Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [art] [adj] [noun pl] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A good way of starting to do this is to either join an already-existent writing class ( you can find one by looking on the noticeboard in your local library , telephoning the local Further , Adult or Higher Education Centre or contacting the nearest Workers ' Educational Association ) or , if there is n't one of these in your area , by forming your own writing group . |
| 2 | Or follow the Medieval Pilgrims ' route , ‘ Camino de Santiago ’ , which encompasses the Romanic and Gothic Cathedrals , Monasteries , Palaces , Convents and churches of such splendid cities as Burgos , Leon and Santiago de Compostela . |
| 3 | This was being built under the main road that divided the three nurses ' homes and the medical-school library from the hospital . |
| 4 | From what I have said so far it may sound as if the Prague School did no more than restate the Russian Formalists ' theories in more systematic language . |
| 5 | Of those , 35 were liquidated or went into receivership , 38 were sold at a loss , and only 29 were sold at a price that returned the initial taxpayers ' investment . |
| 6 | Back in the old days , in the Fifties , before the nights of car-park-training , people kept big dogs , with names like Nero and Saladin , Sakkie and Doris ; dogs that roamed the sandy ex-Servicemen 's estate where I grew up , on the edge of Johannesburg , a jumble of sandy streets named after English kings and queens . |
| 7 | By the time we reached the Ava Bridge it had stopped raining and having got across , we just lay on the ground and got a few hours ' sleep . |
| 8 | The Devon Coast Holiday Park enjoys sea views and has a small children 's play area . |
| 9 | I 'm sure if founding a National Children 's Theatre was included in a political manifesto , that party would win-over Dahl fans the country through . |
| 10 | Dennis was on his first visit there and signing the star-studded visitors ' book is enough to make even a former world champion feel a little over-awed . |
| 11 | By 1988 the programme had shifted 600,000 jobs from the public to the private sector and reduced the nationalized industries ' share of GDP to 6.5 per cent . |
| 12 | In both countries , undoubtedly one of the goals of what the United States euphemistically called ‘ low-intensity conflict ’ was to hamper and discredit the revolutionary movements ' ability to deliver services to their peoples , and to involve them in changing their lives . |
| 13 | She walked rapidly back to the hotel and collected her car from the parking area , then drove back and parked a few cars ' lengths from the boatyard . |
| 14 | The first real impact of the 1986 Act came to governors with the requirements to produce a formal report to parents and hold an annual parents ' meeting . |
| 15 | Erm so My Lords I am left in the slight dilemma that erm I 'm not er none of the amendments we 're discussing are absolutely ideal from my point of view and meet the three difficulties er which I have touched on and indeed the amendment to which I have put my name erm number eleven , would I think be better erm to have a minority of er er a minimum number of eighteen rather than sixteen so as to simplify the arithmetical processes of contemplated er a two-thirds majority , but of the er amendments that we are discussing er if the opinion of the House is to be sort , I myself would go along with Amendment five and the two other associated amendments with which the Noble Lord , Lord has submitted for consideration of the Committee . |
| 16 | Like any vast industrial complex , it had its own substantial railway sidings to move and accept train loads of iron ore and to ship the completed products en route to its customers worldwide . |
| 17 | To allow it to maintain the 300 nuclear weapons that it is currently estimated to hold — including 100 tactical weapons — can only provoke and encourage the Arab states ' determination to obtain nuclear arsenals . |
| 18 | The Scottish women 's teams have been held annually on the last weekend in February since before the war , but some five years ago the male members of the SBU council decided this was unfair and established the national men 's teams held in Perth on Sunday . |
| 19 | National histories and political contexts have to be taken into account ; Marilou Diaz-Abaya explained for example that the Marcos regime had encouraged and subsidised an indigenous entertainments ' fiction-film industry in the Philippines , but had put severe restrictions upon the making of documentary . |
| 20 | After her five Wimbledon singles wins , she retired from lawn tennis at the age of twenty-one , and , turning her talents to golf , she became a semi-finalist at the Open Championship in 1898 and 1899 and won the British Women 's Golf Championship in 1904 at Troon . |
| 21 | She opened one of the first child welfare clinics in the country , and ran a working men 's club . |
| 22 | On Aug. 24 the Sejm elected as Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki of Solidarity , and on Sept. 12 it endorsed his proposals for a new coalition Council of Ministers dominated by Solidarity but including members of the ZSL ( since renamed the Polish Peasants ' Party — PSL ) , SD and PUWP . |
| 23 | The demands of party competition mean that alternative political leaderships will sustain the popular belief that full leadership control is feasible , even while impugning the current incumbents ' realization of this potential . |
| 24 | Even more valuable has been the friendship and help she found while attending a young women 's support group . |
| 25 | A 1 million b/d ‘ strategic ’ pipeline had been installed so as to enable the southern fields ' production to be sent out via the northern pipeline system through Syria , or the reverse ; as it later proved , a sensible precaution . |
| 26 | There is an example of this in ‘ Fighting talk ’ where the police are recorded as using the white boys ' own rules of territoriality as a device to keep them apart from blacks ( ‘ if you 're on your own territory we 'll nick the others , but if you 're outside , we 'll nick you' ) . |
| 27 | Dr Howells and Dr Unsworth said when asked the inevitable MPs ' question about the price , that for £500 million spent between now and the end of the century we could reduce toxic emissions , by half , at the cost of increasing the price of electricity by 15 per cent . |
| 28 | It did not claim to supersede DB32 which remained ‘ an essential source of background evidence and reasoning for use when interpreting the new guidelines ' ’ and the objectives remained the same . |
| 29 | Geisler advised Mitchum against accepting the invitation , as did the other defendants ' lawyers . |
| 30 | Thus , the Act has no effect in the internal workings of children 's hearings : there is no question of ‘ rehabilitation ’ as that term is understood in the Act applying so as to prevent a later children 's hearing exploring the circumstances of an earlier offence or hearing or disposal . |