Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [adv prt] [art] [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She picked it up and set it on her knee , then began taking out the yellow and black wooden pieces and setting them on the board . |
| 2 | As the creatures soared up and down , their laughter began to take on an eerie and mournful tone . |
| 3 | In 1988 Brazil decided to set up a unified and decentralised health system and this process is now under way . |
| 4 | Only in this way , Brunner felt , could a theology based , quite properly , on the revelation in Jesus be preserved from operating in a vacuum , and enabled to open up the apologetic and educational perspectives essential to the missionary and pastoral work of the church . |
| 5 | Man 's increasing domestication meant he became more interested in the appearance of his home , and in the materials he wore to keep out the cold and wet . |
| 6 | And thirdly , the care and trouble he took to build up a splendid and lovely collection of contemporary , original works of art , to be displayed in schools . |
| 7 | Even on the assumption that Yusuf Bali did draw up the original and not just the copy , it does not by any means necessarily follow that he was acting as in so doing ; nor , further , does it necessarily follow that if he were acting as he was doing so in his father 's absence from Bursa , much less his absence on the pilgrimage . |
| 8 | Or maybe a process of natural selection had winnowed out the overworked and discontented , the theoretical and jaded and left the few who were propelled back to the school by the same affection , curiosity and remembered enthusiasm that had drawn us . |
| 9 | However , by simply being Mr Decent , ie by not declaring a desire to eliminate his opponents , or referring to expressions of social concern as ‘ drooling and drivelling ’ and people who care as ‘ moaning minnies ’ , John Major had put down a slender but steady plank for enough people to cross from a public culture of concern and responsibility to a private preference for Conservative government . |
| 10 | Their influence declined only slowly after the war because British military operations continued around the world as Britain at first struggled to retain her empire , and then , after Suez , fought to bring about a prudent and dignified withdrawal from colonial responsibility . |
| 11 | It refused to let back the 300,000 or so who crossed to the East Bank during or after the 1967 war , but it allowed 100,000 ‘ summer visitors ’ to cross each year to maintain contact with their families . |