Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [verb] [adv] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Kids kept insisting on actually meeting ‘ The Raisins ’ , so they were brought to life for celebrity appearances in New York 's Thanksgiving Day Parade — and even for the presidential inauguration , ’ said Ms Wood . |
| 2 | By this time the law relating to the protection of the king 's deer within the ‘ purlieus ’ or forest outskirts had become more clearly defined . |
| 3 | Foxes and other hunting animals need to know how far to pounce to catch their prey . |
| 4 | Although there are regional differences , social and marital roles have become less clearly defined and structured than they were half a century ago . |
| 5 | BR spokesman Barry Speke said renovation planners had to consider how best to combine the character of the building with modern facilities demanded by passengers in the 1990s . |
| 6 | Contributions which he and his workmates have made so far exceed a splendid £1,576 . |
| 7 | Nothing the Conservatives have said so far has caught my fancy , still less warmed my heart ; or , I am glad to say , shocked me to the core . |
| 8 | As I found when I took the time to listen to parents and hear what they said , the views advanced did not always fit the latest fashion or an approved passage in a book on sociology . |
| 9 | As the importance of caring for carers has become more widely recognised , so too has the realisation that making better support for carers a reality is the responsibility not of a single agency but of many . |
| 10 | Polls suggested that Kennedy 's approval rating amongst his Massachusetts constituents had fallen so dramatically following the episode that he might fail to secure re-election in 1994 . |
| 11 | Never mind what you read and hear to the contrary ; your plants have had quite enough shock as it is without adding to it . |
| 12 | This plan is useful only for people whose incomes have risen fast enough to meet payments on the new loan and the debt on their old mortgage . |
| 13 | Like other Central Europeans who had lived and grumbled under the Habsburgs , Hungarians have had even more to grumble about since . |
| 14 | In the five minutes spent walking fast enough to shake them off , I 'm in the crowds in the main square , Djemaa el Fna . |
| 15 | Certain teams did become very loosely identified with Catholic or Protestant support in Liverpool and Manchester , but this was never a prominent feature of English football or a significant source of violence . |
| 16 | Finubar 's reign was marred only by the great Chaos Incursion when it looked as if the Dark Powers had returned once more to claim the world . |
| 17 | At the same time , as a result of Spanish-American fiction 's growing popularity , the work of the earlier writers mentioned became more widely known and some of them went on to enhance their reputation by producing new works in the 1960s and 1970s . |
| 18 | You may need to adjust it at the centre on long pieces since the ends tend to pull rather tightly to start with . |
| 19 | ‘ We think this can do even better because it 's for home charities and also because many of the names involved do n't usually contribute to compilation albums , such as Genesis and Cher . ’ |
| 20 | The alternative solution is that the structure of ownership had changed little since 1522 , and that most land values recorded at that date represented the profits from subletting customary holdings — mostly in small parcels since the sums involved did not generally exceed ten or twelve shillings . |
| 21 | The question is whether prices and mortgage rates have fallen far enough to ensure that this position will be reached in the near future . |
| 22 | Their bodies have grown out sideways to form great " wings ' . |
| 23 | None of Mao 's or Mr Deng 's heirs has survived long enough to assume fully their designated role as successor . |
| 24 | Workplaces continued to get ever more choked up , not just by strikes , but by restrictions on who was allowed to do what , a refusal to adopt new technology , and so on . |
| 25 | It did result in er an improvement in the share situation and in the er strength of the pound , but I understand the share prices have dropped rapidly again following further news of oil price increases . |
| 26 | It was , therefore , a proud Rainer Zobel — the Kaiserslautern coach — who said : ‘ My players have done very well to come here and succeed . |
| 27 | If the ropes do jam then please remember that the great Giusto Gervasutti met his death during just such a retrieval operation . |
| 28 | There are a number of refinements designed to produce even better smooths . |
| 29 | That campaign involves a series of ballots designed to last long enough to prevent the closures , while stopping short of a Yes vote on opting-out . |
| 30 | A report in the London Evening Standard stated that the chairman , David Rowland , and the chief executive , Peter Middleton , are ‘ actively considering ’ tapping international capital markets to help bail out financially strapped ‘ names ’ , the individuals whose capital supports the market . |