Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [verb] [adv prt] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All said he was of low intelligence , and as a trump card the defence brought in Professor Hans Eysenck to consider all the evidence . |
| 2 | By contrast the tax charge increased in the UK , mainly becuase of the inability to set off UK losses outside the ring-fence against ring-fenced North Sea income . |
| 3 | Unfortunately the anonymity of the process limits the opportunity to put out contracts on those most worthy of such largesse . |
| 4 | The database administrator ( DBA ) is given the opportunity to set up indexes at data creation time and this will increase the speed by which data is retrieved . |
| 5 | Frank also gave Crawford the opportunity to dream up stunts that would put his previous daredevilry in the shade . |
| 6 | ‘ It would give us the opportunity to iron out problems ? ’ |
| 7 | Valuable time was lost , the troops opposed to us were able to recover from the disorganization produced by our first attack , and the enemy was given the opportunity to bring up reinforcements . ’ |
| 8 | The successive rounds of the game give us the opportunity to build up trust or mistrust , to reciprocate or placate , forgive or avenge . |
| 9 | No well more or less the branches had the opportunity to send in resolutions to the national agreement which were dealt with at conference . |
| 10 | While there was disappointment that the Chancellor had not taken the opportunity to roll up tax relief for first time buyers into the first few years of a mortgage , the doubling of the stamp duty threshold has been widely welcomed . |
| 11 | Thus , the decision by the county at the end of the following season not to re-engage him and Garner came as an enormous surprise and caused a furore ; from the emotional angle it was poor reward for years of devoted service , but rationally , since the opportunity to sign up Martin Crowe of New Zealand , who promised so much , had either to be taken or lost , it was a sensible move . |
| 12 | Ahead of us I could hear the noise of the waterfall — there had been plenty of rain and when we arrived at the foss , the beck that eventually joins the Ure to travel down Wensleydale was hammering over the lip of the force . |
| 13 | In fact the reduction in home trade is far bigger than the reduction paid out exports , and this is accounted for by the ten million reduction paid out now would give a right big fillip to trade . |
| 14 | Acute back pain forced the Prince to give up polo for a month in June , 1991 . |
| 15 | Later , at Westerplatte , the prince handed over sets of campaign medals to the seven veterans of the British forces . |
| 16 | The board spelled out FIRE , confirming the family 's fear that the spirit meant them harm . |
| 17 | In January Kinkel had encouraged the RAF to lay down arms and declared the government to be " prepared for reconciliation " . |
| 18 | Turning his car into a mobile advert for the book , he hustled copies outside clubs and used the money to print up part two , which in turn funded part three — in which Q broke the ultimate literary taboo and swapped the printed word for audiocassette , reading ever ambient funk backdrops . |
| 19 | What prevented French or German firms borrowing on similar terms in Europe or the United States to those faced by US firms , and using the money to buy up firms in Europe or indeed the United States , was their financial and industrial weakness , not the state of Europe 's balance of payments . |
| 20 | He had taken the money to pay off debts and had continued to do so even when bereaved relatives were desperate for cash to pay undertakers ' bills . |
| 21 | He said Gavin had used the money to pay off debts . |
| 22 | He had taken the money to pay off debts and had continued to do so even when bereaved relatives were desperate for cash to pay undertakers ' bills . |
| 23 | A dying man and his family are again facing eviction from their home after failing to raise the money to pay off mortgage arrears . |
| 24 | The position has been held to apply to an insurance agent , who was under no duty to hand those notes and coins to the company ( Robertson [ 1977 ] Crim LR 173 ( CA ) ) , and to a person in receipt of housing benefit , who was under no legal obligation to use the money to pay off rent arrears ( DPP v Huskinson [ 1988 ] Crim LR 620 ) , even though that was the purpose for which the accused received the benefit . |
| 25 | Kate could smell Pears soap and the smell brought back memories of when she had been younger . |
| 26 | These addressing modes allow the programmer to carry out memory addressing tasks such as auto-incrementing of auto-decrementing an array index after , or before , carrying out an operation . |
| 27 | In a modest attempt to amend the damage accumulated over centuries by this pernicious little fiction , I asked the children to give me the Other Version , particularly Eve 's , but Adam 's or God 's as well if they preferred . |
| 28 | The text sets out guidelines for coming to a true sense of priorities in the self , not unlike those in Rolle 's Form , and then examines three ways in which man can contemplate God : in nature ( which shows us our place in creation ) , in Scripture ( which teaches the faith ) and on " God self " . |
| 29 | A LAW allowing the courts to lock up child criminals as young as 12 has been given the go-ahead by Home Secretary Kenneth Clarke . |
| 30 | The NUM 's main trouble with the courts arose over actions brought by its own members on the grounds that the union had broken its own rules ( over a pre-strike ballot ) and for contempt . |