Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] [verb] [adv prt] [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 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | So therefore you got motorbikes going up the ramps , which were n't designed for that . |
| 11 | Then Judge Shindler called back the 11 other jurors and said he had no choice but to discharge them too and order a retrial . |
| 12 | 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 ) . |
| 13 | The controversy led AID to turn down the project . |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 2 Select a patient who has difficulty breathing in the post-operative period . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | She hurried back down the stairs to find Will mopping up the remains of his soup from the stone-flagged kitchen floor . |
| 20 | Mr Marland wants action to clean up the mess once and for all . |
| 21 | The old masters merely dammed streams and created lakes to break up the landscape or else reflect its beauty . |
| 22 | Trading vessels went down the canal every week to Grimsby and Hull and every month to London . |
| 23 | Governors of schools are the most frequently mentioned group and Circular 6/81 asked them to encourage schools to carry out a review . |
| 24 | Polish protesters hurled paint and petrol on a monument to Lenin in Krakow and set it on fire yesterday before clashing with police , who used force to break up the second anti-Soviet disturbance in a week . |
| 25 | Polish protesters hurled paint and petrol on a monument to Lenin in Krakow and set it on fire yesterday before clashing with police , who used force to break up the second anti-Soviet disturbance in a week . |
| 26 | Polish protesters hurled paint and petrol on a monument to Lenin in Krakow and set it on fire yesterday before clashing with police , who used force to break up the second anti-Soviet disturbance in a week . |
| 27 | Christopher Hill has emphasised how Milton explicitly has Samson bring down the temple on ‘ Lords , ladies , captains , counsellors , or priests , /Their choice nobility and flower ’ ( 11.1653–4 ) allowing the vulgar [ i.e. the common people ] ‘ who stood without ’ to escape . |
| 28 | ‘ Parents expect schools to sort out a lot of problems which are not school problems , ’ says one . |
| 29 | SEVERAL old and tried tunes opened up the year . |
| 30 | Alan Smith ( Thornaby ) beat the 70-string field ledgering bread to pick up a trio of chub totalling 7.12.0 from the willows on the buff length . |