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 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 .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 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 .
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