Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv prt] the [adj] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Managing director , George Sneddon heads up the regional management team of 24 UK staff who are supported by 123 Omani , Indian and Sri Lankan staff and a labour force of 1500 men . |
| 2 | The route this year will once again start from Bournemouth Pier , run along the promenade up to Hengistbury Head , before leaving the line of the sea as it heads up the scenic cliff tops and down to Boscombe Pier . |
| 3 | GLAZING machine supervisor Steve Wilmore starts up the new glazing machine . |
| 4 | She holds up the American education system as an answer to the supposed link between language and class mobility . |
| 5 | The insect jerks itself free and hangs on the empty pupa case , its body trembling . |
| 6 | The problem is that soap washes out the natural skin oils which keep our skin supple and protect it from the ravages of the outside world . |
| 7 | And the new structure erm moves towards erm team working across the advice centre composes of three teams er and also , takes on the critical self managing team so that erm in terms of the this work and technical support that er , has in the past been offered by a team leader , er , team leader and advice centre manager that will be , in the future will be offered by a senior member of staff erm , for each other and for less experienced staff . |
| 8 | IN PRINT : How to Plan , Purchase , and Produce Print breaks down the complicated publication process into an easy-to-follow , step-by-step sequence . |
| 9 | Stephen Dorrell , 40 , an unimpressive former junior health minister , takes over the Financial Secretary job left vacant when Francis Maude lost his seat last week . |
| 10 | ‘ We are very pleased about this as it opens up the entire country music market for us . |
| 11 | Some nights , he calls up the late show DJ on the request line . |
| 12 | Marx points out the deeper class relations and potential conflicts below the surface of society . |
| 13 | To lend naive party cheer , the young American DJ whacks up the dry ice machine which spurts more of its obnoxious fumes into the heart of the room . |
| 14 | First , that ‘ the search for the affluent reader ’ distorts the make-up and content of the British press and , second , that the ‘ patronage ’ of advertisers favours some ( the middle class ) and not other ( the working class ) types of readers — it freezes out the working class reader and the working class newspaper . |
| 15 | Section 24 lays down the basic default rules as to the interests and duties of partners subject to their special agreements : The interests of partners in the partnership property and their rights and duties in relation to the partnership shall be determined , subject to any agreement express or implied between the partners , by the following rules : ( 1 ) All the partners are entitled to share equally in the capital and profits of the business , and must contribute equally towards the losses whether of capital or otherwise sustained by the firm . |
| 16 | ‘ No , it 's just that my sister 's going out , ’ she says , as she picks up the various plastic carrier bags already waiting in the hall . |
| 17 | Others with not dissimilar roots to have attracted the attention of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences which doles out the little gold men , include Charles Laughton ( Scarborough ) , Anthony Havelock Allen ( Darlington ) and Flora Robson ( South Shields ) . |
| 18 | If , for example , as one moves up the elderly age range , the proportion of married to non-married decreases , and if married couples are in general better off than the single or widowed elderly , one would expect to find that average income would decline with age . |
| 19 | It continues the work of the Bristol Language project , supervised by Dr Gordon Wells , and follows up the foreign language school-based progress of the children whose first language developmental data were gathered by the Bristol team in the early 1970s . |
| 20 | It is to be hoped that the Secretary of State , when he sets up the national appraisal arrangements to which he is committed , will build on this goodwill . |
| 21 | Hill sums up the 1992 housing market in one word — ‘ weird ’ . |
| 22 | The balance of this manifesto sets out the Liberal Democrat vision of the future : our long-term programme for government . |
| 23 | Table 7.3 sets out the international tax league table and compares the changes since 1971 . |
| 24 | Investment Business Gazette Number 10 ( October 1990 ) sets out the minimum compliance requirements for such firms , included in which is the obligation to conduct a properly documented annual review of compliance procedures . |
| 25 | It also sets out the statutory compliance enforcement powers available to the Financial Reporting Review Panel and the Department of Trade and Industry . |
| 26 | Half-way through the movie Ms Dash switches on the mental light bulb and asks her suitor how he can afford to buy her diamond rings on a mailboy 's salary . |
| 27 | The pilot light burns continuously on most boilers , and lights the main burners when the programmer switches on the main gas supply . |
| 28 | Today Oxfordshire 's Steve Redgrave carries on the British rowing tradition . |
| 29 | Every few minutes a truck thunders down the strategic Salang Highway on its way from Hiratan on the Soviet border to Kabul . |
| 30 | LIFESPAN carries out the remaining state transitions automatically . |