Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [art] [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Edward Stanton 's elder son , William , who was master mason to the Mint , attempted to carry on the sculptors ' yard , but was declared bankrupt in 1735 . |
| 2 | The editor of a newspaper owned by a Trust will be ‘ forced ’ to carry on the newspaper 's tradition . |
| 3 | Margaret Llewelyn Davies was adamant that in no circumstances would the Guild surrender its independence and the branches raised sufficient funds to carry on the Guild 's work until a compromise was reached four years later . |
| 4 | The deed authorises the bank to appoint a receiver and manager of the company 's undertaking , with power to carry on the company 's business . |
| 5 | Keen mountaineer Thomas Hargreaves , 39 , left to go on a day 's hiking in an area frequented by grizzly bears last Thursday , but friends only reported him missing at the weekend . |
| 6 | Yeah because he 's got to go on a month 's course for a start , for just general and then we 've got to try and find him a a week 's course somewhere as A L O , I do n't know where but er in that time . |
| 7 | Bring on the Pimm 's because Paul Weller is back . |
| 8 | Bring on the Pimm 's and let's have a sing-song around the old Hammond because Paul Weller is back . |
| 9 | Oh : car of menace , car of blight Cars the atmosphere ignite Greenhouse warming , Havoc forming Parkinson must see us right We 're au fait with entropy Gaia , Ecosphere , synergy Words for greening But their meaning 's A linguistic mystery Oh : politicians must invent Worship of environment Genuflecting by reflecting Words of verdant bafflement Now our water 's unfit to drink Too much aluminium and zinc No solution To pollution No-one can stand the stink Oh : public filth and pestilence Highlights private opulence Does the glitter , clear the litter All it needs is pounds and pence GOD REST YE MERRY God rest ye merry , gentle Greens Let nothing you dismay The much foretold apocalypse Is now well under way Not even Mr Gorbachev Can stop the world 's decay Oh , tidings of comfort and joy , Oh , tidings of comfort and joy We ca n't eat meat or hens or fish The farming is too cruel The only food we now permit Is foul organic gruel Irradiated food and veg Now double up as fuel Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Now everybody wants a car Though noise and fumes are vile The Iron Curtain fractures and The jams stretch back for miles Mobility and liberty Can not be reconciled Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy We think that greenhouse warming will Bring on the world 's demise If forests burn it 's not just trees but mankind too that fries But all this may be garbage Because scientists tell lies Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Consumers must buy less to reach Sustainability For galloping consumption is More lethal than TB So much for Third World dreams of fleeing Grinding poverty Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Unless we stop producing kids The planet will not cope No hope for birth controllers short of Kidnapping the Pope But since the Greens recycle people they May turn us into soap Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy In searching for clean energy The choice is pretty stark The floods that come when coal is burnt will keep us in the Ark But had Lord Marshall got his way We 'd all glow in the dark Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Dumb animals are much preferrred To flawed humanity Ill-treatment of old people may Provoke insanity But culling seals and whales is judged The worst profanity Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Now Mrs Thatcher goes bright green A highly suspect hue Her policies have after all Kept filth and squalor blue It 's just another way she 's found To tell us what to do Oh , tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy With greenhouse gases , PCBs Sulphuric acid rain This fragile globe 's environment Is going down the drain It is a cosmic punishment That we ca n't start again Oh , tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Melanie Phillips OVERNIGHT FILE |
| 10 | Ben eased forward until his face was pressed against the glass , watching Gosse slow his breathing and focus his whole being upon the blade resting only a hand 's length from his stomach . |
| 11 | Cooler water slows down the fish 's metabolism . |
| 12 | Consultant pathologist Dr John Ryan said she was more susceptible to the cold because of a condition called hypothyroidism which slows down the body 's metabolism . |
| 13 | The conference , bringing together the world 's seven leading industrial nations , centred on trade talks . |
| 14 | It also conducted lengthy interviews with survivors from Hitler 's bunker and pieced together the dictator 's final hours . |
| 15 | Over the years he has pieced together the plane 's last , dying moments from the second one of its engines caught fire . |
| 16 | J. R. R. Tolkien , to whom Lewis read aloud The Pilgrim 's Regress , liked the book . |
| 17 | to package Videos using only the Publisher 's own insert cards and labels , |
| 18 | The newspaper printed the story , using only the lawyer 's performance name , as requested . |
| 19 | At the start of the filming we bring in a students ' orchestra and we rehearse for three days , six sessions in all . |
| 20 | Turning to the final point of the 1952 directive , it is noteworthy that ministers are to be given only the information MI5 decides they need . |
| 21 | The politicians who cobbled together the convention 's proposals still call themselves Unionists . |
| 22 | In market terms , the key question is whether knackers will be in a financial position to pass on the renderers ' costs to farmers at a cost the farming community finds acceptable before they are forced out of business . |
| 23 | Participants at the " peace summit " thus included only the ANC 's main rival , the Zulu-based Inkatha Freedom Party , and some representatives from various minority groups . |
| 24 | One longs for more choice , for interpretations that are truly ‘ framed to the life of the words ’ ( to use Byrd 's phrase ) and not bland rehearsals of the notes , for performances that seek to move the listener rather than explore only the music 's sonorous surface . |
| 25 | Observers noted , however , that after the seventh party plenum , the government had stepped up its efforts to rein in the country 's increasingly outspoken journalists , especially after a conference of writers in October defied the party 's attempt to dictate proceedings and demanded more democracy in the country [ see p. 37123 for approval of a new restrictive press law at the sixth session of the eighth National Assembly in late December 1989 ] . |
| 26 | Gassendi spoke of our not knowing the corpuscular nature of things , the ‘ inner shrines ’ of nature , but only their appearances ; similarly , the ‘ gazing countryman ’ , as Locke calls him , would know only the clock 's outer show , and not its internal mechanism . |
| 27 | A finder who sells goods without first disclosing that he has only a finder 's title is in breach of the condition in section 12 . |
| 28 | The Americans are world champions and half a second faster than the British best — but I can redress that balance just by telling Christie he has only a dog 's chance . |
| 29 | That 's why they had torn down the children 's hospital to make room for the miniature golf course . |
| 30 | ‘ In your lunch hour you head down the King 's Road from Sloane Square . |