Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [adv] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My friend is not simply explaining why , for good or bad reasons , he did decide to go to the Park ( as he might after the event , in which case it would be no objection to his explanation that when he got there the zoo turned out to be closed ) ; he is defending his decision to go to the Park rather than meet me at his house , and I can still try to change his mind . |
| 2 | Can I encourage the Minister to do the double by restoring the funding so as to enable much-needed house building and repairs to go ahead , and at the same time give the necessary financial boost to the devastated building and construction industry ? |
| 3 | She clutched the change tightly and pressed the combination of numbers . |
| 4 | They took the bike then and rode along the coast to Blakeney . |
| 5 | The rain struck him across the face like a whiplash as he fought to keep the bike upright and driving for the protection of the leeward bank . |
| 6 | On television , a most useful source open to the writer today but denied to those of earlier generations , are the programmes with historical settings . |
| 7 | Where a nailed board refuses to move , it is often easier to punch the mails down into the joist rather than trying to prise them up . |
| 8 | ( 6 ) Where an award has been given in the absence of a party , the arbitrator shall have power on that party 's application to set the award aside and to order a fresh hearing as if the award were a judgment and the application were made pursuant to Ord 37 , r 2. ( 7 ) With the consent of the parties and at any time before giving his decision and either before or after the hearing , the arbitrator may consult any expert or call for an expert report on any matter in dispute or invite an expert to attend the hearing as assessor . |
| 9 | The wrongful act of the son in intercepting those letters , which could not have been anticipated by the creditor , was held not to affect the creditor so as to prevent it from enforcing the charge . |
| 10 | The fact that the elderly parents acted reasonably and did nothing wrong and yet entered into an agreement , the ramifications of which they did not appreciate , did not affect the creditor so as to afford equitable relief to the parents . |
| 11 | She unfastened the girdle again and held it out . |
| 12 | This is quite understandable if the non-specified version of the infinitive 's support corresponds to a " generalized person " : since this person is the virtual sum of all persons ( first , second or third ) , if to snow is not explicitly referred to it , the infinitive is felt as having a possible reference to " me " or " you " , which corresponds exactly to the impression produced by the sentence above and explains why it does not make sense . |
| 13 | In all three cases the Court has stressed the gravity of revenge attacks and the danger of dissatisfied victims or their relatives taking the law into their own hands , and then found reasons to mitigate the sentence so as to allow the immediate release of the offender . |
| 14 | The different interpretations are due to differences in the scope of almost with respect to certain of the semantic traits of kill : notice how the paraphrases match the interpretations simply by moving almost in the sentence so as to alter its scope . |
| 15 | This involves changing the verb altogether and replacing it with one that has a similar meaning but can be used in a different syntactic configuration . |
| 16 | There is , perhaps , especially strong confirmation that the verb and adjective properties are immediately bound together in the fact that there is no coherent way to question either the adjective or the verb alone while leaving the other in place ; we can not , for example , have : ( 24 ) what should I do to the string longer ? ( 25 ) how did his sister set the owl ? |
| 17 | Ginny managed to take off her coat , put the milk away and turn on the oven before he ran the pad to earth on the table beside his armchair . |
| 18 | It must show clearly and unequivocally the reasoning of the Community authority which adopted the measure so as to inform the persons concerned of the justification for the measure adopted and enable the Court of Justice to exercise its powers of review . |
| 19 | Lacking axes or crampons we 'd kicked steps up the snowy approach gully the afternoon before and checked out the devious ladders and chains forming the descent from the summit . |
| 20 | Part of that money had been allocated to pay for pensions and vehicle leases , but now the force will have to find the money elsewhere or face cutting jobs . |
| 21 | The Community would monitor Hungary 's programme to restructure its economy on more market-oriented lines , and disburse the second and third tranches of the money only if satisfied about progress . |
| 22 | The Community would monitor Hungary 's programme to restructure its economy on more market-oriented lines , and disburse the second and third tranches of the money only if satisfied about progress . |
| 23 | Signe took the money gleefully and ran out of the room shouting , ‘ I can take a hint . |
| 24 | Troy closed the watch immediately and replied carelessly , ‘ Why , yours of course . |
| 25 | Far from being grateful , she complained of the smell within and declared that sleeping in the open air had its merits . |
| 26 | He pulled the sides of the case apart and peered at the tobacco projectiles it contained , each one as potently dangerous as a Sam-7 . |
| 27 | The quality of the build shows that some care has been taken in its assembly — for instance , where at all possible , input and output ports have been mounted on the case rather than taking up usable expansion slot space . |
| 28 | Proceedings were adjourned until July 11 , so that witnesses could be called , but the justices sitting on that date concluded that they had no power to consider the case afresh and proceeded to sentence . |
| 29 | Emil Brunner , the Swiss theologian , argues the case forcefully as follows : |
| 30 | The appropriate response is to set up ways to manage the resistance productively and to ensure that its effects further the organization 's progress in its journey from here to there . |