Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [adv] [to-vb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The concentration on Heron 's bond issues in Switzerland , where only lead managers can call a default , leaves a potential conflict of interest if the banks which issued the bonds for Heron sought now to negotiate against the company . |
| 2 | Jinny felt her breath stop as her eyes swivelled automatically to look at the Hare-woman . |
| 3 | The creed still makes sense but , as both Mr Gandhi and Mr Singh began dimly to realise in the 1980s , the doctrine does not . |
| 4 | United had one more chance six minutes before the end when Martin Foyle did well to turn on the ball ; in the edge of the penalty area he hit a shot low and hard towards the corner of the net but it just drifted wide of the far post and United 's chance had gone . |
| 5 | The black eyes shifted momentarily to take in the mortally wounded Angel Two on the Control Room floor , then back to Grant . |
| 6 | The new generation of producers that subsequently emerged came to believe it was possible for the British film industry to ‘ take on ’ the Americans , although this grand ambition had more to do with a desire to efface their inferiority complex than any serious resolve to face reality . |
| 7 | Oldfield refused even to speak to the person he had once idolised . |
| 8 | The recruits hurried below to pack into the on-ship chapel , where incense burned before a lambent golden icon of the Emperor and an alabaster idol of Rogal Dorn , the founding Primarch of the Imperial Fists . |
| 9 | The Chancellor fought hard to improve on the initial proposals put to ECOFIN , but he was fighting with one hand tied behind his back . |
| 10 | There is no question but that VSEL strived genuinely to compete for the order , and put in an effective bid . |
| 11 | I remember the boy rose once to go to the bathroom , his thin , adolescent frame weaving in pain . |
| 12 | Saint-Lary-Soulan is a small resort , in summer and winter alike , an ancient Pyrenean village lost definitively to sight amidst the apartments , shops , hotels and other impositions of tourism . |
| 13 | In July , Council voted unequivocally to proceed with the much praised plans to reinstate Portland Place to its rightful role as an architecture centre based round its internationally-celebrated library and drawings collection . |
| 14 | Neither services nor any other sector increased sufficiently to compensate for the loss of jobs in manufacturing . |
| 15 | The FT-SE Index crashed nearly 14 points to 2691.7 but the fall had more to do with the Maastricht jitters than America 's new President . |
| 16 | In June 1964 a law transformed RTF into O ( for ‘ Office ’ ( RTF's ' This law had more to do with the organizational needs of a body attempting to adjust to the expansion of broadcasting than with the issue of political control . |
| 17 | As of the end of March the Security Council had yet to agree on a further resolution to establish definitive ceasefire conditions . |
| 18 | The respect afforded him in England had partly to do with the manner in which he had taken on the mantle of English culture ; in the absence of any figure with equivalent influence , he was eventually to be invested with an almost shamanistic authority . |
| 19 | Despite the fact that Gassendi and Boyle took care to find a place for God and the soul in their revivals of the theory , its adherents had perpetually to struggle against the undeniable fact that Epicurus had introduced it as a foundation for his explicit materialistic atheism . |
| 20 | The Act enshrines principles social workers fought hard to get on the statute book . |
| 21 | There was one other issue which the CEGB tried hard to avoid at the Hinkley C Inquiry . |
| 22 | After the party the house guests came downstairs to eat under the arcaded edge of a courtyard . |
| 23 | Matthew turned shyly to speak to the child . |
| 24 | There was not a soul in sight as Theda began resolutely to trudge down the street , looking for a lane that might lead her off the main road , which , being only of packed dirt , was already a hasty-pudding of mud which churned under her mercifully booted feet . |
| 25 | A radical wing broke away to merge with the leftist Workers ' Party . |
| 26 | However , Ybarra claims SunPics ' reluctance had more to do with the fact that henceforth it will have to pay for Adobe imaging technologies like PostScript and display Postscript . |
| 27 | Then more feet , the slam of a door , the surge of power as the Rover shot away to look at the next corner . |
| 28 | On arms control , China agreed conditionally to accede to the 18-country Missile Technology Control Regime , which would limit its arms sales to Pakistan and Syria , in return for the lifting of US sanctions , imposed in June , on exports from two Chinese arms companies , high-technology computer sales and joint satellite launches . |
| 29 | This trade unionism came eventually to believe in the need for parliamentary representation to safeguard its interests , and from the start determined the course of political intervention . |
| 30 | Two crucial stages in this were the formation of an alliance with the Emperor Alexius I Comnenus of Byzantium against the Norman empire threatening to spread into Venice 's Adriatic and Byzantine Greece in the 1080s ; and the role Venice came increasingly to play in the crusading adventures of the twelfth century . |