Example sentences of "[coord] [vb -s] the [adj] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | My son is immensely proud of them , and offers the following advice to gardeners worried about their technique : ‘ Growing pretty flowers is easy if you fill your wellies full of muddy stuff and squish it down a lot . ’ |
| 2 | She brushes my hair behind my ears and holds the top bit to one side . |
| 3 | Dornford Lane itself has an extension which actually by-passes Woodstock to the east and joins the main road to Oxford ( A 34 ) further south at Begbroke . |
| 4 | Since the Judicature Act , just as much as before it , if A sells the property to C , who knows nothing of the trust , and transfers the legal ownership to him , B's rights to the property are destroyed ; he can only look to A for compensation for the breach of trust . |
| 5 | The cost of the call reduces the profit position when S < E and limits the maximum profit to E — C. On the other hand the potential unlimited loss on the short share when S> E is almost exactly offset by the potentially unlimited profit of the purchased call . |
| 6 | Lempel Ziv Welch algorithm ( LZW ) : this uses a larger coding space than necessary for the symbols to be transmitted , and allocates the extra codes to sequences of symbols which occur in the message . |
| 7 | When sequences are similar the team will indicate their preferences so a rough cut can be made by the editor , who joins all the desired sequences together and cuts the whole thing to the exact time . |
| 8 | The selection of Dewi Morris ahead of Robert Jones is mystifying and exacerbates the potential problems to be experienced at half-back . |
| 9 | He describes the neo-Darwinian approach taken by ethologists , concentrates on the behavioural ecology of Old World monkeys and apes in an attempt to extrapolate from animals to man , and examines the political objections to sociobiology . |
| 10 | Abbey National has its own CD-Rom pre-mastering system and sends the flnished disc to a pressing plant . |
| 11 | The second person carries the stakes and hands them to the third , unpointed ends first , who then pushes them into the ground and fastens the top line to the net with a half-hitch . |
| 12 | The plaintiff 's surrejoinder purported to be a traverse , as is evident from its conclusion to the country , the way of ending a pleading which raises no new facts and puts the other party to proof . |
| 13 | The project seeks to chart the speed of reaction by entrants to profitable opportunities , and documents the principal barriers to entry . |
| 14 | So suppose Rabbit wants to tell Pooh the truth about honey , and believes the relevant truth to be the proposition , P , that there is some . |
| 15 | The emperor returns and chases the Muslim host to the gates of Saragossa ; defeats them in another battle . |
| 16 | It 's even better if it 's a high gate , kept locked , and blocks the only entry to the rear , so a thief would have to climb over it . |
| 17 | Reportedly there are continuing internal struggles between Sun 's hardware unit — which wants the new NFS as soon as possible for its next generation multi-processing servers — and SunSoft , which has already promised multi-threading for NFS , but wants the new features to be part of Solaris 2.1 or higher , and 2.1 is n't expected until mid-1993 . |
| 18 | It would be uncharitable to suggest that the lead makers prefer this line because it not only keeps them in business , but shifts the immediate cost to the motorist and gives the motor components business a chance to make more money . |
| 19 | As yet Mr. Bowden does not know how much money he has raised , but expects the final total to be well over £250 . |
| 20 | The company is of course concerned with the operating system environment but realizes the real place to be right now is at the communications end . |
| 21 | This increases the significance of the information system to that of a recommender as to what to do based on value and choices but leaves the final decision to the manager . |