Example sentences of "[verb] and [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With weeks , sometimes months between the issue of travel documents and their actual use , frequent changes in timetabling and the inevitable delays on overworked railways and sea routes , predicting when and where a transport would arrive was about as reliable as betting on a roulette wheel . |
| 2 | Prevent the ends twisting and the resulting torsion is relieved only by the strand twisting about itself . |
| 3 | However , their analysis goes beyond encouraging us to ’ vote with our feet ’ , to a condemnation of consumerism itself : Both for the environmental destruction it causes and the damaging messages it sends women through ads that constantly tell us we 're ’ not being discreet enough ’ . |
| 4 | Well , it 's because the Poll Tax is designed and the whole load of legislation that goes along with it , to increase the burden of erm payment on local Poll Tax payers . |
| 5 | ‘ With two £1,000 commissions to be won and a further £1,000 to purchase additional works , it was extremely difficult to make a final choice , ’ explained Grampian Hospital Arts Administrator Graham Smart . |
| 6 | There is also a case of Mumm Cuvée Napa wine to be won and an exciting selection of BBC books , including Michael Barry 's Food & Drink Cookbook , Valentina Harris 's Complete Italian Cookery Course , Jill Goolden 's Food & Drink : Taste of Wine and Hot Chefs . |
| 7 | Honour and the Unattainable Ideal . |
| 8 | From this joke the seed began to germinate and the whole idea of Norseman Park was formed with CF–DRD as the centre-piece of the whole complex . |
| 9 | If the wording of a trust has been omitted and the other provisions accord with what ought to have been written , by analogy with institution as heir and with legacies a trust will be understood to be duly given and insufficiently expressed in writing . |
| 10 | Whereas who else do you know and a little bit later it 's well anybody else it 's er vague is n't it ? |
| 11 | We all sat watching the drops fall and the scarlet blot widen . |
| 12 | ‘ He 's understanding and a good listener . ’ |
| 13 | With long-term prisoners and lifers much of their work is centred on the understanding of offending behaviour and the risks of re-offending ; with others , the whole range of family and personal problems call for tact , understanding and a good deal of dogged , patient work . |
| 14 | As they approached the island some 30 minutes later fourteen Hurricanes were scrambled and a savage melee developed over the island . |
| 15 | Basically it means that the nervous system which passes through the wrist in the carpal tunnel has been stressed and the best cure is rest , or in the case of trigger finger , an injection or even an operation . |
| 16 | In Christianity , it has become a problem for many believers that the masculinity of the doctrine is stressed and the feminine aspects marginalized . |
| 17 | If you can establish a link between the training which you provide and an accredited NVQ or SVQ then such training falls within the tax relief scheme . |
| 18 | The muted phrases in bars 2 and 3 should be performed using fairly heavy palm muting and a strong pick attack . |
| 19 | It is interesting for the reader to compare this parasite to the Anchor worm — Lernea ( also a Copepod ) , where the body segments have fused and the entire head and antennae structures have evolved to form the ‘ anchor ’ for attachment to the host fish tissue . |
| 20 | And he said he was working with an old fellow which is getting on in age and he was quite absent minded and he said , I was about thirty feet from the ground on a ledge er filling er s a hole ready for shot for blasting and the old fellow was about twenty feet higher than him and then he was ss er whatsit another hole and then a at the top of the chamber there 's a little hole , he said , like a roof we call it which is a little passage that goes up into the next floor and then we used that as an escape route he did n't have to go far . |
| 21 | As in the use of any chart of this type , parents must not remove stickers once they have been earned and no black marks should be given for wet beds . |
| 22 | Yet it was a strange and contradictory fact that on those grim days when even the May blossom and the busy life of all the creatures around the Park could not shake off the ever present fact of the bars and cages of the Zoo and the imprisoned animals , Mr Wolski found silent comfort in the presence of the remaining golden eagle . |
| 23 | Dock strikes were occurring and a general strike was clearly impending . |
| 24 | The mystic tears have the effect of distorting the vision so the eyes see through a veil ; but even more is the mind distorted and the interior vision is transfigured . |
| 25 | If a group of workers combined in an association of union and tried to set wages above their ‘ natural ’ level , their actions amounted to ‘ a conspiracy in restraint of trade ’ since the price level of goods would be artificially distorted and the competitive market undermined . |
| 26 | ( 2 ) Where a right of action to recover land has accrued and after its accrual , before the right is barred , the land ceases to be in adverse possession , the right of action shall no longer be treated as having accrued and no fresh right of action shall be treated as accruing unless and until the land is again taken into adverse possession … |
| 27 | Political differences were minimized and a wide variety of outside speakers invited to address the group at monthly intervals when Parliament was sitting , normally in a House of Commons Committee Room . |
| 28 | All that is left is the complaint about the way in which the district judge assessed the fault of the prosecution for the delay , the expectations aroused by a supposed assurance given on behalf of the prosecutor that the Barclays ( Asia ) charges would not be pursued and the undoubted ill-health of the applicant . |
| 29 | All three major candidates agreed that the influence of the country 's chaebols — large business conglomerates which had traditionally worked closely with the government — should be curbed and a greater emphasis placed upon laissez-faire economics . |
| 30 | Their data are summarised in Table 7.3 , which shows that pasture with a low intensity land-use exhibits characteristics that most closely resemble those of undisturbed forest , i.e. a high above-ground biomass in which most of the nutrient stocks are located and a diverse flora which includes many species found in mature forest . |