Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [adj] [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And may the odd knife his great carcass dissect ; Lay open his vitals for all to inspect A heart full as black as the infernal gulf In that greedy , blood-sucking , bone scraping wolf . |
| 2 | Though Connolly also headed straight at the goalkeeper in the 88th minute — that was probably the time McLean slipped off his sandbag — an even better opportunity for United to secure a share of the spoils was squandered by substitute Christian Dailly , who failed to even get his shot on target after getting in behind the Hearts defence . |
| 3 | It had taken a full day for Merymose to obtain permission for Huy to visit the embalmer . |
| 4 | There is also a case for Labour to outline a vision of Europe utterly different from the EC sought by the Tories and the City . |
| 5 | The 22-year-old left-hander batted for nearly three hours for 69 to help the leaders to 266 for six at the close — still 29 short of avoiding the follow-on . |
| 6 | That was hot , yes and th in between there used to be that 's where your furnace used to go in and come back and up out the chimney and that they put them the in there to heat the water quick you see and yet they ought to be , they had to be sliced out with a what they call a slice , cos they used to get furred up and we used to give them nineteen and sixpence for that to fill the boiler up again , we had t used to have take Pinmill and they used to have to come up to get fresh water into the anchor boat and we used to pump it up by hand , into the boiler . |
| 7 | Saltburn struggled last season but they restricted hosts Middlesbrough to a total of 163 for six and then Mark Walker , whose 90 included 13 fours , and Indian professional Mukund Palmar ( 65 ) , shared an unbroken partnership of 137 to snatch a nine-wicket away win . |
| 8 | THE desperate plight of flood victims has prompted the Mayor of Aberconwy to launch a disaster fund to help . |
| 9 | Hendry made a break of 54 to take the first frame , but lost the next to a run of 50 . |
| 10 | Justifying her decision to bar the return of the former president 's body for burial , Mrs Aquino told judges and legal workers that there was ‘ a clear and present danger of the ambition of some to destabilise the government … ’ |
| 11 | And the said Lords Spirituall and Temporall and Commons doe pray the said Prince and Princesse of Orange to accept the same accordingly … |
| 12 | The term Oecologie was actually coined in Ernst Haeckel 's Generelle Morphologie of 1866 to denote the study of the interactions between organisms and the external world . |
| 13 | In 1752 England at last adopted the calendar laid down by Pope Gregory in 1582 to replace the Julian calendar which , after 16 centuries , was ten days out of true with the natural seasons . |
| 14 | Harland and Wolff went into partnership in 1861 to form the company of that name . |
| 15 | He left home with his two brothers in 1939 to fight the Germans , becoming a sergeant-major in the Czechoslovak Free Army and serving alongside British forces in North Africa and Europe . |
| 16 | His reports on the collections brought him to the notice of the British scientific establishment and led to his appointment as naturalist in HMS Bulldog during a voyage under the command of Sir Leopold M ‘ Clintoch in 1860 to investigate a possible northern route for the proposed north Atlantic telegraph cable . |
| 17 | The main ‘ mistakes ’ were : the Communist Party 's forcible suppression of opposition in 1948 to establish a political dictatorship in Hungary ; the Stalinist era 's ‘ unrealistic pace of military preparation , ill-conceived industrialisation and the forced collectivisation ’ ; Stalinist ‘ harassment of millions of people , the mass violation of rights and intimidation ’ ; the violent Soviet suppression of the 1956 Hungarian revolt , which is now now officially defined as a popular uprising ; and the party 's inability from the mid-1970s to continue the decentralisation of economic reforms launched in 1968 . |
| 18 | In this sector , indirect sales rose 25% in 1991 to reach a value of $1,362m . |
| 19 | Clinton had also been a member of the group of knights sent to Hainault in 1327 to escort the count and his daughter Philippa to the English court prior to Philippa 's marriage with Edward III . |
| 20 | But I believe it might be possible to get the universities and polytechnics in future to accept a way of selecting candidates that was radically different from either A levels alone , or A and AS levels . |
| 21 | After a brief visit to the United States in 1985 to examine the uses of the new technology , SOGAT concluded that |
| 22 | The NME opens its books in '52 to find a ready-made freak out there , complete with hearing aid , nerves like a poodle and a ghoulish , wailing style — a lovely singing voice , if you went for self-pity and emotional incontinence . |
| 23 | Still she was in the department before seven to find the camera crew busy setting up unobtrusive lights in strategic places , and the cleaning staff putting the finishing touches to the floor . |
| 24 | The occasions that stand out in the three decades of our post-imperial era are : Duncan Sandys ' 1957 decision to recommend the end of National Service , which almost halved the Army ; the Kennedy/Macmillan Polaris agreement at Nassau in 1962 that led to the RAF losing responsibility to the Royal Navy for the British nuclear deterrent ; Denis Healey 's scrapping of the TSR2 in 1965 , which threatened to ‘ unhorse ’ the RAF 's knights ; his cancellation of the aircraft-carrier replacement programme in 1966 , which did much the same thing to the Royal Navy ; and John Nott 's attempt in 1981 to maintain the strength of the Rhine Army and RAF Germany at the expense of our maritime capability . |
| 25 | Three unsuccessful bills against occasional conformity were introduced during the early years of Anne 's reign , culminating in the famous attempt in 1704 to tack the third bill on to a Land Tax Bill . |
| 26 | News on Sunday was an earnest attempt in 1987 to establish a popular radical paper , backed by trade unions and Labour controlled local authorities . |
| 27 | His successful infiltration of the journal Bier between 1930 and 1931 , and his unsuccessful attempt in 1931 to influence the editorial policy of Barbusse 's journal , Monde , were striking examples of Nizan 's attempt to develop a sectarian communist cultural policy within the sphere of bourgeois publishing houses . |
| 28 | Having failed as surveyor-general , Worsley made an unsuccessful attempt in 1659 to secure the Post Office farm surrendered by John Thurloe [ q.v . ] . |
| 29 | Yet the first attempt in 1944 to find the Roman wall of Canterbury , which was also supposed to follow the line of the medieval wall , proved a failure , so not too much should be read into the Carlisle evidence . |
| 30 | The main museum building , which started life as the machinery hall at the first Glasgow International Exhibition of 1888 in Kelvingrove Park , moved to Dalmarnock in 1889 to become the Penman Boiler works for almost 100 years . |