Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [vb -s] [art] [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or so says The Official Politically Correct Dictionary and Handbook ( Grafton Books , £4.99 ) . |
| 2 | The problem is that whatever I consume greenly or ungreenly constitutes a bite out of the earth 's resources . |
| 3 | Graham Gooch turns and instinctively pushes the ball away from his stumps ( above ) , only to be given out as Australia captain |
| 4 | The Commonwealth would remain relevant , he said , and little pleases the Queen more than that . |
| 5 | Attached to the webbing on the shoulder harness the chest strap stops shoulder straps from sliding sideways and so keeps the sack much more comfortably in position . |
| 6 | Over the border from Tuscany , it is just in Umbria , and so has the freshness now lost in its overexposed neighbour . |
| 7 | In its first few lines , the rewritten passage now offers reasons for organising the essay in the way that has been chosen , and so connects the answer more directly with the question . |
| 8 | When the thyristor triggers into conduction it presents a virtual short-circuit across Zener diode D4 ( which has held the base voltage of the pnp transistor TR3 at a cutoff level of 3.3V ) and so pulls the base down sufficiently to switch TR3 on . |
| 9 | Upvc does n't rot , split or warp , it ca n't be attacked by insects , it does n't need painting , and only needs a wash down with detergent , and a rinse . |
| 10 | In forested landscapes in temperate climate rain is intercepted by the tree cover and only reaches the ground slowly by percolation through the vegetation . |
| 11 | Serafine tips Miranda back against the pillows in the position of sleep , and gently pulls the thumb out of her mouth , shaking her head and smiling , ‘ No ’ , then turns to Xanthe , smooths her hair , for she is already drifting , eyes half-closed . |
| 12 | The patient improves after each dose and gradually needs the remedy less and less frequently until he is better . |
| 13 | Much of the damage caused by keepnets is due to most of them being too narrow , so that as the fish lashes its tail back and forth the mesh brushes the protective mucous off and gradually wears the fin away . |
| 14 | Invariably it is an ineffective communication as it antagonizes and also leaves the subject not knowing whether help would otherwise have been offered spontaneously . |
| 15 | Contran illuminates a warning light if any transmission exceeds twenty seconds in length , and automatically switches the transmission off if it exceeds thirty seconds . |
| 16 | The machine uses a previously unused pin on the parallel port to detect whether the connected device is a floppy drive or a printer , and automatically configures the port accordingly . |
| 17 | The area of Green Belt has been doubled since 1979 , and now covers an area roughly the size of Wales . |
| 18 | Griffin eventually scraped through by the narrowest of margins and now faces a semi-final tomorrow . |
| 19 | She is particular about her tea , and often carries a pack round with her in her handbag … |
| 20 | ‘ And here comes a friend right now ! ’ |
| 21 | It loads the film , has a zoom lens with autofocus , autoflash , and even winds the film back when finished . |
| 22 | Right it 's a green gas and it 's also what it does it to this paper turns it acid to start with and then takes the colour away it is a bleach . |
| 23 | Marie steps in front of me and rolls the sleeves up to my elbows and then turns the collar up . |
| 24 | This automatically switches the machine on when it hears a message coming through , recognises the medium being used , and then turns the machine off after the message has been recorded . |
| 25 | so it looks as if she saves half of her money and then spends a bit more than a quarter . |
| 26 | and he chucks it into , bungs it into his machine and then gets the printout then which he then sends to wherever . |
| 27 | This clock runs the sequence of l.e.d.s at a very rapid rate for a fraction of a second and then halts the process very quickly to leave just one of the indicators illuminated . |
| 28 | If by any chance , you have still not encountered the fax machine , then its basic function is easily described : the fax transceiver plugs into a standard telephone socket , scans the document fed into it and then transmits the result electronically to a similar machine at the other end of the line where a facsimile document is printed out . |
| 29 | The oldest book here is Kennett 's Roman Antiquities published in 1699 and still in perfectly sound condition , though its plates have been removed by a ‘ breaker ’ — someone who removes all the maps and plates from a book , sells the plates , coloured and framed , to interior designers and other such people , and then throws the book away . |
| 30 | If a translation is directly imposed on the model , or occurs as a result of the rotation not taking place about the attachment point , the program completes the rotation and then re-positions the model back on to the point of association . |