Example sentences of "[coord] [noun sg] [verb] [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The grounds total about 55 acres with gardens , pasture and woodland rolling down the steep slopes to meet the waters of the River Fowey and Woodgate Pill . |
| 2 | As the DEA was plainly out to get him , and had blocked all access to the files he needed to clear himself , the only avenue open to him was to work with Pan Am , in the common interest of getting at the truth , using his training and experience to piece together the best defence he could . |
| 3 | In doing so , he shows how the socially and historically constructed opposition between blackness and whiteness takes on the absolute , unquestionable authority of a natural fact . |
| 4 | Pulling his sweater up over his nose and mouth to filter out the worst of the smoke , he left the Control and made to ascend the stairs . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | For a nation which had fought a costly war of survival and independence to invite back the very presence which threatened national existence was , and remained unthinkable . |
| 7 | The changes were more a reflection of her anti-establishment outlook and determination to shake up the civil service hierarchy . |
| 8 | The black wings and running-board set off the sober mole colour of the body , and the President glowed as he proudly explained the working of the controls and gear lever , opened the doors to display the interior with its adjustable foot-rests for the rear-seat passengers and obliged a request from one admirer to see how much space there was in the luggage compartment at the back . |
| 9 | After the Sun was formed , piercing heat and radioactivity drove out the icy particles which formed giant balls of gas further out . |
| 10 | After dinner , the hotel cabaret and band take over the easy task of keeping you happy . |
| 11 | ‘ Oh , my ma and pa said exactly the same things to me when I was a kid , but I took no notice of it . ’ |
| 12 | In the most competitive of the three preliminary rounds , designed to get horses used to the arena before the cup begins in earnest , she and Forester had easily the best of a four horse jump-off . |
| 13 | Velocity and fusion sucking up the shocked air . |
| 14 | When the wood is dry , use chisel and mallet to cut away the rotten , crumbling material until sound wood is encountered . |
| 15 | In Russia 's stratified society they lacked social and economic leverage of any kind ; their inflammatory proclamations and resort to violence and terrorism alienated even the progressive wing of educated society . |
| 16 | The sober vernacular architecture of the Third Republic is supplanted by the brutal international style ; sub-Brechtian theatre of alienation drives out indigenous French boulevard theatre ; the subsidy of rock and roll drives out the French popular chanson of Leclerc and Piaf . |
| 17 | MS-DOS 3.3 and DR-DOS occupy roughly the same amount of conventional memory . |
| 18 | If the tasks to be done are more complex , and surrounded by a higher degree of uncertainty , then co-ordination may be done more efficiently through instructions and information passed down the managerial hierarchy . |
| 19 | Trainees at the centre at Menro House , Colmore Avenue , won a commission from City Challenge to produce a portfolio of 400 photographs of the eastern area of Middlesbrough some of which were used in the documents and information backing up the successful bid . |
| 20 | 2 Use your compass and ruler to construct carefully the following . |
| 21 | The men at the headman 's house decided , on behalf of the village , that every dog that had been out in the night , possibly taking part in the fight and helping bring down the rabid dog , would have to be killed : and all bitches on heat , whether they 'd been inside or out , must also be killed . |
| 22 | On this day , her mother always took an interest in the weather and the direction of the wind , and almost every year would look out at the white-capped waves and mutter about how the wind and sea looked much the same as it had on the day she lost her Sam . |
| 23 | She goes Dear Doctor Allen , My Mum and Dad went out the other day and I was bored so I started rubbing my dog and my dog got turned on and so did I . |
| 24 | Mum and Dad do just the opposite , mostly because of Septimus ' wriggling , and ‘ one of those nights ’ ensues . |
| 25 | He is the one with the knowledge and power to bring in the right instruments at the right time , of ten just by raising a hand to reach for his telephone . |
| 26 | Iota and Epsilon make up the famous ‘ False Cross ’ with two stars in Vela , Delta ( 2.0 ) and Kappa ( 2.5 ) . |
| 27 | Less trivial examples will be more complicated , but the roles played by observation , induction and deduction remain essentially the same . |
| 28 | In another room , there was a smiling , life-sized dummy of a Nazi paratrooper , Nazi guns , Nazi uniforms , a 1942 BMW motorcycle used by the Nazis and material explaining how the Nazi airborne invasion of Crete in 1943 had been an inspiration to the Americans . |
| 29 | Will he use his experience and wisdom to sort out the ridiculous dispute affecting the coalfield communities and the money that is due to them ? |
| 30 | The trouser , sock and shoe come off the hemiplegic leg last . |