Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [art] [n mass] " in BNC.
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1 | Once the channel has been selected ( with or without bass shift ) using the requisite button , a patch can be selected and adjustments made using the Data wheel in conjunction with the volume , gain and EQ buttons . |
2 | He lived to see the headquarters of the organization to which he had devoted his life established in purpose-built premises on the site at the National Water Sports Centre . |
3 | The third potential market is the corporate arena , including government , education and local authorities , expected to like the multimedia capabilities for creating graphic or animated presentations . |
4 | The English partners became increasingly reluctant to supplement their original investment of £1,200 per share and finally refused in 1580 , and agreed to lease the works and mines to Daniel and ‘ customer ’ Thomas Smith [ q.v. ] , |
5 | any scheme would fall down if all existing motorists into the capital agreed to meet the £3 — £4 charge . |
6 | ‘ Most textile plants are built near a big sewerage plant , not in the middle of the countryside like ours , ’ explained Dai Jones , whose responsibility it soon became to find a means of solving the problem . |
7 | On May 15 the Soviet Union agreed to provide an $80,000,000 loan in the form of materials for the construction of a 460-km railway link in Xinjiang Autonomous Region , according to a report which quoted local trade officials . |
8 | I was one of the bowlers asked to provide the cannon fodder to the big international batting stars on what was meant to be a fun day out . |
9 | You got to know the people . |
10 | Well now , although it was not much more of a job really than an errand boy 's , but as I did that for five and a half years I got to know the people at the pawnbrokers , the cycle agents I got to know them so well , I knew the staff , I got to know the people who were pawning clues and that regularly , I was getting more information every year . |
11 | Well now , although it was not much more of a job really than an errand boy 's , but as I did that for five and a half years I got to know the people at the pawnbrokers , the cycle agents I got to know them so well , I knew the staff , I got to know the people who were pawning clues and that regularly , I was getting more information every year . |
12 | 50 000 families all over Britain live in flats built using the Bison Wallframe design . |
13 | They went to erm a number of cities in Europe , of all the countries in Europe , and tried to gather the data to compare the quality of water in their countries , to the quality in ours . |
14 | It involved using a cannon to fire a harpoon carrying an explosive grenade . |
15 | Erm , tried to see the sheep . |
16 | I tried to see the people , but no picture would come , although among the shadowy figures might well have been a Peter de Fernborough , later Farmborough , who about that time made his appearance somewhere in the village . |
17 | Richard Duriez and Annette Tibbles helped to plan a series of attacks by the Animal Liberation Front . |
18 | As well as this , in August we helped orchestrate a series of practical workshops at the London Print Workshop . |
19 | ‘ We tried to encourage the people to work with each other , and talk to politicians , because they argued a lot about what they were going to do all the time , ’ he said . |
20 | It was now three thirty a.m. and he stopped on the swing bridge over the Berkeley to Gloucester canal and tried to hide the fish as much as possible . |
21 | PREMIER John Major tried to pass the buck in the Iraqgate scandal yesterday by blaming former defence procurement minister Alan Clark . |
22 | A BUNGLING shoplifter tried to flog a pair of Marks and Spencer shorts — to the store detective who had followed him into the street after seeing him nick them . |
23 | Bacon , however , soon came into financial difficulties and he tried to foil a £90 debt owed to a local stonemason by forging a receipt . |
24 | In February the Council stopped paying the £108,000- a-year grant to the ABA because of growing concern over the stability of the organisation . |
25 | ‘ Nobody has come over here and tried to win a series . |
26 | I am pleased that when it came to the crunch I tried to help the people calling for help instead of thinking about what might happen . |
27 | She tried to imagine the people here sitting on their front doorsteps with a cup of tea and a newspaper like they did on her estate when the sun came out . |
28 | Opposite Manescu a German , Helmut Ziegler , ex-STASI chief in Leipzig , rose to leave the aircraft . |
29 | A 50% increase in the sales team to 9,000 helped spark a 124% profits surge to £6.3m in the six months to September 12 . |
30 | Plugger promised to keep the pair for me until the day before I left so that they would have the shortest travelling time possible . |