Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [art] [noun pl] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Arcade , expected to include an applications builder , object editor and browser and SQL links to the Big Four databases , will share the stage with Asterix 3.0 , the latest version of the company 's integrated office automation suite , currently out on beta test at a number of customer sites . |
| 2 | Arcade , expected to include an applications builder , object editor and browser and SQL links to the big four databases , will share the stage with Asterix 3.0 , the latest version of the company 's integrated office automation suite , currently out on beta test at a number of customer sites . |
| 3 | Mr Mowatt agreed to write an Operations check-list , outlining routine procedures , and how to carry them out , and listing actions needed in the event of problems occurring . |
| 4 | I thought of the shoppers ’ day trips to Northern Ireland in search of cheap goods , and tried enumerating the benefits Ireland might receive from a Reunion with the rest of Britain . |
| 5 | A court 's heard how a gang of armed robbers tried to kill a police inspector by opening fire with shotguns during a high-speed chase . |
| 6 | On our way home we tried to find a Mothers Day card for Mark to send to his Mum , but I think all the Dalseattie shops must have the same supplier and sell those ghastly pink-ish cards with really crass ditties inside ugh . |
| 7 | I tried to explore the problems Mrs Singh would have in attempting to be a fully participating parent but the educational psychologist seemed to feel that this was a problem common to many Cedars parents . |
| 8 | The Americans promised to give the Palestinians statistics on the extent of Jewish settlement in the occupied territories . |
| 9 | The white paper proposed to give the courts power to give longer custodial sentences to persistent violent and sexual offenders . |
| 10 | Other optical effects , such as the montaged graphics sequence showing the Doctor , Sara and Bret being ‘ matter transported ’ to Mira helped inspire the Effects Designers working on the stargate sequences for Kubrick 's 2001 : A Space Odyssey . |
| 11 | I tried to start a blues band , but it just did not work . |
| 12 | Notwithstanding that report , conducted on behalf of the government , Sir Keith Joseph intimated in April 1982 that he proposed to terminate the Schools Council and to institute two new bodies the School Curriculum Development Committee and the Secondary Examinations Council — to carry out certain advisory functions relating to the curriculum on the one hand and examinations on the other . |
| 13 | This signalled the arrival of the half of the school that had NOT been early for assembly , who tried to enter the sports hall at the same time as the half that had just been thrown out tried to exit . |
| 14 | We 'd known more or less since I 'd heard the words Jihad Islami in the Land of Grey and Pink , but they 'd never actually said it . |
| 15 | When the time came to greet the newly-weds Prince Napoleon bowed to the Emperor but pointedly ignored the Empress , while Prince Pierre Bonaparte saluted neither the one nor the other . |
| 16 | Like a robot she 'd made the calls Steve should have made and the rest of the time she had walked the city , trying to be a tourist taking in all the sights . |
| 17 | She 'd rejoined the sports club she used to belong to before she 'd allowed her membership to lapse during her time with Arnie . |
| 18 | Depraved visitors came to witness the horrors Drachenfels devised , and pitiful slave-servitors catered for the debased appetites of visiting connoisseurs of carnage and debauchery . |
| 19 | If he found after two or three days that he was n't really making much headway , he would then , after he 'd left the police courts , say to me I think you 'd better go down street or somewhere and see if you can find |
| 20 | Oh he came from an old , I think he came from a very old er , there was , there was a General , first world war , erm , well the last time I heard anything about Cake , well , he was , he 'd , he 'd left the Signals section , he was the when I left India , and the last time I heard anything about him , I read it in , in a paper in erm , when the troubles were on and he was brig brigadier in charge of an infantry brigade , about my age , well , a , probably a year or two older than me , cos he was a , yeah he was a lieutenant when I got out there a full lieutenant , so he must of been a captain . |
| 21 | As a boy raced to take the ropes Penry flung out , Leonora began to breathe more easily again , her pulse-rate calming as she felt the usual shamed reaction to terror once safety was assured . |
| 22 | Despite the overwhelming prosecution evidence , the defence dwelt upon King 's behaviour prior to the arrest — he was intoxicated and had failed to comply with police attempts to stop his speeding car — and sought to cast the police officers as a part of a " thin blue line " standing between law-abiding citizens and the " jungle " . |
| 23 | Another development of note is that the SCOTVEC Testing Services Section began operating the Police Examinations on behalf of the Police ( Scotland ) Examinations Board . |
| 24 | He declined to give the police information about who supplied the drugs concerned . |
| 25 | Comforting him , I rushed to hone the Poisons Bureau , grabbing the booklet at the same time . |
| 26 | The events which followed put the police force of a large northern town on full alert for a missing officer . |
| 27 | Matilda stood up and began to say the two-times table . |
| 28 | Eyebrows were raised when history graduates began to enter the police force , accountancy , insurance , banking and large retail organisations but these , like many other occupations , need versatile people capable of managing change . |
| 29 | Mr Brown alleged that Grugel twice asked plasterer Peter McCabe for some plaster boards and when he threatened to tell the police Grugel assaulted him , causing a laceration above his eyebrow which needed hospital treatment . |
| 30 | The earlier smile , Sandra 's smile , lingered in the coffee bar until the proprietor began to bang the chairs upside down on to the tables , impatient to spend half an hour with Shirley Temple . |