Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [adv prt] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Those animals put down had a merciful release . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The Finns needed pilots badly and volunteers from many nations flooded in to join the Finnish Air Force , Asa among them . |
| 6 | The Buttholes brought back to rock the expanded WAISTLINE , a conspicuously WASTEFUL attitude to sound . |
| 7 | From whatever inaccessible pit of bitterness the words reached out to touch an empty place in her own life . |
| 8 | Other cars screamed in to fill the sudden vacuum of our wake . |
| 9 | Two of its tentacles shot out to grasp the little boat . |
| 10 | German companies rallied round to form a holding company just to buy Daimler shares . |
| 11 | Companies rushing up to endorse the still nameless IBM Corp-Hewlett-Packard Co-Sun Microsystems Inc common user interface for Unix effort ( CI No 2,130 ) include Software AG , IBM 's Personal Software Products division , Computer Associates International Inc , Unisys Corp and Ask Computer Systems Inc ; the Object Management Group stood in the wings enthusiastically applauding . |
| 12 | In an effort to curb the man-eaters some very strange ruses have recently been attempted , including putting out dummy woodcutters wired up to give an electric shock . |
| 13 | Bitterly disappointed , Harrison abandoned medical reform , but his ideas lived on to provide a solid basis for future important developments , which culminated in the Medical Act of 1858 . |
| 14 | So many mourners turned up to say a final goodbye to nurse , Sharon Hill , that some had to stand outside Gloucester crematorium for the service . |
| 15 | The Truman Administration had already been forced by Congress to end Lend-Lease ; many of the joint boards set up to co-ordinate the Anglo-American war effort were summarily dismantled ; and , although the Combined Policy Committee and the Combined Development Trust survived , the flow of technical information , on which Britain was depending to set up her own atomic establishments , began to dry up . |
| 16 | These are the inhabitants of the second country contained within Panama : the poor slum dwellers of Colon and Panama City , many of them black ( and many still English-speaking ) , descendants of the Caribbean workers brought in to build the inter-oceanic means of communication , first the railway , then the canal . |
| 17 | The Yankees went on to assemble an unequalled record of 22 World Series victories ; generations of Sox fans have not a single one to cherish . |
| 18 | His trousers come off showing a fluffy , defensive little cluster of genitalia , cowering at the prospect of a dip in the spangly waters . |
| 19 | Four horses and riders set out to complete the cross-country course , although only three must finish to score . |
| 20 | Small things build up to give a positive lasting impression and provide the main opportunity to enhance the reputation of the company — in this every employee has a role to play . |
| 21 | This creative period was followed by an exploitive period in which many theoretical physicists moved in to apply the new mechanics to a host of significant problems . |
| 22 | Not until the machines moved in to throw a great concrete runway across the fields , and buildings grew like mushrooms overnight and were camouflaged brown and black and green , and the bombers roared in , and Rob came … |
| 23 | Begun under the Labour government of Mr David Lange and his Finance Minister , Mr ( now Sir ) Roger Douglas , the reforms set about dismantling the generous subsidies to farming , New Zealand 's largest industry . |
| 24 | For Wasps , there was no chance of making a recovery — even though their duck was eventually broken when Rick Brevant passed to Robert Forbes with 13 minutes remaining — Pandas running on to complete a comfortable victory with three goals in 90 seconds . |
| 25 | It is only if theologians go on using the old equipment ( sun goes round earth etcetera ) that they fall out with the philosophers and scientists . |
| 26 | That night , Dot was to sleep on two extra blankets folded over to make a thin mattress for he , the man , would be in the bed where Dot used to sleep . |
| 27 | Even the present Cabinet wo n't want to admit it 's had right-wing desperadoes running around interrupting the even tenor of its betrayals . |
| 28 | THE Cathedral bells rang out to celebrate the safe return of three cyclists who had completed a marathon trip from St Peter 's Rome , to St Peter 's , Lancaster , in order to raise money for the restoration of the bells . |
| 29 | from the beginning , the partners set out to offer a global service , establishing a European and North American network of associated consultancies , shortly to be extended to the far East . |
| 30 | The barricades go up to block an illegal rave . |