Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [prep] the [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The local authority 's mortgage was duly registered in the charges register . |
| 2 | When present , the impurities cause concrete made from mining spoil , ‘ mundic , ’ to crumble in damp conditions as trace elements slowly combine with the cement to reduce the lattice structure to a mush . |
| 3 | In a statement yesterday , the police chiefs said : ‘ The association wholeheartedly agrees with the views expressed by Mr Adair . |
| 4 | After 36 month 's weathering , the bones of the skull were found to be little altered beyond the condition described above . |
| 5 | Critics have since commented on the paradox offered by a Secretary of State sharply defining two categories of higher education — the one more theoretical and academic than the other — in the same year as he was energetically destroying similar categories in secondary education . |
| 6 | Thus began the process which eventually led to the peasants ceasing to sow grain and ultimately to the New Economic Policy . |
| 7 | This is what is effectively happening in the scenario posed . |
| 8 | Pots will be attractive to add instant colour and a path sweeps away under the pergola towards the rockery where it turns through a right angle in front of the rose bed , eventually ending at the vegetable plot that is neatly screened by the hedge . |
| 9 | In this case the group attributes declared for the definition of the hole are wholly contained with the attributes declared for the definition of the block . |
| 10 | People did not suddenly rush into the shops to spend more money on books because the Government said that staff had to be paid more . |
| 11 | If it 's breaking down lots of food , a really heavy meal , then it 's actually maybe making such a big demand on the oxygen level in your bloodstream that your oxygen level in your bloodstream drops and there 's not enough to go round the muscles to make to break up any lactic acid that 's being formed . |
| 12 | We have all heard of the addiction caused by long-term taking of tranquillisers but did you realise that the effect of sleeping pills can last well into the following day and many antihistamines ( commonly taken to relieve colds or allergies ) can make you so drowsy that you should not drive for some hours after taking them ? |
| 13 | So there I was at the Whirl-Y-Gig , which is a New Age club much favoured by the Haight-Ashbury set . |
| 14 | Lucy stepped into her warmest black and white trousers and high-necked top , and when the appetising aroma of sizzling bacon and eggs drew her towards breakfast she found the dining-room to be nicely heated by the logs blazing in the large open fireplace . |
| 15 | Of course much depended upon the temper imparted by the smith . |
| 16 | The components of e are evaluated , the results are then all assigned to the locations represented by x , and the process then terminates . |
| 17 | Kalm was very impressed by the stoves at Chelsea , ‘ all arranged in the way discribed in Dictionary ’ , and he learned from Miller that two orangeries in England had been burnt by tan overheating ( the fermenting bark of the oak and a by-product from the tanning industry ) . |
| 18 | Well if you 've got to go in the garage , it 's too cold to go in there to finish the ship off so you 'd better paint in the house had n't you ? |
| 19 | He tells you the price per Chinese pound , and then merely points to the scales to show the weight . |
| 20 | She went over to help lift the beams , and then hand new turfs and heather up to Luch , who was light enough to clamber over the roof to mend it without breaking it . |
| 21 | A bomb apparently intended for the Paris-Madrid express , which , however , was running late , damaged the railway line between France and Spain on June 30 . |
| 22 | Paula plays the part of ageing beauty queen Diane , who is trying to convince herself that she is still young and nubile enough to vie for the title Miss Golden Gate . |
| 23 | I only got off the bus to catch the bus that was in front and I missed that . |
| 24 | On the one hand , the sampling process had to generate as many categories of user as possible and so account for the variations found in the known sample relating to age , sex , class , township , and so on . |
| 25 | Vocabulary and structures are constantly revised throughout the course to reinforce the language learning process and to ensure that children who join the class late do not find themselves struggling . |
| 26 | She put a red plastic bowl on the refrigerator floor and sat down to wait for the ice to melt . |
| 27 | While everyone else had been trying to solve this problem by heating … to millions of degrees , we had apparently stumbled on the solution involving low temperatures instead . ’ |
| 28 | Roger Sanderson wants the Forest of Dean Commoners Association … a grouping of sheep farmers … to keep better control of their animals so they do n't stray onto the industrial estate and roads.The right to graze the Forest of Dean dates back thousands of years , and it 's jealously guarded by the commoners.They say its up to the businessmen to fence the sheep out if they 're proving troublesome : |
| 29 | They also vary greatly depending upon the attitudes adopted by individual ministers . |
| 30 | As Cati left , she continued , to Sabina , who was sprinkling flour into a basin and whirling it into a dough with her fist , ‘ But you can only wait for the storming to pass … . ’ |