Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [adv prt] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Legislation created a host of unemployed bureaucrats , municipal and seigniorial officials , who exhibited what liberals called ‘ passive ’ opposition to the constitution — the refusal of local authorities to carry out the administrative changes and apply the laws of the Cortes . |
| 2 | If it were possible to store all the different types of primary data in computer-readable form then it would become feasible to use the speed of the computer to carry out the required searches , comparisons , overlays and numerical modelling . |
| 3 | Brave attempts have been made by certain experts to write down the different miaows , in order to classify and standardize them . |
| 4 | After consultation with the Leeds Permanent Building Society , the EOC drew up the following recommendations in respect of mobility : |
| 5 | The wind whipped down the narrow side-streets and alleys , whistling in the wide estuaries . |
| 6 | Many people also complain that our present hierarchies bring out the nastier aspects of human behavior , like greed , insensitivity , careerism and self-importance . |
| 7 | The look in her eyes filled in the unspoken words in her sentence . |
| 8 | Cadfael straightened out the coarse folds of the hood , and shook out a few pale feathery fragments from among them . |
| 9 | When the divers went over the side to swim down the seventy feet to the pipe , however , they immediately discovered how hazardous it really was . |
| 10 | Pesticides kill off the beneficial insects as well as the destructive ones creating an imbalance in nature and wasting valuable assets . |
| 11 | If he can look that prospect squarely in the eye and both parties cut out the cheap jibes , they will see that they are talking the same language . |
| 12 | He was trembling now , his back still against the door , his eyes searching out the ill-formed contours within the room . |
| 13 | In an attempt to sharpen up the spongy brakes on my IIa , I am working on a process of elimination and the next venture was going to be flushing the system and changing the fluid . |
| 14 | Outside , the snow blotted out the last irregularities in the flowerbed , making it one with the lawn . |
| 15 | In recently enclosed country we have instead an open regular mesh of by-roads , and a few field-paths and bridle-roads to fill in the larger spaces between the villages . |
| 16 | ERROR_RETURN_DETAIL/ — is a return parameter providing a report of the errors encountered during the attempt to read out the requested modules . |
| 17 | ERROR_RETURN_DETAIL/ — is a return parameter providing a report of the errors encountered during the attempt to read out the requested modules . |
| 18 | Like the rest , the ex-Croydon cars took on the visible signs of war , headlamp masks , white collision fenders and protective netting on the windows . |
| 19 | They walked out to his car together in a contented silence , and when they got there he came round to the passenger side to hold back the low tendrils of an overhanging jasmine vine so she could slide easily into the seat . |
| 20 | The obverse of Employee Involvement is Participative Management , Ford 's attempt to break down the organizational barriers between management hierarchies . |
| 21 | This Code of Practice sets out the basic practices employed by Midland Bank and its subsidiary companies in connection with their lending to personal customers in the United Kingdom . |
| 22 | Mr Saunders goes on to admit that broadcasters are not entirely blameless in this respect : ‘ More should no doubt have been done at an earlier stage in development of RDS to give the receiver manufacturing industry some guidelines setting out the minimum levels of RDS performance that should be achieved ’ . |
| 23 | He had centre front stage , his voice projected forward over Therese 's , and he ceased to make any attempt to act out the plotted movements with her . |
| 24 | He let his mind wander down the twenty yards of landing and the three stairs to the back bedroom where his sixteen-year-old daughter lay . |
| 25 | A tower where Robert Watson-Watt carried out the early experiments with radar can still be seen , as can the crumbling remains of the curious Pergola-style buildings which were used to test nuclear triggers following the Second World War . |
| 26 | And the Government is likely to spend the Christmas break weighing up the political options before deciding what to do next . |
| 27 | USL and SunSoft have spent the last few months working out the commercial implications of the ABI on delivery schedules and compatibility issues . |
| 28 | As all the voices hammer out the same syllables together , the accentuation is at its sharpest ( Example 64 , overleaf ) . |
| 29 | Eleanor picked up the fresh flowers and began trimming their stems . |
| 30 | JUST as spring brings out the first swallows , so it also motivates incoming club tours from one or more of the four home countries . |