Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [verb] [to-vb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even so , it took great nerve and daring to ride that wind for such a distance and it is a fitting tribute to the bravery of the balloon pioneers , yet it will be seen that those men and women who followed Sadler into the skies display , in their own way , no less daring than he . |
| 2 | The drafter therefore may not be able to guarantee that there will be no challenge to the clause on this basis , but he/she should take account of the rule and try to avoid some of the more obvious problems highlighted by decided cases . |
| 3 | He took another look at the note , putting a finger into his mouth and trying to dislodge some irritating morsel of lunch from between his back teeth . |
| 4 | Those at the conference table are not Palestine Liberation Organisation representatives working out of Tunis but people who actually live in the occupied territories , who have been deprived of their homeland , as they see it , and who are now looking to the future and trying to negotiate some kind of settlement . |
| 5 | Partnerships need guidance and support to help those involved to continually reflect on previous learning and to plan change on the basis of this reflection . |
| 6 | Tony reversed his car and turned to take another look at the theatre — there was nothing there . |
| 7 | My right hon. Friend has already brought some provisions of the Act into force and intends to bring all its provisions into force progressively within about one year of enactment . |
| 8 | The defendants are also charged with abduction and attempting to abduct another boy of two on the same day . |
| 9 | In each case the experience of being wrenched out of the familiar instigates an identity crisis which results in a series of ‘ rebirths ’ as the protagonist grapples with the problem of selfhood and strives to construct some form of coherent identity out of the scraps of other peoples ' languages which penetrate his or her consciousness . |
| 10 | The ex-Croydon Corporation E/1s were still in sound condition and lived to see another day ; they were transferred to New Cross depôt . |
| 11 | The tower was woven round with spells of illusion and warding to protect this treasured knowledge . |
| 12 | The pain of the body and the greatness of the soul are equally balanced throughout the composition of the figure and seem to cancel each other out . |
| 13 | Often the survey is to be conducted after months of work on a theme , and by this time the researcher has become immersed in the work and tends to forget that other people do not have the same interest or knowledge . |
| 14 | It needs skill and experience to use this comparison table , and the advice of a specialist teacher for visually handicapped pupils should be sought if there are problems in deciding the size of print that should be used in individual cases . |
| 15 | So we use a special blend and roast to create that richer , smoother taste . |
| 16 | Roll out in the same way as the marzipan and use to cover all four towers . |
| 17 | They may act as presidential emissaries to the largely autonomous empires of the bureaucracy and try to instil some loyalty to the programme of the President in their department . |
| 18 | Madame then settled back in her seat and fell into a deep sleep for the rest of the journey , full of good food and wine , and liqueurs , while Ellie stared back out of the window and tried to make some sense of all that had just been said , and all that had just happened . |
| 19 | That skeleton ‘ CONTAINS ’ itself so that it can be retrieved by its own creator and expanded to include all its other constituent members . |
| 20 | States must also be defined if the model is replacing another model for the same class , type and subtype to define all those states defined by the old model . |
| 21 | And staggering from seminar to seminar during the day , you encountered enough bullshit and banter to last several lifetimes . |
| 22 | Even this further devaluation failed to restore confidence as the US treasury secretary announced that the United States would not intervene to support the dollar and intended to remove all controls on capital exports . |
| 23 | Construction : shingle construction — sections of fibre are sewn to the outer and liner and overlaid to eliminate any cold spots . |
| 24 | Also , if I get it written ( which I may not , as I am expecting someone to lunch and want to catch this afternoon 's post ) forward Jenny 's letter ? |
| 25 | Other attacks included : ( i ) an explosion at the offices of the French Banque Nationale de Paris in Athens on March 10 , 1989 , which a group calling itself Revolutionary Solidarity claimed was in support of the French urban guerrilla organization Action Directe ; ( ii ) a bomb attack on April 10 on a judge 's apartment in Athens for which the May 1 Revolutionary Organization claimed responsibility and threatened to attack any judge supporting the extradition to the USA of Muhammad Rashid [ see p. 36667 ] ; ( iii ) a bomb attack on the Justice Ministry on June 1 and on three government offices in Athens and Piraeus on June 13 for which the Revolutionary Popular Struggle ( ELA ) claimed responsibility ; ( iv ) car-bomb attacks on three US vehicles near Athens on Oct. 22 in which four Greeks were slightly injured and for which ELA claimed responsibility ; ( v ) a car-bomb attack on March 19 , 1990 , which injured a former senior British Petroleum executive ; and ( vi ) attacks on 12 cars belonging to East European and Arab diplomats on March 27 , for which an organization called Social Resistance claimed responsibility on behalf of the " vested rights of Third-World countries " . |
| 26 | As the sports car is likely to be designed with relatively better braking and steering to control this momentum and hence the danger inherent in it when it is moving , this difference in ‘ inherent dangerousness ’ is probably considerably greater . |
| 27 | Now write your ghost story and remember to include all the improvements you thought of when you were talking to your partner . |
| 28 | The story goes that Blackburn chairman Jack Walker was unimpressed by Thomas 's contribution in the 3–3 draw at Selhurst Park and refused to sign another of his famous cheques with all those zeros . |
| 29 | It is advisable for the prosecution to anticipate any such defence and try to negate any fraudulent defence at the investigation stage . |
| 30 | But Lancaster replied by attacking the government for extravagance and oppressively burdening the people , saying that he would come armed to parliament and seek to remedy these matters unless the king granted him a safe-conduct . |