Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [adv] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cookery book instructions to " de-seed " tomatoes or squeeze out the watery parts before cooking are unrealistic ; the water content of tomatoes is 94 per cent and the sole effective way to get rid of it is by evaporation . |
| 2 | It is absolutely essential to ensure that , so long as the possibility of control or influence over the Russian republics remains , steps are taken to bring about a strategic arms reduction . |
| 3 | In order to account for women 's lack of autonomy it is not sufficient to think merely in terms of removing a veil , or stripping away the outer layers . |
| 4 | Do n't be afraid to open up uncharted areas or kick down a few fences . |
| 5 | Brian knows Brian knew everything more or less or arranged quite a few things anyway |
| 6 | There 's two ways of doing that , dial them on nine nine nine or ring up the local police control , which for this area is at Newark . |
| 7 | Edna often took Celia down there , carefully going first and waiting while the little girl slid or scrambled down the awkward parts of the cliff into her waiting arms . |
| 8 | Voltage and current signals can be used to pre-set speed or to call up the actual values for speed and torque , and the start/stop functions can be activated using the same method . |
| 9 | Many Down 's babies are miscarried , stillborn or live only a few days . |
| 10 | We can use affirmations to bring a positive , joyful attitude to life in general — either using them as needed during the day , or putting aside a few minutes every day to affirm our beliefs . |
| 11 | There is not the faintest trace of float or wallow over the fastest crests or in the steepest dips ; the body just maintains constant ride height throughout giving a feeling of invincible security . |
| 12 | More than 100 are on duty to keep an eye on the 2,000 clubgoers who nightly dance or drink away the small hours from 11pm to 6am . |
| 13 | Cut in a tee at this point , and connect up the new runs . |
| 14 | The snail is hermaphrodite … and as long as it enjoys the right warmth and humidity , each individual mates and produces about a hundred eggs which are laid on trays of soil.They hatch a fortnight later.And they 're fattened on a cereal diet … either in trays or in polyeurathane tubs . |
| 15 | ‘ Your lot are slinging up tower-block hotels all round the coast and stamping out the olive groves . |
| 16 | At the girls ' establishment where she had been sent at huge expense to learn music and French and to carry out the ornate disciplines conceived by the headmistress — including communal teeth-washing in the gardens , winter and summer , and then communal gargling into the rosebeds , which the headmistress regarded as a form of manure-spreading — the pain was put down to growing too fast . |
| 17 | This chapter will be concluded by looking at the so called " rescue cases " and seeing how the various doctrines apply . |
| 18 | Ron 's robust style , his deep understanding of the constitutional issues involved and his ability to see straight through to the nub of a debate and articulate clearly the available options made him a powerful persuader . |
| 19 | Heavenly bodies taunted me , encircling the crucible , performing their daily stunts of scorching and freezing , and bringing about the oddest sights . |
| 20 | ‘ Then come with me and pick up the latest reports . |
| 21 | When you have finished — it might take five minutes or five hours — look through your notes and pick out the central themes . |
| 22 | But in the end when the mind has become permanently calm and we have released ourselves from the enslavement by the child , we can relax our guard and bring together the diverse parts of life in a total unity , |
| 23 | Hence they throw into relief and bring out the significant aspects of the phenomenon in question . |
| 24 | Lacking axes or crampons we 'd kicked steps up the snowy approach gully the afternoon before and checked out the devious ladders and chains forming the descent from the summit . |
| 25 | I want to comment briefly on the Government 's proposals and to support wholeheartedly the new clauses and amendments tabled by my right hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham , Sparkbrook ( Mr. Hattersley ) . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'm going to shower , ’ Ruth told him , getting to her feet and gathering up the dirty glasses which littered th table-top . |
| 27 | The presence of ice withdraws water in vapour form from distal cells , concentrating their solutions and building up the extra-cellular crystals . |
| 28 | If it does , it will hunch its back and push out the other eggs . |
| 29 | It is sometimes very difficult indeed not to be very cross , and there have been some occasions when I have had to go and chop up a few logs in order to abate my own aggression before replying . |
| 30 | This was first published in 1968 , is still in print — and has over a hundred illustrations . |