Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv prt] the [adj] [noun pl] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is only the slow pace of human speech and human reactions that slows down the electronic processes that come into play when national security appears to be at risk . |
| 2 | Tonight he holds back the ill-concealed shudders and caresses the swelling head , he bends and kisses the skin exposed . |
| 3 | It conjures up the same emotions that have led to the horrors of ‘ ethnic cleansing ’ in Bosnia , with rival religious and political groups staking out new dividing lines . |
| 4 | He cuts out the middle men and women — the dreaded parents — and goes straight for the hearts and minds of kids . |
| 5 | When the character of Harlequin , the Comic Lover , had become familiar in England he was quickly promoted to lead the pantomimes ; nowhere in ballet does he rise to more commanding heights than as Captain Belaye in Cranko , s Pineapple Poll , where he takes on the superior airs and manners of the British Navy and becomes the apple of every girl 's eye . |
| 6 | If the moral ground changes , then the Kwikbuk plc PR division quickly maps out the new features and adapts accordingly . |
| 7 | The effect is the opposite to taking logs : squaring stretches out the upper values and compresses the lower ones , and cubing does so even more powerfully . |
| 8 | The vicar takes out the four balls and the waxman , Mr Tommy Temple , who has had the job since 1940 , carefully cuts away the wax and the names are read out . |
| 9 | He draws out the richest tones that he is capable of here . |
| 10 | The microphone picks up the surrounding sounds and feeds them to the amplifier . |
| 11 | Table 11.7 lays out the main elements and their likely proportional magnitude . |
| 12 | A subjective camera , filming through goggles , picks out the inane faces and soundless mouths of his elders as he descends to the bottom of the pool where he stands silently and alone , away from the pestering people above . |
| 13 | This budget is extremely useful for management as it clearly sets out the short-term objectives and targets for the forthcoming budget period and is in a form that is easy to comprehend . |
| 14 | Order 4 sets out the general rules as to venue . |
| 15 | The report comes on a pre-printed form , which sets out the various exclusions and caveats in the margin of each page . |
| 16 | Erm it runs through the strategy that we 're pursuing , i it er highlights the problems that er erm th that exist in the district , it stresses the need for flexibility and it concludes with an appendix which sets out the actual sites that we would like to see developed erm er over the next er ten years which is the length of the erm covered by the Richmondshire local plan . |
| 17 | The procedure is first for the Pastoral Committee of the Diocese to consult the Council for Places of Worship , receiving from it a report which sets out the architectural qualities and historic interest of the building . |
| 18 | But it does provide a framework to which we are all working , spreads out the major publications and pieces of campaigning work , and allows all those in the organisation to know the overall timetable being pursued . |
| 19 | ‘ I believe that the real difference between success and failure in a corporation can very often be traced to the question of how well the organisation brings out the great energies and talents of its people . |
| 20 | Testing is the same sort of thing but this brings out the different functions that I talked about either summations or or products . |