Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [adv] [vb pp] [to-vb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ardura : A texturised nylon cloth with high tear and abrasion resistance , woven exclusively for Berghaus and specially coated to improve water resistance . |
| 2 | They set traps of silk across the flyways between the branches and so continued to take toll of the insect population . |
| 3 | The Wasserschutz Polizei , or River Police launch , Whose arrival had been expected much earlier , turned on its blue flashing light and jauntily turned to take station upstream , in order to intercept any barge or ship choosing to ignore the river closure order which had been imposed by the river authorities for the night . |
| 4 | In this detailed regional study Fox was concerned with the Anglo-Saxon invasion and settlement and also attempted to reconcile distribution maps of artefact types with supposed ethnic groups to the extent of discussing political boundaries . |
| 5 | Picture a once decent apartment building in the Bronx , New York , a part of the city where poverty , drug abuse , AIDS , and prostitution abound , and witness over a few years how it is transformed into a miserable squat and ultimately bulldozed to make way for a new police station . |
| 6 | Launched in 1957 , it claimed 25,000 supporters by 1958 and by 1960 pacifist members had sailed into the Pacific testing grounds , boarded nuclear submarines or missile bases or simply refused to take shelter during bomb drills . |
| 7 | It was used for casting small , quite intricate sculpture pieces and often finished to imitate bronze . |
| 8 | In his benevolent aspect he is the source of rain and hence petitioned to alleviate drought , and also to prevent meningitis . |
| 9 | At Aimar 's command the inhabitants of St Martial 's took an oath of allegiance to the Young King and then prepared to stand siege . |
| 10 | Even further out , with less reason for antagonism towards search consultants but still known to bear malice , are the hopefuls who never appeared on the race card at all , who sent in their CVs and waited in vain for a response . |
| 11 | My friend says that George was only gone for five minutes , but when he returned from the toilet he said that he had been captured , flown to Venus and then forced to have sex with several beautiful Venusian lasses , who required his ‘ superior seed for the creation of a cosmic super race ’ . |
| 12 | And while the improvements helped somewhat , Air Force planners must have realised that the combination of poor flight stability , lower than anticipated speed and range limitations would place the Airacomet at serious risk if ever sent to engage enemy aircraft . |
| 13 | Holding her very gently under the water , I took a pair of tweezers and carefully managed to get hold of the piece of gravel and remove it . |
| 14 | He suggests that state welfare activity not only produced general efficiency gains for the nation but also helped to modify power and status differentials — a somewhat questionable assertion . |
| 15 | But Jack always gave good value and , apart from winning the British Boys ' Golf Championship , he played rugby , cricket and tennis for the school and even managed to play county tennis as well . |
| 16 | Ironically , Mrs Neil Lyndon has now revealed she was abandoned by her husband last year and only managed to receive child support for their six-year-old son by obtaining a court order . |
| 17 | This was placed in a sterile universal tube and centrifuged at 14000 revolutions per minute for 4 minutes as previously described to elute sample DNA . |
| 18 | The opposite suggestion , that marine planation at the present level is active , has been made from observations of wide platforms truncating hard rocks and apparently related to present sea level . |