Example sentences of "[vb -s] [coord] [verb] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So imagine how you would feel if someone breaks into your new home and destroys or steals the very things you are proud of , the things you have worked hard to buy . |
| 2 | It is alleged by the plaintiff that the use of these roads by numerous heavy goods vehicles at night amounts to a public nuisance for which the defendants are responsible : the dock company because it controls the Gillingham Gate and by its operation of the gate and the port in general causes or permits the heavy goods vehicles to go in and out of it at all hours , and the fourth and fifth defendants , Crescent Wharves Ltd. and Ship Link Terminals Ltd. respectively , because as sublessees of the dock company they or their customers send heavy goods vehicles in and out of the port and cause or materially contribute to the alleged nuisance . |
| 3 | Marx made the point that : ‘ Production in general is an abstraction , but a sensible abstraction insofar as it actually emphasises and defines the common aspects and thus avoids repetition . ’ |
| 4 | When eating small mammals , it frequently strips and eats the soft parts from the carcase discarding the skin and bones , and it sometimes accomplishes this in a most peculiar fashion . |
| 5 | It makes so much difference if you tell each other what you hope for , rather than expecting your partner to know , or to assume that your partner wants and expects the same things . |
| 6 | Such vivid , metaphoric language epitomizes and illustrates the ultimate truths and values of the police world . |
| 7 | JACK BANNISTER clarifies and identifies the continuing weaknesses |
| 8 | First we should discuss the atmosphere , and how it intercepts and modifies the various radiations . |
| 9 | Witness its monuments to the dead of the Second World War : old synagogues are preserved , public buildings stand as memorials , and — unique in the world — Amsterdam has its own Homomonument , which commemorates and mourns the homosexual victims of fascism . |
| 10 | The court may not be stipulating a particular substantive conclusion ; it may however be explicitly or implicitly ruling out certain options by the way in which it addresses and answers the preceding issues . |
| 11 | The Direction also oversees and assists the so-called classes and controlés museums , that is the 1200 or so provincial museums either directly linked into the Ministry through their director or supervised in order to ensure that they comply with certain requirements ( see chart ) . |
| 12 | They occur when an action by i directly affects j 's costs or the demand which it faces , or when R&D undertaken by firm i retards or blocks the innovative efforts of j . |
| 13 | Although he discusses and exemplifies the other maxims , Grice does not elaborate on the simple instruction ‘ Be relevant . ’ |
| 14 | We may clear away the smoke that suffocates and remove the saturated fats that clog by making certain reasonably simple decisions , but giving the right directions , was a very different — and in my case — a far harder problem . |
| 15 | The party penetrates and controls the different structures of administration . |
| 16 | It is important to notice that the contrast lies primarily in the function of language which Halliday calls IDEATIONAL that is , the way in which language conveys and organizes the cognitive realities of experience , roughly corresponding to what we have earlier called " sense " : [ 12 ] The bushes twitched again . |
| 17 | ‘ Even Snookums knows and appreciates the soothing qualities of Johnson 's Toilet and Baby Powder . ’ |