Example sentences of "[v-ing] [art] [adj] fate " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last Sunday I sat in a cold room with my daughter , the two of us reviling the malign fate which had robbed us of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea , our weekly TV fix . |
| 2 | Prague , the much vaunted Sleeping Beauty is in danger of enduring the same fate as Venice , with the Sleeping Beauty being snogged to death by the West . |
| 3 | But they too were in danger of meeting the same fate , and for the same reason : the document safeguarding the rights of the monastic community , which St Thomas had intended to make , did not exist . |
| 4 | The outcome , however , was unchanged ; the compromise clause meeting the same fate as the amendment suspending the death penalty , being carried in the Commons , but again defeated in the Lords . |
| 5 | The " yes " campaign was also supported by the president of the African National Congress ( ANC ) , Nelson Mandela , who , whilst abhorring the notion of the white population deciding the political fate of the country , appealed to whites to vote " yes " for democratic change . |
| 6 | At this Margery panics , expecting the same fate for herself , and soon begs the old woman to try to find Wilekin and bring him to her . |
| 7 | A new bus service from the Tower to Hoo Hill was started in the same year , sealing the eventual fate of the Layton tram route . |
| 8 | The proposals have set off a heated debate within the milk industry , whose outcome is likely to have important ramifications north of the Border , where the Scottish milk boards are facing a similar fate to that of their English and Welsh counterpart . |
| 9 | Kep is suffering the same fate as the 800-year-old temples of Angkor in the north of Cambodia . |
| 10 | The man fired a single bullet , and the decapitation of St Michael prevented him from suffering the same fate . |
| 11 | He said he he had acted ‘ in an attempt to prevent future coma , disabled and elderly patients suffering the same fate as Tony Bland ’ . |
| 12 | She gripped his hand as tightly as she could , feeling a terrific wrench on her shoulders as he tried to haul her in , steadying himself against the door to ensure that he did n't end up suffering the same fate as his companion . |
| 13 | ‘ Maybe she is suffering the same fate as Minginish , ’ he said obscurely . |
| 14 | By their recent actions , loyalist paramilitaries are tempting the same fate — with far more damaging long-term political effects . |
| 15 | Committed initially in 1916 to an abstract , defensive project of avoiding the humiliating fate of his father by succeeding within the alienating structure of a bourgeois educational system , Nizan reinvented his life in 1927 , joined the PCF and conceived a plan to become a winner by fighting the cause of all those losers in the world , victims like his father of an oppressive social system . |
| 16 | If this was justification for blockading and bombing his country , most of the regimes propped up by the US would be awaiting a similar fate . |