Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A former bus driver is staging an all night sit in outside the offices of a training organisation he claims forced him out of a job . |
| 2 | Make tying laces into a great game : sit down with the shoes in front of you both and tie and untie them together . |
| 3 | Steer clear of the wheels of misfortune |
| 4 | In practice , of course , these constitutional norms fit uneasily alongside the realities of political life , especially in those authorities divided on party lines . |
| 5 | That the services they provide are relevant to environmental groups , and in that way to help environmental groups plug in to the kinds of advice on fund raising and er , management and all sorts of other aspects of running a voluntary organisation , which , at the moment , of , er a lot of , er social service organisations plug into , but so many environmental groups . |
| 6 | Bees fly in through the windows on hot afternoons , zig-zag across the house , and disappear through the open front door . |
| 7 | An important point is that these large-scale convection cells fit in with the dimensions of plates . |
| 8 | Take a seat aboard a flying desk and spiral backwards through the corridors of time on an exciting journey of discovery ; the story of Oxford University is uncovered to reveal its remarkable impact on Western civilisation . |
| 9 | Long before an enemy could get near enough to distinguish any glint of arms , the whole company could fold their belongings and slip away into the mountains at their back . |
| 10 | We say more about the resolutions in the explanatory notes but if you have any queries about them please telephone our Shareholder Enquiry Office where the staff will be able to help you . |
| 11 | The only residues that interact directly with the bases in the major groove are Lys23 and Thr25 from each of the four subunits , which lie on the β -strands . |
| 12 | As soon as the flow becomes established , in fact , piles of solid lumps of lava build up at the sides of the flow , and help to confine it to its course . |
| 13 | But by the time you were born I could n't give up Other world ; I was deep in the battle we wage here against the powers of the dark , and to leave it would have been deserting . |
| 14 | As the coaches slip quietly through the tolls on the Severn Bridge , the Royal Military Academy itself is beginning to come to life . |
| 15 | The deeply moated site of the former manor house marks the edge of the old settlement ; sheep now graze peacefully over the remains of the village and over the ridge and furrow patterns of what were once the communal arable fields . |
| 16 | Official records show little except the names of Sterling Trust 's directors . |
| 17 | Homi Bhabha finds that Fanon most profoundly evokes the colonial condition not in his yearning for ‘ the total transformation of Man and Society ’ , nor in his appeal to the human essence ( though ‘ he lapses into such a lament in his more existential moment ’ ) , but in his understanding of the workings of ‘ image and fantasy — those orders that figure transgressively on the borders of history and the unconscious ’ ( foreword to Fanon , Black Skin , p. xiii ) . |
| 18 | The figures that I quoted were given in a written answer to a question that I put down about the cutbacks in regional preferential assistance . |
| 19 | The people of Wester Ross depend greatly on the trains for travel and supplies , and would be even more isolated without them ; moreover , the railway proves a most enjoyable crossing of the Highlands scenically and is very popular with visitors . |
| 20 | Other nations , especially Japan , wait impatiently in the wings with their offers of soft loans . |
| 21 | When he was n't sketching or painting as a relaxation , Viktor took a rod and line down to the banks of the Moscova and fished for the grey roach that lurked in the sluggish water . |
| 22 | Since it is not involved in the management of the company it is in a position to monitor and check the performance of the executives actually managing the company , to ensure that they act only in the interests of the shareholders . |
| 23 | A walk down to the hotels on the other side of the bay should supply some clues on alternative accommodation . |
| 24 | I sometimes wonder , though , whether they speak much to the occupants of the Labour Front Bench because I see the 1990s as the decade of the north-east and the north-west . |
| 25 | After all the peel and pith have been removed , cut in between the membranes of each segment and separate them . |
| 26 | From this main part smaller wings spread off like the suburbs of a city . |
| 27 | The trouble with you is , he said , that you 've grown fat in your little cocoon here in London , cut off from the realities of the world . |
| 28 | The flames spread quickly through the workshops of this scrap yard at Elmstone Hardwick near Cheltenham . |
| 29 | Connect the pop-up bath waste from the rear of the bath , adjusting the waste so the components match up with the holes in the bath . |
| 30 | Although it is annoying to have SIMMs in this position ( you would have to remove the motherboard to add extra modules ) , it is only important to ensure that the expansion slots line up with the slots in the rear of the case . |