Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [prep] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These accounts succeeded in attracting a large number of customers , so that the banks were forced to respond by offering interest-bearing current accounts with effect from 1989 . |
| 2 | At first , the Germans succeeded in penetrating a single point in the British line to the north . |
| 3 | I find in my files Bawden 's own account , written out in his finicky copperplate hand , of his own quasi-William Morris enterprise as a designer-manufacturer of wallpapers in the late 1930s : ‘ The desire to do wallpaper designs arose from seeing a furnished room hung with William Morris 's ‘ Daisy ’ at the Wembley International Exhibition . |
| 4 | relief images formed by using a recessed die . |
| 5 | Third , the common feature of most routes will be the reliance on a rational reconstruction of a process of bargaining by which the common overriding goal of reaching an agreement leads the parties to compromise by accepting a less than perfect doctrine as the optimally realizable second best . |
| 6 | No other parties succeeded in reaching the 5 per cent threshold required to win representation . |
| 7 | Discussions of how the relative strength of States should be evaluated were common , but none of their authors succeeded in finding a clear or universally applicable solution to the problem . |
| 8 | Without adding much to the defensive capabilities of the palace , these outworks succeeded in masking the original work of Shah Jehan ‘ like a veil over a beautiful bride , ’ as Dr Jaffery put it . |
| 9 | The elaborate four-track layout completed in 1925 allowed cars to reverse without impeding the through cars . |
| 10 | There are plenty of bars and restaurants to choose from to enjoy a cool beer in . |
| 11 | Against the US mainstream culture of rose-tinted kitsch ( which Milan Kundera defines as ‘ the refusal to accept that shit exists ’ ) , bands like Big Black , Flipper and the Buttholes react by devising a near-catastrophic conception of ‘ authenticity ’ . |
| 12 | Five regional autonomy parties moved towards forming a political bloc under the leadership of the Lombardy League . |
| 13 | When trainees are allowed to begin interviewing on their own under supervision they have already been accepted as CAB trainee advice workers , but in the GLCABS structure where candidates begin by observing the interviewing process they may not yet have formally passed the selection procedure . |
| 14 | Second , it provides safeguards against the police inaccurately recording or inventing the words used in questioning a detained person . |
| 15 | In the last two decades world production of electricity has roughly doubled , with the developing nations pulling towards overtaking the developed . |
| 16 | Inspectors told of finding a sickening harvest of leaves , grease and dead insects in cupboards and drawers . |
| 17 | They would do well to remember that his record shops began by running an illegal scheme which meant that records that were marked for export ( and therefore exempt from tax ) were sold domestically , a scam that only ended when Branson was caught and fined . |
| 18 | This chapter describes the methods employed in creating a statistical syntactic processor to assist in text recognition . |
| 19 | It may well be that his nocturnal anxieties began on hearing the nightly ministrations by which his father was nursed — to a young boy , eerie and mysterious , doubtless at times frenetic ; no doubt they were exacerbated after his death , as sorrow and loss impinged . |
| 20 | Age Concern England and Edward Arnold have jointly produced a book which brings together various authors experienced in addressing the particular needs of elders from ethnic minorities . |
| 21 | Some schools had benefited from government funds allocated to implementing the national curriculum , with one reporting a grant of £20,000 over three years . |
| 22 | With a General Election in the offing the Ballot provided a perfect framework for opposition parties to co-operate in setting the foreign policy agenda , without in any way compromising their own independence . |
| 23 | They therefore called on all parties to co-operate in allowing the safe passage of aid [ see p. 39225 for Somalia aid crisis ] . |
| 24 | But seeing her sister 's eyes turn from contemplating the deep indigo square of sky above the courtyard , and come to rest on her face in grief-stricken entreaty , she faltered , shrugged , and with impatient gestures , moved her over to make room on the bench where she dumped herself down . |
| 25 | However , the risks associated with building a large PWR are considerable . |
| 26 | Although there appear to be few operational savings planned from combining the two groups , three major benefits are expected to result from the merger : |
| 27 | The column to the right refers to words accessed by running a fine-class hand transcription through Lexical Access . |
| 28 | Projected profiles consist of drawing the first section completely , while parallel sections behind the first are only drawn in so far as they project above earlier sections ( Fig. 9.17 ) . |
| 29 | Zenawi told a press conference in London on the afternoon of May 28 that a temporary administration would before July 1 organize a conference to enable all groups to participate in forming a broad-based provisional government . |
| 30 | ‘ The cops suspected of killing the two old guys have been suspended but not arrested , even though I 'm told there 's a suspicion that murder is involved . |