Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [adv] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I noticed with amusement that the tapestries hanging there illustrated the seven deadly sins . |
| 2 | They 're especially keen for young men and people from ethnic groups to come forward to add a wider selection of tissue types to the register . |
| 3 | Hunza peaks has just defeated a Swedish team , who disliked the steep , ice-covered slabs , climbed with apparent ease by Jones and Fowler . |
| 4 | None of these investments has yet made a decent return . |
| 5 | The abolition of those taxes has not done the average family any good , has it , or those at Lloyd 's ? |
| 6 | Nottinghamshire based Delahunty Associates has always provided a diverse service of sports reporting but now sees its role in tennis , in particular , developing . |
| 7 | Computer Associates has always had a devoted following for its SuperCalc spreadsheet . |
| 8 | The sale of council houses has also had an important effect on the distribution of wealth , increasing the amount of wealth in the possession of part of the working class . |
| 9 | Permoid of Aycliffe , Britain 's largest manufacturer of famous steel beer casks has just launched a new half a million pound production line in a bid to attract sales from Germany . |
| 10 | The meeting and mixing of diverse cultures has also had a profound impact on religious life in general , and on Christian theology in particular . |
| 11 | Two cameras , switched to give an almost negative image that enhances the metallic quality of the foliage ( and presaging the Dalek gunfire effect mentioned earlier ) , pan across the ashen forest in sweeping arcs , their pictures mixed together giving a greater impression of size to the dense , white foliage . |
| 12 | It is encouraging that the National Union of Journalists has now inserted an anti-ageist clause into its code of conduct . |
| 13 | The class of solutions included here contain an arbitrary number of parameters . |
| 14 | It would reveal not only the acceptance of cruelty , suffering , destruction , fighting , massacring , torturing and other terrible acts that humanity as a whole instinctively condemns , but also the corruption , superstition , misrepresentation of the truth and love of pomp and elaborate ritual that has been allowed to flourish within the powerful hierarchies built up to control the various churches within the religions . |
| 15 | There have been claims that the division of the state into three federal regions following the nationalist violence and other crises has seriously damaged the Belgian state and constitution . |
| 16 | An appeal for funds has just raised the first £100,000 , enabling the Museum to further improve the facilities offered to the visitors to this already fascinating centre of British aviation and motoring . |
| 17 | Her eyes flickered sideways to read the digital cost display ’ … . m afraid your budget … an no longer . |
| 18 | Michael 's love of animals has even played a significant part in moulding his career . |
| 19 | Those animals put down had a merciful release . |
| 20 | Excluding the para-military National Guard , they number only 4,400 , whereas the normal US garrison of about 10,000 men had already been augmented to 13,000 before airborne units parachuted in to secure the international airport and clear the way for further reinforcements . |
| 21 | In effect , the two new superpowers came together to crush the great powers of yesteryear ; and the growing voice of Afro-Asia in world affairs was heeded for the first time . |
| 22 | Passers-by pause here to admire the spectacular view over shanty-town rooftops , across the crater-like basin of the city to the Andean ranges on the other side . |
| 23 | How schools set about developing the statutory orders in the context of whole — curriculum policies represents a significant challenge for leadership and , not the least in primary schools , the strategies adopted by headteachers . |
| 24 | The Finns needed pilots badly and volunteers from many nations flooded in to join the Finnish Air Force , Asa among them . |
| 25 | The Buttholes brought back to rock the expanded WAISTLINE , a conspicuously WASTEFUL attitude to sound . |
| 26 | Antibiotics administered pre-operatively have a better chance of preventing infection . |
| 27 | From whatever inaccessible pit of bitterness the words reached out to touch an empty place in her own life . |
| 28 | Subjects took longer to answer a subsequent question like Did the boy that the man saw wave ? than one like Did the boy the man saw wave ? |
| 29 | Other cars screamed in to fill the sudden vacuum of our wake . |
| 30 | There are two reasons for this : ( a ) the correct words do not have a proven semantic relationship ( unlike the semantic pairs ) , and ( b ) the control words are not artificially selected but instead are random orthographic derivations of the correct words and therefore not necessarily unrelated . |