Example sentences of "[verb] [noun sg] [vb -s] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I made storm shields for the big cabin windows and skylights . |
| 2 | Cornering adjustability verges on the sensational , providing huge entertainment , though the brakes are oversensitive . |
| 3 | send the agenda , together with copies of the relevant Change Request Forms and Change Review Forms to the New OED Project Director and the New OED Computer Group Manager |
| 4 | That insignificant-looking £1,200 Breguet-made clock is clamped to the left windscreen stay and the standby compass to the right one , while a big red gear unlocked light sits atop the left glareshield in one 's line of sight during the flare . |
| 5 | The Guildford Machine Knitting Club meets on the third Monday of each month ( except December ) in the Salvation Army Hall , Guildford from 8pm . |
| 6 | The pressure in Latin America to keep wages low , in the name of ‘ sound finance ’ , is particularly strong in Mexico , where starvation wages undercut labour costs in the non-unionised southern and western states of the USA . |
| 7 | Some 200 people watched the showjumping , other took interest in the dressage , and the more adventurous found vantage points around the cross-country course . |
| 8 | He is under immense pressure to freeze benefit increases in the coming year for the jobless , the infirm , and pensioners . |
| 9 | I had assumed up to this point that you really wished to speak not to me but to my husband ( who is of course E J Maitland , a philosopher whose reputation is rather more likely than mine to attract telephone calls from the great officers of state ) and that I was being summoned to the phone merely because he was not there . |
| 10 | While Nina was applying cold compresses to the swollen ankle , Rachel put drops into the man 's eye . |
| 11 | First , many of the agreements governing the introduction or extension of the use of temporary workers simultaneously contained job guarantees for the regular labour force . |
| 12 | Scotland have claimed pushover tries against the Welsh on their last three visits to Murrayfield and though the Welsh front-row emerged with considerable scrummage plaudits from their tussle with England , I have observed before in these columns that Martin Bayfield is not in the same league as Paul Ackford as a scrummaging lock ; Jason Leonard , too , hardly seems to be at the peak of his powers following the bone-graft operation in his neck during the close season . |
| 13 | But she added that she feared it would not be possible to impose planning controls below the low-water mark , where the drilling rigs would be established . |
| 14 | Wove paper refers to the woven mesh of the mould on which the sheet was formed . |
| 15 | We wanted to attract mature students with a high level of skills and commitment and were able , through the Nuffield Foundation , to provide student grants for the first part of the course which either paid for secondment salaries of allowed people who were , for instance working interpreters , to forego part of their normal paid employment . |
| 16 | In a similar way it was the growing wealth of the planters which first drew English manufactures to the American colonies . |
| 17 | A strong bloc of townsmen worth £10 and upwards made the average wealth of Bodmin , Cornwall , a trifle higher than in the rest of Trigg hundred , even though the taxed wage earners , who formed a negligible element in the country parishes , exceeded 40 per cent in the borough itself , numbers which point to a concentration of men who had effectively severed kinship ties with the Celtic extended family that so influenced the social structure of many villages . |
| 18 | And two , Healthmaster is designed to meet client needs in the following areas . |
| 19 | Yesterday , the management threatened to issue dismissal notices to the 300 out of the 400 workforce , and about 200 demonstrated at the locked factory gates in an attempt to return to work . |
| 20 | Dounreay was chosen because it possesses cable links to the national grid and a suitable coastal site . |
| 21 | Like Las Vegas money machines — where lights whirl , the jackpot flashes and the sound of cascading money plays for the smallest win — so the sprung plywood floor of the wrestling ring thuds and echoes with exaggerated effect . |
| 22 | He is planning to go to Tehran to initiate peace moves through the Islamic Conference Organisation . |
| 23 | Ten per cent of out-of-work executives counselled by one firm received job offers in the first four weeks of last year , but for the corresponding period this year the figure rose to 16 per cent . |
| 24 | In late August 1832 the West India Merchants ' Committee still attacked as thoroughly improper the abolitionist practice of pledging parliamentary candidates to immediate emancipation and publishing pledge lists in the first post-reform election . |
| 25 | In a document sent to shareholders yesterday , Owners claims Airtours ' profits could have been inflated by more than £2 million last year by pushing flight costs into the current year . |
| 26 | It is not , therefore , simply bloody-mindedness which will lead some farmers to resist planning controls over the rural landscape ; it will be a defence , however tenuous , of the interest of private property — and that , needless to say , is an interest which is fundamental to the fabric of contemporary English society . |
| 27 | It recently opposed government moves towards the legal formation of a one-party state . |
| 28 | These assumptions represent the prevailing convention for expressing capital costs in the National Health Service . |
| 29 | Today there are other causes for a decline but when it happens unemployment spreads in the same way , from one industry to another . |
| 30 | Remove flower stems in the first year for a stronger bushier plant . |