Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [verb] [conj] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Brand has struggled but showed some welcome improvement at Valderrama last week . |
| 2 | The School Development Plan emphasises a rational approach to decision-making by encouraging schools to focus on a limited number of priorities and devise action plans to implement and evaluate these . |
| 3 | In the early to mid-'80s , The Wasp Factory 's prole art debut would not have seemed so brave , but in releasing an album bound to infuriate and confuse most who cross its path at this time they really are pressing their luck . |
| 4 | In the early to mid-'80s , The Wasp Factory 's prole art debut would not have seemed so brave , but in releasing an album bound to infuriate and confuse most who cross its path at this time they really are pressing their luck . |
| 5 | This research aims to interpret and evaluate some of the developments following dereglation using micro-econoic theories of imperfect competition . |
| 6 | The defendant had raped and molested both girls from the time they were 11 or 12 until they were in their late teens . |
| 7 | The reasoning behind it being that she would not be able to come to terms with the notion of her mother being dead , so by removing her from the place where the tragedy had occurred and allowing enough time to pass , she would better be able to come to terms with her loss . |
| 8 | The trail seemed obvious enough , but my intended killer had come and gone that way — must have done — and if he should return for any reason I would n't want to meet him . |
| 9 | You must wait until the current work has completed or perform this work in the package/packages where the active DC already exists . |
| 10 | The Shell Better Britain Campaign exists to encourage and support such activity right across the United Kingdom . |
| 11 | That covers me for office work to negotiate to try and settle this case . |
| 12 | In their wisdom , the council had decided that to repeat all the slogans , wear the same swastika insignia and copy all the other mannerisms of the old Nazi party would simply create a credibility gap . |
| 13 | Predictably , much of the terminology used to describe and categorise these accounting systems can be confusing and misleading . |
| 14 | We reserve the right to decline to accept or retain any person as a client if their conduct is disruptive and affecting the enjoyment of other holidaymakers , and we shall be under no liability for any extra costs incurred by such a person as a result of our doing so . |
| 15 | We reserve the right to decline to accept or retain any person as a client if their behaviour is , in our opinion , or in the opinion of the driver , hotelier or accommodation owner or manager or other person in authority , likely to cause distress , damage , danger or annoyance to other people or to property . |
| 16 | In practice they are those cases in which the plaintiff seeks to enforce or protect some right vested in him ( eg , an injunction to restrain a breach of contract ) rather than those where he merely invites the court to exercise its powers to grant him some statutory relief ( eg an application by a debtor for a " time order " under Consumer Credit Act 1974 , s 129(1) ( b ) ) . |
| 17 | The war had interrupted and postponed many a career , J's amongst them , and he had three years ' university ahead of him before he would be in any position to marry . |
| 18 | Swapo remains the overwhelming favourite to win the United Nations-supervised elections next month , but claims that the organisation has detained and tortured many of its members in Angola and Zambia may deprive it of the two-thirds majority needed to form a government in an independent Namibia without holding another election . |
| 19 | I must have chosen this day to have gone and met this man . |
| 20 | Tradition criticism tries to pin-point and explain such changes . |
| 21 | Dr. Corrigan suggests that ‘ by the time the World Health Organisation have listed and checked all the herbs which could be used , doctors may find themselves prescribing herbs which were once dismissed as old wives ' tales ’ . |
| 22 | It is an exhibition designed to attract and reflect all aspects of health and leisure activities . |
| 23 | It is a word or phrase added to qualify or define another word or words in a sentence . |
| 24 | The Corporation demanded to see and approve all drawings . |
| 25 | The second and more common approach involves breaking or segmenting each cursive word into sub-parts . |
| 26 | Councillor has lived and worked all his life in with the exception of his war service in the army which was spent in the South of England , of which I will make mention later . |
| 27 | Sadly , the reporter despatched to attend and describe this promising event was quite unable to find it . |
| 28 | The picture improver attempted to restore or remove some of these points , with the possibility of an improved correlation between true area and A-measure . |
| 29 | Broadly speaking , the bureau has to remove or correct any entry which then turns out to be incorrect . |
| 30 | This approach could involve studying the statistical distribution of child abuse , or comparing a group of known child abusers with a non-abusing control group , in order to try to identify and isolate some of the factors that make it more likely that some parents will abuse their children . |