Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [vb pp] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus the old tradition of pilgrimage , peregrinatio , spawned or became united to the new kind of military adventure we call the crusade ; and the resources of the roads and waterways of Europe and the Near East were strained to the uttermost to meet the insatiable demands of these adventurous travellers . |
| 2 | Few ever recovered their status in society , he said , or got rid of the bad habits they contracted while there . |
| 3 | Or getting rid of the old one . |
| 4 | It is extremely important that you press more pieces from the bouquet than you think you will need , as some of the plant material may turn brown in the press or emerge pressed into the wrong shape . |
| 5 | or stay put in the icy brine . |
| 6 | It will frequently happen that information disclosed in confidence is or becomes known to a limited number of people or to a specific section of the public only . |
| 7 | Blake suspected that he was not the first person who had asked himself that question or had come to the same irrational conclusion . |
| 8 | The primary function of the centres is the documentation of modern and contemporary artists who work or have worked in the former Eastern-bloc countries and the promotion of living artists previously unknown to the West . |
| 9 | On 2nd June 1914 , The Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife , were assassinated by a Bosnian Serb and that triggered a series of events that led to the outbreak of war on 4th , August 1914 — the war that became known as The Great War . |
| 10 | ‘ It makes me sound like a parcel that got sent to the wrong address . ’ |
| 11 | During six weeks of intensive pre-tour training at Lilleshall , Graham Gooch 's batsmen have , for the first time , been using a special indoor mat in the nets that has spun like a sub-continental wicket . |
| 12 | Some years later , Crook and Elliot ( 1980 ) conducted a similar review and came to similar conclusions , suggesting that social class is a confounding variable that has led to a spurious association in some studies between loss and depression . |
| 13 | The development of the in-can system that has led to the successful introduction of Canned Draught Guinness and Guinness Draught Bitter is a fine example of how the application of technology and innovation can produce outstanding results . |
| 14 | Clearly the most drastic punishment for a firm that has reneged on the collusive agreement would be for the other firms to force it to its security level , either forever or for some specified number of time periods . |
| 15 | The hon. Gentleman represents a party that has called for a 50 per cent . |
| 16 | I have enjoyed reading all your letters and look forward to continuing the two-way communication that has developed over the past year . |
| 17 | Fundamentally , roses are as much shrubs as any others in the garden and , like them , divide broadly into two categories as far as pruning is concerned ; those that flower in spring and summer on wood developed during the previous growth period ( i.e. last year ) , and those that flower , necessarily a little later , from mid summer on , upon wood that has developed during the current season . |
| 18 | Relatives may make a gift to a local hospital that has cared for a loved one . |
| 19 | As such , they represent a strong vein of soul that has struggled in the recent ravealonga Manchester years . |
| 20 | Citizens ' Committees outraged by the scale of corruption that has emerged during the last week , have continued their crusade against state , party and security institutions . |
| 21 | Citizens ' Committees outraged by the scale of corruption that has emerged during the last week , have continued their crusade against state , party and security institutions . |
| 22 | Citizens ' Committees outraged by the scale of corruption that has emerged during the last week , have continued their crusade against state , party and security institutions . |
| 23 | One of the benefits that has emerged from the National Curriculum exercise has been to highlight the need for strategic planning of the history curriculum at all Key Stages , to ensure balance , coverage of a range of different periods and topics , and the adoption of a number of different approaches . |
| 24 | These include the relativistic dependence of time on velocity and the strange new features of time in black holes , as well as the ambiguity of direction of time that has emerged in the mathematical description of the interactions of elementary particles . |
| 25 | Under Article 37 , an obligation that has arisen for a third party can not be revoked or modified without the consent of the parties and the third party unless they have agreed otherwise . |
| 26 | Another major threat that has arisen from the unrelenting use of fossil fuels is the steady build-up of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere which adds to the greenhouse effect ( see Chapter 1 ) . |
| 27 | Will my right hon. Friend confirm that this is not something that has arisen in the past few days , but has been carefully negotiated by the Government over many weeks ? |
| 28 | ‘ And in a perverse way this is something which may be helpful because they are now beginning to appreciate more clearly the fear that has existed within the Protestant community for the past 20 years as they have been killed at random by the IRA , ’ he added . |
| 29 | If the files are on computer then the printout should indicate the time that has elapsed since the last time entry on the file . |
| 30 | Even at the primary stage , it has been shown that children can often grasp that a country house contains material that has accumulated over a long period . |