Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [verb] [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It drove him mad when she turned herself into a sphinx as a ruse to avoid facing the truth . |
| 2 | John Larson , Head of Inorganic and Sculpture Conservation at the National Museums and Galleries on Merseyside , who is also pioneering the laser scanner , has been using a type of laser developed by Loughborough University in a trial run to clean the limestone sculptures at Lincoln Cathedral . |
| 3 | Apart from this , the Emperor was afraid that if the Duke de Montpensier , who was married to Isabella 's sister , became King there would be a civil war in Spain as there had been in 1830 , when ‘ a sister had dethroned a sister ’ . |
| 4 | Fears that the economy was on the verge of a recession eased following the report that unemployment had held steady in August at 5.2 per cent , however , adult unemployment rose by 50,000 or 0.1 per cent , in September 1989 . |
| 5 | Once a case has reached the magistrates ' court , responsibility for granting or refusing bail becomes a matter for the court itself , but only after hearing representations from the Crown Prosecution Service if the latter decides to oppose a bail application . |
| 6 | I remember saying this was a bit leisurely , was n't it , but there was some apparently reasonable explanation , like no one gave any notice that they were going to die and the partnership could be a bit pushed to produce the cash if it was the wrong time of year . |
| 7 | I had to react in a split second , so I was a bit hurt to see the papers on Tuesday morning suggesting that my actions in that one second cost England the Test match . |
| 8 | In August 1988 both sides had agreed in principle to a UN peace plan calling for a ceasefire and exchange of prisoners and to a referendum designed to give the inhabitants of the territory ( administered as a Spanish colony until 1976 ) a choice between independence or integration into Morocco . |
| 9 | Everett ( H.C. , 1989 ) it was held that the court had jurisdiction to review a decision to refuse to issue a passport even although this involved the exercise of a prerogative power . |
| 10 | ( 2 ) A licensing board shall not make any arrangements under subsection ( 1 ) above for the discharge of any of the following functions : ( a ) making a decision on the application for the grant , including the provisional grant , of a new licence ; ( b ) making a decision on an application for the renewal of a licence where a competent objection has been lodged ; making a decision to refuse to grant the renewal of a licence ; making a decision on the permanent transfer of a licence ; ( c ) making a decision on an application for a regular extension of permitted hours ; ( d ) making a decision on the restriction of the terminal permitted hour ; making a decision on an application for restoration of restricted hours ; ( e ) making a decision on an application for Sunday opening under Part 1 of Schedule 4 to this Act other than an application and 13 of that Schedule where no objection is made in relation to the application ; ( f ) making a decision as regards a Sunday restriction order or the revocation of such an order under Part II of Schedule 4 to this Act ; making a decision on the suspension of a licence ; making a decision on a closure order . |
| 11 | The ruling executive wanted a decision postponed to assess a review of benefits and taxation . |
| 12 | But Mr Smith warned : ‘ This will be a budget designed to save the skin of the Chancellor , not a budget to rescue the British economy . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ The time has come to make it clear that it is only where a taxpayer has established the existence of a profit-generating operation carried on by him outside Hong Kong that he can hope to escape the charge to profits tax imposed by section 14 . |
| 14 | In order to create distinct patterns the mind has to separate things sharply one from the other , just as a driver seeks to separate the road from its borders even in dim light . |
| 15 | DPP ( 1937 ) , where a driver had killed a pedestrian whilst overtaking another car . |
| 16 | It was the night a driver had put a letter into Molly 's hands and called her Signora Kettering . |
| 17 | A course designed to meet the needs of people in industry who have to communicate in English during their working lives . |
| 18 | A sentence spent defining a word or phrase can make valid the rest of your answer . |
| 19 | This dual emphasis on the reader and on analysis of texts in units larger than a sentence seems to offer the beginnings at least of a new approach to text research , one which moves beyond a correlational approach to readability and starts instead to identify causal relationships between aspects of texts and difficulties in comprehension . |
| 20 | Moreover the interpreter of a text has to make a decision on the relative importance of the different elements in a work , and he has to find a way of relating these elements to one another . |
| 21 | Even if a board retire to consider a decision they must vote in public : Najafian v. Glasgow District Licensing Board , 1987 S.C.L.R. 679 . |
| 22 | In 1904 the Ontario Provincial Geologist , impressed by the quantities of the rare mineral cobalt he had detected in the ores of one locality , Long Lake , put up a post with a board attached bearing the legend ‘ Cobalt Station , Temiskamming and Northern Ontario Railway ’ . |
| 23 | Unlike a factory which depends for its efficiency on changing technology , the investment of labour , materials and energy represented in a building continues to yield a return even centuries after its construction . |
| 24 | The result is a lyrical prose particularly effective when it serves to embody a singing climax at strategic points — a not unsurprising tactical manoeuvre on the part of a writer trying to intimate the reality of a mystical experience which he expresses as transposing everyday speech to song . |
| 25 | If a writer has produced a song he or she thinks is a must for Cliff Richard , a major publisher is most likely to get that song where it needs to be in order to interest Cliff . |
| 26 | For example , it may be a fact that a writer has used the work of others without their permission . |
| 27 | Unless a writer chooses to manipulate a narrative for particular effects , such as using flashbacks , the progression of events in a narrative text is dictated by the progression of events in the imagined world of the story . |
| 28 | Significant budget measures included a 26 per cent increase in foreign exchange made available at auction , a measure expected to stabilize the naira ; the end of state funding for the two political parties ( the Social Democratic Party and the National Republican Convention ) ; and a doubling of the minimum wage ( from the level of N125 per month set in 1981 ) for public-sector employees . |
| 29 | A measure having received the approval of a majority in both Houses and the Royal Assent is recognised by the common law as an Act of Parliament . |
| 30 | And they collected so much they had to use a milk float to deliver the load . |