Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [adj] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Avignon 's captain , strolling down from the bridge in a crisp , freshly starched uniform , smiled on hearing their banter and approached to greet them both with a formal French handshake . |
| 2 | They had n't checked them all at the time , and then they had forgotten . |
| 3 | He did not trust his comrade not to kill them all in a fireball . |
| 4 | They were situated in positions which made them visible from the pests on each side . |
| 5 | They were actuated by entirely unselfish motives and their training in trade union work made them invaluable in the most important work — picketing at the entrances to the docks " . |
| 6 | This is what made them anxious about the attitudes of powerful men in their societies — rulers , great magnates — towards the churches of which they considered themselves the lords . |
| 7 | The birthright of the Shepherds made them immune from the laws that governed others . |
| 8 | Both campaigns struggled , I believe that this was what made them different from the rest of the fleet . |
| 9 | Early Han overian governments could be viciously repressive , especially in Scotland after the Forty-Five , but their very unpopularity made them careful about the way they treated English grievances . |
| 10 | You did n't run — that only made them eager for the chase . |
| 11 | Mike Benton 's ideas are reminiscent of those of Tony Swain and Gillian Cooper-Driver who proposed that dinosaurs became extinct through their dietary requirements They suggested that the development of alkaloidal synthesis of cyanogenic glycoside precursors in the early angiosperms made them unpalatable to the dinosaurs , effectively starving them into extinction . |
| 12 | Yet this contrasted oddly with his sloppy clothes , his bare knees and hairy legs , for he seemed to see nothing peculiar about a doctor who behaved like a gentleman but who looked like a beachcomber . |
| 13 | During the eighth and ninth centuries the Christian church effected nothing short of a revolution in the forms of Western politics . |
| 14 | Looking at the legal aid scheme overall , it is clear that it offers nothing new in the system for the delivery of legal services . |
| 15 | When they were bulging-full , he stitched them closed with a curved needle and woollen thread and laid them ready in a pile . |
| 16 | And one is encouraging them all of the time to be able to look at their own work as a group , as well as an individual , and make assessments of it themselves . |
| 17 | ‘ We , ’ he proclaimed , encompassing them all with a theatrical gesture , ‘ are Contraband . ’ |
| 18 | It was broadly the premise of those movements that science and technology were evil , totalitarian and devoid of the attributes which could make them amenable to the " human spirit " . |
| 19 | It MIGHT make them tired at the end of the season — but the confidence they would gain would more than compensate . |
| 20 | We can also recognise , as we did , at an , on an earlier paper that it is national government policy and increasingly so , to encourage the development of capital schemes , borrowing , we noted that in relation to transport and the availability of S C A's I think it 's also right to say that the government does set down the level of borrowing which can be entered into in in any one year , that is the credit approvals are controlled by the government and they do make them available to the County Council and to district Councils , so in a sense , the government is both saying that we expect borrowing to be a feature of a budget and also that we want to control , and restrict the amount of money that can be borrowed through the amount of credit approvals . |
| 21 | The militants are split between degrees of intransigence , which could make them vulnerable at the polls . |
| 22 | But that would make them vulnerable to a surprise attack . |
| 23 | However , it will never make them rich in the same way that potentially having an independent company and taking that to the market would have . |
| 24 | ‘ We have here not a few whose high office would make them suitable for the position , ’ he said . |
| 25 | I mean , that you should make them sensible by the Mildness of your carriage , and the composure even in your correction of them , that what you do is reasonable in you and useful and necessary for them . |
| 26 | Britain 's main clearing banks are reviewing their lending policies in the light of a draft EC directive which would make them liable for the clean-up costs of their industrial clients , should the latter go into liquidation . |
| 27 | I do not yet understand it , but although I was once a keen and proud European , there are things in it that would now make me one of the most sceptical . |
| 28 | I drink everything I earn , which does n't make me much of a drunk I might tell you . ’ |
| 29 | That might make me popular in the colleges ( laughs ) . ’ |
| 30 | This stand does not make me blind to the distress others feel or to the disillusionment that this issue causes . |