Example sentences of "[to-vb] [art] [adv] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
Next pageNo | Sentence |
---|---|
1 | Williams also managed to induce the highly revered former cricketer , Learie Constantine , into becoming the chairman of the movement . |
2 | Selkirk promised to leave his customary token force and Corbett , grateful for Selkirk 's intervention and assistance on the French galley , began to thank the rather taciturn Scottish knight . |
3 | And Barbara looked back at Duvall to see the slowly spreading dark stain between his shoulder blades . |
4 | States were therefore keen to see the federally supported mental health centres as the new agencies which could play the leading role . |
5 | I recall a party at Althorp to see the newly cleaned 18th-century portraits by candlelight . |
6 | Following the French invasion of Spain in 1823 , to support the newly reestablished Spanish monarchy , many Spanish liberals fled to London where they settled in the neighbourhood of St Pancras . |
7 | DEC accounts for half MasPar 's sales ( Kalb would prefer it if that fell to 33% ) , and the firm is concerned that if DEC fails to position the ostensibly competing parallel lines clearly , potential customers will be confused . |
8 | The conference was being arranged for the Founders and regional activists to meet the newly arriving senior staff . |
9 | It was disappointing to note that the modern dressings , which were not available to DNs in 1979 , appear to have reduced the popularity of paste bandages and non-medicated tulles , while doing little to counteract the possibly damaging inappropriate use of antiseptics , antibiotics and steroids . |
10 | In this way four centuries of British art are considered , not with the intention of providing any comprehensive historical overview , although the last essay in the catalogue by Christine Hardyment ; attempts to provide a much needed historical perspective . |
11 | These considerations can be a factor in deciding whether to provide an individually based integrated situation which gives the visually handicapped pupil the chance to go to school with neighbourhood children . |
12 | Next door to him Sigmar Polke works in ink , wash and lacquer to provide an untidily wrapped brown paper parcel with a profusion of Ben Day dots and the cut-out metal remains of a Max Ernst frottage . |
13 | Cornelius looked up from his reading to view the spiffingly clad dining-car attendant . |
14 | Now a colourful scene of narrow boats with their traditional decoration , this was once a metropolis of water transport created in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries to serve the rapidly expanding local industries . |
15 | The Queen paused briefly to chat with children from the base as she made her way to view a specially prepared static display of the Corps ' role in providing technical and logistical support to the army . |
16 | They also suffered most from the centre-left government 's failure to push through reforms — in particular , its failure to modernize the badly overstretched social infrastructure in the northern cities to which the migrants had flocked . |
17 | In 1879–80 the partners added an engine works to their enterprise and the following year equipped the yard to handle the newly introduced open-hearth steel . |
18 | Glenis Pike , customer services manager at Swansea Homebase was delighted to receive a £5OO Sainsbury 's Community Service Award , and said : ‘ The money will be used to buy a much needed new cooker for my local community centre in Waunarlwydd , Swansea . ’ |
19 | Sometimes the chairman of a committee stands down temporarily from the chair in order to express a deeply felt personal view about an issue in which he has an interest . |
20 | If the plaintiff chooses a course which carries a risk of harm in order to avoid a reasonably perceived greater danger he will not be contributorily negligent . |
21 | He stopped again and we had to flatten ourselves against a wall as a Post Office van mounted the pavement to avoid an illegally parked British Telecom van . |
22 | In a case such as this , involving humans , it is not possible to perform a properly designed cause-to-effect experiment . |
23 | Investment Business Gazette Number 10 ( October 1990 ) sets out the minimum compliance requirements for such firms , included in which is the obligation to conduct a properly documented annual review of compliance procedures . |
24 | This relegation - for as such it was undoubtedly construed — to the domestic realm , whilst on the one hand promoting a higher status than before for women in terms of motherhood ( a status generated for society 's structural purposes and needs ) , also resulted in an overall decrease in women 's status generally , for , to use the well known Levi-Straussian model , the domestic unit — i.e. the ‘ biological ’ family concerned with reproducing and socializing new members of society — was seen as separate from the public entity — i.e. the superimposed network of alliances and relationships which comprised society proper , as it were . |
25 | Meanwhile they and nearly all other levels below them in geographical terms were condemned to use the rapidly inflating old notes . |
26 | Hewlett-Packard is going to try to steal some of Sun 's thunder this week by getting their top honchos to roll out a high-end multi-processor , reportedly code named Emerald , that will come to use the recently announced 7100 PA-RISC chip . |
27 | Despite Cabinet hostility , however , Henderson proceeded to persuade a specially summoned Labour party Conference to support the Stockholm initiative . |
28 | Unfortunately to get there I had to negotiate an amazingly convoluted one-way system . |
29 | Companies wishing to register on the EC eco-audit scheme will have to lodge an externally verified environmental statement with a competent body and Coles is hoping the IEA could take on the role of approving accredited verifiers . |
30 | In addition , afforestation programmes are under way in many nations to augment the rapidly diminishing natural forest resource and in some cases to halt environmental degradation . |