Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was one of a number he had picked up since leaving the charred ruins of Ankh-Morpork . |
| 2 | Very chronic problems can be speeded up by applying the same solution as that taken by mouth , externally to the back , thighs and lower legs . |
| 3 | At this stage the channel cables were not actually connected to the peripherals so that testing of the processor and channels could be carried out without affecting the existing systems . |
| 4 | The calibration is carried out by mounting the magnetometer core centrally in the coils and adjusting the peak-to-peak output while reversing the coil current , set to a constant value appropriate to the range being calibrated . |
| 5 | The CLO test ( Delta-West Ltd , Bentley , Western Australia ) was carried out by placing the antral biopsy specimen into the gel pellet , and reviewing the slide for the positive red colour at 3 and 24 hours . |
| 6 | Most of human progress seems to have come about by making the contrary assumption that nature can be improved upon by artifice of one kind or another . |
| 7 | Now , they have come round to adopting the Indian selection policy with the ever-improving off-spin of Hick now regarded as part of their frontline attack . |
| 8 | An image , an acoustic picture is built up by scanning the focal dot over the specimen 's surface . |
| 9 | Because he 's European , he 's bald and the opposite of everything Kirk was and he 's always so messed up about making the right decision … ’ |
| 10 | I get fed up with cooking the same old thing — I like it if I can experiment . |
| 11 | If every drop of water was drained off after closing the main stop cock , three could be no dreaded flood . |
| 12 | The coloured transparent stones could all be shown off by using the old technique of rubbing and polishing . |
| 13 | This wastage can be shown up by comparing the theoretical mass balance with the actual mass balance . |
| 14 | When a computer has a number of data.types , many operation codes are used up in providing the same arithmetic operation for operands with different formats . |
| 15 | Somewhat ironically , by August BIT had got round to recommending the Daily Telegraph 's information service as a useful source . |
| 16 | It came from the paper 's Atticus column , and was a couple of years old — it looked as if Bill had n't yet got round to filing the latest news on Puddephat . |
| 17 | Since social systems , in this instance like physical systems , tend towards inertia , the challenge to innovation is bound up with reversing the usual trend . |
| 18 | Selina , 40 , has also pulled out of hosting the British Fashion Awards — whose guest list includes the Duchess of Kent — in a few weeks . |
| 19 | The parties prohibited in 1980 were the Justice Party ( although its membership had gone on to found the True Path Party — DYP ) , the Republican People 's Party , the right-wing National Movement Party and the Islamic fundamentalist National Salvation Party . |
| 20 | The trio are said to have run off after punching the glass-framed painting , House and the Vessel by Canadian artist Elaine Kowalsky , who is exhibiting her work in Liverpool for the first time , at a private viewing at the Merkmal Gallery , Faulkner Street , Toxteth . |
| 21 | In this sense , pluralism has for some become something of an Aunt Sally , to be knocked down through juxtaposing the idealised equal distribution of power assumed in pluralist theory with the actual inequalities in the distribution of power found in Western liberal democracies . |
| 22 | Marx 's and Engels 's work on pre-capitalist systems is largely taken up with showing the indissoluble link between the type of property and the type of relations of production . |
| 23 | They derive from molecular rotation of CH 3 X , and can be worked out by representing the local motion by arrows curved round the M-P bonds . |
| 24 | ‘ We can only demolish as and when a number of properties become available and can be taken out without affecting the remaining properties , ’ said Mr Allan . |
| 25 | There is still time for much of the Third World to be held back from taking the same course . |