Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | By April he had recovered sufficiently to travel to America once more , to see his sisters ; this visit is perhaps most remarkable for the fact that he addressed the largest assembly ever gathered to attend a literary lecture ( he also received what was then the largest fee for such an event , some two thousand dollars ) . |
| 2 | The IMF , however , taking into account another failure in the June test , suspended further drawdowns and negotiations commenced on the conditions for further assistance , expected to include a further devaluation . |
| 3 | Some focus on a particular joint-venture subsidiary company ; some involve the sharing of research and development ; some are an alliance of production capacity with marketing strength ; some involve putting a foreign product under a domestic label ; some alliances are intended to promote a new standard or form of compatibility ( and to defeat a rival standard ) . |
| 4 | As well as raising money for the National Trust for the Homeless , the event was intended to promote a National Sleepout next month . |
| 5 | In return , the Soviet Union pledges its support for the sanctity of Iraq 's own borders , promises to veto any attempt to impose penalties on Iraq , including any trial of Mr Hussein himself , and commits itself to helping to arrange a subsequent international discussion of regional issues . |
| 6 | In addition , this company also contributed to the Association 's efforts on behalf of the ‘ Reach for the Sky ’ Appeal by helping to arrange a Royal Film Gala night at their Shaftsbury Avenue cinema . |
| 7 | To start with , Alison planned to wear a white evening dress . |
| 8 | I I find this quite extraordinary Chairman after two years of consistently arguing and voting in committee and at council , they appear to have been bought off by the Labour group and now intend to support a fudged half merger , half federation option . |
| 9 | Primitive streak stage embryos can also be manipulated using a dissecting microscope but the lower resolution makes such manipulations less precise . |
| 10 | At a meeting of its environmental committee yesterday , Dunfermline District Council agreed to issue a public health notice against Fife Regional Council . |
| 11 | The Government intend to conduct a full review of the assisted areas — for all of Great Britain — early in the next Parliament . |
| 12 | The most militant fan of Sixties architecture would be hard pressed to support a last-minute appeal for the Bull Ring , although crocodile tears will be shed over the probable demolition of the Rotunda , a monumental steel and glass phallus , that , in the absence of a sky-piercing cathedral , acts as the city 's one instantly recognisable focal point . |
| 13 | More recently , at a Roman Catholic retreat , where we were asked to use no book other than the Bible , the personal daily direction given became a memorable means of the Holy Spirit 's teaching , healing , and guiding . |
| 14 | The rations given to Parnaka were surely intended to support a large household , of a feudal type ; in fact a household of what Herakleides called ‘ fellow-diners ’ . |
| 15 | This project involves building a new econometric macro-model of the UK economy that will incorporate this new theory if it proves consistent with UK evidence . |
| 16 | Jacobite polemicists sought to target a mass audience . |
| 17 | ‘ In most cases the auditor is best placed to conduct a thorough and expeditious investigation and need not be torn between his duties to two masters , ’ he adds . |
| 18 | The protesters were demanding to see a confidential document written by Anglian Water to the Scottish Office about the reorganisation of Scottish water . |
| 19 | The protesters were demanding to see a confidential AW document to the Scottish Office about Scottish water . |
| 20 | It 's at such times , as you sit eating a damp sandwich as water drips from your nose , as you scour the map for all the things you ca n't see , that you wonder why the hell you do it . |
| 21 | Free solution Capillary Electrophoresis ( CE ) with a UV detector ( Prime Vision , system IV , Europhor , France ) was developed using a 100 µm capillary , 60 cm in length ( 45 cm to the detector ) and TBE buffer ( 89 mM Tris , 89 mM boric acid , 2 mM EDTA , pH 8.3 ) . |
| 22 | Slides were developed using a Fast Red TR substrate ( Sigma ) and viewed under fluorescence conditions as described previously . |
| 23 | The aid was developed using a commercial expert system shell , but we found it necessary to integrate the shell with a spreadsheet for data input , with an algorithmic language for certain numeric calculations and with a graphics package for presentation of the output . |
| 24 | Phase one will be developed using a tension-leg platform ( TLP ) installed in 2933 feet of water with 24 integral well slots and two subsea satellite wells . |
| 25 | Perhaps I should n't interfere but I hate to see a young man throwing his life away . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I hate to see a decent man making a mess of his life . |
| 27 | If you intend using a small cast will it consist of the most fluent readers — those with the strongest voices — the best dancers — the top recorder group ? |
| 28 | By mid-afternoon , with DeFreitas absent nursing a sore groin , and after Botham and Lawrence had shared a fruitless new-ball partnership , Gooch 's men were looking right down the barrel . |
| 29 | So if you intend to paint a cold , bleak , winter scene , the grey would be an ideal choice . |
| 30 | This is thought to include demanding a substantial fee for each transaction , indemnities against any change of government or government policy , and for the Government — not the banks — to be unequivocally identified as responsible for its introduction . |