Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [vb -s] [adv prt] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The announcement that some routes in the area , which is visited by over 2,000 climbers a year , are to be equipped for ‘ environmental ’ reasons came in a press release that effectively throws down the gauntlet to the sport 's governing body . |
| 2 | It is a remark that effectively sums up the difference between himself and the rest of the band . |
| 3 | Linthal takes its name from the river Linth which drains the beautiful transverse valley that largely makes up the canton of Glarus . |
| 4 | Cos that thing that normally sticks out the top . |
| 5 | Europe ? well we could beat about the bush but there 's not a single rep on the road that ever gets out the office so got ta win it cos I actually saw I actually we I actually saw her go out and see a customer so she must she must be er |
| 6 | The Department of the Environment has recently introduced the Duty of Care with a code of practice that clearly lays out the responsibility of businesses to manage their waste correctly . |
| 7 | I 'd like to try it straight to see how it looks and I 've heard there is a shampoo that temporarily smooths out the perm . |
| 8 | Harry Pollitt reported to the Central Committee of the Party in January 1936 that : We fight to affiliate as an organised Party , campaigning for united action on the part of all workers organisations , for a change of policy that corresponds to the desires of the Labour Party members , and that also opens up the perspective of realising at a later stage one united working class political party . |
| 9 | The frost causes the bracken to die back and thereby opens up the canopy to let in more light . |
| 10 | The Bank , by rejecting offers at r 1 , is in effect reducing its demand for bills ( D 1 to D 2 ) , and thereby drives up the rediscount rate to r 2 . |
| 11 | One species of beetle in Brazil , when alarmed , immediately folds up its legs and flattens itself sideways , exposing its white underside and so takes on the appearance of a bird dropping . |
| 12 | A good catalogue , therefore , makes life easy for its user , and so builds up the supplier 's reputation . |
| 13 | This suggests that the group undergoing relaxation is associated with a dipole moment and thus rules out the phenyl ring libration as a likely process . |
| 14 | Besides which , butler 's argument really moves at the level of phenomenology only , as an account of the conscious character of desire , and hardly takes on the idea of someone like Spinoza that all activity at a deeper level is a manifestation of the organism 's disposition to preserve and enhance its own being . |
| 15 | Sometimes a family crisis such as the wife 's admission to hospital for an operation , or confinement , when mother-in-law comes to the rescue and willingly takes over the housekeeping , will draw them together , and help them to value each other as people for the first time ; but more often it is a gradual process , the slow demolition of long-held prejudices . |
| 16 | The tousle-haired blonde in a tiny mustard top , and sawn off denims , gives a big teasing wink , and coyly carries on the act . |
| 17 | Icon Hear-It is fun to use and certainly brightens up the Windows Desktop . |
| 18 | Icon Hear-It is fun to use and certainly brightens up the Windows Desktop . |
| 19 | This can be done very simply in a freshwater aquarium by using a nitrate absorbing resin which rapidly and safely takes up the nitrate . |
| 20 | Gimli 's ‘ Song of Durin' at I 329–30 is dwarvishly plain and active , but still carries on the sense of decay in Middle-earth opposed to ultimate hope ; Legolas 's ‘ Song of Nimrodel ’ a little later makes similar oppositions but ends on an opposite note , of faltering and ultimate defeat on the ‘ Hither Shore ’ . |
| 21 | As for ( c ) , there will be an appropriation for the purposes of theft if the accused can not at first discover the owner but later finds out the identity . |
| 22 | Caroline Scott 's circular set , with its floor patterned like a spiralling cockle shell , flanked by two ascending balustrades , is simple but evocatively conjures up the lighthouse , while at the same time providing an interesting setting for the action to work in and whirl around . |