Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] [verb] [adv prt] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | In over 60 countries the courts gave out death sentences , which were carried out in more than half these countries . |
| 4 | He died during the blockade ( when the Germans cut off supplies to Leningrad and almost one million people died ) but I rebuilt my life through my work . ’ |
| 5 | Here the X-rays knock off chlorine atoms one after another until there are only VOC-like compounds left , which are finally destroyed . |
| 6 | As a snow crystal grows in free fall , the angular deviation within the molecules sets up stresses and the hexagon will not close completely . |
| 7 | NEARLY a quarter of a century after the Russians shot down Gary Powers ' U-2 spyplane , the latest version is starting operations from Britain . |
| 8 | Graham , the doubter who would not vote for the local Conservative MP , had even expressed indifference about the Russians taking over South Africa . |
| 9 | He kicked his horse into a trot and the hooves kicked up sparks from the cobbles . |
| 10 | DARLINGTON MP Michael Fallon is to contact the Roads Minister over plans for a traffic calming scheme in the town . |
| 11 | Unfortunately , the researchers missed out Washington DC , where many Americans have been worried recently about the pace of the Bush presidency . |
| 12 | An official decision by the authorities to switch off electricity to student dormitories at 11 p.m. led to unrest on campus . |
| 13 | When the magistrate and his party from Burford reached the encampment , the militiamen took up positions virtually surrounding the celebrating gipsies . |
| 14 | Pores along the hairs filter out molecules of the right size and these are analysed . |
| 15 | The head-lamps flashed over bushes and trees lining the sides of the narrow winding lane . |
| 16 | Everyone agreed that the loss of eyesight was a consequence of the animals taking up residence in an environment with no light , but the Lamarckians argued that the inherited effects of disuse provided a better explanation of the process than natural selection . |
| 17 | To add to the confusion North had started dealing directly with the Iranians cutting out Ghorbanifar , who was threatening to sue the American government in the courts for breach of contract . |
| 18 | Proper black and white processing takes weeks these days , unless you have your own darkroom , and sometimes the photo-kiosks think they 've cocked it up when the pictures come out sepia and so they do n't charge . |
| 19 | The platoons were losing much of their mobility in these static patrols , and the Japanese developments along the eastern seaboard reduced the opportunities to bring in supplies . |
| 20 | With Hewlett-Packard Co heading for $18,800m turnover this year and Fujitsu Ltd at around the $26,000m mark , while Digital Equipment Corp looks hopefully to Alpha to rocket it off its $14,000m-a-year launchpad , the contenders to take over leadership of the mainstream computer industry from IBM Corp are lining up — and a major new round of mergers and acquisitions could be on the way . |
| 21 | In the meantime , the lads bludgeon out wodges of cacophonous , shapeless noise , like ‘ Waiting For The Wolves ’ and ‘ Hope Your Dreams Come True ’ , which revel in being unlistenable squalls far away from the succinct migraine catchiness of that hit single . |
| 22 | Then slowly his face clears as the pendulums pick up speed . |
| 23 | On playing fields , the perimeters of football and other pitches will hold plenty of money , but observe how much thicker the supporters gather around goal-mouths . |
| 24 | Stephenson also sends Durham Edition down for the Food Brokers Ferrero Rocher Handicap Chase but due to defections the weights go up 14lb and he is topweight with 11st 10lb . |
| 25 | Stephenson also sends Durham Edition down for the Food Brokers Ferrero Rocher Handicap Chase but due to defections the weights go up 14lb and he is topweight with 11st 10lb . |
| 26 | the parties carry on business in different States ; |
| 27 | The Uniform Law on the International Sale of Goods combines criteria ( 1 ) and ( 2 ) by a somewhat complex formula which requires , first , that the parties carry on business in different States and , secondly , that the transaction fulfil one of three alternative tests of cross-border activity . |
| 28 | This cumbersome formulation has been dropped in the Vienna Sales Convention , which substitutes as the sole criterion of internationality the fact that the parties carry on business in different States , a formulation adopted in the U N Convention of Agency in the Sale of Goods and the Unidroit Conventions on International Factoring and International Financial Leasing . |
| 29 | — HOWARD Wilkinson yesterday turned on the pundits writing off Leeds United 's championship chances . |
| 30 | The contents of the buckets run down chutes into hopper boats which take the silt away . |