Example sentences of "[verb] [noun pl] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I produced sketches and a clay model for ideas , but these were eventually only used for reference when working on the sculpture . |
| 2 | The parents may continually make requests that the child ignores and the parents lose their temper . |
| 3 | Anaesthetisation of one hemisphere produced defects in naming objects but no discernible difficulty in tasks of serial ordering such as counting , saying the days of the week or reciting the alphabet . |
| 4 | For instance , companies are required to release through the Company Announcements Office of the Stock Exchange any information necessary to enable shareholders and the public to appraise the position of the company and to avoid a false market in the company 's securities . |
| 5 | Mona was tall , and bosomy and dark , with flashing teeth and a very red mouth . |
| 6 | The reforming governor 's efforts to place the hated exile system ‘ on a more orderly and business-like foundation ’ foundered on the twin reefs of under provision of infrastructural resources , and the over-supply of vastly more compulsory settlers and convict labourers than the restructured system was designed or intended to cope with . |
| 7 | The cemeteries of Horton Kirby and Lyminge , Kent produced axe-hammers and a T-shaped axe , a plane and wedges . |
| 8 | Dr Linebaugh has discovered that around 40 per cent of those hanged at Tyburn in the middle years of the eighteenth century had completed apprenticeships and a further 20 per cent had at least begun one ( see pp. 230 – 1 ) Even in London , the greatest centre of artisan manufacture , not all apprenticeships led to a skilled trade — the unfortunate climbing chimney boys for example — but it would seem reasonable to suggest that around half of the working men of the capital were to some degree skilled , in the sense of selling specialised labour . |
| 9 | Each party has to serve within 14 weeks ( 10 weeks in a county court ) written statements of all such oral evidence which they intend to adduce. ( 4 ) Photographs , sketch plans and the contents of any police accident report shall be receivable in evidence and must be agreed if possible . |
| 10 | It also seems to provide a rather better description of how to create and modify patterns that the original Illustrator 88 manual — or perhaps that 's just because the subject is being tackled in context rather than as an academic exercise . |
| 11 | As well as the six LED-lit patch selection pedals are the programming push switches and a graphic display showing the effects available and the parameters governing each effect . |
| 12 | It reads more like a series of loosely joined essays than an integrated work . |
| 13 | Alternatively , the analyst could say these different sentences to a group of listeners and ask them all to write down what attitudes they thought were being expressed ; however , we have a vast range of adjectives available for labelling attitudes and the members of the group would probably produce a very large number of such adjectives , leaving the analyst with the problem of deciding whether pairs such as ‘ pompous ’ and ‘ stuck-up ’ , or ‘ obsequious ’ and ‘ sycophantic ’ were synonyms or represented different attitudes . |
| 14 | Since virtually all of the agencies which regularly institute criminal proceedings have acquired their own expertise , they are generally well enough equipped to conduct cases and the Crown Prosecution Service will ‘ neither wish nor need to intervene ’ . |
| 15 | In the event , both sides consulted solicitors and the matter was composed by quite serious alterations in references to both Harold and Mrs Williams . |
| 16 | ( Even so , it was still carrying out less than a fifth as many maintenance dredging programmes as the North-West and Thames Water Authorities . ) |
| 17 | HarperCollins is giving him a big push , and is reissuing Climbers and The Ice Monkey at the same time as this haunting tale . |
| 18 | And behind him he had heard gasps as the voice outlined the plan for Russia . |
| 19 | The procedure is only available for proposed and not completed mergers and the merger proposal must have been made public . |
| 20 | When the chairman of the inquiry into the King 's Cross Underground fire made his report he was strongly critical of London Underground 's management ( the two top men quit hours before the report was published ) : ‘ An inward looking approach fostered by the organisation 's narrow horizons undoubtedly led to a dangerous , blinkered self-sufficiency which included a general unwillingness to take advice or accept criticism from outside bodies . ’ |
| 21 | After the Allied landings took place , that same month , Franco 's controlled press continued to assure readers that the Axis still had the upper hand , and the Spanish Foreign Ministry drew up a plan entitled " Bases for Political Negotiations with Germany " . |
| 22 | Once an imbalance occurs between the number of males waiting to acquire units and the number of units that can be taken over or entered , the system could go into a series of oscillations which would be self-perpetuating , at least for some time . |
| 23 | The research has shown , for the first time , that the British will stop using cars if the bus fares are low enough . |
| 24 | A search is made for a number of special tag patterns and parse fragments and the parse structure suitably modified . |
| 25 | Tables 5.1 and 5.2 illustrate two different ways of quantifying variables once an accountable analysis has been completed . |
| 26 | Hispano Suiza took over the factory and continued producing cars until the last Bugatti appeared on a race track in 1956 . |
| 27 | The problem of diminished sight can be reduced or corrected by using spectacles or an illuminated magnifying glass : and for those who are severely handicapped the use of specially prepared large-print books or of Braille or of tape-recordings can help considerably in retaining a measure of independence . |
| 28 | This will greatly assist our efforts to win work in this important market during the current tough times and ensure that we maximise opportunities as the country comes out of recession . |
| 29 | I 'm simply reminding manufacturers that the guitarist 's craft developed from the tools originally available to him , and equipment designers should work to enhance that craft , not enforce change upon it . |
| 30 | Audible gasps rose here and there together with short , whispered words and the murmur of anticipation . |