Example sentences of "[noun pl] [to-vb] [adv] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It took me two hours to paint out the damage that Sweetman had caused to our hull . |
| 2 | Attempts to accommodate both a sensitivity to difference and a commitment to the universalistic claims of post-Enlightenment liberalism became increasingly convoluted and forlorn . |
| 3 | The sketch for the Upper Pond , part of Brown 's great natural parkland at Petworth , was discovered in the Petworth archives some years ago but the backlog of work on the estate and the disastrous storm of 1987 which destroyed thousands of trees delayed plans to carry out the design . |
| 4 | Excitement mounted ; in her memoirs Princess Marie Louise quotes Sir Edwin Lutyens as saying , ‘ Let us devise and design for all time something which will enable future generations to see how a king and queen of England lived in the twentieth century , and what authors , artists and craftsmen of note there were during their reign . ’ |
| 5 | Both the bid for Channel Five and plans for the new Teleport to be operated at South Gyle , carrying signals for both Television and Telecommunications via satellite , cable and fibre optic lines , are well advanced and require the continued integration of technologies to carry on the task of promoting Edinburgh as a centre of excellence in the new media . |
| 6 | Selecting the right personnel to carry out the PR function . |
| 7 | Personnel to carry out the Quality Auditor role are currently being identified : it is intended that they will be trained to IQA Lead Assessor standards . |
| 8 | And where they are legal , the operations require sophisticated equipment and highly-trained personnel to carry out the switch within 24 hours . |
| 9 | I am not sure about the precise details , but I do believe than when Great-Grandfather Tallentire became old and decided to retire he refused to allow his sons to carry on the licence . |
| 10 | She hesitated momentarily before she said , ‘ I hope it will be someone with sons to carry on the property . |
| 11 | The approach allows researchers to see how the diversity — still large and exciting — came to be , rather than simply marvelling at it . |
| 12 | It took some time to reassemble their people , so much so that presently Douglas , growing impatient , left some of his lesser commanders to round up the stragglers , attend to the wounded and collect the booty from the camp . |
| 13 | Neutrality on a subject like male prostitution ( Masculinity NI 175 ) and child absue ‘ men bring their 12-year old sons to try out a travesti ’ is a political cop-out . |
| 14 | Although the links and influences of one upon the other are far from clear , it is not irrelevant to an understanding of the accounts to know how the pupils represent the character of their community . |
| 15 | ( Zhores Medvedev 's attempts to spell out the injury thus caused to scientific-technical advance landed him in a mental hospital . ) |
| 16 | A well-known example is the motif in Schubert 's Erlkönig , which combines perfectly with the dashing octave triplets to conjure up a picture of the father 's wild gallop , with his dying son in his arms : |
| 17 | Beniaminio and Mario Di Conza have been in the hospital since June , undergoing investigations to find out the extent of organ sharing , before the operation which was completed yesterday . |
| 18 | So an optimistic note for the pub trade , but a pessimistic one for Oxfordshire 's only two-man brewery , because it 's struggling to survive against tough competition from the major breweries and the are concerned that the Government proposals to shake up the brewing industry wo n't really help them . |
| 19 | Morton 's controversial final chapter is only a few thousand words long and attempts to sum up the marriage now but TODAY has discovered new revelations showing how close Diana came to walking out — and still might . |
| 20 | What had taken place was that the Viennese Bürgertum had rejected large parts of liberal values to accept substantially the Catholic , baroque , and aestheticist tradition of the court aristocracy . |
| 21 | For reasons which are not yet clear — presumably the pre-marketing clinical studies were considered inadequate — Dista was collaborating in a series of research projects to discover how the bodies of elderly patients cope with Opren . |
| 22 | He recalled with a shudder his futile attempts to pull together the shreds of his old life as if nothing had happened , his tangled emotions , the trouble at school . |
| 23 | In contrast , it took me months and umpteen phone calls to obtain even a brochure from a well-known American vintage manufacturer . |
| 24 | Use the patterns to write down the A three . |
| 25 | The administrative receiver appointed , Touche Ross , was instrumental in persuading the Revenue to allow shareholders to write off the value of the shares against capital gains tax . |
| 26 | The shore boys were ready for us with slides and ropes , and the local corporation carthorses were ready to be harnessed to the capstan ropes to pull up the beach the Jim and Eliza . |
| 27 | Convinced , and quite rightly , that nothing had or would come of Napoleon III 's attempts to drum up an alliance with Italy or Austria-Hungary , dismissing such a possibility as ‘ idle gossip ’ , the Prussian Chancellor prepared to spring his trap . |
| 28 | But now they have to wait weeks or even months to claim back the money — forced to produce an exam certificate for each trainee before the TEC pays up . |
| 29 | Governors of schools are the most frequently mentioned group and Circular 6/81 asked them to encourage schools to carry out a review . |
| 30 | Could you not use the drama teachers in those schools to carry out the kind some of this kind of marketing as well . |