Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [adv prt] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Prior to this time , the early seventies , there was no real precedent for autonomous women 's groups organizing around a woman-only issue .
2 He had called in a local firm of builders to carry out the essential brickwork , plastering and re-tiling on the roof ; after that , he took a hand in the redecoration personally , splashing on new paint and putting up wallpaper .
3 This exclusion is designed to focus the Merger Regulation on operations bringing about a lasting change in the structure of the undertakings concerned .
4 Legislation created a host of unemployed bureaucrats , municipal and seigniorial officials , who exhibited what liberals called ‘ passive ’ opposition to the constitution — the refusal of local authorities to carry out the administrative changes and apply the laws of the Cortes .
5 Although there are plans to scale down the additional pension , this will not affect anyone retiring before 1998 and will only marginally affect those retiring by 2009 .
6 Not surprisingly , for a country which is second only to Russia for the scale of its distances ( and second to no country but Norway on a per capita energy consumption basis ) motor fuels make up the largest element of oil consumption .
7 Lionello Venturi considered lives of artists made up a basic category of art criticism , buttressing his opinion with accounts of writings by Vasari and others .
8 Notwithstanding the former grandeur of the Cathedral , Johnson wrote no more than a page on Elgin , concluding with an attractive clue to a traveller in his wake : ‘ In the chief street of Elgin , the houses jut over the lowest story , like the old buildings of timber in London , but with greater prominence : so that there is sometimes a walk for a considerable length under a cloister , or portico . ’
9 In fact , we are at the New Athenaeum Theatre at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama where New Moves is presenting the Vicente Saez company from Spain , the first of three European groups to round off a superb season of dance .
10 Like many animals , birds build up a mental map of their home area from sight , sound and other cues .
11 Brave attempts have been made by certain experts to write down the different miaows , in order to classify and standardize them .
12 LEGAL peers renewed their attack on the Government 's plans to shake up the legal profession yesterday , when the Courts and Legal Services Bill had its second reading in the Lords .
13 The Royal College of Nursing is to lobby Parliament on 24 October in protest at the Government 's plans to shake up the National Health Service , the union has announced .
14 Thus David Reynolds and Christopher Thorne have resorted to such phrases as " competitive co-operation " or " allies of a kind " in their attempts to sum up the famous wartime partnership .
15 GIGN , with the finish of all but the parachuting stage within sight , gave up all chances to sleep for 58 hours to pull out a three hour lead over the second placed team , L'Arche .
16 Inkeroinen is a scattering of shops and houses clustered around a small railway junction .
17 Now British Gas have been forced to scrap plans to pull down the 110-year-old hulk .
18 It took her several minutes to shake off the resulting stupefaction .
19 The bells crashed out the joyous news practically all day .
20 The latter two are vital in controlling particulate ( soot ) emission , as burnt oil and sulphates make up a significant chunk of the black stuff that swirls away from the exhaust stack .
21 Bad luck on the Liberal Flemish Freedom and Progress Party ( PVV ) and the Francophone Liberal Reform Party ( PRL ) , who got left out and with a handful of other minority parties make up a discordant opposition .
22 Should the change in relationships bring about an unexpected clash with yet another component domain , then it may be sufficient to display only the excursion boxes .
23 Therefore , it was possible for subjects to carry out a certain amount of integration of information even when they did not know the theme of the passage .
24 Many people also complain that our present hierarchies bring out the nastier aspects of human behavior , like greed , insensitivity , careerism and self-importance .
25 Does not that make it difficult for the United Nations to carry out a peacekeeping role ?
26 The look in her eyes filled in the unspoken words in her sentence .
27 The two pictures hanging on the wooden beam in the left of the photograph perhaps show a more popular way of displaying miniatures , which is nonetheless very attractive .
28 Winds blowing over lakes pick up a tremendous amount of moisture which is then precipitated downwind of the lakes .
29 Mr Ishaq has also been at work on the Sindh assembly , in which Miss Bhutto 's supporters make up the biggest group .
30 Inside , the great piers curve up the interior space and emphasise the verticality of the design .
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