Example sentences of "[verb] [art] [noun prp] [conj] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | as if to prove that a Shetlander 's work is never done , the same storms that sank the Braer and then cleaned away the oil caused erosion of the coast along the edge of the unexcavated portion of Jarlshof , and emergency coastal defences had to be installed prior to the provision of a permanent seawall . |
| 2 | The move is intended to allow Wharfedale to rationalise its activities and to concentrate on developing the Cambridge and newly announced Leak ranges . |
| 3 | It is notoriously difficult to design a DPS that really works as a whole without getting lost somewhere in the gutter between the two pages . |
| 4 | On the night of 13 March the U.852 sank a steamer called the Peleus and then cruised round the area shining a searchlight on wreckage and survivors while the ship 's first lieutenant , doctor and engineer officer with two ratings picked up guns and grenades and by indiscriminate firing endeavoured to destroy all traces of the sinking before the patrolling aircraft arrived in the morning . |
| 5 | During that time , as in the case of many other trappings of modern America , it has crossed the Atlantic and subsequently emerged in Britain . |
| 6 | Soviet leaders have given no indication , moreover , that they are prepared to abandon the PDPA and apparently expect its apparatus to be retained in post-settlement Afghanistan even if its role is reduced and its monopoly of power relinquished . |
| 7 | Within the next 50 years Ottoman armies crossed the Danube and even penetrated into Hungary and Romania , laying siege to Vienna in 1529 . |
| 8 | I loathe the plots hatched by the Spanish government to slip ‘ Guernica ’ surreptitiously into Spain with the promise that it would be put on show at the whorehouse they call the Prado and then moved it to that pigsty , the Reina Sofia . |
| 9 | The Southern Option running from Lackenby , skirting residential parts of Middlesbrough and crossing open country to Picton was preferred by the company to the Portrack route which runs North , crosses and re-crosses the Tees and roughly follows the A19 . |
| 10 | Some saw a tragic irony in this , since they suspected that de Gaulle was the only person " with the necessary authority to head a Europe that desperately wanted his leadership " |