Example sentences of "[verb] [art] [adj] and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These flaps gradually grew larger until they met the nasal and became a single sheet of metal , with slits to allow vision and holes for breathing . |
| 2 | Man to man , the Englishman met the Indian and prevailed . |
| 3 | The planning must then design the introductory and motivating unit ( the " lead lesson " , the " starter pack " , an introductory film , or whatever is the best agent for the particular purpose ) , a schedule of subsequent activity anticipating varieties of use and as many of the consequent hazards as can be foreseen , and the expected conclusion ; and at every stage it is important to be clear about intentions and objectives , learning points , and how it is proposed to monitor the continuing success of the work in achieving these objectives . |
| 4 | The films were inevitably foreign and subtitled , and even if we did n't understand them it was as though through exposure to some cinematic photosynthesis we would absorb the esoteric and become all the better intellectually for it . |
| 5 | To recruit for profit you have only one option : recruit the best and pay the best |
| 6 | But I tended to do much better on tests and examinations than I did on coursework , so I passed the eleven-plus and got a free place at the local St. Albans school . |
| 7 | The pilot , realizing that the Jeep was going to ram him , applied the cyclic and tried to lift clear . |
| 8 | Repeat the raking and treading process until a firm , stone-free level site is achieved , and rake once more . |
| 9 | Top hair dressers flew in Paris salons of Carita and Alexandre ; Elizabeth Arden created a new make-up named Farah , to be given in kits to the guests ; Baccarat designed the crystal goblets ; Ceralene fashioned the place setting after a fifth century BC Persian ceramic ; Robert Hailland produced a cup-and-saucer service to be used just once by arriving guests ; and Porthault , one of the great French linen makers , made the private and state linens . |
| 10 | The Orcs spent two more days looting the Moot and drinking the contents of its many inns . |
| 11 | These studies were performed using the linear and supercoiled pHIVCG9.9 DNAs ( 5' 990 nt of HIV-1 ) . |
| 12 | I was off Cley at the time , so I lowered the main and ran for home . |
| 13 | To have a gift somehow eased the soft and suspect business of being an aspiring actor in a dark and sweaty coal-steel town . |
| 14 | How could they be , given the fragmented and fallen nature of our humanness ? |
| 15 | Overseas Development Minister Baroness Chalker said : ‘ Until some semblance of peace and security returns , helping the hungry and dying will be enormously difficult . ’ |
| 16 | The Bernt Carlsson Trust , which is chaired by Mrs Glenys Kinnock , wife of the Labour leader , pledges to ‘ aid the poor and distressed in the third world ’ . |
| 17 | When the plague struck Carthage in 252 , Bishop Cyprian sent his people out to nurse the sick and bury the dead . |
| 18 | They are prone to silting which slows the current and causes shallows ; water levels can vary so that both in flood and drought rivers can become impassable . |
| 19 | He will comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable . |
| 20 | Even across the Park beyond the main fence of the Zoo , over which the eagles could see if they braved the cold and stared out from the top of their cages , there was not a single person . |
| 21 | Many outsoles now combine the two and use the carbon rubber in the heel or other high impact points . |
| 22 | Combine the two and send them out . |
| 23 | The whole Wolfchild Red Indian routine can only work as a fantasy role if the music transcends the mundane and enables the listener to bliss out on that alone , and if the singer thinks he 's Geronimo , fine , after all we 're quite prepared to accept Black Francis as having some handle on space travel , David Bowie as an alien , Rock Messiah human being and Bono as a cowboy bluesman . |
| 24 | They 'll be treated the same and have their qualifications recognised . |
| 25 | In the case of working class women , Anna Martin , a suffragist , observed that mothers were being ‘ ordered by the law to perform the impossible and punished if they fail ’ . |
| 26 | They introduced themselves as self-confessed leaders of the Maillotins , the French word for ‘ clubs ’ , a secret society of the Parisian poor who attacked the rich and earned their name from the huge cudgels they carried . |
| 27 | McAvennie disputed the fine and called on the Professional Footballer 's grievance procedures to voice his dissent . |
| 28 | In all the arts , we may prefer the abnormal and regard that which is entirely sound and healthy as commonplace ; but late Turners have gone too far , in Lieberich 's opinion , to be admirable . |
| 29 | Cells that have a genetic capacity for hardening are stimulated by the environment to produce isoenzymes — alternatives to those normally in production — that change the phospholipid and sterol content of the cell membranes . |
| 30 | Just as the white-coated doctors in hospitals symbolize the clean and purifying nature of the healer , so the dark uniform of the police symbolizes not just the force identity , but also the presence of the avenger , who purifies through retribution rather than by cure . |