Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [verb] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Secondly , the opportunity exists to reassess the rational or political approaches to resource management practice . |
| 2 | One minute , your students are ploughing through a set of grammar exercises with apparent ease ; the next , when the opportunity arises to use the same language in a real context , dreadful mistakes occur . |
| 3 | Until 13 October visitors will have the opportunity to get to know the Austrian painter Alois Riedl as a draughtsman . |
| 4 | The majority preferred to believe the picturesque stories passed down by parents and grandparents , which were , of course , accepted as the gospel truth . |
| 5 | With gliders which have a front wheel or main skid , a main wheel just behind the c.g. and a tail-wheel or skid like the K13 , Grob 103 , ASK21 , Puchazc , Schweitzer 233 and most of the older single seaters , it may be necessary to ease back a little during the take-off run to raise the front wheel or skid . |
| 6 | While the ombudsman has revealed the occasional bureaucratic horror story , he or she lacks some of the powers of his or her opposite number in other systems . |
| 7 | On the other hand , lifting a genuine wineglass a few feet in the air by sheer mental energy required several hours of systematic preparation if the wizard wished to prevent the simple principle of leverage flicking his brain out through his ears . |
| 8 | Working on corpora of North American conversational data , they proceed very much from the bottom-up trying to establish the smallest units first . |
| 9 | Further , it is probably only when the GP has performed the initial expert task of transforming signs and symptoms into an organised illness , that the patient can formulate the help he requires as possibly beyond the competence of his GP . |
| 10 | The retailer needs to know the best time to advertise seasonal goods — eg camping equipment will be promoted in the spring , ready for the summer . |
| 11 | The retailer needs to know the best time to advertise … goods . |
| 12 | We assume that the writer has used the basic historical framework for her story — Wroe 's demand that his flock should provide his household with seven virgins ( female , although this was not specified ) for his ‘ comfort and succour ’ : and that not terribly long afterwards , he was put on trial by his church for alleged naughtiness with two of them . |
| 13 | Changed testimony and the emergence of two key witnesses who disappeared before the trial have placed the judicial system under intense pressure to reopen the case . |
| 14 | The executive responsible is a member of the Board assigned to ensure the successful progress and completion of the project . |
| 15 | It is not clear what view of the section the court would take in a case in which there was a clash between shareholder and employee interests , and there was evidence that the board had favoured the latter . |
| 16 | The Board has appointed the following committees to deal with specific aspects of the Group 's affairs . |
| 17 | After the beginner has acquired the basic principles of kung fu and enough knowledge to string together simple one- and two-step techniques , he comes into contact with what are known as ‘ forms ’ . |
| 18 | During the preceding years the hairpin had perforated the inner end of the vagina and eventually turned through 180° . |
| 19 | In traditionally examined courses such as the current HNC or HND , the criterion for award of prizes may simply be that the winner has obtained the top mark when all students across the length and breadth of the country are compared . |
| 20 | The money went to found the Scottish International Educational Trust , a fund based in Edinburgh which is meant to ‘ benefit Scotland ’ . |
| 21 | Three quarters of the money goes to maintain the national organisation and to provide central services for Bureaux . |
| 22 | ‘ It would have been a different story if the brewery had done the earlier repairs . ’ |
| 23 | The case had made the front page ; eight column inches in the bottom right-hand corner : |
| 24 | When the case comes to trial the inexperienced attorney ( a good lawyer may have managed to get the charge reduced to straight murder ) will be faced by a prosecutor who may well specialize in capital law . |
| 25 | On Sept. 7 an unidentified Kuwaiti resistance leader had said that " the resistance has cost the Iraqi regime between one and two thousand soldiers " . |
| 26 | However the text does mention the possible use of a filter ( which we would recommend ) . |
| 27 | This means the vet has hit the right spot , but , despite giving the appearance of a canine pin cushion , it is obviously not too unpleasant an experience . |
| 28 | The computer has rendered the hands-on animation that created the monsters in this and previous Ray Harryhausen films as outdated , however charming in its way , as the original King Kong ( 1933 ; effects : Willis J O'Brien ) , without the mythic power which keeps that minor masterpiece mysteriously fresh . |
| 29 | The computer appears to dominate the whole scene to the detriment of constructive pupil activity- ( a common danger ) . |
| 30 | The salesman tries to shape the perceptual bubble . |