Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] [conj] [vb base] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.

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31 Caedwalla attempted , according to Bede , to exterminate the natives and replace them with inhabitants of his own kingdom , vowing , though still a pagan , that he would give a fourth part of the island and the booty seized to the Church if he were successful .
32 Us kids were highly amused at all this , but I was distracted from the fun by Frankie who suggested that we gather up the bottles and hide them in the washhouse before they all got broken .
33 But it is thought , however , that these few people do n't have the antibodies that protect them from the toxin if it is produced . ’
34 ‘ The only people doing any laughing are the gypsies that sell it to you , ’ she 'd retort .
35 I think therefore it would be advisable to make the necessary adjustments in the costumes and send them to me as soon as possible .
36 We will continue our efforts to break down the barriers that prevent them from competing freely throughout Europe and in the wider world .
37 Or you can scoop out the flesh of the potatoes and mix it with the sauce .
38 Scrub but do not peel the potatoes and cut them in half lengthwise .
39 Come along on Tuesday 11 September , 6 to 8 pm , meet the Pallants and join us for champagne and informal modelling .
40 If your computer dealer ca n't supply them you can easily get the connectors and make them up yourself if you are handy with a soldering iron .
41 The control over text and graphics it allows is immense , and some of the functions that differentiate it from the rest of the Windows word processor league are particularly appropriate for a word processor — sentence selection being a case in point .
42 It seemed undesirable to use force against the Yugoslavs at the moment , but incidents could occur or be provoked , and clear instructions should be issued soon as to whether Alexander should order Eighth Army to close the Austrian frontier to the Yugoslavs and eject them from Carinthia , which would of course mean by force .
43 I should n't be surprised if Hollywood sends a plane to bomb the Indians and punish them for the death of Matt .
44 ‘ The case of the customer who simply removes goods from the shelves is of course different because the basis on which a supermarket is run is that customers certainly have the consent of the owner to take goods from the shelves and take them to the checkout point there to pay the proper price for them .
45 That was a case in which the defendant took two bottles of whisky from the shelves and put them in her shopping bag .
46 In verse erm thirteen , I will bring them out from the peoples and gather them from the countries and bring them into their own land .
47 But the plains , savannahs , rivers and hills , all the way from Samburu down to the Masai Steppe , proved fruitful and the Masai built up their strength through the acquisition of women and cattle so successfully that they chased out the other tribes who were obliged to cling to the mountains or secrete themselves in the forests , land useless for cattle .
48 And they carry them in the rubbers and put them in the mangers .
49 Those hardy souls in the present century who ignore the mysteries and regard themselves as random atoms , moving purposelessly in a world of blind chance , must necessarily behave differently from those who , like so many in the nineteenth century , believed that they inhabited an ordered world in which they had moral duties to perform , even if these were obscurely glimpsed and seldom accomplished .
50 For a confirmation of this , you only have to look at some of Turner 's paintings of the Dales and compare them with the reality to see how much poetic licence has been taken for the sake of the " phantasmagoric " .
51 The job of perceptual systems is to take these fluctuating patterns of activity occurring at the receptors and interpret them in terms of what is going on in the outside world .
52 Remove the yolks and place them in a dish with mayonnaise and onions and beat them with a fork .
53 Black & Decker suggest that the sheath should be filled with a mix of two parts paraffin to one part SAE 20 oil : this will both lubricate the blades and protect them from corrosion over the winter months .
54 This is 1990s Britain 's worst nightmare , according to scientists who have launched a unique investigation of the terrors that wake us in a cold sweat .
55 a ) As before , measure the angles and mark them on the triangles .
56 ‘ Which girl is bad ? ’ asked Nour , his hair dark gold from the wetting of the shower , and I felt I would rather swim in the pool with the crocodiles than tell him about the girl like a cat .
57 First , make the pies and put them in the oven .
58 They also learn the position of the wetlands that provide them with crucial staging posts where they can feed and rest before starting on the next part of their journey .
59 We unharness the dogs and attach them to a chain that Odd-Knut fastens between two trees .
60 To advertise the fact , they surround the pollen and the anthers that produce it with the vivid petals of a flower .
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