Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [adv] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So the project was expanded to include building an expert system for another , similar circuit board using exactly the same technique . |
| 2 | He had called in a local firm of builders to carry out the essential brickwork , plastering and re-tiling on the roof ; after that , he took a hand in the redecoration personally , splashing on new paint and putting up wallpaper . |
| 3 | The user can specify an issue number or use the default which is the latest version , and can specify an optional parameter allowing either the entire structure or just the root package to be read out . |
| 4 | Colin fought back the inevitable question . |
| 5 | Those attending were given the opportunity to carry out the mock validation of a course which was defended by a very experienced course team . |
| 6 | The driver sought out the agreed parking space which was as far away as possible from the canteen and shop complex . |
| 7 | Although there are plans to scale down the additional pension , this will not affect anyone retiring before 1998 and will only marginally affect those retiring by 2009 . |
| 8 | Not surprisingly , for a country which is second only to Russia for the scale of its distances ( and second to no country but Norway on a per capita energy consumption basis ) motor fuels make up the largest element of oil consumption . |
| 9 | Notwithstanding the former grandeur of the Cathedral , Johnson wrote no more than a page on Elgin , concluding with an attractive clue to a traveller in his wake : ‘ In the chief street of Elgin , the houses jut over the lowest story , like the old buildings of timber in London , but with greater prominence : so that there is sometimes a walk for a considerable length under a cloister , or portico . ’ |
| 10 | If , as I used to , one cracks walnuts by banging two of the things together , and keeps the uncracked winner to go forward the next round , will one inevitably finish Christmas with the hardest nut to crack in one 's hand ? |
| 11 | Dalgliesh raised it with careful fingers touching only the extreme edge of the cloth and saw underneath a smudge of blood on the carpet about two centimetres long and thicker at the right end than at the left . |
| 12 | Des said : ‘ This trip will give me the opportunity to see how the adopted project is doing and feed back some information to Edinburgh . ’ |
| 13 | Whatever the shortcomings of the assumptions made about cause and effect in the relationship between man and the environment ( and man with man ) the model shows how the use of a computer to carry out the vast number of calculations necessary to realize the model can allow the consideration of a very complex situation on lines not previously possible . |
| 14 | While soccer 's purists quake at the thought of Graham Taylor bringing in the long-ball game , Ferguson insists Dublin 's arrival will not mean a switch to Route One football at Old Trafford . |
| 15 | Elijah heard a divine message sending him back to troubled Israel , with intuition as to definite things to do , one of which was to find a successor to carry on the prophetic ministry . |
| 16 | First , the results below show that there is always smooth convergence of play to position where the long term player 's type is revealed . |
| 17 | In other words , the lights were off in the living-room except for the strobes around the disco where a lonely DJ was pumping out Frankie Goes to Hollywood , and all the guests at the party were in the kitchen cluttering up the fake oak worksurfaces and obscuring the Neff oven . |
| 18 | LEGAL peers renewed their attack on the Government 's plans to shake up the legal profession yesterday , when the Courts and Legal Services Bill had its second reading in the Lords . |
| 19 | The Royal College of Nursing is to lobby Parliament on 24 October in protest at the Government 's plans to shake up the National Health Service , the union has announced . |
| 20 | Thus David Reynolds and Christopher Thorne have resorted to such phrases as " competitive co-operation " or " allies of a kind " in their attempts to sum up the famous wartime partnership . |
| 21 | Between them Locke and Newton built up the mental picture of the universe which the educated classes in the eighteenth century absorbed as incontrovertible truth . |
| 22 | John Stewart demonstrated how the budgetary environment can impact on the culture of public sector organisations . |
| 23 | It did n't take long for Brown Owl to find out the whole story . |
| 24 | Now British Gas have been forced to scrap plans to pull down the 110-year-old hulk . |
| 25 | The hot rocks technique holds out the best hope for exploitation of geothermal energy . |
| 26 | It took her several minutes to shake off the resulting stupefaction . |
| 27 | The bells crashed out the joyous news practically all day . |
| 28 | Dennis Parsons was an accountant of the new ‘ creative ’ variety , for whom the firm 's actual turnover represents only the original idea on which the completed tax return is based . |
| 29 | In a highly controversial episode , a large party of Iraqis , bolting homewards out of Kuwait in assorted vehicles , was blocked by Allied armour at a point called Mutla ‘ Ridge , where Allied aircraft wiped out the entire group . |
| 30 | All the leaves that fall into the pond congregate around the loosened wire for me to collect up in a simple once daily netting session . |