Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] [to-vb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I learned more of missionary work all over the world , I began to realise that there had to be a tremendous effort to help undernourished people to grow their own food for themselves , a task which is still tragically unfinished , and will remain so until the nations of the world , rich and poor , combine together to sacrifice a meagre percentage of their gross national product , which experts calculate to be necessary to abolish hunger in a generation . |
| 2 | With this arrangement , two small or standard mattresses and bases fit together to make a double bed . |
| 3 | Pocket springs can help with differences of up to 4 or 5 stone , or try a zip and link bed with two different mattresses and bases that fit together to make a double bed . |
| 4 | We want now to introduce a different way of categorizing elite theory approaches , one which does not derive from the historical streams of thinking described so far . |
| 5 | In this way I hope eventually to get a better appreciation of the daily and seasonal lives of our local birds ( and a few mammals ) . |
| 6 | Keighley has also been involved in the arrangements for the first conference of clinical research nurses , at which they hope formally to launch a national organisation ( still to be named ) . |
| 7 | Then after the elections , the elections are to have a constituent assembly and that constituent assembly will work out our new constitution in the country and from that constituent assembly we hope also to form a national government of unity , of national unity and that 'll continue maybe for five years in order to give stability to the country and this of course also means a concession because it 's a concession to the existing power structures to have some kind of stability . |
| 8 | The local structure is governed by chemical forces , while on the other hand the long-range order reflects the way structural units on the local scale pack together to form a three-dimensional solid . |
| 9 | The visiting party , who were the first and last ever to get a good look at the crater of Perboewetan , found it to be about 1,000 metres in diameter and about fifty metres deep , with a small pit , also about fifty metres deep , in the centre of the crater floor ; it was from this pit that the steam cloud was escaping with a great roar . |
| 10 | A word of warning , if you are planning a trip to Hackwood , arrive early to get a good view . |
| 11 | Nevertheless , these are the key principles held by those who see themselves more as multiculturalists , and continue explicitly to take a critical distance from antiracism ( cf. |
| 12 | Brush lightly to give a lighter tone and use more pressure to give a darker ‘ shadow ’ around the edge of the fruit . |
| 13 | Try perhaps to write a happy ending for this world and the people in it . |
| 14 | Community life can not continue successfully unless there is some such orderly structure of mutually reinforcing expectations and ‘ roles ’ , some organization of interlocking parts which click together to form a harmonious whole . |
| 15 | A final steep rise in the lane is littered by stones fallen from the walls ; these end suddenly to reveal a fine view of Ingleborough directly ahead , its massive dome seen across a wide depression occupied by the lonely dwelling of Crina Bottom in a walled enclosure among sheltering trees . |
| 16 | But of course there are times when you feel the need to run miles from a television studio , to seek relative anonymity away from strong lights , beckoning floor managers , and frantic messages in your ear-piece as you try simultaneously to deliver a dramatic link on a completely different subject . |
| 17 | International companies try increasingly to evolve a global vision in which their core economic activities are seen in a wider socio-economic context . |
| 18 | It 's a kind of health farm and you go there to sample a simple lifestyle which Mongolians have been enduring for about 3,000 years and you are going to put up with for twenty-four hours . |
| 19 | In other words , let us avoid a priori assertions about human nature and try instead to perform a systematic explication of indigenous ideas concerning human nature and social and cosmological relationships . |
| 20 | As we start afresh to build a new church , we have a heaven sent opportunity to try again for this possibility of godly unity which , if we let it , will be so powerful in persuading the world of the divinity of Jesus . |
| 21 | The size of the changes demands that all parts of the NHS ( at least in London ) pull together to provide a coordinated response . |
| 22 | In these meetings , students come together to discuss a defined topic , whose main points are put forward by one of their own number ; the staff members who attend do so not to teach but to play a part in guiding the discussion . |
| 23 | The essential property of carbon atoms that makes them so suitable for life and for industrial synthetics , is that they join together to form a limitless repertoire of different kinds of very large molecules . |
| 24 | They all consist of a durable two part coupling system — one side with rows of hooks , the other with a mass of loops , which join together to make a secure fastening — the nylon hook and loop tapes are also sold separately so you can buy exactly what you need . |
| 25 | The inability to convey accurate figures limits the use of pictograms except where we wish only to provide a general impression of a set of figures and where detail is not important . |
| 26 | I 've yet to see a lovable moptop Inspiral Carpet in the flesh , but obviously they 're on the verge of making it here when they 're staying in the same hotel as Bruce Dickinson out of Iron Maiden . |
| 27 | Can I reiterate what he he actually said in a meeting with Calum er Carole Degucht er last year er he said I do y the honourable , my honourable friend said I do not see that uniformity means adopting a system of proportional representation and I 've yet to see a good case as to the merits of different states adopting the same procedure . |
| 28 | The churches work together to produce a one-hour programme each week featuring church news , a Bible story for children and personal interviews . |
| 29 | It is a good idea to start planning from the ideal and work backwards to produce a step-by-step programme over four or five years with clear priorities and objectives for each year . |
| 30 | ‘ I have yet to see a Scottish team look weak , no matter how depleted they were to begin with , ’ he said . |