Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [art] [noun pl] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | She describes well the privileges attendant on maleness , as well as the hazards and horrors awaiting certain groups of men — notably poor , black men on welfare in the US since Reagan , and gay men in the era of AIDS . |
| 32 | Jefferson and Grimshaw show how the police control of the mass picket reflected the relative influence of several ‘ audiences ’ : |
| 33 | Here police monitoring of the large crowds was facilitated by ‘ sophisticated radio equipment supplied by the Army , hot lines to the White House and the Pentagon , and an 8 by 12-foot map of the city , complete with a zoom-lens television camera for closeups , that could show where every police officer and other security force was located at all times ’ ( Farber , 1988:159 ) . |
| 34 | In the deductive/empirical experiment , each child received either a questions task or a sentence completion task . |
| 35 | On January 1 , 1982 , Coetzee was transferred too the drugs squad . |
| 36 | At the top end of the Via XXIV Maggio , a blue aerosol script waltzes along an adobi terrace : ‘ We are Kaos — Ultras . ’ |
| 37 | Although they are a principled pair — they once turned down the Smarties Award on moral grounds — the Ahlbergs reject the notion of children 's author as moralist . |
| 38 | ( Lionel Jospin , education minister and the titular number two in the government , turned down the social-affairs ministry for that very reason . ) |
| 39 | Chiodini was poring over a sports paper . |
| 40 | He says that 's nonsense we 're just trying to brighten up the churches image in this drab end of the twentieth century . |
| 41 | ‘ Naw , ’ he replied angrily , crumpling up the pools coupon and throwing it at the television set . |
| 42 | ‘ By adding up the days migraine stole from me in the past , I calculate that I shall be able to enjoy living for three extra weeks in a year ! ’ |
| 43 | Venables himself pledged to continue the battle to buy out the Spurs chairman , Amstrad boss Alan Sugar , and regain his position at the club . |
| 44 | They 're justification for the ‘ he-man ’ tag , with heavy everything at low speeds and not much more than a token lightening up as you press on harder , but not so heavy as to wipe out the sports car 's essential touch of delicacy . |
| 45 | He watched as the tramp sorted through the rubbish , finally pulling out a soft-drinks container . |
| 46 | Surely the House acted wisely when hon. Members on both sides of the Chamber threw out the Shops Bill , which I considered to be a disgraceful piece of legislation . |
| 47 | If you are a serious Windows user , you may prefer to wait and see how the Windows version of Dataease performs when it is released shortly . |
| 48 | We shall see how the petrochemicals business has a particular interest in gas . |
| 49 | Mungo could understand why the police investigation was making so little progress . |
| 50 | Drawing up a personnel specification |
| 51 | Pictured left are Bill , his wife , the vehicles that made up the Antiques Roadshow and their energetic and skilful riders . |
| 52 | The resources support team organized by Mr Ryder 's advisory section brought together experienced MROs and school librarians ; the team as a whole planned a range of activities , including exhibitions , in-service training , and the compilation of catalogues and lists , and in addition supplied pairs of specialists who would " " immerse themselves " in schools for up to several weeks at a time building up a resources centre and advising on the use of resources generally . " |
| 53 | The Arab Organisation for Industrialisation was an international organisation established by agreement for the purpose of building up an arms industry for the benefit of its member States . |
| 54 | Most of the remaining paintwork was covered in CND symbols , as were most of the T-shirts , jeans , smock tops and even a couple of nappies which hung on a clothes line stretched between the bus and the fence . |
| 55 | One member of the party is selected as the defendant : he is told the outline of an alibi defence and has to fill in the details impromptu under questioning . |
| 56 | The poet breaking down the barricades Radio . |
| 57 | The company rules should lay down an appeals procedure . |
| 58 | Lloyd Mangram takes over the letters page as of next month — if Scorelord can find him ! |
| 59 | National armaments should be limited by mutual agreement , and the pressures of the military-industrial complex regulated by nationalization of armaments firms and control over the arms trade . |
| 60 | It may be useful to draw up the definitions clause after drafting the rest of the terms , to ensure that all words and phrases which require definition are included ; then , when checking the terms , the drafter should check the meaning of defined words and phrases each time they appear in the document to ensure that the definition is appropriate . |