Example sentences of "[verb] [art] [adj] [noun] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While America currently lacked the political will to tackle its trade deficit , there was increasing talk of ending free-trade access to its vast domestic market . |
| 2 | The Despensers lacked the military power to underpin their ascendancy . |
| 3 | Hardy lacked the social confidence to make his way in professional circles , and also the formal education that would have enabled him to follow Horace Moule , his close friend from Dorchester days , to university and a career in the church . |
| 4 | In addition , the conference was forced to accept the need to organize a campaign to compel the National government to drop its policy of non-intervention , an action which led to the formation of the Spain Campaign Committee . |
| 5 | If the times at which additions are expected can be predicted , it may be wise to hold additions in an ancillary file until each ‘ burst ’ of activity is over and then to reorganize the main file to include them . |
| 6 | She was too plain , and too shy , to bring out into society ; but that , as Dinah told herself , was no reason for allowing the young woman to idle her days away in the Hampstead house . |
| 7 | The following day Proinsias de Rossa , leader of the Workers ' Party , read sections of the advertisement out in the Dail , thereby allowing the Irish media to publish them with impunity . |
| 8 | The total funds were then used to purchase £1,500 million of government securities , thus allowing the public sector to cover its deficit . |
| 9 | Is it not time that we tried to co-ordinate an effort on that basis to enable the Soviet Union to pick itself up and start taking a proper role in the world economy ? |
| 10 | Peter is also given an appointment with the dietician for advice and an appointment at the Outpatient clinic to enable the medical staff to monitor his progress . |
| 11 | He highlighted the different approaches being made by the regions , putting sufficient emphasis on the distinctions and duplications to enable the assembled company to draw their own conclusions : namely , that the international business was getting too big for the regions to handle , and that the variations would lead to unnecessary proliferation if they were n't effectively controlled and directed by Detroit . |
| 12 | Then a Hall corner-kick was headed goalwards by Read and Pullen applied the final touch to make it 3–0 . |
| 13 | In the long hours when there were no customers to show she was expected to lend a hand with some of the unskilled tasks — running errands and making tea , unpicking a seam or a hem , even sewing on a button or a hook and eye when she had been taught the proper way to do it . |
| 14 | As you vary your walking pace ( increase your speed ) , then repeat the above method to calculate your new walking speed . |
| 15 | During a period of pitiful loneliness and depression , Marinello made the ill-advised decision to compromise his skills and try to win his way back into the Arsenal first team as an auxiliary midfield player rather than an avaricious dribbler . |
| 16 | Agricultural prosperity rested on secure tenures that made the substantial farmers feel themselves to be full proprietors . |
| 17 | His mother made the agonising decision to leave her husband and family to get her little boy away from a war zone these people describe as sheer hell . |
| 18 | There were a privileged few who made the Grand Tour to complete their education and seek out Europe 's art treasures , but travelling for pleasure was not an accepted part of life as it is in Western industrialized countries today . |
| 19 | And thus the Lord made the rude rabble to justify his appearance . |
| 20 | She never told her husband about her relationship with Phillip Levy and it was only after both men had died that she made the difficult decision to confess her secret life . |
| 21 | Where a plaintiff had brought an action in rem , however , his primary interest was in recovering his property , and in recognition of this the jurists devised the clausula arbitraria to assist him . |
| 22 | Part of the explanation for this failure is that not enough information about investment plans is available to the market , and also that market participants lack the technical ability to evaluate what may be highly complex and specialised projects . |
| 23 | Social groups which lack the civic skills to represent their own interests are particularly vulnerable to neglect by decentralizing agencies . |
| 24 | Only where the person using the foul language makes it plain that he has no intention of resorting to violence , and there is no bystander who is likely to be provoked by what the defendant is doing , is no offence committed under this section . |
| 25 | In that situation , the band is n't using the live gig to plug their current record , like an appearance on the ‘ Wogan ’ show . |
| 26 | Lie on your side and bend the lower leg , resting your head on your hand and using the upper arm to support you in front . |
| 27 | Kneeling down on a soft surface , the patient may practise trunk movements using the gymnastic ball to support his arms and shoulders , while the physiotherapist controls the balance of his pelvis . |
| 28 | It was a neat line to end on and she used it to excuse herself and go upstream to wash , using the chilly water to freeze her blood and perhaps put a coat of ice about her heart . |
| 29 | However , using the gamma-sensitive scintillation probe it was shown that lead could considerably reduce the amount of gamma radiation detected from the plexiglass . |
| 30 | Only in 1689 , the closing date for this study , were they at last given the legal right to conduct their nonconformist worship in their own meeting-houses ( see Chapters 3 and 6 ) . |