Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] [verb] [adv prt] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I assume it 's a piss-take of the scum song of the same tune about the welsh git running down the wing ( football field wing that is and nothing whatsoever to do with aircraft ) . |
| 2 | In another case Mansfield spelt out the advantages of certainty , that merchants could then depend upon rules , ‘ easily learned and easily retained ’ , rather than upon ‘ subtleties and niceties ’ or ‘ upon speculative refinements from the law of nations or the Roman jus post liminii ’ . |
| 3 | Much of its stealth comes from a design that minimises the chance of radar waves bouncing back the way they came . |
| 4 | Twice I forked out for cable car rides up the Stock Mountain where there are more langlauf tracks and ample space to make your own . |
| 5 | This comprised a moonlit cable car ride up the mountains to a creaky farmhouse for cheese fondue , heady wine and oompah-pah music — the perfect way to round off a day 's skiing . |
| 6 | Other reports in March stressed the need for a crash immunization programme to ward off the threat of epidemics . |
| 7 | But a cable fault knocked out the phone and fax at his home for two days delaying the arrival of the umpires ' report . |
| 8 | In May of this year , we were pressed by Amnesty International and other refugee groups to speed up the process of determination , and the Bill before the House , which will be debated next week , sets out a scheme that will allow determination to be decided within a period of three months . |
| 9 | The survey also contains information on the action employers take on the expiry of the time limit . |
| 10 | Her passenger said the car headlamps lit up the bike . |
| 11 | WHEN MAYOR DINKINS closed down the needle exchange , he said : ‘ Giving out needles gives the wrong message . |
| 12 | He says he experienced a tremendous thrill when he heard the tinkle of money and saw a glittering stream of silver coins clattering down the chute . |
| 13 | When Rosa had taken the tray Luce picked up the crutch and practised hobbling round the bedroom . |
| 14 | He switched off his lamp to watch the cold , silver light settle over the church and headstones . |
| 15 | In Compressor/Expander mode , compression on the neck pickup swells out the tone to a given ceiling and sustains it , making it good for McCartney-esque melodic lines , but also for slapping , as the limiter-like properties of the compressor prevent massive explosions of sound . |
| 16 | The earth itself buckled under the titanic stress , and across the island continent earthquakes cast down the cities and levelled the mountains . |
| 17 | ( Serve with plenty of Greek or pitta bread to mop up the sauces and a green salad . ) |
| 18 | Director of Public Prosecutions Barbara Mills said marathon trials let down the justice system . |
| 19 | Now she stood looking out of her bedroom window , feeling lonely in spite of the car headlights crawling up the avenue of tall cypresses towards the villa 's ornate façade and the first arrivals climbing the twin stone staircases to the central entrance . |
| 20 | And he said that , since 1965 when the science Research Council took over the telescope , the observatory has been collaborating more closely with university researchers . |
| 21 | As the elite Navy Seal commandos stormed up the beach , cameras rolled to catch live prime-time TV back home . |
| 22 | The owner of the sandwich bar swabbed down the counter again and whistled an aria she recognised from La Traviata . |
| 23 | In order to compensate for this the Borough Council took on the responsibility for payment of the Parish Clerk 's salary and the maintenance of parish playing fields . |
| 24 | Chronicle writings bear out the validity of this comment , for many of them are strongly patriotic , sometimes , as in the case of the Gesta Henrici Quinti , combining patriotism with exhortation : ‘ Our England ( Anglia nostra ) has reason to rejoice and reason to grieve ’ ( at the victory of Agincourt and at the destruction and death of Christians ) , ‘ Let our England be zealous in pleasing God unceasingly . ’ |
| 25 | All the motorways were cleared and our sixteen car motorcade cruised down the centre of the freeway at 6Omph . |
| 26 | To minimise potential bias , the study investigators set up the ventilators but were not involved in the clinical management of patients . |
| 27 | In effect , the cell body integrates up the plus and minus stimuli it is receiving , and this determines its own output . |
| 28 | One advantage of using a hearing-aid is in hearing one 's own voice ‘ from the outside ’ — the aid microphone picks up the voice of the user as well as voices of other people . |
| 29 | The Fundació 's maintenance costs eat up the lion 's share of government subsidy , and as the programme is expanded the directors hope to cultivate funds for the exhibition and education programmes from sponsorship and patronage . |
| 30 | The problem of cell cycle control can thus be re-phrased in more precise terms : how do growth factors acting at the cell surface bring about the onset of DNA synthesis by stimulating its promoting factor in the nucleus ? |