Example sentences of "[conj] [vb base] [adv prt] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Punch or draw out the resulting design . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Examine the Minoan exhibits in the Archaeological Museum or wander round the ancient port . |
| 5 | When such MPs die or step down the resulting by-election often provides big shock waves . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Covering all the 15 regions that make up the Russian Federation , the network is to be used by the Russia Interior Ministry for criminal investigations and resources management . |
| 8 | Legislating for seemly relationships between the government and the Congress may be the most urgent need ; creating the circumstances in which the patchwork of titularly and hopefully autonomous regions that make up the Russian Federation have an incentive to hang together is , in the long run , more important . |
| 9 | Within this framework , Ryan makes two main proposals , both extremely interesting : first , that plot-advancing propositions can be defined as those that affect , directly or indirectly , the relationships between the worlds that make up the textual universe ( Chapter 7 ) ; second , that the aesthetic value or " tellability " of a story partly depends on the degree of diversification of such worlds , i.e. on the richness of the virtual situations and events that only exist in the minds of the characters ( whether they are explicitly mentioned in the narrative or need to be inferred by readers ) ( Chapter 8 ) . |
| 10 | The symmetry of any property of a molecule may be determined by seeing how it behaves when operated on by the various symmetry elements that make up the overall symmetry point group of the molecule ( see Appendix ) . |
| 11 | Changes in the relative numbers of the different types of household that make up the aggregate population have actuarial consequences for the future pattern of public and private transfers into and out of collective saving and insurance funds . |
| 12 | To a large extent the prison numbers crisis , and many of the problems that are associated with it , are the unintended outcome of a series of uncoordinated decisions taken , independently , by the various institutions that make up the criminal justice system in England and Wales . |
| 13 | There are many different types of institution that make up the financial sector , from banks to building societies to various institutions in the City of London . |
| 14 | Just wanted to clarify that little point , so you know the organs that make up the circulatory system , you know how to check it , you know the one slight difference than what you normally expect veins and arteries to be doing okay ? |
| 15 | You glance over the thick tubes that make up the emperor-size brass bedstead , and smile . |
| 16 | And particularly over the last session we talked about the symbolic actions that make up the actual point of confirmation , the confirming of the sacrament , of the sacrament of confirmation . |
| 17 | The traditional elements that make up the perfect day are all here and it 's equally delicious — but careful use of low-fat spreads , skimmed milk and steamed vegetables mean big savings in calories . |
| 18 | These in their turn are grouped into assemblies that make up the total product/machine . |
| 19 | Mr Kinnock 's preference for his successor to be in place by the end of June proved impossible to meet , as the party 's rules decree that there must be at least 12 weeks in which to consult the three groups that make up the electoral college — MPs , constituency activists and the unions . |
| 20 | This key theme crops up repeatedly throughout the book in all the contributions because it is through language that the hidden assumptions that make up the common sense of both theoretical and empirical discussions are revealed . |
| 21 | There are numerous theories for the type , number and distribution of the holes that make up the free volume but we shall discuss solely the use of the free volume concept in the derivation of the Williams-Landel-Ferry ( WLF ) equation , Equation ( 3.11 ) . |
| 22 | The major difference is that whereas in Popper the decisions concern the acceptance of singular statements only , in Lakatos the device is extended so as to be applicable to the universal statements that make up the hard core . |
| 23 | Stomping around the 40-odd screens that make up the playing area , solving puzzles and avoiding the numerous nasties , is as absorbing as you can get for four pounds . |
| 24 | Good examples of this are the genes that give rise to the histones ( proteins that make up the chromosomal superstructure ) , the ribosomal RNA , the immunoglobulins and many others . |
| 25 | Meanwhile , Gordon Cullen in a popular book , The concise townscape ( 1961 ) , showed the fun and drama to be had from the way towns and cities actually looked , popularizing the word ‘ townscape ’ as the art of giving visual coherence and organization to the jumble of buildings , streets and spaces that make up the urban environment |
| 26 | You will also gain the skills that back up the actual cooking , such as catering accountancy , stock control , planning your menus and the care of food in storage . |
| 27 | Others , such as the fault that let down the great thickness of Mesozoic in Cardigan Bay ( to the west of Wales ) must have been much later , though they served to define basins that were presumably already there . |
| 28 | By loading in access frequency order , the accesses to synonym records — and these are the records that slow up the average retrieval times of the file — have been cut from 34.063 per cent to 14.878 per cent . |
| 29 | Because the picrite basalts show only a shallow correlation between Nd and Os isotope variation , the data neither require nor rule out the hyperbolic mixing curves ( Fig. 3 ) . |
| 30 | It 's only as their wardrobes become full that the problem arises ; garments that turn out the wrong size are going to fill one person 's space more than another 's . |