Example sentences of "[coord] [noun sg] [vb -s] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The half moon or lunala separates the living nail , which is below the cuticle , from the nail you can see . |
| 2 | Cheap plain cotton or calico makes the ideal canvas for an ambitious , all-over stencil design , coloured to blend in with your decor . |
| 3 | The way in which individual credit granters decide whether or not to lend to people who ask for loans or credit affects the general pattern of credit use . |
| 4 | A trip by cable car or monorail gives the best view of the 180-acre site , four miles from Exmoor . |
| 5 | Identifying the sin or offence lets the other person know you understand something of the hurt . |
| 6 | Often the instructor or pilot knows the correct recovery and thinks that he is using it , but because of the unusual forces on the controls , he is failing to apply the full recovery action . |
| 7 | To what natural laws or secondary causes the orderly succession and progression of such organic phenomena may have been committed we are as yet ignorant . |
| 8 | If a system or application understands the electronic ink , it can also convert the scribbles received into editable text . |
| 9 | An estoppel is raised when the original owner by his statements or conduct leads the innocent purchaser to believe that the unauthorised seller in fact has the right to sell the goods . |
| 10 | Mum or Dad shows the top picture card in the tray and then sounds out each of the letters beneath . |
| 11 | ripe cloves have innumerable uses , preferably crushed , in all kinds of savoury cooking , but especially with meat , fish and vegetables ; fondues , omelettes , salads , flans , sauces ; if frying , do so lightly — too hot oil or fat destroys the good flavour |
| 12 | Capitalism and the sterner Puritan ethic are delighted with hedonism as a private way of life because hedonism encourages consumerism , and consumerism becomes the economic mode of hedonism for modern man . |
| 13 | mm , cos listen to what I mean , Ollie goes , I was sitting next to Ollie yeah and she looks at my thingy , yeah , and she goes that 's what , you 've missed out three , so I sat there writing all the nec numbers , yeah , and miss goes the other table and I 'm like oh come on Carla hurry up and do the numbers inside , and I missed , I just could n't , I could n't catch up |
| 14 | This mixture of anarchy , looseness-of-link and contingency encourages the discrete offering of management skills which will help the student to cope with the four or five separable outcomes of the legislative changes of the late 1980s . |
| 15 | But still it is very carefully structured with a setting verse , a narrative verse and finishing off with a reflective verse and 10 syllables in each line and Futility has the same feeling of careful planning and construction . |
| 16 | As a rule the right is first vested in the author , and continues for fifty years after his death ; but in the case of photographs and gramophone records the original owner of the negative or plate is treated as the author , and the right lasts for fifty years from the time when the negative or plate was made . |
| 17 | The necessary trade-off between resolution and penetration limits the maximum depth presently attainable to a few millimetres . |
| 18 | And the Department of Trade and Industry supervises the whole scheme by approving the bodies that operate it , which effectively means approving their rules and mode of operation as well ; so it 's under government control even if the government is not involved on a day-to-day basis . |
| 19 | In the continuous-process plant the worker can get a picture of the complete sequence of operations , and automation reconstructs the collective nature of work , thus encouraging the worker to think in terms of the whole rather than the part . |
| 20 | A broad band of Corallian Limestone and Sand crosses the central part — northeast to south-west — and this is bounded on each side by Oxford Clay . |
| 21 | Crime and Punishment naturalizes the mystic brazenness of Sonya 's statement , as it does Porfiry 's ‘ You ca n't get on without us ' . |
| 22 | The introduction of new postgraduate courses such as those in Neural Computation , Psychology and Health , Quality Management and Marketing ensures the continuing vitality of this important sector of the university 's teaching . |
| 23 | And nature favours the right-hand helix , not surprisingly in view of the difference in the pattern of hydrogen bonds . |
| 24 | And DOS represents the largest market ; where an ambitious software writer can get most users ( and most money ) . |
| 25 | Sales have already been made to Abu Dhabi and Egypt and for several other projects in Saudi Arabia , and ESP expects the Middle East to be an increasingly important market for their products and services in the future . |
| 26 | Metaphor in Out is used in two distinct ways : on the one hand , the medical theory ‘ diagnosis prognosticates aetiology ’ is extended coercively to other domains of thought ; on the other hand , the mind 's capacity for variation and mutation leads the main character to produce creative metaphors which distort , subvert , and ‘ mobilize ’ the language of authority . |
| 27 | It ended in retreat and red faces the next day , after the group 's spokesman had called for the dismemberment of Israel . |
| 28 | This particular book Etchings Illustrative of Scottish Character and Scenery represents the first appearance of a deaf artist in pictorial literature . |
| 29 | Ebony and Ivory follows the same format as Look — No Hands , it is full of punchcard designs which can be used for other projects . |
| 30 | Like narratology , cybernetics takes linguistics as its model discourse , and the analogy between narrative and programming provides the underlying conceit of the novel . |