Example sentences of "[conj] [vb base] [adv] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Vector graphics , on the other hand , are created by defining the start and end points of a line or curve together with the necessary angle and weight or thickness of the line . |
| 2 | Japanese security experts say the survivors are demoralised , middle-aged revolutionaries without strong support or influence either in the Middle East or Japan . |
| 3 | Every moment of Rainbow 's existence during my time at the Fair has been tracked , recorded , docketed and programmed for easy-edit , so I am able to wipe , play-back , freeze-frame or skim fast over the boring bits . |
| 4 | In Kingshams Field , the bank was apparently partly levelled or cut away by the mid third century at least , prior to the construction of a stone building with a courtyard to the south . |
| 5 | When included , the inner shape was taken to be a hole or cut out in the total shape . |
| 6 | We could see Jane Russell again at the Empire , or walk up to the Arcadian to see Sanders of the River . |
| 7 | Penelope wished now that she had worn a dress or suit instead of the elegant tartan trews , but they had seemed the only way to make Rupert Stonebird notice her . |
| 8 | I would therefore display a becoming restiveness , or look round for the usual dispatch-case , so that when he started slowly rising to his feet , which he did as if by some inner mechanism , I could , like an adjoining lift , follow him slightly behindhand . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Here at Club M'Diq you can either do your own thing or involve yourself in the daily and evening activities and events available for free ; you can lazy on the spacious sandy beach , or go off on the optional excursions to see something of what this colourful Moslem country has to offer . |
| 11 | ‘ I would hope if sufficient parents support me they will either postpone the tests until Easter , by which time the children will have some idea of what it is like , or go back to the previous system . |
| 12 | If you want , take to the water with a sunny trip by boat to view the coastline in a more leisurely fashion , or go across to the romantic island of Elba . |
| 13 | If you can help please telephone DAD on Darlington or call in at the local office at the Friends Meeting House , 6 Skinnergate , Darlington . |
| 14 | The appeal raises important and , to our minds , difficult questions of principle regarding the right of a mortgagor on the taking of a mortgage account to object to the level of costs , charges and expenses which the mortgagee claims to be entitled to charge against or retain out of the mortgaged property . |
| 15 | The FIS was also demanding that presidential elections be held simultaneously with or follow shortly after the general election scheduled for June 27 . |
| 16 | The boat skipper gives Kevin a choice — swim or struggle on in the bad weather and lose your money . |
| 17 | Their often very high and frequently untaxed earnings from gratuities at the large and lavish events at which they serve more than make up for the low basic rates they are paid , the absence of substantial fringe benefits and the existence of a short off-season in which they can not earn . |
| 18 | The capes are famous for a confused and ugly swell , and peculiar lumps of wind that crash down from the coastal peaks of the Taurus Mountains . |
| 19 | The fact that trajectories which wander out of the region may later return ( after wandering chaotically near the strange attractor ) is of no concern ; we are concerned only with trajectories that remain forever within the small region , and a strange collection of these is removed . |
| 20 | The Times Higher Education Supplement began an editorial on the CNAA in 1972 with the statement : ‘ The Council for National Academic Awards must be one of the few unqualified success stories in higher education in the past eight years — sharing that honour perhaps with the Open University ’ . |
| 21 | Waterfalls of varying kinds can be constructed that vary considerably from the traditional form . |
| 22 | But it was n't that late , and he was n't particularly tired , and he knew that he 'd do little more than lie there on the hard mattress tormenting himself with thoughts of that waitress . |
| 23 | It is our individual decisions about how we travel , work , eat , heat our homes , wash our clothes ' , take our holidays and go about our daily lives that add up to the growing pressures on our planet . |
| 24 | The consumer-oriented image has been enhanced by stylish new brochures and a credit card ordering system — devices that owe more to the commercial sector than to industry . |
| 25 | Wherever the conditions for life are difficult , we find , typically , that the number of species is low ; and so it is in the world 's great deserts that lie just outside the wet equatorial regions , in Africa , Central Asia , North America and Australia . |
| 26 | Beyond pouring oil on troubled waters , the Queen can do no more than dig in for the long wait , guided by her husband . |
| 27 | The baby has gone past the sell-by date given by the hospital , but there is not a lot I can do except dig in on the front-line . |
| 28 | Many such creatures contain nervous organelles that operate independently of the other systems . |
| 29 | It would act , for example , as a general mechanism to wipe out those that end up in the wrong place , say after a cut mixes cells between different layers of skin . |
| 30 | The context-specificity of latent inhibition is not be explained ( or at least , not entirely ) in terms of interference effects that go on during the conditioning phase of the procedure . |