Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv prt] the [adj] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 The annual report artificially parcels up the underlying economic trends into years .
2 So that second verse is one which takes up the traditional Jewish prejudices and turns them upside down , one by one .
3 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 ) .
4 But it still hurts when Gordon sits out the big Euro nights .
5 Section 60 of the Licensing Act 1964 lays down the basic permitted laws for on-licences :
6 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 .
7 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 ’ .
8 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 .
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