Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [subord] the [noun sg] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fact that the d.c. supply may remain on when the receiver is turned off at its own switch ( usually ganged to the Volume control ) is a worry . |
| 2 | Lotions or creams smoothed on while the skin is still damp will seal in extra moisture . |
| 3 | In the circuit of Fig. 6.14(a) , for example , linear acceleration and deceleration profiles are produced by integrating a signal which turns on when the motor is to accelerate and turns off when deceleration in required . |
| 4 | This account of how aircraft accident investigations are conducted , or should be conducted , in the field is necessarily only a brief outline of what can take place and does not include much of the work that goes on when the wreckage is examined in detail in a hangar , or in the case of AIB at their substantial facility at Farnborough . |
| 5 | When we write the stories of people we know , we often fall into the trap of identifying too strongly with our subject and not giving the reader enough to go on because the material is too familiar to us . |
| 6 | Huy noticed the dessicated corpse of a shrew which must have fallen in when the stuff was first poured over Neferukhebit . |
| 7 | A partnership practice that operated from two offices ceased to be carried on when the partnership was dissolved and the two main equity partners continued as sole practitioners from their respective offices . |
| 8 | Add to this the recent announcements by Kodak and Xerox that they have adopted Adobe PostScript as a future imaging model and you begin to see a whole new world opening up where the PC is , at last , able to hold its head up in the Macintosh dominated publishing market . |
| 9 | He was the inventor of water pick-up troughs laid between the rails , whereby a scoop lowered into the trough from the locomotive or tender allowed additional water to be picked up whilst the train was running , thus making possible much longer non-stop runs . |
| 10 | Sycorax was there when the baby was born , but she crumpled up when the infant was put in her arms by Ariel . |
| 11 | It is flown there as the alternative to the massive O-dako or rectangular Edo kites , largely because its three-spar construction enables it to be rolled up when the spine is removed . |
| 12 | The barges used to come down the Leeds and Liverpool canal right down to Tate and Lyle 's , where they had chutes that came down from the building into the barges and the coal was sucked up because the coal was very fine ; and the poor people there — they 'd be on the other side of the canal and one would perhaps get on a barge and throw two or three pieces of coal and then scamper up . |
| 13 | Typically , the time to name is speeded up when the picture is preceded by itself , or if it is preceded by a picture of a related object . |
| 14 | ‘ I did n't expect him to pull out because the ball was there to go for . ’ |
| 15 | The Arrows moved out when the base was first due to close nine years ago . |
| 16 | On 30 October , NBC News reported : ‘ Officials of the Drug Enforcement Administration told NBC News today they are conducting an inquiry of a top secret undercover heroin operation in the Middle East to find out whether the operation was used as cover by the terrorists who blew up Pan Am 103 almost two years ago . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I literally found about our endorsement of used motor-oil from someone I was phoning to find out whether the stuff was OK , ’ says the group 's Education Programme Co-ordinator at the time , Dave Bruer . |
| 18 | Messing was never able to find out whether the story was true , but the spirit was North all over . |
| 19 | As a result of the amalgamation of ‘ COACH ’ and ‘ SUMS ’ we are taking this opportunity to find out whether the quantity being sent at present meets your requirements . |
| 20 | The next is to find out if the deficiency is a result of gastrointestinal blood loss or malabsorption . |
| 21 | The interviewer wants ( a ) to find out if the informant is a full-time housewife and ( b ) if so , how she spends her working day . |
| 22 | He would have to wait until Monday to find out if the offer was still open . |
| 23 | ‘ In any case it would be interesting to find out where the money 's coming from , ’ said Owen . |
| 24 | As far as the former is concerned we decide to find out where the electron is by shining a beam of light onto it and taking a look through a microscope . |
| 25 | ‘ In order to find out where the oil is , a complete description of the reservoir is extremely important . |
| 26 | They began filling in forms for security passes at the little reception desk while a faded old man in a messenger 's uniform rang number after number to find out where the meeting was being held . |
| 27 | He got through to the base camp to find out when the chap was coming to fix it . |
| 28 | When cutting off the nozzle of a new bottle of pva glue , the contents will eventually dry out unless the hole is sealed again . |
| 29 | A whole man is torn out when the seed is lost in intercourse . |
| 30 | This check is carried out when the name is first submitted : to avoid later problems over names clashing , it is recommended practice to reserve module names at the software planning stage . |