Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] and [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suddenly he gave a frightened start , for he had nearly fallen asleep and the ground below seemed a long distance away . |
| 2 | Bank lending and consumer credit remain depressed and the analysts are still hopefully waiting for today 's figures on retail sales in January to provide some conclusive evidence that demand is poised to recover . |
| 3 | The majority of the workforces in the Middle East remain multinational and the vast labour forces of the Subcontinent and far East are readily available and accessible to companies operating in the Middle East . |
| 4 | Relatively few have survived from antiquity , since silver became scarce and a much sought after commodity in the late Empire . |
| 5 | After a brief , acid interval , the terms became right and the bargain was struck . |
| 6 | Worst of all was the four-year reign of terror when a female chimp , Passion , turned killer ; during this gruesome time only one infant survived Passion and her daughter 's cannibalistic attacks , until they both became pregnant and the deaths stopped . |
| 7 | Happily , I became pregnant and the hair disappeared . |
| 8 | At age 20 she became pregnant and the pregnancy was complicated by episodes of small and large bowel obstruction . |
| 9 | The separate Norfolk Red and Suffolk Dun gradually became extinct and the Red Poll was East Anglia 's dominant breed for many years . |
| 10 | On 4 January 1576 , for instance , Francis Talbot told his father , the Earl of Shrewsbury , that ‘ the Council be all at the court ; they sit daily and the ambassadors [ of France ] come to them ’ . |
| 11 | More people became interested and the field expanded rapidly once the exact composition of the prostaglandins was known . |
| 12 | Therefore V c falls until it reaches the lower logic 0 threshold ( V- ) , upon which the output once more goes high and the cycle repeats . |
| 13 | An Act of 1849 repealed the Navigation Laws , enabling foreign ships to import into British possessions in Asia , Africa and America and to carry the goods of any nation into Britain itself , though the masters and three-quarters of the crew of British vessels were to remain British and the coasting trade was to remain in British hands , at least for the time being . |
| 14 | Whereas country life had before been relatively quiescent , it now became unsettled and the foci of dissatisfaction altered ; protests against taxes were regularly staged from about 1540 , and after 1550 gave way to larger-scale insurrections such as those at Romans in 1580 , in the south west during the 1590s , and , much later , the Camisard rebellion in the Cévennes which began in 1688 . |
| 15 | By Oct. 17 the police had managed to restore calm and the curfew was partially lifted . |
| 16 | If erm things should start to go wrong and the chap on the floor erm was to make any movement or s sudden movement towards either P C or any other piece of equipment in the room which may cause injury or damage to ourselves or himself , it would be down to me to challenge that man er and allow P C to get back behind er the ballistic shield . |
| 17 | They scattered across the dirt plaza that gave the low-lying village its air of consequence ; those whose homes lay uphill began their journey with scuffling games of last-lick which ceased as the road became steep and the heat too strong . |
| 18 | The minimum temperature six Celsius , that 's forty three Fahrenheit , Wednesday starting cloudy with some further patchy light rain or drizzle in places , but during the afternoon most parts becoming dry and a little brighter . |
| 19 | The way to help dormice is to encourage hazel and a wide variety of other trees and shrubs the animals feed on . |
| 20 | Come dusk the place starts to come alive and the narrow streets behind the harbour , with it 's vast array of magnificent wood-built sailing cruisers , turn into a huge open air jamboree with everybody jostling , shopping , eating , drinking and generally having a good time . |
| 21 | The reply came from an under-secretary who said that the present funding was considered adequate and the commercial undertaking would be ill-advised . |
| 22 | Pulling it over to frighten it , he failed to jump clear and the pony fell on him , smashing his thigh . |
| 23 | In Britain , by contrast , the ‘ Railway Age ’ occurred when the demographic patterns of the industrial revolution were already becoming clear and the main industrial centres well established . |
| 24 | There must be an awareness by the majority of the difficulties for most people in acquiring English and the limitations must not be confused with lack of ability or a lack of motivation to participate in wider society . |
| 25 | 13.2 Should the Proprietor for any reason whatsoever not prepare or fail to deliver each new edition then the Publisher shall be free to employ an alternative writer ( or writers ) to edit the work in such manner as the Publisher may consider appropriate and the Publisher will be entitled to deduct all or part of the remuneration payable to the alternative writer(s) from royalties payable to the Proprietor on that edition . |
| 26 | 13.2 Should the Company for any reason whatsoever not procure the preparation of or fail to deliver each new edition then the Publisher shall be free to employ an alternative writer ( or writers ) to edit the work in such manner as the Publisher may consider appropriate and the Publisher will be entitled to deduct all or part of the remuneration payable to the alternative writer(s) from royalties payable to the Company on that edition . |
| 27 | More than 1,200 people , of whom two-thirds were Moslems , were officially reported killed and a further 5,000 injured in sectarian violence which erupted across India after Hindu extremists reduced to rubble the 16th century Babri mosque at Ayodhya , in the state of Uttar Pradesh , on Dec. 6 . |
| 28 | In an operation on July 15 intended , according to the USSR Interior Ministry , to confiscate illegally held weapons in three Azerbaijani villages with large Armenian populations , four people were reported killed and the population of the villages was driven out . |
| 29 | The process is becoming laborious and a lot of energy is being expended with little result to show for it , progress is very slow . |
| 30 | Likewise , it feels those RISC-based machines its new Power Parallel operation is developing ( UX No 422 ) will be a long long time in becoming hardened and a significant contributor . |