Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv prt] [adj] [noun] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every mile of dual carriageway eats up twenty-six acres of countryside ; the government are committed to fourteen billion pounds expenditure on a road-building expansion . |
| 2 | Oxidation of organic waste also uses up large quantities of oxygen ( e.g. oxidation of hydrogen sulphide ) . |
| 3 | It hangs on that sort of knife-edge . |
| 4 | It hangs over any thickness of wardrobe rail and fastens with Velcro . |
| 5 | Porter argues that it is also important to distinguish between experience-curve ( learning-by-doing ) effects and reduction of costs through economies of scale , i.e. the reduction achievable in any one period by increasing efficiency through the use of larger production plants , thereby spreading infrastructure costs over more units of output . |
| 6 | Nothing is easier than to obey a master who is perhaps exacting , but who rules over all details of life , assures one 's daily bread , and makes it possible to banish all concern from the mind . |
| 7 | But the bread oven conjures up delicious smells of baking and a homely warmth , missing in most modern homes . |
| 8 | Perhaps no one 's missing from the Irish ferry , which rules out one line of inquiry . ’ |
| 9 | First , a careful search ( takes 10 Turns ) of the alchemical section turns up two works of note : De Lapis Philosophorum in Bretonnian , and the small and quirky Lermontov 's Grimoire ( see New Magic ) ; the latter needs an I test to find it unless the adventurers know that it 's here for some reason . |
| 10 | How stable is a system which can not employ an increasing proportion of the population , which leaves half the world destitute , which rides a switchback cycle between boom and bust , which piles up tottering mountains of debt ? |
| 11 | In these cases verse takes on another dimension of seriousness by its juxtaposition with the prose of jest and the evasion of responsibilities . |
| 12 | The agency takes on any kind of job — you just name the subject and give us some indication of the kind of thing you want to know , and then we go out and get it for you . ’ |
| 13 | From the rim , the eye travels down sixteen layers of rock , passing through bands of maroon , pink , russet , vermilion , green , to the grey granite and black schist immediately above the river . |
| 14 | Will power of the iron man Mining millionaire 's death opens up rich seam of intrigue and pits widow against daughter in struggle for vast riches |
| 15 | Most importantly , it opens up new ways of co-operation with our European partners , not just the way of straight-through Community competence and the European court of Justice . |
| 16 | A friendly ‘ Servus ’ opens up endless perspectives of summer fun : hiking , riding , sailing , windsurfing , tennis , golf … |
| 17 | In the matching sonnets , 63 and 65 , Shakespeare calls up great reserves of language and feeling to create the corroding power of age and ‘ sad mortality ’ : ‘ Against my love shall be as I am now/With Time 's injurious hand crush 'd and o'erworn ’ ( 63 ) . |
| 18 | Brand B sells at £75 per month and takes up 7 metres of space . |
| 19 | This is particularly true of libraries and archives in which valuable information is stored in a manner that takes up vast amounts of space , is prone to decay , and may not be easily accessible . |
| 20 | the spaghetti takes up 10 metres of shelf space |
| 21 | Brand A sells at £150 per month and takes up 10 feet of shelf space . |
| 22 | Brand C sells at £39 per month and takes up 13 metres of space . |
| 23 | The fact that the collection takes up some 8M of disk space may also be regarded as something of a stumbling block … |
| 24 | It is also an independent feeding method which involves a separate rod and line to lower the dropper in , or , if used with the same rod and line with which you are fishing , takes up precious minutes of time when your hookbait could be in the water ; valuable minutes when the barbel are mad on feed . |
| 25 | presented a ‘ grid ’ file that performs particularly well when the number of search attributes is ten or less , and offers a high data storage utilization , good growth characteristics and efficient processing of range queries ; Stanfill and Kahle explain the principles of a parallel free-text search on a particular parallel computer , and claim a retrieval speed of 2 — 3 minutes for Boolean queries of 25 and 20000 terms respectively when the database in question takes up 15 Gbytes of storage space . |
| 26 | Brand D sells at £315 per month and takes up 20 feet of space . |
| 27 | A ten minute tea-break , a telephone call , a brief conversation , anything which breaks up large blocks of concentration , improves efficiency . |
| 28 | Miguel , in pony tail and purple-embroidered shirt , opens his Yamaha synthesiser case and takes out three sets of bamboo pan pipes . |
| 29 | Agarawal also points out other failures of forestry and fuelwood projects in Java ( p. 105 ) , and Upper Volta ( p.166 ) , mainly blaming a lack of a community of local interests . |
| 30 | But the bass is figured and Schein obligingly points out alternative methods of performance : two tenors or soprano and tenor instead of the sopranos ; bass to be played by trombone , bassoon , or violone ; soprano II to be replaced by violin or flute ; or simply soprano solo with continuo — by which expedient the German solo song with continuo was born almost by accident . |