Example sentences of "[noun] [vb base] [vb pp] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What the quarto labels ‘ the First SONG ’ runs right through from ‘ Come all ye songsters ’ to ‘ Sing while we trip it ’ Purcell divided this into no fewer than five separate numbers : the countertenor solo ‘ Come all ye songsters ’ ; the trio ‘ May the god of wit inspire ’ — without the chorus repeat specified in the quarto , but duly followed by what it labels ‘ a Composition of Instrumental Musick , in imitation of an Eccho ’ ; a chorus which , instead of repeating ‘ May the god of wit ’ , sets the first line of the second stanza , ‘ Now join your warbling voices all ’ ; and finally a solo , ‘ Sing while we trip it ’ , this time with the specified chorus repeat . |
| 2 | Experts remain divided on the question of Dr Proctor 's state of mind during the period when he is confirmed to have been responsible for seven hundred and fifty-three homicides , but the Supreme Court has ruled him insane and irresponsible . |
| 3 | Apart from the immense raft of organisational and personnel change caused by the merger , this was ascribed to the fact that all the units were still directly managed , which caused conflicts of interest and confusion of role . |
| 4 | Had the National Government stuck to its professed intentions and dissolved , after about six weeks , into its component parts , with the ensuing general election bring fought by the parties , the political landscape might not have been changed as much as in fact it was . |
| 5 | Does he not therefore find it extraordinary that the Labour and Liberal parties remain committed to the abolition of grant maintained schools and that in local government they are waging a relentless campaign against G M schools , as typified by the behaviour of Essex County Council . |
| 6 | She walked over to where the just-savaged books lay strewn across the floor , and stirred them with the toe of her boot . |
| 7 | ‘ I have snapped my squeaking baby-trumpet of sedition , ’ he wrote in April 1798 , ‘ and the fragments lie scattered in the lumber-room of penitence . |
| 8 | Balanced , fair and thorough negotiation is the key to a smooth running contract and all the relevant contractual terms and mechanisms should be considered and agreed before the parties become committed to the contract . |
| 9 | That is , all words sharing the same initial sound characteristics become activated in the system . |
| 10 | Sirius and Canopus have returned to the evening sky , though Sirius is still low in the south-east . |
| 11 | Even when Mr McQueen said that since Asia Minor had been populated by Celts , could not the same religion have come with the Celts to Skye , Johnson defied him , and the point he made remains valid to this day . |
| 12 | Already many thousands of words have appeared on the subject — in official reports and other publications . |
| 13 | ‘ Cynics say — cynics have already said — when your preaching is done , when your lofty words have gone with the wind , when the media has departed to tell another tale , the world will forget . |
| 14 | ‘ The Managers ' Association have written to the FA suggesting this is an area that needs to be looked at for the good of football . |
| 15 | It is clear that the relative positions of Geological Magazine and Proceedings of the Geologists Association have declined in the proportion of thesis-related material published , and that the Scottish Journal of Geology became the primary vehicle for first publication of research results derived from Ph D theses in Scottish geology as soon as it began publishing in 1965 . |
| 16 | It is clear that the relative positions of Geological Magazine and Proceedings of the Geologists Association have declined in the proportion of thesis-related material published , and that the Scottish Journal of Geology became the primary vehicle for first publication of research results derived from Ph D theses in Scottish geology as soon as it began publishing in 1965 . |
| 17 | Two conferences of the Football Supporters ' Association have called for a re-think , but it seemed we were banging our heads against a brick wall . |
| 18 | The West coast side have gone off the rails in recent weeks following successive defeats by Western and Hazlehead but as the cup is realistically their last chance of glory this term they will certainly not concede defeat from the want of effort . |
| 19 | ‘ People say Newcastle fans have stood by the club through thick and thin . |
| 20 | A GROWING demand for slate roofs has breathed new life into traditional slate quarrying in north Wales and given a fillip to villages that for centuries have relied on the industry for jobs . |
| 21 | ‘ Five centuries have passed since the discovery of America , a focal point in the history of discoveries . |
| 22 | Without any explanation , he jumped out and approached one of the Ayurvedic healers who for centuries have sat on the roadside here , surrounded by the ingredients of their trade : live iguanas whose fried juices are said to cure impotence ; ginseng for philtres used to spread or extinguish the fires of love ; tree bark to ward off a woman 's menopause ; the bringraj herb from the high Himalayas said to conquer baldness or thicken the beard of the most effete Sikh . |
| 23 | For four and a half centuries the village and manor have belonged to the Earls of Pembroke . |
| 24 | This is particularly likely to occur for larger cities with very limited amounts of vacant land and in rural areas where environmental and other considerations have led to the imposition of strict controls on new building . |
| 25 | Other considerations have led to the suggestion that introns could have been transferred horizontally between different species ( 13 , 16 , 17 , 18 , 19 ) . |
| 26 | Believers have gluttoned on the god of excess and found it wanting . |
| 27 | Although many pubs , shopping centres , garden centres and schools have stepped into the breach , their play areas ca n't really compare with a good adventure playground in the local park . |
| 28 | Attempts to highlight and remove differing forms of sexism , sexual inequalities and discrimination in schools have led to a range of policy statements and strategies from local education authorities and individual schools . |
| 29 | The evolution of the role of teachers and the view of the social purpose of schools have led to a multiplicity of demands on teachers which are not necessarily compatible and may be contradictory , if not actually mutually exclusive . |
| 30 | Market-driven as ever , business schools have risen to the challenge . |