Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [adv] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is useful for bringing together the separate parts of the ANLT and the grammar and lexicon can be developed and altered within this environment . |
| 2 | This unusual situation provides a motivation for bringing together the extreme poles of our everyday understanding of space and time : the most outer and the most inner , the first and the last . |
| 3 | Together they acted as recruiters responsible for bringing together the large numbers of men who constituted the armies of the day . |
| 4 | If the tile has simply slipped out of place but is undamaged ( that is , it still has its hanging ‘ nibs ’ on the back ) , you should be able to slide it back into place after easing up the surrounding tiles under wood wedges . |
| 5 | Substituting these in the theorems ( 4.16 ) above gives , after separating out the requisite components of L , M , the inequalities ( 4.12 ) and ( 4.13 ) . |
| 6 | The Kiwi Test star grabbed two tries and three goals after taking over the kicking duties from David Lyon , who went off injured at half-time . |
| 7 | In between carousing down the powdery slopes , Branson and his colleagues could take stock of an empire that had grown almost beyond recognition in the last six years . |
| 8 | The festive period this year is a good time for seeking out the various shapes or figures in the Moon , for its phase grows ( waxes ) from first quarter on 23 December to full on 30 December . |
| 9 | There is , therefore , little tradition yet of using even the growing numbers of full text CD-ROM databases let alone those embodying the first elements of multimedia . |
| 10 | The task of drawing out the main points from the mass of data takes considerable practice and is time consuming . |
| 11 | It is possible , in response to these apparent counter-examples to a context-independent notion of linguistic competence , simply to retreat : the rules can be left unconstrained and allowed to generate unacceptable sentences , and a performance theory of pragmatics assigned the job of filtering out the acceptable sentences . |
| 12 | a method of binding where the folded pages are stitched through the spine from the outside , using wire staples . |
| 13 | Perhaps the essential task of bringing in the new democracies of eastern Europe will founder on economic collapse , ethnic unrest and social upheaval . |
| 14 | It has been argued earlier that the LEAs , both individually and collectively , failed to generate greater consensus on the school curriculum , but were there not alternative means of bringing together the various partners ( the LEAs , schools and their teachers , governors and parents , industry and commerce ; the churches ) to reach an agreement ? |
| 15 | Each player in these groups was engaged for his or her ability to perform one type of role , therefore the playing was predictable because there was a particular way of acting out the various situations . |
| 16 | The park , unlikely though it might seem , was not a job , not a political ideology , not a way of filling in the weary hours until she was old enough to retire , not even something to spite her mother with once and for all while she accepted everything else from her . |
| 17 | At the heart of the difficulty of delineating clearly the essential features of the Constitution is its ever-changing nature . |
| 18 | The best way to understand it , in my view , is as a way of separating out the different impulses represented in today 's highly varied feminist thinking . |
| 19 | Once the school librarian or teacher has mastered the simple stages of switching on the different parts of the microcomputer , e.g. to set up the BBC microcomputer , the user 1 ) Plugs in the computer , the disk drive , the monitor and the printer 2 ) Switches on the microcomputer , the disk drive , the monitor and the printer 3 ) Puts a disk into the disk drive 4 ) Types in a command on the microcomputer s/he will be able to use programs for different applications such as database creation or word processing and the applications are covered later in this book . |
| 20 | The Chancellor , the Financial Secretary to the Treasury , and the Prime Minister have the task of pointing out the financial realities of life to their colleagues . |
| 21 | The corrie looks terrifying from its base , and indeed I would hazard a guess that avalanches are pretty fond of rumbling down the upper reaches of it after spring snow . |
| 22 | Now comes the business of sorting out the returned forms . |
| 23 | Six alternative ways of linking together the daily prices between 1982 and 1989 were used , and some substantial differences in the results were observed . |
| 24 | An ordinary delegate said he rejected the idea of blaming only the previous leaders for past mistakes . |
| 25 | Oh yes we used to get the job of sewing up the wee cushions . |
| 26 | He offered the Soviet republics — which are in the process of taking over the nuclear facilities previously administered by the central authorities — German help to organize their nuclear-energy programmes and build up their own inspectorates . |
| 27 | Holyfield 's men , and there are plenty of them , including a woman as ballet coach , are certain that he will emerge as a true heavyweight champion , capable of taking out the big men of the division . |
| 28 | Frustrated foxes , singing birds , enchanted islands and smiling Chinamen are scattered in a splendid excess of modelling up the trailing vines of inspired invention . |
| 29 | It was not until James Watt , instrument maker at Glasgow University , was given the job of repairing a model Newcomen steam engine , that a major breakthrough was made in the business of powering up the early beginnings of the industrial world . |
| 30 | It 's really a question of knowing where the raw materials are coming from , where the product comes from and what the conditions are like there , but , of course it 's all very well saying it 's a question of what but er how many people involved are going to know that ? |