Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The kitchen ceased vibrating , and its walls relaxed . |
| 2 | Metaphors became mixed and feelings ran high . |
| 3 | Therefore , the catalyst helping to promote high density among salaried staffs was government support in the form of legislation since 1936 guaranteeing the right of association and negotiation to white-collar as well as manual employees . |
| 4 | Last night television 's aristocracy came together to pay homage to his service … still unfinished by the way , attempts to retire have failed and he 's still running the Sunday evening programme Highway with Harry Secombe . |
| 5 | For instance , Susan Trangmar 's slide installation can not be fully seen from the margins , but the act of walking to the centre of the four projector installation involves passing one of the projectors so that your shadow passes across the image . |
| 6 | The various plans failed to restore the confidence of either foreign banks or foreign investors . |
| 7 | PC Richard Parry said the car was very dirty and a detailed inspection failed to find any sign that it had made contact with the two pedestrians . |
| 8 | Other acts sought to prohibit as far as possible corrupt practices and limited the amount of money a candidate could spend on election expenses . |
| 9 | The officers from Lothian and Borders , Grampian , Northern Constabulary and Cambridgeshire met to review the investigation . |
| 10 | Legal correspondent Roger Peters answers your queries |
| 11 | At an extraordinary general meeting last Thursday , Spectrum 's shareholders agreed to form a consortium , Harmony Investments , which has pledged to inject at least £600,000 into the station to cover debts estimated at £450,000 . |
| 12 | Associates tend to veer away from their markets . |
| 13 | Ian Stewart got to know Paul Gascoigne well when he teamed up with the troubled Lazio and England star at Newcastle . |
| 14 | But , as Bruch has pointed out , anorexics tend to deny fatigue , and my diary is full of complaints such as , ‘ felt dead tired ’ . |
| 15 | The food was always of the type that anorexics tend to shun — solidly starchy and savoury peasant dishes , followed by mounds of sweet , creamy puddings and richly decorated chocolate cakes . |
| 16 | Failed suicides tend to try again , just as ( failed ) anorexics tend to relapse , and yet both can live for years without resorting either to self-destruction or self-starvation . |
| 17 | But my heart became filled with fear when I saw no prisoners . |
| 18 | Perfusion of the stomach with saline for four hours failed to cause any mucosal damage at the macroscopic and histological level ( n=4 ) . |
| 19 | R.A. Hamilton asked that more mature trees be obtained and the chairman agreed to attend to this matter . |
| 20 | R. A. Hamilton was not in favour of such trees and the chairman agreed to write accordingly . |
| 21 | R.A. Hamilton was not in favour of such trees and the chairman agreed to write accordingly . |
| 22 | What the quarto labels ‘ the First SONG ’ runs right through from ‘ Come all ye songsters ’ to ‘ Sing while we trip it ’ Purcell divided this into no fewer than five separate numbers : the countertenor solo ‘ Come all ye songsters ’ ; the trio ‘ May the god of wit inspire ’ — without the chorus repeat specified in the quarto , but duly followed by what it labels ‘ a Composition of Instrumental Musick , in imitation of an Eccho ’ ; a chorus which , instead of repeating ‘ May the god of wit ’ , sets the first line of the second stanza , ‘ Now join your warbling voices all ’ ; and finally a solo , ‘ Sing while we trip it ’ , this time with the specified chorus repeat . |
| 23 | Bolney Estates agreed to take up £1,000 worth and others agreed to buy a further £3,000 worth . |
| 24 | Suffice it to say that , in the absence of a sufficiently ‘ mature ’ , well-educated civil society in Siberia , Speranskii sought to design a structure of bureaucratic agencies and offices in which power was vested in institutions rather than personalities , which took full cognizance of individual regions ' peculiar human and material needs and circumstances ( both Russian and native ) , and which laid down proper codes of administrative procedures , legal practices and economic policies . |
| 25 | Service inputs combine to deliver and define the packages of services . |
| 26 | Two control individuals and three adult coeliac patients in remission agreed to take part in the study . |
| 27 | Described by Finance Minister Allan Larsson as " austere but responsible " , the budget sought to bring the expansion of public-sector expenditure to a halt [ for austerity measures already approved in December 1990 see p. 37925 ] . |
| 28 | The budget sought to raise L30,000,000 million ( about US$26,900 million ) in extra revenue through one-off taxes on bank deposits and property , increases in stamp duty and the cost of passports and some licences , and spending cuts achieved especially through a freeze on employment in the civil service and some state companies . |
| 29 | The budget sought spending increases for the departments of Education , Justice , State , Energy , Treasury , and Veterans ' Affairs . |
| 30 | Yet as long as France and Germany remain committed to it , the programme to give the whole European market a non-inflationary money still has bite . |