Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] [verb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ungar placed rats in a start box which opened onto a lighted arena with a dark compartment in one corner , and shocked the animals electrically when they attempted to enter the dark compartment ; this punishment rapidly resulted in the animals refusing to enter the dark box . |
| 2 | It may well be that the rise in UK candidates wanting to take the Foreign Languages for Industry and Commerce ( FLIC ) examination is a positive response to the challenge of an increasingly open Europe . |
| 3 | Already there was the smell of roast beef and the white-coated cooks stood by with their carving knives waiting to hack the poor beast up and put him between a thousand Yorkshire teacakes . |
| 4 | The destruction of bridges across the Euphrates and Tigris rivers , together with the " extraordinary movement " of the XVIII Corps , he said , meant that " the door was shut " for any Iraqi armour or artillery attempting to leave the Kuwaiti theatre of operations . |
| 5 | And this … ’ he gestured with his head , his strong neck turning to encompass the huge estate — the palace , the lake , the orchards , the view of the distant mountains , ‘ it 's beautiful . |
| 6 | At the Jan. 7 Sofia demonstration speakers attempting to explain the new policy on minority rights , including Prime Minister Georgi Atanasov , were booed and heckled by the crowd of at least 6,000 . |
| 7 | A worthwhile accessory for the home woodworker aiming to make the best use of a router . |
| 8 | But there are other less openly undemocratic forces at work of which development agencies and other organizations wishing to promote the informal sector should be extremely wary . |
| 9 | He went to the door , opened it and looked down the steps expecting to see the burly figure of the constable emerge and climb the steps to meet him , but to John 's surprise there was nobody at all . |
| 10 | In the event of the contractor failing to provide the necessary proof of payment where he is able to do so , the employer has the right to pay the subcontractor direct and deduct the equivalent sums from other payments to the contractor . |
| 11 | In taking this view they clearly struck a chord with their potential supporters since there was a developing sense of unease about the established parties failing to deliver the promised policy goods . |
| 12 | The budget allowed for a lower proportion to be spent on debt-servicing ( 97,000 million francs CFA or $292 million , as compared with 170,000 million francs CFA or $512 million in 1988-89 ) , with the Defence , Public Health and Education Ministries continuing to receive the largest share . |
| 13 | This is due in part , I suspect , to Sir Richard having secured the unprecedented co-operation of the Chaplin family . |
| 14 | Abruptly , he knelt in front of her , pulling her forward into his arms again , his mouth falling to plunder the swollen redness of the lips she offered so helplessly . |
| 15 | Barns were supposed to have hay in them — they did in the movies — where the hero could hide while the baddies , with a total disregard for blood poisoning or spread HIV , jabbed a pitchfork in and out like a demented barman trying to get the last maraschino out of the bottle . |
| 16 | On 25 November 1986 , he fired North , accepted the resignation of Rear-Admiral John Poindexter , McFarlane 's successor as National Security Adviser , and spent the rest of his administration trying to dodge the political fallout from Irangate . |
| 17 | He was reminded of something he had read somewhere : that it was seldom wise to return to any former haunt hoping to recapture the same pleasure it had first given , because it was sure to be different and disappointing . |
| 18 | If thirty days elapse from the date on which one of the parties received a proposal submitted according to the first item without the parties agreeing to appoint the one arbitrator , his appointment is done by the appointing authority which the parties agreed to name . |
| 19 | Rev. Levitt 's antipathy sprang from the fact that when he was ill or needed a break in the non-stop Day of Atonement services it was Percy Lovitch who deputised for him , his tall corpulent figure seeming to fill the small pulpit and his exquisite tenor voice quite outshining Rev. Levitt 's pedestrian baritone . |
| 20 | Last week , the right hon. Member for Birmingham , Sparkbrook ( Mr. Hattersley ) accused me of being unduly alarmist when I referred to the figure of 7 million Russians wanting to leave the Soviet Union . |
| 21 | Accordingly , they can be ignored by monetary authorities seeking to control the overall price level . |
| 22 | ‘ A pretty pair of white geese Double , double , far from dusty chaos ; Wings embracing , they play in bright sunlight , Necks caressing roam the blue clouds . |
| 23 | Researchers seeking to explain the rapid rise in deaths among Britain 's common frog have found pox virus like particles in the skins of many of the dead amphibians . |
| 24 | In August 1317 seven bishops were represented on the king 's mission to Lancaster , and a few months later ten bishops from the southern province attended a council meeting to resolve the political dispute ; one outcome of this was that in January 1318 the bishop of Norwich negotiated with Lancaster . |
| 25 | In this way the client begins to realize that their former ‘ resting state ’ may have been fraught with muscular tensions serving to exacerbate the general experience of anxiety and stress . |
| 26 | Northumbria quickly produced , in the monk Bede ( d.735 ) , one of the great scholars of the early Middle Ages , and by the time of his death English missionaries were themselves at work attempting to convert the continental Germans . |
| 27 | Instead of the bureaucracy continuing to serve the main purpose for which it has been set up there is an obsession with procedure , because procedure has to serve as the guideline in the absence of anything else . |
| 28 | And the only record that we have in scripture of any evidence of folk having received the Holy Spirit was that they spoke with other tongues . |
| 29 | The judge having reviewed the relevant authorities said that a contract which contains an unenforceable provision nevertheless remains effective after removal of the severance of that provision if the following conditions are satisfied : ( a ) The enenforceable provision is capable of being removed without the necessity of adding to or modifying the wording of what remains . |
| 30 | Joyce Cormie , Development Officer , Fife , Age Concern Scotland Having spent the last year doing a study on day care in Fife , I have been asked to do this presentation on the implications of day care for planners . |