Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] [prep] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we concentrate only on the mythological representations and personifications of evil , we too easily relegate the Devil to our private worlds of personal torments and individual temptations . |
| 2 | During all this growth dodder obtains its nourishment from the host through numerous absorptive organs called haustoria which develop all along the coiled regions of the vine on the inner surface in contact with the host . |
| 3 | Colleagues are impressed ( and sometimes alarmed ) by her willingness to link large philosophical issues with day to day matters ; for example , high state expenditure and taxation mean less for the ordinary citizens to spend as they choose . |
| 4 | The capes are famous for a confused and ugly swell , and peculiar lumps of wind that crash down from the coastal peaks of the Taurus Mountains . |
| 5 | I persuaded them both to come out of the room the same way , as I had no key to the door , and took Heathcliff down into the warm servants ' kitchen with me , while Catherine returned to her guests and the dancing . |
| 6 | Trim them back , dead-head regularly and bring in before the first frosts and you should have flowers for months to come |
| 7 | Steer clear of the Dark Ages |
| 8 | Your safety , and your security and my safety and security in life does not depend on how pleasant my ways are and how pleasant my paths are how much I manage to amass , and how I can overcome all the little difficulties and problems and steer clear of the big ones the security and safety of my life , now and in eternity , security is there in the boat and lying with him . |
| 9 | On the other hand of course it 's the old old story , it 's like some of the other competitions which we endure rather in the early stages , when you think of the Freight Rover and er one or two others as well . |
| 10 | Krakatoa is merely the first of a whole chain of active volcanoes which arc down through the Indonesian islands and round the Pacific to form what geologists call the Ring of Fire . |
| 11 | All outputs along the same channel always appear together in the minimal acceptances because we assume that the environment , like occam processes , does not have the power of selective input on a channel . |
| 12 | The Eastern Daily Press together with the Eastern Arts Board also gave money for a competition that hoped to find new art critics . |
| 13 | And Pilger , an exasperatingly prickly individualist determined to expose the ills of the world , stubbornly refused to lower his standards and fit in with the new requirements . |
| 14 | Many areas have special schemes which fit in with the particular needs of individual people at home . |
| 15 | Weeds and shrubs grow rapidly in the damp soils of the site , and it is quite a problem to keep the growth in check each summer . |
| 16 | I 'll tell you another thing , whatever the Spitting Images say about John he pays his money , he does n't grab his bermuda shorts and a wristwatch and fly off to the sunny islands . |
| 17 | The committee 's proposed remedies for the defects of the law as they found it appear clearly from the foregoing paragraphs . |
| 18 | As children , we grow up with the lovely stories in which animals really are people : The Wind in the Willows , Just so Stories , Watership Down . |
| 19 | In the wild they spawn in fast-flowing streams , and the fry grow up in the slower reaches of the river . |
| 20 | ‘ I warm up for the down strokes by doing fast alternate picking … ’ |
| 21 | The Six agreed to hold an intergovernmental committee , to be headed by the tireless Paul-Henri Spaak , which would consider , flesh out and report back on the various proposals . |
| 22 | I looked out of the wind-shaken carriage , where people were moaning and cursing and making vows to start going by bus , or take the car next time , or buy a car , or learn to drive … looked out through the rain-spattered sheets of glass , watching the cold January day leach out of the grey skies above the drenched city , and witnessed the rain fall upon the tramped-on , pissed-on , shat-on grass of the narrow path in the scrubby field with a feeling of wry but nevertheless wretched empathy . |
| 23 | Ranulf sprang up , pleased to abandon the fresh air of the country and head back to the seamy streets of London and the rounded pleasure-giving body of Mistress Semplar . |
| 24 | Prices of the funds appear regularly in the Financial Times , etc . |
| 25 | Every moment of Rainbow 's existence during my time at the Fair has been tracked , recorded , docketed and programmed for easy-edit , so I am able to wipe , play-back , freeze-frame or skim fast over the boring bits . |
| 26 | Joseph turned in his saddle in time to see a score of shuffling gray humps slip silently into the distant trees . |
| 27 | Antarctic mosses have survived three years in darkness at -15°C ( conditions that might occur under long-lasting snow-drifts ) and grow readily in the miniature greenhouses that form under thin snow or translucent ice . |
| 28 | Endometriosis is the answer : a condition in which tissues resembling the endometrium , or the lining of the womb , grow either within the muscular walls of the uterus or even outside the uterine cavity altogether — in the ovaries or the bowel , for instance . |
| 29 | Work like the Peplos kore ( fig. 39 ) , Exekias 's neck-amphora ( fig. 55 ) or the Vix krater ( fig. 58 ) show archaic Greek art in its assured prime : craftsmen who are masters of their craft can develop their styles and express what they want happily within the general limitations of inherited convention . |
| 30 | Italian names appear sporadically in the royal accounts from the end of the 15C . |