Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [adv prt] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | And that means you start off with the atomic bits that make up the lightest gases — the sort you get in stars . |
| 9 | The need in the case of the Oedipus myth to resolve the contradiction between two pieces of knowledge that are in conflict can be comfortably taken as the signified that lies behind the significations that make up the various versions of the myth . |
| 10 | I see from today 's Financial Times that a leading member of the board of the Bundesbank said yesterday that the Maastricht summit was a failure and might prove to be ’ a suicidal failure ’ — serious words from a key member of the body that drew up the detailed proposals for European economic and monetary union . |
| 11 | The force of repression is like a great dam that holds back the raging torrents of the instincts of the unconscious and allows er some of them through , but others break through in holes , and holes and cracks appear which are the unconscious returning as one |
| 12 | The ‘ needles ’ that send out the negative ions clog up in time , reducing efficiency , so they also need regular cleaning ( use a cotton bud ) . |
| 13 | Women must either follow the male career route and spend little time with their children , or drop out for the vital middle years that filter out the top managers . |
| 14 | In fact the script , which saw American lawyer Thomas Ward cleared of the charge of stealing £5.2 million from Guinness while he was working on the brewing giant 's takeover of Distillers Group , did little more than tie up the loose ends of the storyline . |
| 15 | However , he should ask himself why it is that , when people are given access and are judged eligible for the benefits , the administration is so inadequate that paying out the genuine benefits breaks the system . |
| 16 | The losses look likely more than to wipe out the projected profits on the ECR90 project . |
| 17 | A sound that conjures up the balmy shores of the Carribean . |
| 18 | On the face of it , this seems like a happy ending that ties up the loose ends . |
| 19 | To be just , that is to say , to justify its existence , criticism should be partial , passionate and political , that is to say , written from an exclusive point of view that opens up the widest horizons . |
| 20 | Freewheeling down this long , windy road can be especially exhilarating because emergency action is often needed to dodge the tractors that chug around the hedge-blind corners . |
| 21 | She saw the only viable feminist film practice to be one that breaks up the familiar structures of visual pleasure , thus exposing and problematising the habitual violence which is the male gaze . |
| 22 | From the management 's point of view , any technology that breaks down the old lines of demarcation ( and reduces the number of employees ) is a good investment . |
| 23 | Once out of the village they picked up speed and took a road that would zigzag through five hamlets before bringing them to the only cart track that wound up the lower slopes of the mountain . |
| 24 | For Clelia was , as she had claimed , a good audience : she listened with an attention that picked up the faintest vibrations of meaning . |
| 25 | His eyes were alight , almost visionary , his face alive with a zeal that smoothed out the harsh lines of the past days , and he was smiling . |
| 26 | Cut in a tee at this point , and connect up the new runs . |
| 27 | ‘ Your lot are slinging up tower-block hotels all round the coast and stamping out the olive groves . |
| 28 | At the girls ' establishment where she had been sent at huge expense to learn music and French and to carry out the ornate disciplines conceived by the headmistress — including communal teeth-washing in the gardens , winter and summer , and then communal gargling into the rosebeds , which the headmistress regarded as a form of manure-spreading — the pain was put down to growing too fast . |
| 29 | Heavenly bodies taunted me , encircling the crucible , performing their daily stunts of scorching and freezing , and bringing about the oddest sights . |
| 30 | ‘ Then come with me and pick up the latest reports . |