Example sentences of "[noun pl] [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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The caravan parks getting black the dog , Bassa . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |