Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] [verb] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The scheme involves trial riding over a series of obstacles . |
| 2 | The government 's concern throughout the late 1940s was to stimulate building to make up the deficiencies in housing stock arising from bomb damage and the wartime standstill in house building . |
| 3 | The home secretary announced plans to set up a special police unit to investigate suspects . |
| 4 | He has also highlighted plans to set up an independent Energy Savings Trust , funded with some of the profits made by British Gas and the regional electricity companies . |
| 5 | While crackling flames eat up the beams |
| 6 | On April 30 Lekhanya announced proposals to set up a national constituent assembly to draw up a new constitution . |
| 7 | In fact , rhynchosaur teeth have only a thin layer of enamel , which apparently was readily worn away . |
| 8 | Then he turned , and with a little gesture of farewell crossed the highway and headed back towards Lima , a small , shambling figure glancing back every now and then in search of a truck that would give him a lift . |
| 9 | Using data collected over a 2-year period from plots under a variety of management techniques , ranging from maize cultivation to a range of pasture grasses , they report that soil erosion and nutrient losses were greatest from maize ( Zea mays ) and guinea grass ( Panicum maximum Jacq. ) plots . |
| 10 | The librarian has also found that close examination of data required in producing databases brings about an awareness of bias and the development of objective criticism . |
| 11 | So therefore you got motorbikes going up the ramps , which were n't designed for that . |
| 12 | Then Judge Shindler called back the 11 other jurors and said he had no choice but to discharge them too and order a retrial . |
| 13 | From having the best midfield in the league it now seems to have gone distinctly limp — what price now Batty ( nice to see Battyburn keeping up the chase ) . |
| 14 | The controversy led AID to turn down the project . |
| 15 | Techniques have been devised by Operational Research scientists to enable organizations to work out the Economic Order Quantity ( EOQ ) for individual stock items , and to aid them in setting optimum re-order levels ( ie the levels at which stock needs to be replaced ) . |
| 16 | They 're thought to be from an old church , and are helping archeologists to piece together a picture of life in medieval times . |
| 17 | Donchin , Kutas and McCarthy , ( 1977 ) asked subjects to perform either a " functional " match or a " structural " match between items presented tachistoscopically . |
| 18 | Ideally IXI would like to see OSF put together an extended application programming interface that would allow other technologies and applications to be brought in . |
| 19 | Dance rhythm means how the varying lengths of notes are grouped together within a phrase . |
| 20 | They are mentioned by name on eighteenth-century maps and referred to in Sir Walter Scott 's The Bridal of Triermain ; they are often supposed to mark the county boundary , which they do not , and the most popular theory is that they were erected at the time of the Border raids to delude Scots advancing up the Eden valley , from which they are conspicuously in view , into the belief that an English army was encamped there . |
| 21 | Is he aware that even when people are examined , are found to have cataracts and wait a long time for the operation , some of them — such as a 91-year-old constituent of mine — are told that Royal Oldham hospital , which has been granted trust status , does not have the money to provide the necessary medicines and has money to help only the elderly ? |
| 22 | 2 Select a patient who has difficulty breathing in the post-operative period . |
| 23 | Chapter 11 will consider proposals to extend further the list of groups whose interests management should consider in running the company with a view to limiting the harmful effect of corporate activities on them . |
| 24 | The pack contains maps showing where the four dog control byelaws exist and offers sound advice about owning man 's best friend . |
| 25 | This new local government has plans to draw up a law of commerce to stabilize prices and avoid speculation , and a law of public order . |
| 26 | The trust contemplates many benefits for patients , including continuing the systematic assessments and the reductions in institutional accommodation , and has plans to break up the large wards and to increase the staff-patient ratio . |
| 27 | During the talks with MITI they described plans completed only the previous day for their future programme of support and promotion for open systems . |
| 28 | She hurried back down the stairs to find Will mopping up the remains of his soup from the stone-flagged kitchen floor . |
| 29 | The non-lexical procedure works by applying rules specifying how a particular letter or letter group is to be pronounced ( and so can not be used for reading exception words aloud correctly , since such words disobey the rules : if you apply the rules to read an exception word aloud , you will produce an incorrect pronunciation , such as reading pint as if it rhymed with mint , hint , lint , etc . ) . |
| 30 | The functionalist style in public law exhibits tendencies to examine critically the reasoning processes of courts and to expose the value assumptions on which they rest . |