Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb -s] [adv prt] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've got millions of beer bottles in my cellar , or My car breaks down every five minutes |
| 2 | This Code of Practice sets out the basic practices employed by Midland Bank and its subsidiary companies in connection with their lending to personal customers in the United Kingdom . |
| 3 | JUST as spring brings out the first swallows , so it also motivates incoming club tours from one or more of the four home countries . |
| 4 | The plan clears up the legal wrangles set off by the federal government 's decision in 1988 to sue the state government over water quality in the Everglades , but leaves unclear many of the details of the clean-up . |
| 5 | However , by delegating authority to subordinates , the superior takes on the extra tasks of calling the subordinates to account for their decisions and performance , and also of coordinating the efforts of different subordinates . |
| 6 | Green sets out the climatic conditions which give rise to the different degrees of ‘ air ’ . |
| 7 | As well as the arrangements set out in paragraph 5 above , the Council 's Code of Practice on Employee Redeployment and Transfer sets out the detailed arrangements in connection with the transfer/redeployment of employees to other posts within the departments of the Council . |
| 8 | The microphone picks up the surrounding sounds and feeds them to the amplifier . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Bourgeois ideology takes over the legitimizing functions of traditional society and thereby keeps power relations inaccessible to analysis and public consciousness . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . |
| 12 | In a few places , as in the lower Neretva valley , a breach in the mountain wall permits a gulf of Mediterranean air to penetrate inland , but more commonly the unbroken barrier shuts out the ameliorating influences from the sea . |
| 13 | You hav to hav a bit of patience but once the train moves out the little victims are YOURS You put them in the lugage rack with molesworth 2 . |
| 14 | Darius stomps down the three steps without saying a word . |
| 15 | ‘ A friend of mine , ’ he said , ‘ an American , sometimes travels on the top of a double-decker bus and in a very loud American voice points out the national monuments . |
| 16 | The candidate looks down the offered answers arid circles A or B or C or whichever answer he thinks appropriate . |
| 17 | Society lays down the basic rules of the marriage contract . |
| 18 | Company secretary tries out the latest conveniences at head office — Portaloo 's ! |
| 19 | Somehow that incident sums up the Corinthian surroundings of British rowing — the sport that won Great Britain two Olympic gold medals last summer . |
| 20 | However , the British sex and race discrimination legislation spells out the equivalent concepts of direct and indirect discrimination . |
| 21 | CROSS A FAST TYPIST WITH A WINDOWS WORD PROCESSOR AND THE CHANCES ARE YOU 'LL SEE SOME WAILING AND GNASHING OF TEETH AS THE PROGRAM CHUGS ALONG A FEW PACES BEHIND THE USER . |
| 22 | It is formed when the sun 's ultraviolet radiation breaks up the two atoms of oxygen molecules into single atoms . |
| 23 | The defence infused a breathless energy into every move ; they bustled the northern cracks into comparative impotence ; they beat back this magnificent fighting line which has been the terror of a dozen clubs as a break-water hurls back the lashing waves . |
| 24 | His view of the American situation follows out the formal consequences of earlier complaints by such writers as Nathanael West and Philip Roth , that the American novel can no longer keep up with contemporary reality . |
| 25 | The program works down the hierarchical spaces , rotating them to achieve a zero rotational error in each sub-space between the actual end of the mechanism and the reference point . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Greene may have half-intended readers to identify Mr Savory with Priestley , and every year throws up a few romans clearly in need of a clef . |
| 28 | From the buffet we could see the restaurant where a ten-piece dance band was playing ‘ Mambo italiano ’ and about thirty couples danced various improvisations on the Western dances according to whether they came from Leningrad , peking , or East Berlin , where the TV picks up the Western stations . |
| 29 | The water is contained in a clear plastic tank and the steam comes down the thick tubes from the tank to the iron . |
| 30 | Adelaida points out the different groups : the ‘ grandmothers ’ , who sit in the sun spinning and chatting ; the ‘ complete illiterates ’ , mostly older Aymara women who are making their first letters with painstaking care ; the ’ functional illiterates ’ who have had some schooling and progress more rapidly ; and the groups which practise their recently acquired literacy skills using materials on health and nutrition . |