Example sentences of "[noun] [art] [noun] [adv] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In that case the defendants falsely claimed that trees were dangerous and offered to cut them down . |
| 2 | That afternoon the wheelbarrow even stuck when I pulled it off the road for a break . |
| 3 | Does Mum the Persil-user still believe That There 's no Devil and that youth is bliss ? |
| 4 | With repeated practice the interference between heard and spoken messages becomes much less and the information channelled through the response buffer should be lost at the filter as it re-enters the system . |
| 5 | By the order of words the poet even hints that Thessaly is more fortunate than her sister Sparta . |
| 6 | As the last word tripped off Lamont 's mouth the room half emptied as bored businessmen raced for the buffet tables and the cold Chablis . |
| 7 | As Jack took a step towards the figure the mist suddenly cleared and the figure disappeared . |
| 8 | G-Loc the coin-op only worked because of its fast , exciting graphics and stomach-churning gyroscopic cabinet . |
| 9 | On the credit side the A.H.Q. also announced that during April the fighters had claimed 11 destroyed , nine probables and three damaged . |
| 10 | On the clinical side the view still prevails that schizophrenics have difficulty , as one author has put it , ‘ limiting the contents of consciousness ’ . |
| 11 | In an arranged marriage the husband often insists that his wife brings a pretty little mu tsai along as part of her dowry . |
| 12 | In addition to the points of law the case also shows that directors of companies in receivership may raise all sorts of legal questions to try and protect their interests . |
| 13 | After careful consideration of all the evidence and relevant law the Tribunal either upholds or dismisses the appeal . |
| 14 | In all the examples supplied by Stack the game obviously stops when the trigger is pulled . |
| 15 | To avoid divisiveness the Board also proposed that ‘ … it would be of advantage if Resident Tutors were kept informed of the activities of the WEA in the urban districts of their respective counties ’ . |
| 16 | Many passengers transferred from the Sophocles , I amongst them , and after much anxiety the Nestor actually sailed and it was with happy hearts that we saw Table Mountain gradually disappearing behind the horizon . |
| 17 | But it must be admitted that this is not a very strong distinction , for in Dudley and Stephens the jury also found that ‘ at the time of the act there was no sail in sight , nor any reasonable prospect of relief ’ ; and it would seem that if the law recognises necessity as a defence it should proceed upon the facts as they appeared to the defendant at the time . |
| 18 | Wordsworth took the materialist philosophy of Locke and Hartley which had sufficed the eighteenth century , and changed round the terms , writing in positive instead of negative signs Instead of a dead universe described in terms of machines from which the Creator had departed , he proposed a living universe called ‘ Nature ’ described in terms of growth and organic life , which was being continuously created by a God who was inextricably involved in all its parts Whereas in Locke the mind at birth was ‘ a white paper ’ , with no innate ideas , in Wordsworth the mind retains in early childhood some consciousness of a pre-existent state ; in Locke the mind passively receives impressions from the senses , but in but in Wordsworth the mind actively perceives and a creative power within the mind organizes the multitude of chaotic sense impressions into a partial picture of the world . |
| 19 | Against BC the gaps duly materialised and Joe Stanley , Va'Aiga Tuigamala — a pocket-battleship of a wing — Walter Little , Bruce Deans and Zinzan Brooke crossed for tries . |
| 20 | Of course , within a couple of years the standards simply plummeted because they simply could not cope . |
| 21 | Erm it may be some will be not so easy need a bit more work and some of them 'll be sort of in the middle . |
| 22 | First class meant Amclub : everything on Amtrak was Am : Amcoach Amcafé an effect slightly undermined if you recalled Batman ant his Batmobile Batcopter and even Batrope . |
| 23 | I felt rather worried about her health , and went to her room an hour later to see if she needed anything . |
| 24 | A larger proportion of middle-period Byrd has seen the light of day the songs always excepted but never in recitals that attempt to plot stylistic progress . |
| 25 | When interpreting statutes the courts often announce that they are trying to discover ‘ the intention of the legislature . ’ |
| 26 | My right hon. Friend the Minister rightly said that their parents could be fined , but some parents have less control over their children than Robert Maxwell 's children had over their fraudulent father . |
| 27 | Throughout the early days of October the Allies blithely assumed that Antwerp could withstand investiture . |
| 28 | If it was not for her , this Council would have had more opportunity of addressing some of the deep problems the Tories either created or left behind . |
| 29 | Two months ago the British government took out advertisements in regional newspapers in Germany encouraging business to come to Britain to take advantage of low labour costs compared to elsewhere in the E C. The advertisement proudly noted that the labour cost index for Britain is one hundred , compared to one seventy eight in Germany . |
| 30 | The result of such a mishap is often spectacular with the eighty h.p. engine trying to wind the rubber bow back to the stern , but on this occasion the engine quickly stalled and I was left drifting helplessly in a strong wind with rope from the outboard propeller stretching from stern to bow in an inaccessible position . |