Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [vb past] [pron] [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The employers utilised what appears to be in practice a fairly standard procedure intended to minimise the risk of facing unfair dismissal proceedings with regard to both procedural fairness and the substantive reasonableness of any resulting dismissals of ‘ refuseniks ’ . |
| 2 | ‘ I want nothing left here that David Bellamy would n't approve of , ’ Mrs Grindlewood-Gryke ordered as the wind whisked her flounces up to display her silk Marks & Spencer camiknicks with elasticated waist and cotton-lined double gusset . |
| 3 | The Princess said she feels the intrusion by the media into her private life has been , ’ hard to bear ’ , and will try to reduce her public profile . |
| 4 | The suffering involved which receives most publicity takes place in intensive or factory farms , although it is not confined to them . |
| 5 | MAUREEN ( trying the B set which emits a series of siren-like whoops and then a muffled jazz band ) : It does n't seem particularly easy to get ANY station on the B. |
| 6 | The group said it deplores the alleged theft . |
| 7 | The MIT proved it does n't have to be like that . |
| 8 | The teenager said she has now given up smoking and is looking for a job . |
| 9 | It 's time the bridge went it causes chaos with the traffic |
| 10 | The FBI said it has ceased negotiations for the time being with Texas cult leader David Koresh , holed up with his followers in a fortified compound , to allow him to talk with his lawyer . |
| 11 | It 's not lost geographically being lost , you know where you are , you know when you 're , you know , you know your situation in time , in space , i in in geographic location , you know what you 're doing and all the rest of it , when the bible uses the word lost it means lost for the purpose for which God intended it . |
| 12 | But she must ask ; beg even , or he 'd be knocking on the kitchen door at Jarman House , asking the Lord knew what favours . |
| 13 | Nevertheless , there is also the question of whether there is an inner physical consistency in the interpretation proposed which matches the undoubted mathematical consistency of the equations which express the formalism . |
| 14 | ‘ The doctors said what does it matter as long as he is alive but they do n't think about the quality of life . |
| 15 | All of these predictions do match real usage as shown in ( 66 ) and ( 67 ) ( underlining , on this occasion , indicates the section of the structure which is to be questioned ) ; we add ( 68 ) to offer the parallel with an explicit clause : ( 66 ) she needs the application translated what does she need ? ( 67 ) ( a ) I would consider the tea-boy ( to be ) reliable what would you consider the tea-boy to be ? ( 67 ) ( b ) I would consider the tea-boy ( to be ) reliable who would you consider ( to be ) reliable |
| 16 | Hnatiuk at the bank said he 's always had quite a good balance in his savings account — for a kid — and he 's deposited quite a bit of money recently . |
| 17 | I 've usually been , been senior secretary , I 've usually been the one in charge of the petty cash , which , sent out for proper coffee and the new kettle if the kettle blew it 's fused and the and the tea pot and the tea bags and the , I just used to write a note in the , in the cash book |
| 18 | With only a small part of the model described it becomes clear that creativity must be backed by a high level of logical rigour to achieve a high level of success . |
| 19 | The News of the World said he has a get out clause in his contract . |
| 20 | In fact the canopy is deliberately being kept up whatever the weather for ’ The Turn of the Screw ’ , because the company found it has acoustic properties and projects sound out to the audience . |
| 21 | Although we shall support the Bill because we believe that any measure that alleviates the terrible problem of repossessions is to be welcomed , the way in which the Minister presented it suggests that there is no problem . |
| 22 | Or for instance , we decorated two of our lounges and the residents discussed what paints and paper they 'd like on the walls . ’ |
| 23 | In effect the borough council would like to see a framework established which acknowledges explicitly that in the right circumstances strategic employment development can be accommodated in the county . |
| 24 | An off-duty policeman who was attacked with a hammer had his teth broken and bones in his face shattered . |
| 25 | But no Gytrash appeared she says , just a trapper taking a short cut . |
| 26 | The main offenders here are non-indigenous natives who have cleared areas ad acres of the best soil , farming it very poorly and working it as though it were a private farm … there is no rotation of crops and no manure applied which means he will soon be looking for another 100 acres of good soil to ruin . |
| 27 | Wreathed with white wistaria , they are half-hidden behind a ghostly phalanx of variegated osteospermum , Salvia argentea , white allium and a banksiae rose which has managed to escape predatory Wicklow deer . |
| 28 | This involves reconstruing the situation so that it looks more straightforward and easy to handle , thus allowing sides to be taken or a stance adopted which reduces the confusion and allows at least some action to be taken — a villain to be defeated , a wrong to be righted , a battle to be fought . |
| 29 | and we were going their house , but it was n't Judith 's , it was Rob 's mum and dad 's down Road and er we went in and you did n't know anything about it , and I walked in a Rob said she 's had it ! |
| 30 | POLICE last night appealed for information about the whereabouts of a missing antiques dealer as a man claimed he owes him £1,600 . |