Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [adv prt] the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a matter of fact , directly after today 's game I will be going into frank discussions with the chairman to search out the real dead wood . |
| 2 | It is theoretically possible in each case to work out the maximum sustainable yield , and to determine which classes of the animal — superfluous young ones , superfluous males , old ones — can safely be caught without damaging the stocks . |
| 3 | She prefaces her book with an attempt to sum up the whole hideous story . |
| 4 | Thirdly , the Act has created a system of ‘ shorthold ’ tenancies — an attempt to open up the ailing private rented sector . |
| 5 | Scientists are studying ex-smokers , people with depression , athletes and those recovering from prolonged illness in an attempt to sort out the complicated physical and psychological cues which lead us to crave specific foods . |
| 6 | In mid-January 1991 the Indian government announced a programme to clean up the 800-km long Yamuna River which flowed through Delhi before joining the Ganges at Allahabad , and was polluted by ( among other sources ) untreated chemicals from a major oil refinery at Mathura and several tanneries in Agra . |
| 7 | The evidence from the Leicestershire textile village of Shepshed , as he puts it , ‘ supports the argument that the acceleration of economic activity after 1750 was the prime agent breaking down the traditional social controls that previously maintained a demographic equilibrium in which population size was kept in line with resources . ’ |
| 8 | The Mail keeps up the relentless post-election good news : ‘ Birds are nesting . |
| 9 | For this look , the wig was given a weave and spiral cut to break up the basic exterior shape . |
| 10 | His active opposition to the Nazis , the leading part that he played in the Kirchenkampf , the struggle against the Nazi attempt to take over the German Evangelical Church , and his refusal to take the oath of loyalty to Hitler , led to his dismissal from Bonn in 1935 . |
| 11 | Organized labour pointed out the obvious possible parallels between fascism in Britain and its German and Italian counterparts . |
| 12 | Exhibition-train revenue makes up the final 4 per cent . |
| 13 | The latter ( in which I took a great personal interest ) required the installation of a special engine to pump up the Secondary Modern sewage into a tank , at the Grammar School level , from which it could then flow gently eastwards towards the Oxford Road . |
| 14 | In the light of concern in the USA about environmental damage from new industrialization in Mexico , the USA on Feb. 25 unveiled an Integrated Border Plan to clean up the polluted US-Mexican 2,560-km frontier , to which the USA would commit $380,000,000 over two years and Mexico $460,000,000 over three years . |
| 15 | Carter says budget constraints mean it is quite a battle to put up the all-important 30 per cent , but he hopes to get more than the £16,870 received last year . |
| 16 | Her impression of a bleak , high-ceilinged room was confirmed when she entered : the hall took up the top two storeys of the three-storey building . |
| 17 | Every cindery boulder making up the jumbled chaotic surface is loose , irregularly angular in shape , and covered in razor-sharp protrusions . |
| 18 | The two major forms of housing tenure in Britain are owner-occupation , which accounts for 51.5 per cent of the population , and local authority ( or council ) housing , which accounts for 33.4 per cent of the population , with housing associations , co-operatives and the private rented sector making up the remaining 15 per cent ( CSO , 1979 , p. 146 ) . |
| 19 | It invited the institutions of the European Community to employ all means to ensure that the act setting up the European anti-drug monitoring body could be adopted before June 30 , 1992 . |
| 20 | DESMOND DOUGLAS , at the age of 34 , is unofficial favourite to win back the National Top 12 title at Clacton-on-Sea today from Alan Cooke . |
| 21 | Where there exists such a reluctance to carry out the correct diagnostic procedures or , as is often the case , there is simply a dearth of properly trained specialists , the natural result is treatment without diagnosis , the haphazard use of antibiotics ( such as penicillin for all urethral discharges ) , and an increase in antibiotic resistance of the gonococci coupled with an infuriating denial of the problem , ‘ Just look at our figures . |
| 22 | The patron let out the long slow whistle of a kettle coming to the boil . |
| 23 | Prior to running the software , the user should check that LIFESPAN is running with facilities made available , and should then invoke the LIFESPAN user access file to set up the necessary logical names ( see the ‘ Installation and Management of LIFESPAN ’ ) . |
| 24 | Prior to running LIFESPAN PMR , the user should check that LIFESPAN is running with facilities made available , and should then invoke the LIFESPAN user access file to set up the necessary logical names ( see ‘ Installation and Management of LIFESPAN ’ ) . |
| 25 | This error could arise in two ways : either LIFESPAN is not running , or the ( correct ) user access file to set up the required logical names has not been invoked . |
| 26 | This error could arise in two ways : either LIFESPAN is not running , or the user access file to set up the required logical names has not been invoked . |
| 27 | A COMPANY DIRECTOR SHOWING off the expensive automatic equipment in his new bodega boasted that ‘ Only three people work here . ’ |
| 28 | Back to form Sandy Cottage takes on the classy Lovely Charlott in the 6th Year Marathon . |
| 29 | The taxi drove down the winding white drive and Tony got up , coming towards her with a frown . |
| 30 | When , in June 1967 , the Beatles ' ‘ Sergeant Pepper ’ was released , UFO , with its light shows , and globules of colour spewing down the old Irish walls , seemed the natural place to go and listen to it . |