Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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1 | You can zoom in on any area of the design by positioning a BOX around that area . |
2 | Here senior police officers sit in a windowless room , facing a bank of video-monitors and operating , by remote control , TV cameras which can zoom in on any area of the terraces or stands . |
3 | It will also discuss up to five drafts of a new post-communist constitution . |
4 | Rival villages would line up at either end of the green to do this . |
5 | the mental processes involved in object recognition ; 2 how object recognition and naming develops in children ; and 3. how it can break down in certain cases of brain damage . |
6 | Some of them will inevitably give in to that sort of intimidation . |
7 | Again , let the surface dry and finish off with two coats of polyurethane and wax as for the straight sanding process . |
8 | It brings a fleet of seven 44-seater British Aerospace aircraft to Liverpool , each of which can carry up to six tonnes of freight . |
9 | The company , which can send up to 15 tonnes of salmon and 500kgs of scallop meat a week to France , has now halted exports after its French haulier said it was no longer possible to insure the cargo . |
10 | The ends of the chaplets ( metal pins used to hold a clay core in position inside the mould of a hollow statue or vessel during casting ) may show up as small patches of a different alloy on the surface of the finished piece . |
11 | Under this custom the colt 's owner paid a shilling over and above the actual cost of shoeing so that the men could send out for six pints of beer as a reward for the extra effort involved . |
12 | And I I think that it it it would just grow out of that kind of activity and then eventually when ploughing matches er , as such , in the you know , in the adult farm , with horses , became the great thing er which was the second half of the last century , you know after the farming revolution . |
13 | Would she never grow out of this knack of rubbing her father up the wrong way , she wondered , ‘ I 'm sorry , Father ! |
14 | Lee will rap on about this feeling of unison — he calls it the pulse — a mystical experience that arrives when the La 's all hit that special groove at the exact time . |
15 | On a clear day there are magnificent views from all along this road as well as from the summit , and you can look down on all sides of the island , even to Porto Santo . |
16 | There have been many memorable moments : watching a gyr falcon trying to out-manoeuvre puffins in flight off the headland of Tjörnes ; finding purple sandpipers , dunlin , redshank and Arctic terns all breeding together near Núpscatla ; the spectacular east coast road which in places cuts across forty-five degree mountain slopes where you can look down on vast flocks of moulting eider drakes on the sea below . |
17 | The Labpure laboratory reverse osmosis system from Vaponics can provide up to 3785 litres of purified water each day . |
18 | Furthermore , P. bracteatum can provide up to 37 kg of codeine per hectare , compared with the opium poppy 's much lower yield of 3 kg per hectare . |
19 | The Department has published the results of trials which suggest that a single hectare of coppice can provide up to 15 tonnes of fuelwood every year — sufficient to heat a large farmhouse . |
20 | Now Havrix , a vaccine given as two initial injections followed by a booster six to twelve months later , will provide up to ten years of immunity . |
21 | Many people spend more time planning a holiday than in preparing for retirement , which may well occupy up to thirty years of life . |
22 | if we can keep up with that kind of play — and — get those goals we will do OK. im still worried both with the back-five and the attackers — against better oppositon or away things — might — not look as good as on monday . |
23 | The winners are those who can keep up with best standards of quality and reliable supply and still maintain low international prices in a cut-throat business . |
24 | Mind you , who can work out with any degree of accuracy just how the Irish are going to perform ? |
25 | And in 1944 when Cole wrote his book as part of the Movement 's centenary tribute to the Rochdale Pioneers , when Consumers ' Co-operation could still look back on many decades of unbroken success , it would have been as natural for him to suppose that the Pioneers had in this respect been mistaken and that their mistake stood in need of explanation . |
26 | Sun-tanned , fit and contented , we could look back on fourteen days of carefree cruising ; four hundred miles through some of the finest scenery in the British Isles with the freedom of the hills for good measure . |
27 | When the blacksmith decides to make some new tongs for himself , he may just look around for suitable pieces of scrap which he will then fashion into the desired tools . |
28 | Adult elephants spend three quarters of the day feeding and can eat up to 225 kilos of food a day . |
29 | Every time the gel on the other end tried to bring the conversation to a polite close , I 'd crank up with another round of exasperatingly slow , repetitive , thread-losing , stammering ramblings . |
30 | But the three-minute song is just a left-over from when that was all you could fit on to one side of a 78 record . |