Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He confesses his initial involvement to Sutherland , but will not say what happened after the petrol station unless Keifer agrees to go through the same process , starting with the taking of a sleeping draught . |
| 2 | He confesses his initial involvement to Sutherland , but will not say what happened after the petrol station unless Keifer agrees to go through the same process , starting with the taking of a sleeping draught . |
| 3 | Q : I think that is because people see it as an act of desperation when an actress agrees to appear in a nude magazine like Playboy . |
| 4 | He crawls , in a shame of abasement , when he longs to leap like a flung wave , like a cloud of starlings . |
| 5 | The amendment stated that the USA would attempt to dissuade any NATO ally from making force reductions , and that , should this attempt fail , the USA would seek to persuade other NATO allies to compensate for the resultant shortfall in overall NATO force levels . |
| 6 | But if you just take those points er an and , and think them through in your own mind about how this system of government differs say from the British system of government and the position of local government in the British system , you can see that , well we do n't really have local government do we ? |
| 7 | The persons liable to pay the tax are the trustees of the settlement and when the interest that is terminated has subsisted in a fixed sum or specific property so that the tax comes out of the property remaining in settlement , the value transferred will have to be grossed up to include it . |
| 8 | To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what representations he has received on the proposed council tax . |
| 9 | To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what representations he has received about the future strength of the Territorial Army in Scotland . |
| 10 | To ask the Secretary of State for Energy what representations he has received from the Combined Heat and Power Association about the barriers to the wider use of combined heat and power ; and what action he proposes . |
| 11 | Will he confirm that all the professional advice that he has received from the Royal Navy is that only four boats absolutely guarantees an effective nuclear deterrent for this country ? |
| 12 | There are few parts of Prestel where you can get information of this quality for free and it is heartening to know that the service has been gradually tailored to users ' needs by the feedback AIS has received from the past year . |
| 13 | To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what recent representations he has received from the Scottish steel industry . |
| 14 | To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science whether he will make a statement on his replies to representations which he has received regarding the future financing of adult education . |
| 15 | He stands gazing at the middle barrel . |
| 16 | Not surprisingly these measures have been controversial , and a central-local battle has developed with a strong party political character . |
| 17 | A particularly dangerous trap in analysis has developed with the increasing use of computers in data analysis . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | All this has , of course , been made possible both by technological revolutions in transport and communication and by the lengthy period of free movements of the factors of production over a vast area of the globe which has developed since the second world war . |
| 20 | Before I do so I must say something about the way in which the U K economy has developed since the latter half of the nineteenth century . |
| 21 | The preface to any argument for giving history an important position in the school curriculum of the 1990s must be an examination of the way in which history has developed into a multi-skilled discipline which has immense relevance to the general and vocational education of students . |
| 22 | Scientific debate about this has developed into a veritable battle of faith . |
| 23 | ‘ About art and commercialism , ’ said Brian , ‘ what you should say is this : that advertising has developed into a valuable art-form and the big international companies are the art patrons of today , but instead of just keeping one artist the industry employs thousands of talented people . ’ |
| 24 | But the personalities of the fossil hunters involved have ensured that this protective move by the Ethiopians has developed into an acrimonious tussle . |
| 25 | This is done only when the fluffy coat of the youngster has developed into the waterproofed fur covering of an adult . |
| 26 | Also the junction between the uncorroded metal and the applied patina is very sharp , whereas a patina which has developed over a long period of time will have eaten into the metal in a very irregular and quite characteristic manner that is very difficult to imitate . |
| 27 | I have enjoyed reading all your letters and look forward to continuing the two-way communication that has developed over the past year . |
| 28 | However one chooses to interpret it , the mystical experience has been a fact of life , once human consciousness has developed to a particular point . |
| 29 | The Oxford Polytechnic scheme is sui generis : the extent to which it has developed in a particular context of constraints and opportunities makes many of the decisions it has made and many of the systems it has adopted difficult to transfer to other institutional frameworks . |
| 30 | This happens when tension , which has developed in the rectal wall , impedes further radial expansion . |