Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [adv] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | London , however , is pounded by commuter traffic and the only policy option which promises relief is determined action to exclude or price out the one-driver commuter car . |
| 2 | Cookery book instructions to " de-seed " tomatoes or squeeze out the watery parts before cooking are unrealistic ; the water content of tomatoes is 94 per cent and the sole effective way to get rid of it is by evaporation . |
| 3 | Yet even the most productive thoughts and even the bravest of responses to the new dimensions of my predicament could not wholly keep the chill out of my bones or push away the icier gloom from above my head . |
| 4 | It is absolutely essential to ensure that , so long as the possibility of control or influence over the Russian republics remains , steps are taken to bring about a strategic arms reduction . |
| 5 | It is perfectly proper to raise aesthetic questions in courses in biological sciences or ( in courses on occupational therapy ) on the aesthetic quality of aids given to patients ; or to ask moral questions about work in nuclear physics or ( in legal studies ) about sentencing policy in the courts ; or to find out the historical development of any subject . |
| 6 | In order to account for women 's lack of autonomy it is not sufficient to think merely in terms of removing a veil , or stripping away the outer layers . |
| 7 | He worked with scarcely a break to search out a new passage in the files , or to pick up the half-smoked end of his last cigarette from the ashtray , stub it out , light a new one , and put it down in its place . |
| 8 | Once you have decided on the questions you want to ask , you should draw up a chart like A on which you can record customer 's responses quickly , simply by ticking or filling in the appropriate column . |
| 9 | This idyllic setting is just the place to relax , swim or snorkel around the unspoilt coral reefs , and to explore the beautiful , unspoiled countryside surrounding the volcanic mountains . |
| 10 | It has been possible for some time to cruise down the Nile , or stay in some of the jewelled and painted palaces of Moghul India , or walk along the Great Wall of China . |
| 11 | If the majority of workers could be angry ( as opposed to just the minority being ‘ rebellious ’ ) about the conditions that are inducing a sense of nothingness , and loss of self-esteem , they would have either to face their depression ( i.e. , anger turned inwards ) or face why the social structure is as it is . |
| 12 | Punch or draw out the resulting design . |
| 13 | That is , housewives produce or reproduce both the next generation of labourers and the current one . |
| 14 | We will erase or cross out the second word and substitute the word ‘ thou ’ . |
| 15 | He does n't run away , or hang out crosses or wreaths of parsley , or ring up the local press , he merely mentions it to his friends in passing , and gets on with his work . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Edna often took Celia down there , carefully going first and waiting while the little girl slid or scrambled down the awkward parts of the cliff into her waiting arms . |
| 18 | Voltage and current signals can be used to pre-set speed or to call up the actual values for speed and torque , and the start/stop functions can be activated using the same method . |
| 19 | James inaugurated the modern or as it is sometimes called , the ‘ modernist ’ novel in England , a kind of fiction which , in pursuit of a more faithful representation of reality , attenuated or eliminated altogether the authorial narrator . |
| 20 | Where the last day for doing any act or taking a proceeding is a Sunday , Christmas Day , Good Friday or Monday or Tuesday in Easter week , or on a day on which the offices of the court are closed , the act or proceeding may be done or taken on the next day afterwards which is not one of the aforesaid days . |
| 21 | Examine the Minoan exhibits in the Archaeological Museum or wander round the ancient port . |
| 22 | When such MPs die or step down the resulting by-election often provides big shock waves . |
| 23 | We will call this backwards pruning because , at the point where more than one path has the same successor , the algorithm can look back the way it has come , and mark or retain only the highest scoring path . |
| 24 | There is not the faintest trace of float or wallow over the fastest crests or in the steepest dips ; the body just maintains constant ride height throughout giving a feeling of invincible security . |
| 25 | I was struck by the fact that the majority of people visiting our stalls at summer shows had either not heard of us , or had only the vaguest idea about what we do . |
| 26 | You do need to move the point cams during increasing or decreasing so the basic rule is ‘ never move the point cam nearest the carriage ’ . |
| 27 | More than 100 are on duty to keep an eye on the 2,000 clubgoers who nightly dance or drink away the small hours from 11pm to 6am . |
| 28 | It is only the slow pace of human speech and human reactions that slows down the electronic processes that come into play when national security appears to be at risk . |
| 29 | When we looked at group psychology and analysis of the ego , we saw that it was processes that occur in the ego , such as identification and projection , that make social groups possible , that bring about the social order of psychological groups . |
| 30 | She had reached the place where the Dalek Killer had entered one of the six squat buildings that made up the central complex . |