Example sentences of "[verb] [art] [noun pl] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Charles Gray , QC , Lord Aldington 's counsel , asked : ‘ Have you come here to nail the bastards or to help to discover the truth ? ’ |
| 2 | In an age when a symphony orchestra can appear in uniforms designed to advertise tobacco industry sponsors , conflating music and cigarettes into a single narcotic ( Guardian , 26 March 1984 : 13 ) ; when in Japan the record companies and the large industrial corporations co-operate to produce ‘ image-songs ’ which both advertise the corporations and play an important role in the hit parade ; ’ when a small selection of endlessly per mutated pop songs provides the background for almost every social activity ; when rhythm tracks on disco records can be behaviouristic ally planned and electronically produced , for maximum precision and control : one can not , at this time , avoid the feeling that if Orwell 's ‘ 1984 ’ ever arrives , it might well consist of a continuous Eurovision Song Contest ; that the ideal of the music industry would be to turn everything into muzak ( Philip Tagg 's entertaining account of the way muzak is used to ‘ programme ’ a Swedish office worker 's day gives an idea of what this would be like ( Tags 1984 ) ) . |
| 3 | President Daniel Ortega met the teachers but said there just was not enough money to pay them more . |
| 4 | The flight was successfully undertaken to the area of Kerkenah Island , where two 22X Squadron Sunderlands met the Hurricanes and led them on the last leg to the island . |
| 5 | ‘ Because of that , the superstitious say I met the fairies and went to live with them for nine years . |
| 6 | ‘ I met the lads and started talking to Ferg . |
| 7 | Royal Mail chiefs have refuted the claims and say that , in fact , the quality of service is increasing . |
| 8 | They summon the overseers before the magistrates for not complying with their unreasonable demands and though they do not always gain their ends yet it teases and harasses the overseers and takes up their time which is a great hardship . |
| 9 | He posted the letters and turned to hurry home again . |
| 10 | Mr Michael Rowley , finance director , said the group had foreseen the problems and had made an effort to increase income from interest , which came in at £64,000 as against a charge of £78,000 at the halfway stage last year . |
| 11 | They are generally large to accommodate the pilgrims and resemble the church which was the pilgrimage goal . |
| 12 | Clean , scale and gut the sardines and remove the heads . |
| 13 | The prouder and more articulate seaman had seen his pay and status in continuous decline from 1815 when , at the , end of the Napoleonic wars , " the government , without the least consideration for those who had battled on the ocean in defence of their king and country , disbanded the Fleets and cast adrift some thousands of Seamen suddenly to find employment in the merchant service " . |
| 14 | The girl unlocked the handcuffs and pushed Harald and Carl back to their seats . |
| 15 | Several pages of notes may become full ; in that case , two pages must be inserted in place of one , allowing the notes when transferred , to be spread out and empty spaces restored . |
| 16 | Even when the study appeared , there was a great deal of scepticism within NoS , but the attitude was that they had consulted the experts and got the evidence . |
| 17 | He told David to kill the Philistines and raised up heroes to defend his people . ’ |
| 18 | The Iranian government accused the Saudi authorities of a " criminal conspiracy " to kill the pilgrims and charged it with " incompetence " in the construction of facilities and management of the holy sanctuaries in Mecca and Medina , announcing on July 13 that it was to file charges of murder against the Saudi government in the International Court of Justice at The Hague . |
| 19 | If Lancaster , with its castle and harbour , could have been garrisoned for James it could have provided a connecting link with France , but Forster could not spare the men and had to press on south , through wretched weather and along increasingly miry roads . |
| 20 | On return to the farm in the late afternoon there was likely to be a further round of gossip and conversation while grooming the horses and bedding them down for the night . |
| 21 | The Great Indian Peninsula Railway soon abandoned this system , and upgraded some third-class trains by upholstering the seats and providing Venetian shutters . |
| 22 | You have not received the goods or had your money returned |
| 23 | You have not received the goods or had your money returned |
| 24 | Orders came in , and that helped the warehouse people unpack the boxes and despatch them ; the information got fed back to the editor to tell him what the sales were , and it was a continuous process and all of the people tended to see the computer as working very much for them , rather than for the other department next door . |
| 25 | For the most part they contented themselves with the material evidence available in the form of bones and artefacts , yet even when they began to observe living animals good behavioural description did not expose the factors that transformed the infrahuman primate society into a human one . |
| 26 | A shady jeweller would want to know that , but the answer was helpful to the police whose next task after recovering the goods and identifying those handling them was to trace the true owners and discover when the theft had occurred . |
| 27 | You can do everything from digging the foundations building the walls and putting in the plumbing and electrics . |
| 28 | Chay Blyth has long had links with British Steel and they have produced a pot of around £1 ½ million to fund the running of the race and cover part of the cost of building the yachts and training the crew . |
| 29 | This example will emphasize the difficulties that arise for the falsificationist when the complexities of major theory changes are taken into account . |
| 30 | I shall hide until nightfall and eat the raspberries that grow by the stream . |