Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [verb] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Difficulty will also arise where the eleven wish to amend existing Directives in accordance with the policies of the Protocol and Agreement and the UK does not want to do so . |
| 2 | The rich tend to work 18-hour days , and some of them burn themselves out at bond desks and on trading floors before they are 30 . |
| 3 | The rich have become richer while , at the other end of the social scale , a growing number of people depend upon state benefits . |
| 4 | Unemployment has reached post-war records , and government schemes for the unemployed have replaced each other at a very fast pace . |
| 5 | To come together to help the unemployed has led many churches to take part in Unemployment Sunday . |
| 6 | During the first summer and autumn on the island , the English had built another sloop — thirty tons , clinker-hulled , two masted — from felled mahogany trees they dragged down from the forest ; they then fitted her with four barbaresque guns forged in the Italian style , transported from Europe by the Hopewell . |
| 7 | None of this suggested that the English would go forward to build up the most wide-ranging empire that the world had ever seen , and even if Hakluyt had added that the English had made some attempts to settle in North America and had organized themselves for trade in the East Indies he would not have much altered the case . |
| 8 | Another English spring has damply arrived , and the English have begun another cricket season , reminding themselves yet again that it was they who created the world 's most civilised form of sport . |
| 9 | Up until recently the English have had certain virtues assigned : honesty , loyalty , fair dealing , kindness to animals ( and women ) . |
| 10 | Suppose the English refused to release that youth under some pretext , the father would be much constrained . |
| 11 | Mr Goddard said the Civic had taken many phone calls on Monday and Tuesday from parents worried the ballet would be unsuitable for their children . |
| 12 | By degrees the British came to dominate this trade , partly because they were so committed to sugar that they were bound to make large purchases of slaves on their own account , partly because their increasingly dominant position at sea meant that they could take the place of the Dutch as general suppliers of slaves for planters in other European colonies who wanted to buy them . |
| 13 | In 1936 the British began to plan colonial broadcasting for indigenous people , but these plans were shelved when world war broke out a second time . |
| 14 | Moreover , the British had lost 6,097 sailors to Germany 's 2,545 . |
| 15 | The British have imported Dutch cattle for at least three centuries ( references go back to 1681 ) and initially they formed the basis of the famous Shorthorns . |
| 16 | The British have overlooked such generalisations in the Treaty of Rome as , ‘ Determined to lay the foundation of an ever closer union among the peoples of Europe ’ . |
| 17 | The sugar plantations and the slaves on them were the first British overseas investment of any size , at a time when investment of this sort was unusual , and in several eighteenth-century wars the British fought to defend this property , though it was not a central cause of any of the wars in which they were involved . |
| 18 | Sandstones in the Carboniferous have given modest gas flows in Co . |
| 19 | No deals for hostages I could understand , yet the French had made future business and full diplomatic relations conditional on their hostages being freed and no more being taken . |
| 20 | After disaster at Dongkhe , and the horrors of the Cocxa gorge , the French fortresses at Caobang , Langson and Laokay were abandoned but , in their retreat , the French had lost 6,000 men in what has been called their greatest colonial defeat since Montcalm had died at Quebec . |
| 21 | Yet three years earlier , at the important siege of nearby Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte , the French had used thirty-two cannons , gunstones for them having been conveyed there in carts and by packhorse . |
| 22 | The French want to stop British imports and argue that subjecting Russian catches to a minimum import price would cut the cross-Channel trade as more British fish would sell in the UK . |
| 23 | The French have distinguished 3 zones of handicap within their Article 3(3) areas and financial incentives are linked accordingly ; the 3(4) areas and 3(5) areas consist of one further zone each . |
| 24 | The French have brought many advantages to our country as you no doubt have already seen . " |
| 25 | He assured Benn that the French were not going to let themselves be tied by COCOM : ‘ Frankly , the French do promise integrated circuits and the dates and deliveries are laid down . ’ |
| 26 | The crisis of the social sector of Mexican agriculture in the 1980's has attracted increasing attention in recent years . |
| 27 | ‘ My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord and my spirit exults in God my saviour because he has looked upon his lowly handmaid Yes , from this day forward all generations will call me blessed for the Almighty has done great things for me . |
| 28 | In addition , the Six had learnt some lessons from the past , and hoped that the adoption of a long-term perspective would also avoid a clash of economic interest with the OEEC . |
| 29 | The Japanese began shipping beaded belts to the US soon after World War II . |
| 30 | It follows that , if the Japanese do incorporate imputed interest charges , they are obviously trying to assess whether the cash inflows are sufficient to meet all claims upon them , including the yields required by shareholders . |