Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [art] [noun] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He asked to see the officer involved in the investigation of the earlier charge . |
| 2 | Sun and water power in Toledo : BP Solar Espana is helping to connect a 1MW photovoltaic plant to the Spanish grid near Toledo in central Spain . |
| 3 | The controls are slow and unresponsive — let's face it , with the amount of platform beat-'em-ups around you 'd have thought the programmers would 've given a bit more care and attention to this aspect , not to mention the graphics , presentation … the game in general really . |
| 4 | She knew that Sarah planned to wear a midnight blue taffeta dress , with silver sandals and her mother 's diamante clips and fur cape . |
| 5 | The scheme , whose cost is to be shared by Thames Water and the National Rivers Authority , involves building a 10-mile underground pipe to pump water from chalk pits at Northfleet to the river 's middle reaches when necessary . |
| 6 | Mrs Allsopp failed to attend a meeting last night of the Parish Council , of which she 's chairman . |
| 7 | ‘ So you will stay to attend the business fair at the Palazzo Parisio , which starts on the twenty-eighth . |
| 8 | The visitor whose footsteps he had heard circling the house that last dawn they had ever spent there , if indeed he had heard them and not , in his state of panic , imagined them — that man or woman would have had no evidence for thinking anyone lived there but for the presence of Goblander on the drive . |
| 9 | Alternatively you might like to wait to see the proposal first as she is a most serious person who struck me as a likely author . |
| 10 | All statistics were calculated using the ARCUS Professional statistics package . |
| 11 | Right , yes , it is important you see is n't it ? , because one of things that happens also I think is , is that we tend to see a motorway and we tend to see a call one side it , and a call the other side , and work on the assumption that we can actually get across the motorway there , or under the motorway there , but sometimes you ca n't can you ? |
| 12 | With Amdahl Corp faced with an uphill struggle to adjust its business so that it can thrive in a post-mainframe world , and all its other major investments — things like the former Poqet Computer Corp and HAL Computers Inc still in the development stage and demanding more capital , while its own core business is a victim of the mainframe malaise , Fujitsu Ltd 's 80% of ICL Plc begins to look the company 's most valuable asset , making it increasingly likely that the company will in due course want to float a lot more than the 25% it originally suggested on the London International Stock Exchange : Fujitsu 's biggest problem is the one now facing all big Japanese companies — that the days of cheap capital at home are gone with the bubble economy , probably forever , and many Japanese companies issued convertibles in the 1980s that are coming up to maturity ; with prices on the Tokyo exchange still bombed out , few holders are going to want to convert into shares , which means that issuers will have to raise expensive new capital on the international markets to redeem them . |
| 13 | It is a good idea of Lewis Carroll to think of the March hare because in March hares tend to go a bit potty and they stand on their back legs and box each other . |
| 14 | As applied to the crystallization of ice this mechanism is largely conjectural at present since little experimental work has been undertaken to estimate the pressures likely to be generated . |
| 15 | Before the start of talks , Federal Defence Minister Gen. Veljko Kadijevic agreed to implement the Oct. 18 ceasefire [ see p. 38513 ] , which included Croatian agreement to lift the blockade of federal barracks inside Croatia by Nov. 8 . |
| 16 | The task usually involves explaining the meanings other people 's actions have to them and , because these are rarely isolated or intelligible in isolation , re-creating other mental worlds . |
| 17 | After five years of negotiations on the Uruguay Round of multilateral trade talks of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) , intended to establish new rules liberalizing world trade , negotiators failed to meet a Nov. 1 target date to produce draft agreements . |
| 18 | She had to continue driving the van all day , and again the following morning . |
| 19 | I think that in due time the British people will want to know a bit more than that . |
| 20 | Well , practical purposes at this stage sir she maintains insufficient I 've no doubt the licensee will want to know a lot more about the situation , it 's very apparent it 's not long ago that they last ta transferred to their present holding . |
| 21 | For all practical purposes at this stage sir she may appear to you to be a fit and proper person I 've no doubt the Licensing Committee will want to know a lot more about the situation sir . |
| 22 | Gordon Orchard , a 61-year-old former Coldstream guardsman , who admitted abducting the child last summer , had 50 previous convictions , including indecent assault and attempted rape , but was sentenced as if they did not exist . |
| 23 | Needless to say , before the actual commissioning I got to know the Brooke Marine Yard and staff very well , and made many friends there . |
| 24 | One of its subsidiaries has developed a machine capable of extracting the harmful gas from refrigeration plant with a environmentally sound technique . |
| 25 | Alternatively the table values can be found experimentally and , as an aid to this potentially laborious process , Lafreniere ( 1979 ) has developed a microprocessor.based interactive system , which calculates the complete look-up table from a limited number of velocity profile parameters , such as maximum stepping rate , acceleration/deceleration rate . |
| 26 | The British Standards Institution ( BSI ) has developed a UK National Standard ( BS 5750 ) for manufacturing quality carpets . |
| 27 | Seiko in Japan has developed an STM capable of accurately placing the needle anywhere on the five-inch wafers of silicon on which microelectronic circuitry is printed before it is diced into chips . |
| 28 | I CAN sympathise with the businessman who stands to lose a Pounds 30 million contract because BR delays repeatedly made him late for meetings . |
| 29 | Nothing has broken the isolation more than the light aircraft . |
| 30 | It helped make the government conscious of some of the preoccupations of nobility and townsmen , but when its proceedings were interrupted by the Turkish War , Catherine allowed the experiment to lapse . |