Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [verb] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The defence have said medical evidence gleaned from tests on Mr Harris ' brain shows he suffers from a rare abnormality .
2 This year just under 100 students will receive their first degrees at Stirling and Chief Careers Advisor Walter Abbott , who retires this summer , can look back and take pride in the fact that he and his small team in the careers office have had the opportunity to help prepare 16,000 students for ‘ life after Uni ’ during the 24 years that Walter has been here and seen the University grow .
3 I hope you will use the opportunity to get to know new people and make visitors feel welcome .
4 It is hoped that this extension will provide members with the opportunity to consider/ discuss this matter more fully .
5 An annual employee profile is issued to each employee showing the information held about him/her and giving the employee the opportunity to make known any inaccuracies .
6 However , it is unclear to me at this time what recommendations one could put in the form of legislation to be put before the House that would command the majority needed to make sensible legislation , to allow the country to move forward in the 1990s .
7 Would the acoustic signal contain any evidence anyway or does the speaker just talk like that ?
8 In the last three years , the Ombudsman had judged 13 complaints in which decisions to allow development were ‘ perverse , arbitrary or inconsistent . ’
9 Although an official inquiry had found in October 1988 that there were no grounds to conclude that the DTI 's handling of the affair had caused the investors ' losses , in his report the Ombudsman had identified five areas in which there had been significant maladministration by the DTI of the Barlow Clowes affair .
10 Richard Rampton QC , who is defending Lord Aldington 's libel action against historian Count Nikolai Tolstoy and property developer Nigel Watts , suggested that the peer had given false evidence because it was ‘ essential ’ to his case that he was not in Austria on 23 , 24 and 25 May .
11 The dry-stone walls have been repaired in the traditional way ; fences in the fields to keep the animals back are wooden post-and-rail , there is no barbed-wire to be seen ; and where the Prince has planted new trees in the parkland , they are all protected from the livestock by solid wooden guards , not the plastic sort most farmers use .
12 In actuality , the expertise needed to evaluate complex ideas is housed within different sectors of large , highly bureaucratic , and mature organizations : in research and development , marketing , manufacturing , administration , finance , etc .
13 The continuous line shows what the retailer hopes to sell this year .
14 In order to make this decision , the retailer needs to do some market research into the socioeconomics of the area .
15 The writer had used 4 oz in 80 oz of 32 index fluid and , although I would have carried out a similar treatment as that ten years ago using saline , I consider this type of case nowadays has to be treated in a different manner , with up-to-date fluids and up-to-date knowledge — there are many first class fluids on the market today .
16 There was some pretty rough weather during December 1935 and the writer recalls seeing ex-Croydon Corporation No. 19E sweeping snow at Selhurst Station , while work was still going on erecting the double overhead wires .
17 The writer has collected three instances of this practice : two in the Stowmarket district and one near Mendlesham where the farmer who recalled it made the comment after the cold and wet spring of 1963 : ‘ I do n't know how those owd bors who used to set on the seed-bed would get on today : I reckon they 'd get themselves right chilled . ’
18 Where the addressee is unknown and feed-back is indirect , as with much institutional writing , the writer has to supply contextual information unnecessary in speech or in letters .
19 A statement charged with murder the trial having lasted five days .
20 The break-up has given new regimes in Ukraine , Belorussia and Kazakhstan a say in what will become of the nuclear weapons on their soil .
21 The reunification has had tremendous consequences for the general economic situation in Germany , but as we now know , private companies have failed to invest in East Germany to the extent they were expected to .
22 But the unexplained meagreness of the award does compel that inference .
23 The Board sought to have these claims struck out as frivolous , vexatious and an abuse of the process of the court .
24 The three E 32 issues on which the Board agreed to make substantive changes relate to inventories , research and development costs , and borrowing costs .
25 In addition , and as a result of the work undertaken by its resident tutors in Bedfordshire , Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire , the Board had developed systematic provision of all types of classes and courses on a scale beyond that imaginable if the District had been the sole provider .
26 The board had introduced new charges which it would be unfair for Mr Foecke to contest .
27 He wrote : ‘ This outcome is very disappointing , as the board has made considerable efforts on your behalf to get the proposals accepted .
28 The board has lodged five complaints with the LEA and is questioning whether it is getting value for money .
29 To date , the Board has had three meetings , while the Committee has only met once , so that it is still too early to be sure how it will operate .
30 The board has encouraged local clubs to nominate particularly talented individuals for the fund .
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