Peake and the dangerous flank attacks of John Hendrie , failed to wrest victory from Sunderland 's unyielding grasp . |
| 18 | A visit to the Whitbread Hop Farm is a unique experience enabling you to encounter a historical part of the Garden of England and delight in the atmosphere of this famous piece of Kentish Heritage . |
| 19 | Only Germany has anything approaching a large-scale commercial network . |
| 20 | Caddis houses helped us take the previous step ; snail shells will help us take this one . |
| 21 | Samuel Rhodes , the viola player of the Quartet , has had a larger size instrument made which enables the normal viola range to extend downwards by a fourth . |
| 22 | Others saw it as marking a shift in US perceptions of the OAS and a readiness to see it perform a new role in encouraging the closer economic and political integration of the hemisphere , in line with the US " Enterprise for the Americas " free trade policy [ see pp. 37651-52 ; 37914 ] . |
| 23 | For a moment she relaxed against him , then as his words penetrated she saw a mental picture of those same arms encircling Dawn . |
| 24 | I recall that during my last six months service I had the magnificent sum of £6/5/ ( £6.25 now ) to spend on myself . |
| 25 | I have given a list of strictly forbidden foods within this chapter to enable you to make a definite resolution , before you begin the diet , to ban them totally from your life ! |
| 26 | His words made one recall the excellent reports compiled by Ian Paisley 's Assembly Agriculture Committee and Sheila Magee about the industry in the mid 1980s . |
| 27 | His words made her feel an odd glow of warmth deep inside her , and her tears dried up . |
| 28 | In 1976 , the N.C.T.D. re-formed itself to become the British Association of Teachers of the Deaf ( B.A.T.O.D. ) |
| 29 | The boats connect all major tourist attractions allowing you to enjoy the beautiful sights of Amsterdam on the way . |
| 30 | Yet if Richard Armstrong was writing according to a tried formula , concrete detail and well-conceived plots and the firm line of his character drawing helped him to achieve a special , moderate , even low- keyed reality in his books . |