Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] [vb -s] [adv prt] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Twice I forked out for cable car rides up the Stock Mountain where there are more langlauf tracks and ample space to make your own . |
| 2 | In Compressor/Expander mode , compression on the neck pickup swells out the tone to a given ceiling and sustains it , making it good for McCartney-esque melodic lines , but also for slapping , as the limiter-like properties of the compressor prevent massive explosions of sound . |
| 3 | In effect , the cell body integrates up the plus and minus stimuli it is receiving , and this determines its own output . |
| 4 | One advantage of using a hearing-aid is in hearing one 's own voice ‘ from the outside ’ — the aid microphone picks up the voice of the user as well as voices of other people . |
| 5 | So your actual fishing procedure goes something like this : An underarm or side cast lays out the end tackle neatly at an angle downstream . |
| 6 | The practice note sets out the auditors ' reporting responsibilities and the contents of the auditors ' report in some detail , and provides some guidance on qualified reports . |
| 7 | This inelegant but graphic import from American business vocabulary sums up the relevance of finance to the building surveying practice . |
| 8 | Super disk copier speeds up the operation of duplicating a master disk many times . |
| 9 | On command , a wave of tube inflation rises up the tights from ankle to thigh , squeezing the vein-blood in front of it . |
| 10 | A 20-cent man pulls off the tail , a 22½-cent man pounds off another part where good leather is not found , and the knife of the 40-cent man cuts a different texture and has a different ‘ feel ’ from that of the 50-cent man . |
| 11 | The purchaser who relies solely on this mortgage report takes on the risk of unexpected building defects . |
| 12 | A SIDA report sums up the crisis : |
| 13 | Certainly the kind of modern-day would-be Kerouac who survives entirely on the proceeds from trading-in free albums and indulging in the fine art of ‘ ligging ’ — tagging along to any show in town where the record company picks up the catering bill — is not extinct . |
| 14 | The article in the Evening Standard takes up the issue in the same vein . |
| 15 | The back person picks up the ball and runs to the front . |
| 16 | An overflow arrangement backs up the outlet pipe . |
| 17 | Visit the ancient temples and the tombs of the Pharaohs as your cruise ship sails down the Nile to Esna , Luxor , the West Bank and El Amarna before arriving back in Cairo ready for your flight home the following day . |
| 18 | The service specification sets out the quality standards that purchasers expect . |
| 19 | The second order signification system opens up the possibility of an endless layer of significatory systems each aspiring to a larger context from which meaningfulness is derived . |
| 20 | The magazine text brings in the paradox of public and yet as if private utterance : ‘ His words were as if spoken to himself , but he spoke them aloud , and he continued for some time to look at his sister like a man perplexed . ’ |
| 21 | New look , pure cotton jersey t-shirt buttons down the front , has three-quarter length sleeves and is shaped at the hem . |
| 22 | As you get older , and your age group moves up the pyramid , getting slightly smaller , do you think that your group will need more , less , or about the same number of houses , hospitals and other services as those who go before you ? |
| 23 | A bathroom was perhaps the item most prized by working class housewives after World War I , and there is ample evidence of wives planning moves up the housing hierarchy until one was acquired . |
| 24 | This is because the carbon monoxide content of cigarette smoke cuts down the amount of oxygen in the blood and accordingly the heart has to work harder yet it is getting less oxygen . |
| 25 | Property : Forward Planning : Making Proposals : Influencing the decision-makers : Allison Flight fills in the background to a planning application |
| 26 | In the action c , f the Verona piano , the escapement lever pulls down the hammer beak while the hammer pivot remains stationary . |
| 27 | This month Liz turns her attention to the pattern variation switches on the Silver Reed electronic machines . |
| 28 | Reed beds offer a highly effective treatment because bacteria living within the root system breaks down the effluent into water , nitrogen and carbon dioxide . |
| 29 | Intermediate wringing during the drying stage speeds up the process , as mop absorption rates vary in that the more water a mop holds the slower it picks up more water . |
| 30 | The checkout operator cashes up the goods , the customer pays and then leaves via the specific exit . |