Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv prt] the [adj] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even if the pilot is fully aware of being close to the stall , he will instinctively hold off until the glider stalls down the last few feet rather than fly into obstructions at speed . |
| 2 | The intro locks with the kick , adding subtle fills in the first four bars . |
| 3 | The annual report artificially parcels up the underlying economic trends into years . |
| 4 | Each of the four poems has five sections , and each of the sections reflects upon its counterparts in the other poems ; just as each poem develops and resolves its theme , so " Little Gidding " gathers up the three preceding ones in a magisterial synthesis . |
| 5 | A charming children 's story in which a small helicopter takes on the biggest financial brains in Europe and the USA , and loses badly . |
| 6 | The sprawling retrospective of his work currently takes up the two vast floors normally devoted by the museum to setting forth the story of late nineteenth- and twentieth-century painting and sculpture . |
| 7 | So that second verse is one which takes up the traditional Jewish prejudices and turns them upside down , one by one . |
| 8 | Its atmosphere takes up the outermost 600 miles of its 38,000 mile radius , and is mostly hydrogen , with some methane ( CH 2 ) , ethene ( C 2 H 2 ) and ammonia ( NH 3 ) , plus water vapour ( H 2 O ) and phosphine ( Ph 3 ) . |
| 9 | In addition there is a small credit and information branch , CDMS , and a printing operation which turns out the eight million pools coupons played each week by aspiring millionaires-to-be . |
| 10 | But it still hurts when Gordon sits out the big Euro nights . |
| 11 | This is a real time saver , because it automatically plays back the last few seconds of the previous shot as a check before returning you to record mode ready to take the next shot . |
| 12 | Section 60 of the Licensing Act 1964 lays down the basic permitted laws for on-licences : |
| 13 | To give a more accurate picture of the numerical status of the group in Sussex the table sets out the approximate total numbers of all divers seen in each month between 1962 and 1976 . |
| 14 | In his book , Operational Review , Ken Impey , former head of internal audit at Reed International , sets out the typical broad headings under which an organisation could classify its different risks : ‘ disastrous ’ ( threatening damage which it could not expect to survive ) , ‘ seriously damaging ’ ( materially weakening it but from which it could expect to recover ) and ‘ unlikely to be material ’ . |
| 15 | A feeling of warm-up is definitely in the air ; a flexing of muscles that have not been stretched in public for some time makes up the first few minutes of Faust 's extraordinary set … and then all hell breaks loose ! |
| 16 | But doing so required a process of theoretical labour in which the analyst abstracts from a mass of empirical observations in order to detect the underlying order beneath the appearance of bewildering variety , and works out the fundamental causal processes in operation . |