Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] [adj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He says : ‘ With so many companies going bust every week and defaulting on chains of suppliers who , in turn , are put in jeopardy of collapse it is urgent that the law be changed . ’ |
| 2 | In the case of Kuwait , invaded by Iraq in August 1990 , this would refer not only to the Iraqis setting alight the oil wells but to the deliberate pumping of six million barrels of oil from refineries into the Persian Gulf waters . |
| 3 | People say Microsoft Corp is making sure there 's a back door in the Alamo : in case Windows NT ca n't cut it , they claim there 's an internal research and development effort up in Bellevue making sure the company has a 32-bit multi-tasking version of MS-DOS to fall back on . |
| 4 | In the depth of the slump , with 3m jobless and a dozens of businesses going bust every day , the retailer has proved that food is still a big item on the nation 's menu . |
| 5 | By the second decade of the new century instrumental music in general had developed special properties rendering obsolescent the concept of composition ‘ da cantare et sonare per ogni instrumento ’ or ‘ apt both for viols and voices ’ , while at the same time concerted secular music for voices was beginning to be overtaken in popularity by the vocal solo or duet . |
| 6 | Sandra and Fashion Editor Caroline Baker had lots of fun making sure the pictures were perfect — and that Alex and her furry friend looked at the camera at just the right moment ! |
| 7 | Visit the Ironbridge Gorge , cradle of the World 's Industrial Revolution and The Black Country Museum at Dudley , working museums keeping alive the skills and industries of the 18th and 19th centuries . |
| 8 | The road , now the A.838 , crosses the water by a modern bridge making unnecessary the long detour around the head of the Kyle . |
| 9 | With competition becoming intense the first set of Motor Racing rules were drawn up for the Paris-Amsterdam-Paris race of 1898 . |
| 10 | ‘ In areas of the US such as Arizona they spend a lot of money making sure the product is moved off the shelf within three to five days or brought back . ’ |
| 11 | Neither the retailer nor the consumer needs to know or care where the product comes from , though some countries now have ‘ country of origin' rules making mandatory the display of this information . |
| 12 | The caravan parks getting black the dog , Bassa . |
| 13 | As darkness fell there was hardly a soul about , but just before 9pm it seemed the whole village poured out into the street , and there appeared two men carrying shoulder-high the most grotesque straw figure of a man , its eyes glowing in the darkness from torch bulbs hidden in its head . |
| 14 | The study by Butler and his associates is the most important in this area because they found not only that health visiting favoured no one class but also when a more sensitive analysis of the data was made that took account of over-crowding , house amenities , parental education , as well as father 's occupation , they found that the lower socio-economic groups received more health visiting . |
| 15 | [ For November 1989 Estonian Supreme Soviet resolution declaring illegal the republic 's annexation by the Soviet Union see p. 37045 . ] |
| 16 | On Feb. 1 the Sejm passed by 220 votes to six ( with 38 abstentions ) a resolution declaring illegal the introduction of martial law on Dec. 13 , 1981 [ see pp. 31389-401 ] . |
| 17 | Also addressing the Dolphin Centre rally was Darlington-born Tom Sawyer , deputy secretary of NUPE , who won a roar from the crowd when he announced new opinion poll findings giving Labour a six point lead . |
| 18 | But they soon became affectionately known as the lumberjills , an army of 3,000 women making sure the war effort was never hampered by a lack of timber . |
| 19 | A meeting of African environment ministers on Jan. 29 in Bamako , the Malian capital , adopted a convention making illegal the importation of hazardous and nuclear wastes into Africa [ for similar earlier agreements see p. 36789 ] . |
| 20 | So they said their prayers to Mary and all the saints in private ; they kept the law of the land by attending the bleak services in St Saviour 's ( whose walls , even now , were beginning to crumble ) while at the same time preserving intact the true Faith . |
| 21 | On the home front , the FT-SE 100 index took a 34½ point dive on Wednesday as the market reacted to the real threat of a Labour government after polls giving Labour a seven point lead . |
| 22 | Friends of the Earth ( FoE ) has launched a nationwide cinema commercial making explicit the connection between Third World debt , the UK 's High Street banks and rainforest destruction . |
| 23 | If you can not detect even the shallowest of breaths , attempt artificial respiration making sure the chest starts to rise . |
| 24 | The completed NEWOED1 form should be returned to the New OED Computer Group representative making sure a copy is retained . |
| 25 | The completed NEWOED2 form should be returned to the New OED Computer Group representative making sure a copy is retained . |
| 26 | That opportunity squandered was followed swiftly by the briefings for yesterday 's press to the effect that Delphic Douglas was in fact leaving open the door for an executive ratification of the original , unamended treaty irrespective of whatever parliament may decide . |