Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [coord] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Construction showed a massive increase , with 121 key projects completed and commissioned including 8 new coal pits and the Gezhouba dam project in Hubei . |
| 2 | Essentially it is the ultimate perfection — a hostile critic might say ‘ emasculation ’ — of Netherland polyphony , its florid elements pruned , its dissonances disguised or mollified by preparation and other devices which so lend themselves to codification that ‘ the style of Palestrina ’ has become the ideal model for students of sixteenth-century composition . |
| 3 | ‘ These institutions instil and cultivate in their cadets what were once commonly referred to as the virtues of southern manhood — honour , chivalry and devotion to God , state and family , ’ wrote one alumnus in a letter to a newspaper . |
| 4 | But his contemporaries were impressed by a literate and articulate sixteen-year-old , his political views formed and matured in the Irish conflict . |
| 5 | The waste is a small perquisite that hath been granted us for several hundred years past , which we are able to prove by our ancient Books of Record , which have been no less than 14 or 15 times ratified and confirmed at the General Quarter Sessions . |
| 6 | Believe me , it is far harder at such times to sit and look on than to be in the middle , ’ he told Sunday Express readers . |
| 7 | It is all too easy to spend a back-breaking couple of hours weeding the garden and never take ten minutes to sit and look at the flowers . |
| 8 | The chain joining the handcuffs chinked and pulled at her wrist as he moved , and resentment won . |
| 9 | Hamburg , for example , has about 30–40 per cent of its road system designated as 50 km/h main streets , with all of the remaining non-industrial roads designated or planned as Tempo 30 . |
| 10 | The band had been thrown together at the last moment ; and none of the musicians looked or sounded as if he was enjoying the experience . |
| 11 | The liquid notes rose and flowed round the chandelier , already removed from its dust bag ready for the Season . |
| 12 | I put my Knights to work and drift into sleep . |
| 13 | Eyewitnesses indicate that ‘ the couple spent three hours laughing and cuddling at a Melbourne nightclub . ’ |
| 14 | of those retiring now own their own homes , they do so thanks almost solely to the policies pursued and enacted by the Government . |
| 15 | Of these , 54 are company owned and operated by salaried managers , while the other 99 are tied houses owned and operated by tenants . |
| 16 | The international aims of the symposia are the following : To promote inter-institutional collaborative research ; To allow junior researchers to meet and discuss with established researchers ; To engender interest in , and enthusiasm for , infancy research ; To produce publications , with contributions from the symposium attenders ; To serve as a major focus for infancy research in this country . |
| 17 | Leonard spent hours walking and cycling around the neighbourhood looking for it . |
| 18 | In short , not only does the user have a better time , the support desk gets far fewer calls to come and deal with apparent equipment failures . |
| 19 | There are now some 275 all over the country : they 're savings-and-loans clubs owned and run by their members . |
| 20 | It is like the tiny mustard seed which grows into a sizeable bush that provides sufficient shade for the birds to come and shelter in its branches ( Matt. |
| 21 | If we can persuade birds to come and perch on it in a row fairly close together we have obviously made it much easier to see the wire . |
| 22 | If we can now persuade more birds to come and perch on top of the first lot we can in principle build up the wire to any thickness we choose . |
| 23 | By doing business , inviting foreign experts to work and teach inside China and opening up the country to the world , progress seemed certain . |
| 24 | When the venture was launched in 1970 , Elaine Moss had a ‘ mere ’ 2,000 titles to sift and select from . |
| 25 | Swirls of clouds billowed down from the Towers and the glaciers hung vertically , suspended like gigantic icicles , while flocks of birds scattered and spun before them , helpless in the wild turbulence . |
| 26 | But this is reality , not the world of arts subsides and grants to which Ms Pith-Helmet aspires to belong . |
| 27 | Cabals manipulated and machinated behind the scenes . |
| 28 | But in the nature of things … " and here he twisted his red lips to signal and to share with them the perspectives of this operation " certain approaches have to be tentative and even apparently , ad hoc . |
| 29 | Images scanned and printed on a 300dpi system using 32 levels of grey look surprisingly good ; better than you might expect at any rate . |
| 30 | Although no breakthrough was achieved in the discussions , the Japanese delegation offered its approval of North Korea 's signature of the safeguards accord and called for an early inspection of the country 's nuclear facilities . |