Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [that] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The story goes that a young king held out his hand , declaring , " I am the commander of the faithfully . " |
| 2 | The story goes that an angry auto body painter noticed his masking tape only had adhesive along its edges and told the salesman : ‘ Take this tape back to your stingy Scotch bosses and tell them to put more adhesive on it . ’ |
| 3 | Three appeal court judges headed by the Lord Chief Justice Lord Taylor ruled that the original sentence on twenty six year old Roger Bartley from Radford was unduly lenient . |
| 4 | Recently , we have seen in the UK , in the Lindop Inquiry , not only a group of academics subscribing to the notion of a ‘ coherent academic community ’ , but also the government in its response accepting that the best safeguard of ‘ standards ’ lies in the maintenance of a ‘ coherent , self-critical academic community ’ . |
| 5 | Mr. Gloag revealed that The Famous Grouse has expressed an interest in sponsoring the 1995 World Cup in South Africa . |
| 6 | Most of the fragments detected by the ( T 2 AG 3 ) 4 oligonucleotide are very small in the Mbo I and Alu I digested DNAs suggesting that the telomeric repeats can be as short as 300 bp or even shorter . |
| 7 | Local and environmental groups fear that the new mining activity will turn what is now magnificent scenery into a mud choked ecological disaster . |
| 8 | In 10 out of 12 EC countries , lower taxes mean that the same bottle is sold for less : |
| 9 | Yesterday , Greater Glasgow Health Board announced that the Southern General and the other hospitals under its control must adhere to a new food and health policy . |
| 10 | On June 11 the Central Electoral Board announced that the incumbent President , Joaquín Balaguer , had won a narrow victory in the May 16 presidential election [ see p. 37448 ] . |
| 11 | One theory is based upon aposematic , or warning coloration suggesting that the bright coloration of the clownfish acts as a warning to predators against approaching too closely to the venomous tentacles . |
| 12 | A recent survey of the international relations literature in the English-language academic journals conducted by Alker and Biersteker revealed that the vast majority of those articles were based on Realist ( including Neo-Realist ) assumptions . |
| 13 | FRESH controversy gripped Britain 's discredited nuclear power programme yesterday after the Central Electricity Generating Board admitted that the overall cost of decommissioning redundant power stations and dealing with spent fuel has nearly doubled to £13.3 billion . |
| 14 | Afghan and diplomatic sources said that the Soviets would provide 2,000 more trucks and fuel tankers , but General Hakim admitted that the real problem will be fuel , which is already in short supply in Kabul . |
| 15 | In December 1969 , after Conservative protests had been disposed of that Parliament was being asked to reach a decision at an unnecessarily early stage ( a General Election was in the offing ) , both Houses agreed that the 1965 Act should not expire . |
| 16 | Against this background merchants , or factors , trading a long way from their home base realized that the safest form of organization was to set up a factory or small enclave for merchants of the type that the Hanseatic League had maintained in London up to 1598 . |
| 17 | On Dec. 14 Compaoré announced that a national reconciliation forum to consider democracy , human rights and development would be convened forthwith . |
| 18 | A seminar held by Lothian and Borders Police in connection with road safety issues involving the older road user revealed that a key element to ensure enhancement of the safety of this group requires guidance to impress upon them the importance of individual responsibility . |
| 19 | The Board agreed that the maximum amount it could afford to invest in 1986 was £80,000 . |
| 20 | Vaginal ultrasound revealed that the tubal pregnancy had disappeared . |
| 21 | Ritchie admitted that the offending officer got on his nerves too , and begged me to reconsider and to allow him to intervene . |
| 22 | THE move towards making driver side airbags standard equipment on all United Kingdom cars continued this week when Vauxhall announced that every new Vauxhall Cavalier , Calibra and Astra GSi will be fitted with a driver side airbag from now on — at no extra cost , writes Jim Dunn . |
| 23 | It is said that in the United States the overload of cases and the dominance of the system by plea bargaining mean that the theoretical presumption of innocence is replaced by an actual presumption of guilt in which the costs to the defendant of contesting his or her innocence are frequently overpowering . |
| 24 | And the Welsh camp agreed that the huge gap between the sides has narrowed . |
| 25 | Most contemporaries realized that the two aspects were intimately connected . |
| 26 | However , the gradient depicted is not particularly different from that defined for northern Germany accepting that the relative displacement from Teichmüller 's curve can be attributed to uplift and erosion . |
| 27 | Bakut announced that the Senegalese ECOMOG contingent was being withdrawn to Monrovia , the Liberian capital . |
| 28 | One only has to note the impressive erudition manipulated by the likes of Borges , Cortázar , Carpentier or Fuentes or the intertextual references that abound in the new narrative to realize that the Spanish-American writer has long since ceased to be a provincial and is now very much a citizen of the world . |
| 29 | The two researchers propose that the contaminated oil acted as an ‘ adjuvant ’ — it made those rare reactions , common . |
| 30 | A study done for the pensioner 's parliament found that the basic pension paid in Britain in 1988 was lower than that paid in every country except Portugal — but Germany , which has a high pension , and Ireland , which has a low one , were omitted for technical reasons . |