Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [art] [adj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where no damage has arisen to the Buildings or Contents , the cost of removing or making a safe a tree is not covered . |
| 2 | This goes against the general rule that says the bigger the band , the longer and more excruciatingly dull , the soundcheck . |
| 3 | The young corporal at the bolt-hole grinned and raised his thumb in a gesture that meant the same the world over . |
| 4 | The family is a primitive institution that gives the rich an excuse to exploit the poor and prevents the poor from resisting . |
| 5 | They would give the President the right to appoint and dismiss ministers , and to veto a parliamentary no confidence vote in the government , as well as allow a simple majority in the Sejm to be sufficient to approve legislation ( instead of the current two-thirds majority ) . |
| 6 | He installed a swear box on the set and demanded a fine every time the language of his adult colleagues became too mature . |
| 7 | Obviously the other side of the gap had to be blocked in , and to represent the 1840s the choice fell on Timofey Granovsky , in his time a renowned liberal professor and public speaker , and to a lesser extent a man of letters . |
| 8 | Khrushchev lavished banquets , ballets and banter on him and took him tobogganing — then , with mysterious abruptness , withdrew his favours and gave the British a public drubbing over the Suez adventure and the Berlin question , where he was demanding the evacuation of allied troops . |
| 9 | Given information represents the common ground between speaker and hearer and gives the latter a reference point to which s/he can relate new information . |