Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [vb -s] [adv prt] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the retailer builds up a good relationship with his customers they will keep coming back — and maybe tell their friends . |
| 2 | The ignition electrodes are hidden beneath the burners and stay clean and reliable so even if the milk boils over a quick wipe is all that 's needed . |
| 3 | The pilot light burns continuously on most boilers , and lights the main burners when the programmer switches on the main gas supply . |
| 4 | COME 1 JANUARY , THE MAN WHO turned GM Europe into a profitable operation and fathered winners such as the Calibra takes over the top spot at Chrysler . |
| 5 | What this means , of course , is that the user gives up a certain amount of control over the layout and the actual construction of the document . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | IBM Corp is to supply the Norwegian government 's Supercomputing Committee with two RS/6000 PowerServer 980s and 12 Model 580 workstations linked as a cluster : hosted by the University of Oslo , the installation kicks off a three-year joint venture project between IBM and Norway 's supercomputing centre . |
| 8 | As a complement to a career based on forgetting the past , the play sketches out an alternative one based on remembering . |
| 9 | But the term takes on a specific meaning in those studies in the sociology of policing which are inspired by ethnomethodology and phenomenology , where it describes a quality of the accomplishment of these tasks — that they are produced in a taken-for-granted , commonsensical , and habitual manner . |
| 10 | The action revolves around a failed robbery and the attempts of the various hoods involved ( all dressed in black suits and ties and given colour-coded aliases ) to figure out which one of their number is an undercover cop . |
| 11 | The light travels down an open tube until it hits a curved mirror at the bottom ; the rays are then sent back up the tube on to a smaller , flat mirror placed at an angle of 45 degrees , so that the rays are directed into the side of the tube , where an image is formed and magnified by an eyepiece . |
| 12 | In order to show the relations between power and the ‘ ordinariness ’ of ordinary living , the chapter picks out a particular ideological moment . |
| 13 | The defender takes up a left fighting stance ( all combinations are best practised from the fighting stance , as this allows a greater amount of protection and freedom of movement ) and faces the attacker , who executes a front kick to the defender 's mid-section . |
| 14 | The DJ fills out the early evening playing the most obvious indie-dance records , as he will finish the evening . |
| 15 | The Mail keeps up the relentless post-election good news : ‘ Birds are nesting . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | In this way the tabernacle sums up a basic biblical truth about religion : it must conform to the will and nature of God . |
| 18 | It is that wherever Parliament in an earlier statute has directed its attention to an individual case and has made provision for it unambiguously , there arises a presumption that if in a subsequent statute the legislature lays down a general principle , that general principle is not to be taken as meant to rip up what the legislature had before provided for individually , unless an intention to do so is specially declared . |
| 19 | Once that level of proficiency has been achieved , the kata takes on a new meaning . |
| 20 | Even if the pilot is fully aware of being close to the stall , he will instinctively hold off until the glider stalls down the last few feet rather than fly into obstructions at speed . |
| 21 | If the core makes up a closed circuit as shown in Fig. 4.7(a) then l should be taken as the length along the dotted line and eqn ( 4.43 ) is still applicable . |
| 22 | The hall takes up the central bay through the two storeys ; the dining- and drawing-rooms are on either side . |
| 23 | But do n't be fooled by the island 's exotic name or location just off Africa — once the sun goes down the whole place comes alive . |
| 24 | As the sun bakes out the last moisture from the mud , the mucus turns to parchment . |
| 25 | The sun beams down an astonishing amount of energy to our planet — one year 's global energy use in the space of an hour . |
| 26 | An excellent note by the performer rounds off a valuable issue . |
| 27 | The passage sets up a straightforward opposition between what de Man calls " two apparently incompatible chains of connotation " : De Man 's claim that these poles enter into a system of exchanges and substitutions becomes an argument that this opposition " also contains statements claiming the priority of metaphor in a binary system that opposes metaphor to metonymy " ( 1979 : 62 ) . |
| 28 | The law lays down the general principle , and the doctor who acts skilfully , reasonably , and in good faith is protected . |
| 29 | In any semiconductor electrons move freely through a crystalline lattice and because the conduction electrons are shared by all the atoms the lattice takes on a tube-like character for easy passage of electrons . |
| 30 | The village stands along a single street roughly parallel with the river . |