Example sentences of "[ex0] [verb] the [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One view central to the lawyer/economist is that , in a world where , on the one hand , resources ( all of which have alternative uses ) are limited through scarcity and where on the other hand , there exists the insatiable human desire to consume those resources , then inevitably , trade-offs and choices must somehow be made . |
| 2 | There followed the first foreign occupation of Japan in its long history . |
| 3 | Slowly there emerged the rural three-class system which reached its apogee in the eighteenth century : aristocratic landowners could live in civilised leisure from the rents of tenant farmers who in turn employed landless wage-workers . |
| 4 | There remains the other great source of money from abroad — one in return for which , with a single uncomfortable proviso , Greece needs to do nothing . |
| 5 | By 1980 , with the IPC ‘ H ’ line to Haifa long since closed , there remained the 1.4 million b/d ‘ T ’ line to Tripoli on the Lebanese coast , with its branch off to the Syrian port at Banias . |
| 6 | Half a minute later the front door was tugged gently open , and there stood the slim nightgowned figure of Molly Hopkins , curlers and all . |
| 7 | There stood the wise old Chinaman whom the wise old Moravian would greet every morning when he entered . |