Example sentences of "[conj] [vb base] [adv prt] the [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Richard Coleman , managing directors of Compass Commercial Services , agreed that the MoD was a significant marketplace , although most of the contracts were now being let on a retender basis and a new insecurity in what was already a high risk business had recently presented itself — the application to the public sector of Transfer of Undertakings legislation , when incoming contractors are obliged to retain staff at current rates of pay , terms and conditions , or pick up the redundancy liability . |
| 2 | Drill or channel out the wall plaster for rear cable entry |
| 3 | Drill or channel out the wall plaster for water pipe entry |
| 4 | … or wire up the junction box to replace a rose , wired from its own junction box . |
| 5 | Secondly , the event risk is the likelihood of such a person forgetting to light the gas , switch off the electric cooker , lock the doors , or turn off the bath tap . |
| 6 | If I 've got to turn out drawers or turn out the airing cupboard or get the kitchen tidy , it 's a relaxation for me and I like it , or just going through some interior decoration books or moving the furniture round — I 'm a great mover of furniture . |
| 7 | Despite the fact that most applicants are anxious to secure a job or move up the career ladder , the process is really two-way . |
| 8 | We have arranged a special offer : Country Living readers will be admitted free on presentation of the first page of this article ( or take along the March issue if you do not wish to cut your magazine ) . |
| 9 | A colour catalogue , costing £3 , also illustrates the abundance of smaller accessories that make up the Shaker look . |
| 10 | The 26 environmental groups that make up the Everglades Coalition say the agreement does not go far enough , failing to tackle the problem of how to restore the natural rise and fall of water in the swamps , which has been disrupted by dikes , canals and other human intervention . |
| 11 | This focus on services shifts our attention to a different aspect of the social division of labour from that discussed in the previous chapter , namely the separate firms and industries that make up the service sector . |
| 12 | In the case of processes , the division between those that make up the longue durée and those that belong to the sphere of conjonctures is bound to be rough ; there is no absolute division between a gradual increase in population lasting for a century and a cycle of growth and decline lasting a mere seventy-five years , a fact reflected in the organisation of La Méditerranée . |
| 13 | This research will map the linkages that make up the policy community in the chemicals industry in Britain , West Germany and at European Community level . |
| 14 | Preliminary examinations reveal an anomalously thick representative of the Grantham Formation , presumably occupying a channel that cut out the Northampton Sand ironstone and the top mudstone beds of the Upper Lias . |
| 15 | Keynesians point to the large sums of money that move around the money market as firms and financial institutions anticipate changes in interest rates . |
| 16 | Many knitters will not often come across patterns that take up the whole working memory . |
| 17 | In previous sections we have contrasted the cereal-packet image of the family in modern Britain with the different sorts of arrangements and structures that occur over the family life cycle . |
| 18 | I climb out and pick up the wood arrow , |
| 19 | ‘ OK , Ellis , take out the tray and bring on the sex maniac . ’ |
| 20 | You can click on an empty space on the desktop and bring up the Task Manager . |
| 21 | I had to think of her seeing the copy of my cock on Monday , I had to think of her first thinking , ‘ Golly , what a nut ’ , and then finding she had to stare uncontrollably at the specific image of my cock , boyoing , had to file that image away in a secret file folder where she filed away all my asterisk memos , and that some night working late , she 'd reach her long arms down to that drawer and bring out the asterisk file and go through the pages , asterisk after asterisk , until she found my cock . |
| 22 | Light the Christmas candle and bring in the nativity scene , with perhaps everyone sharing in setting it up . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'm one of those people who can eat and drink what I like and not put on weight , so I had to do it by weight training and build up the muscle weight , ’ he adds . |
| 24 | When a new Manager took over the Transport Department in 1933 , he was keen to modernise the Promenade and Fleetwood tramway and build up the bus system . |
| 25 | This feature encourages water that finds its way aboard over the weatherside to slip round behind the after coaming and exit over the lee quarter . |
| 26 | Instead of pulling over onto the hard shoulder , opening the car bonnet and putting more oil in the engine , you take a hammer and bash out the oil warning light . |
| 27 | The CNAA made ‘ a tacit political bargain with the DES … for the CNAA to have had a dagger in its hand and kill off the government scheme would not have done ’ . |
| 28 | Now I get up and walk around the kitchen table a couple of times , do a dozen stretch-and-bend exercises , then pour myself some more coffee and flop back in my chair . |
| 29 | Cross the bridge by Aberrhigian Beach and walk along the coast path . |
| 30 | After selecting number 2 into the current colour box , go to FUNCTION in the top menu bar and hold down the mouse button . |