Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [noun sg] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When handling or checking cash the cashier should exercise particular care . |
| 2 | Nothing breaches the flatness except some kind of smokestack or cooling tower a couple of miles to the north . |
| 3 | Resolved , That if it shall appear that any person hath been tampering with any Witness , in respect of his evidence to be given to this House , or any Committee thereof , or directly or indirectly hath endeavoured to deter or hinder any person from appearing or giving evidence the same is declared to be a high crime and misdemeanour ; and this House will proceed with the utmost severity against such offender . |
| 4 | Use hourly or apply moisturiser every hour over a few days , with a touch of Vaseline to follow . |
| 5 | The main drawback to this officer/ N.C.O./soldier ratio was that if a party was killed or taken prisoner the enemy scored a success well out of proportion to the numbers involved . ’ |
| 6 | Thin or topped chip A lot of golfers will thin or top when they have to play a delicate shot over a hazard . |
| 7 | Though less fat today , it remains massive in build and has retained enough of its original milking capacity to make an excellent suckler cow , with high conception and calving rates , and a hardiness and placidity that make management a pleasure . |
| 8 | Some extend in total darkness for miles and reveal displays of delicate carvings and formations that make water-action the greatest of all natural sculptors . |
| 9 | Small details , that make fishing a constant source of delight : a bank of yellow flag by a tiny burn ; where mountain everlasting grow ; secret otter greens ; where we saw a wildcat ; a peregrine 's nest ; rutting red deer ; black-throated divers . |
| 10 | Nor has Forester the weapon of humour at his disposal , except in occasional moments when he allows his hero to appear in an almost ludicrous light . |
| 11 | Together , IBM and Microsoft set the technical standards that helped fuel the explosive growth of personal computers in the 1980s : ‘ IBM-compatible ’ hardware and Microsoft 's DOS operating-system software , the basic program needed to run any computer . |
| 12 | And Marsh and Ian Rush yesterday urged the fans to again provide the backing that helped KO the French when Liverpool meet Spartak Moscow tomorrow , trailing 4-2 . |
| 13 | In his own wallpaper designs he had been determined to avoid anything that commanded attention the moment a person entered a room . |
| 14 | The practices in these laboratories are monitored by an independent Quality Assurance Unit that assures management the work is complying with the required standards . |
| 15 | Bits of it actually sound accidental , but that only adds to the shocking brilliance of a record that allowed rock a way into the previously terrifying world of dance , and that showed dance a way forward too . |
| 16 | Although requiring modernisation the state rooms are still intact including their painted ceilings . |
| 17 | At long last you can possess an lipstick that never fades — due to certain capsules that release colour every time you press your lips together . |
| 18 | The kisses that followed chart the gradual disintegration of a fairytale into a horror story . |
| 19 | One of them , for example , that we 'll be looking next term , Freud 's biography , co-written with Bullitt , on Woodrow Wilson , was called , in one of the major reviews , when it finally came out in nineteen sixty seven , the kind of thing that gets psychoanalysis a bad name . |
| 20 | Er , particularly since it was only half right , or you could n't exactly tell which half , not very clearly , so if it 's half by Freud , and er , it was a book erm , on erm , a controversial figure arguing over very controversial pieces , and I think the psychoanalytic study did n't want to have anything to do with it , and er , er , one of the reviews of the psychoanalytic journal that said that this is the kind of book that gets psychoanalysis a bad name . |
| 21 | The good thing about the president 's intervention is that it publicly recognised a problem that needed solution the very antithesis of WRU custom and practice for most of the past dozen or more ostrich era . |
| 22 | He allowed her to speak , briefly , and the youth who offered himself as hostage for her replied , in a low , feline voice that gave Kit a shiver . |
| 23 | But Leicester 's win over Sunderland did them no favours , nor did sharing the points after Allen put Millwall ahead after 11 minutes . |
| 24 | Wanting to avoid this pessimistic conclusion , we might instead entertain the idea that these powerful persons commit crimes for ‘ rational ’ — albeit disreputable — motives which emerge under conditions that render conformity a relatively unrewarding activity . |
| 25 | As Graham Greene once created a Greene-land , habitable only by creatures distinctive of his mind , so do novelists since his day seek a setting that holds together , and one that gives character a space to breathe and act in . |
| 26 | That 's exactly the sort of Stupid Cult that gives culture a bad name . |
| 27 | Ramie is a natural , linen-type fibre that gives fabric a most attractive slub finish . |
| 28 | ‘ Friedel ’ comes careering through the door with an axe in its hand , before forgetting what it was so angry about in the first place , while ‘ Liebeslied ’ is the sort of directionless tosh that gives experimentalism a bad name . |
| 29 | ‘ Friedel ’ comes careering through the door with an axe in its hand , before forgetting what it was so angry about in the first place , while ‘ Liebeslied ’ is the sort of directionless tosh that gives experimentalism a bad name . |
| 30 | She walked towards it , pulling back and ducking under the prickling runners of a giant bramble that had overspread the path . |