Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] [adv] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alternatively the dominance of one-off dance and rap records in the charts could be having a damaging effect on business as a whole — generally success in the singles chart promotes album sales but dance artists seldom shine in the album format . |
| 2 | Some of the present government 's high technology spending is being inflated by including money already earmarked by the previous government . |
| 3 | Knowing the joy of sins forgiven David subsequently wrote in the Psalm 32 , ‘ Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven , whose sin is COVERED . ’ |
| 4 | It has also been pointed out previously that coordinate singularities necessarily occur in the regions II and III that contain the approaching waves . |
| 5 | Remind them that people who actually grow vegetables usually refer to the place where they are grown as vegetable plots , or even vegetable gardens : a bit prosaic maybe but easily understood . |
| 6 | The burden of proof to establish causation therefore rests on the plaintiff throughout the case . |
| 7 | They were particularly influential in the later new towns where they reaffirmed and codified practice already established in the ‘ Mark I ’ towns . |
| 8 | Unless you 're a real fanatic , you wo n't need shoes specifically designed for the action . |
| 9 | Mike Bettsworth , a freelance writer and Press consultant now living in a converted chapel in the small village of Bere Alston , on the banks of the Tamar Valley at the edge of Dartmoor , says it is the slowness of life in the West and the wide open spaces which appeal to him . |
| 10 | They even used phrases originally employed by the students themselves in informal conversation . |
| 11 | Whereas the above section was described as being part of the social optimality tradition , this section has elements firmly rooted in the public choice tradition . |
| 12 | Fax machines now mix with the deep armchairs and ancient oils of the clubhouse , easing communications with the world outside . |
| 13 | Against the advice of their hosts , they ventured into regions of mountain and marsh that occasioned difficulties never encountered in the well-drained chalklands of the Pays de Caux , and returned with an altered view of the country in whose service they had placed themselves . |
| 14 | We want people just to go round the floor . ’ |
| 15 | The Musée Basque has rooms also devoted to the game of pelota , which is a more various one in terms of the equipment its players either do use or have sometimes used than you would otherwise guess ; to the centuries of Basque whaling ; to witchcraft , for which and for its vicious suppression there was a vogue in the Basque country in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries . |
| 16 | Kersey arrived on time and found Marks already seated at a table by the window with a pint in front of him . |
| 17 | The media are held to have played a key educational and civilising role — by keeping people better informed of the issues involved in industrial disputes and of the ‘ proper ’ way to conduct them . |
| 18 | Care was also taken to ensure that the video is as up to date as possible , keeping staff fully informed of the Bank of the future . |
| 19 | Adopting techniques long employed by the solicitors ' profession , the brochure sets out personal accounts of government legal work by serving lawyers . |
| 20 | Between these groups same routine non-manual workers , supervisors , technicians and self-employed tradesmen ; Their sons entered occupations evenly spread across the hierarchy . |
| 21 | You will too , of course , need a detective , and the same limitations and assets that the detective in the classical story has will still apply to the detective here . |
| 22 | GE welders , for instance , won permission to select and order the machines they use — purchasing decisions once reserved for the company 's white-collared engineers . |
| 23 | However , we have a number of potent stereotypes about the ‘ more caring ’ nature of minority communities and their reluctance to use formal services to provide care traditionally provided by the family in their country of origin . |
| 24 | Flaubert , on his way up the Nile in 1850 , found Esna much enlivened by the presence of ulmeh , literally " learned women " , prostitutes who had been banished from Cairo by Muhammad Ali some years before . |
| 25 | They waited ten minutes , Paul timing it exactly on his wristwatch , then crept back to find Gittings comfortably installed on a newly delivered double bed , beginning his lunch of two fresh fish cutters and half a bottle of five-star rum . |
| 26 | It is sometimes claimed that there are languages without true tenses , for example Chinese or Yoruba , and this is correct in the sense that such languages may lack L-tenses morphologically marked in the verb , or indeed systematically elsewhere ( Comrie , 1976a : 82ff ; Lyons , 1977a : 678-9 ) . |
| 27 | Thus Science syllabuses may include material formerly taught under the separate headings of General Science , Nature Study , Rural Science and Health Education ; Social Studies syllabuses incorporate what used to be taught under History , Geography and Civics . |
| 28 | Mine does n't have Lace Sensors on it , although I do have one guitar with those on ; my model has pickups just like on the Stevie Ray Vaughan one , and they become a little more powerful as you go towards the bridge . |
| 29 | In addition MI5 has representatives permanently stationed at the central registry of the Department of Social Security ( DSS ) at Newcastle , which maintains records — which the DSS claim are confidential — on every adult in the country . |
| 30 | Many canal companies continued independently but , as the rail network grew , passengers and perishable goods traffic together with many bulk cargoes gradually transferred from the canals to the railways . |