Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] the [adj] [noun] [vb base] " in BNC.
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1 | The ‘ needles ’ that send out the negative ions clog up in time , reducing efficiency , so they also need regular cleaning ( use a cotton bud ) . |
2 | The first problem was to work out the correct overall send and return levels , but with the Quad-FX 's input and master volume set on unity gain I found the processors worked at roughly the same settings anyway , so there was n't much need to tweak the levels . |
3 | For my second slide I chose a bullet chart and filled in the appropriate data form . |
4 | Well , note first of all that the various gases that are thought to have made up the early atmosphere contain most of the main elements that are known to be essential to life : carbon , nitrogen , sulphur , hydrogen , and oxygen — though the oxygen was not ‘ free ’ , but was combined for example with carbon in carbon monoxide . |
5 | In the course of writing out the 18 April document the deceased asked what ‘ Sharon 's , ’ i.e. Miss Hughes 's , address was . |
6 | The plan clears up the legal wrangles set off by the federal government 's decision in 1988 to sue the state government over water quality in the Everglades , but leaves unclear many of the details of the clean-up . |
7 | Legislating for seemly relationships between the government and the Congress may be the most urgent need ; creating the circumstances in which the patchwork of titularly and hopefully autonomous regions that make up the Russian Federation have an incentive to hang together is , in the long run , more important . |
8 | Changes in the relative numbers of the different types of household that make up the aggregate population have actuarial consequences for the future pattern of public and private transfers into and out of collective saving and insurance funds . |
9 | Fill in the special entry form you 'll find in the card and if your entry arrives by next Sunday you can play the pools for 10 weeks for a tenner with an extra week FREE . |
10 | There 's two ways of doing that , dial them on nine nine nine or ring up the local police control , which for this area is at Newark . |
11 | By the time I arrived in Canberra the person who had set up the passive avoidance work there , Marie Gibbs , had moved to La Trobe , a campus in Melbourne , several hundred kilometres distant . |
12 | How did the implementers of the monetarist nonsense which brought about the first recession manage to produce a second recession ? |
13 | Statistically , most Koi that shuffle off the mortal scale do so within two or three years of existence . |
14 | What plans does my hon. Friend have to take up the 20 ecu supplement to the suckler cow premium agreed by the Council of Ministers on 11 December ? |
15 | Most of the part-time farmers were middle aged and their wives , aided by parents , carried out the daily livestock work . |
16 | So when the team plays at home , his chum in Derby switches on the local sports show ready for Mike 's call . |
17 | Sun could simply cut prices on its diskless workstations to fend off the X terminals crowd , says X Business Group analyst Greg Blatnik , but he does n't really believe it , preferring to think they will join the fray instead . |
18 | In windy conditions , Tracy , who picked up the Irish Ladies title at Lough Erne last month , completed the 10. mile course in five hours and minutes . |
19 | Some have opted for firm sale agreements to cut out the costly returns process , most notably with the Waterstones group and Reed with Dillons . |