Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] [art] [noun pl] [conj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The poverty-stricken Spanish people were attempting to shake off the shackles and feudalism imposed mainly by the Catholic church . |
| 2 | The Office of Management and Budget defined emergency spending as " a necessary expenditure that is sudden , urgent and unforeseen , and is not permanent " ; to date , Bush had only made emergency declarations to aid Kurdish refugees in Iraq , to pay benefits for Gulf war veterans , and to bail out the savings and loan industry [ see p. 38090 ] . |
| 3 | Thus , the aim of this study was to evaluate retrospectively the characteristics and outcome of 56 cases of primary gastric lymphoma that have been morphologically reclassified according to recent knowledge of the MALT derived lymphomas . |
| 4 | Harry Agg , the old man who had helped on the farm for very many years , was still employed there , but he did little more than potter , his main duties being to clean out the stables and cowshed . |
| 5 | In fact , OS/2 provides a method of ‘ migrating ’ both DOS and Windows programs to OS/2 such that you do n't need to open either a Windows or DOS window in order to run them — it 's clever and makes using your current software that much easier . |
| 6 | IT WAS always this week that the people who ran the residential home began to put up the streamers and tinsel of Christmas . |
| 7 | He sits up straight to do up the buttons or velcro fastenings . |
| 8 | Each group opens their own joint bank account , manages their own money , does some basic budget planning and learns to fill out the forms and paperwork necessary to record all the transactions and keep track of the state of the fund and their management of it . |
| 9 | On Christmas Eve we also remembered to put out the cookies and milk for Santa . |
| 10 | Their case helped to trigger off a savings and loan crisis in Maryland in 1985 . |
| 11 | You used to switch off the lights and run . |
| 12 | Hall argued , however , that even this least satisfactory outcome would be worth while if it meant some of the long-term unemployed in the inner cities obtained jobs , and were thus able to climb up the skills and income levels . |
| 13 | Although admittedly criticizing some of his own work Hewitt ( 1983 ) believes that the perspective of this dominant view could be the single greatest impediment to improvement of the quality and effectiveness of natural disasters research , because it fails to recognize how the roots and occurrence of contemporary disasters depend upon the way ‘ normal everyday life turns out to have become abnormal ’ . |
| 14 | For example , it is sometimes difficult , when sitting in a British home or school , to appreciate fully the attitudes and motivation of characters , the humour , or even the value system in a Russian folk-tale or a story of modern life in Tokyo . |
| 15 | Fold together all the filling ingredients , taking care not to break up the marshmallows and banana slices . |
| 16 | We have only to look at what has happened in England and Wales to see why the fears that Opposition Members are expressing are so strongly founded . |
| 17 | The only way was to persuade one of the Met Officers to take over the observations and chart plotting for the day , and then we would all be back for the night duty . |
| 18 | This was sold to us , please , this was sold to us on the basis that it was going to bring in the baddies and sort out the baddies , and we 'd all live happily ever after . |
| 19 | Despite the level of organisation required to bring together the materials and expertise to produce complex items , it is still surprising how few have survived . |
| 20 | ‘ And I 'm going to have to make up the cameras and equipment , too , because we do n't have any . ’ |
| 21 | Another wrote of ‘ a new resurgence of idolatrous religion ’ in which ‘ the church is valued , if it is valued at all , to the extent that it helps to shore up the values and culture of Thatcherism . ’ |