Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] [verb] [to-vb] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are required to think about the new language and with guidance are helped to work out the rules of grammar for themselves . |
| 2 | Angry students at Margaret Thatcher 's old Oxford college are threatening to sue over a decision to admit men . |
| 3 | In a memorable analogy the black African nationalist ( and socialist ) leader Leopold Senghor had said that the French Union must not be built like a cage that no one would care to enter ; but in the Ho-Sainteny agreement the Vietminh were in effect being asked to take up the tenancy of a building that had not yet been constructed . |
| 4 | A crash programme is needed to build up the economy , boost training and create new jobs . ’ |
| 5 | Whilst no attempt is made to play down the importance of local rules to meet local needs , the existence of certain shared values is reflected in the provisions of the Code . |
| 6 | What worries me , said one Vice-Chancellor , is that the policy of the government is to leave the universities autonomous , as they are , with the implication that they are irresponsible , to stew in their own juice , while an attempt is made to build up a rival system , via the CNAA . |
| 7 | At the moment it seems that Labour is poised to pick up a good swathe of its targets — but not , yet , quite enough of them to put Mr Kinnock safely into Downing Street . |
| 8 | Here short-pile fabric is used to pick out the main pattern shapes , providing a relief pattern that highlights the design . |
| 9 | For instance , an employee is asked to send in a regular report on how certain work is progressing . |
| 10 | But with this , as with council-house building , no real attempt was made to turn back the clock on processes that were ultimately totally to transform the character of Britain 's housing market . |
| 11 | An attempt was made to blow up a police chief . |
| 12 | After which an attempt was made to set out the most elementary logical conditions that must be satisfied before anything can qualify as a potential existent . |
| 13 | In addition to the methods mentioned above , which were used specifically to evaluate the undergraduate information retrieval course , an attempt was made to carry out a long-term study on the use of the library with regard to reasons for use , materials used , success in carrying out literature searches etc . |
| 14 | In February 1952 an attempt was made to burn down an Evangelical church in Seville , and Cardinal Segura published a virulently anti-Protestant pastoral letter , in which he effectively accused Franco of betraying the sacred identity of Spain as a Catholic nation . |
| 15 | Child labour was bound to take on a different quality when removed from the home and , in the case of the pauper factory apprentices , from the locality of upbringing . |
| 16 | Leeds ' former England defender was forced to sit out the final ten matches of last season 's title charge with an ankle injury that needed surgery . |
| 17 | Now a local Tory MP is demanding that Shire Hall be sold to pay off the authority 's massive debts . |
| 18 | Depreciation is calculated to write off the cost or valuation of tangible assets other than freehold land over their estimated useful lives . |
| 19 | Depreciation is provided to write off the cost or valuation , less estimated residual values , of all tangible fixed assets , except freehold lane , over their expected useful lives . |
| 20 | Depreciation is provided to write off the cost less estimated residual values of all fixed assets , except freehold land , over their expected useful lives . |
| 21 | Depreciation is provided to write off the cost less estimated residual values of all fixed assets , except freehold land , over their expected useful lives . |
| 22 | Arthur 's fling with Mrs Hewitt , played by Michael Aspel 's wife , Lizzie Power , has turned into a serious affair and the unlikely Lothario is trying to pluck up the courage to leave his wife , Pauline . |
| 23 | Repeated presentation of a stimulus is held to bring about a decline in the size of the attentional response . |
| 24 | ‘ Considering the Council is planning to close down the Library because you ca n't keep track of things properly . ’ |
| 25 | Suffice it to observe meanwhile that no great arithmetical nous is required to work out a formula indicating the limit of the WGMS 's capacity to rectify anomalies . |
| 26 | Tear gas was used against demonstrators at Brokdorf and Grohnde in West Germany ; at Kalkar a moat was dug to keep out an army of protesters . |
| 27 | A thirteen-person steering committee was elected to draw up a draft constitution and a programme of activities . |
| 28 | A joint committee was empowered to draw up a plan for mutual inspections . |
| 29 | This year , a huge worldwide advertising campaign was launched to bring back the lost visitors , to a ‘ new , kinder , more ethnically integrated ’ country . |
| 30 | Sometimes the child was allowed to pick up a camera ( an attractive toy ) and then a loud buzzer would sound . |