Example sentences of "[vb base] [prep] the [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My horse is kept at a lovely yard 13 miles away : too far for many people 's choice , but the facilities and the people compensate for the 20 minute drive . |
| 2 | We distinguish between the independent financial entity and the competitive units it owns . |
| 3 | Sleep spindles develop during the first two months of life , varying in frequency between 10 and 4Hz although showing no systematic tendency to increase in frequency with age ( as is the case with the waking alpha rhythm , which progressively becomes faster with age , to reach a maximum of 10–11Hz ) . |
| 4 | The deal is a timely boost for Scotland 's top steeplechase after a long , fruitless search for support following the decision by William Hill , sponsor for the past 15 years , to pull out after last year 's race . |
| 5 | ‘ My money problems are only temporary , I 'd learn to drive if I only had time for the lessons , and you 'd be surprised at how many gadgets I 've learned to use and even repair during the past four years . |
| 6 | But you 've got to make a mental leap , because I mean for the last five years , things have been pretty horrible , since eighty seven really , I mean we 've only had the pick up in the last year . |
| 7 | Handbill for the 1900 Olympic match |
| 8 | Earlier Land Rovers with the smaller wheel studs , were designed to carry most of the load on the large hole in the centre , so fitting Range Rover wheels , which carry the loading on the studs , is not on unless you change for the later SIII type hubs . |
| 9 | Sinn Fein account for the other two Northland seats in the form of Mitchel McLaughlin , who moved from Cityside and newcomer Mary Nelis . |
| 10 | And if the murderer were an outsider , then how account for the locked front door , the intact alarm system , and the fact that Lorrimer must have let him in ? |
| 11 | Because neither business organizations nor the public regard the maximization of owners ’ profit as the only legitimate aim of business , distributable profit can no longer be regarded as the sole or premier indicator of performance . |
| 12 | His first priority was to climb on to the rim of the sink and peer through the upper left-hand corner of the kitchen window . |
| 13 | ‘ Well , exhausted or not , you wo n't be getting much sleep for the next four days . |
| 14 | This is the operations base for the largest onshore oil field in Western Europe . |
| 15 | There was also still a feeling in the Hollywood colony that as he had established himself as a star he should not play an unattractive character , and , what is more , he would only be the second lead and not appear for the first twenty minutes . |
| 16 | Perhaps if we are American we long for the early seventeenth-century Puritan theocracy of New England . |
| 17 | So why not make things hard for yourself and send for the full Just Desks catalogue or call in at our showrooms and see everything else we can offer you . |
| 18 | SEND FOR THE FREE TITAN BROCHURE OF YOUR CHOICE |
| 19 | ‘ During the whole of her illness , prayer was made without ceasing by the whole Church on her behalf , and I felt persuaded that the Lord would yet hear us and for His name 's sake appear as the one prayer-hearing God — for the heathen around knew what was done , and would say , ‘ Where is now your God ? '' ’ |
| 20 | I asked at the meeting of the city board and I asked on more than one occasion , and did n't get a proper answer , what the labour group intended to do with the three point two million pounds that will build up in reserve say for the next three years . |
| 21 | So just skim through the first ten lines then eleven to the end really concentrate on . |
| 22 | Yeah well that 's what I was gon na say , so forget about the other blue ones they can have that . |
| 23 | Stop for an Italian coffee at Mokafé or browse through the latest French novels in Tropismes . |
| 24 | ALWAYS known by his initials , J.P.M.Millar for more than 40 years ran the National Council of Labour Colleges ; an organisation which through classes , lectures , weekend and summer schools , and the massive number of correspondent courses organised by his wife Christine , provided shots and shell for the emerging Labour movement . |
| 25 | ALWAYS known by his initials , JPM Millar ran the National Council of Labour Colleges for over 40 years ; an organisation which through classes , lectures , weekend and summer schools , and the massive number of correspondent courses organised by his wife Christine , provided shots and shell for the emerging Labour Movement . |
| 26 | SECOND division BEDFORD have appointed former Bristol and England flanker Mike Rafter as their new coach after parting company with New Zealander Ian Snook , coach for the past three years , Snook is now expected to join Old Wesley in Dublin . |
| 27 | RICHIE DIXON , the Scotland B coach for the past three seasons , has been promoted to helping to coach the senior team . |
| 28 | For parameter values , and r increasing from 1 , numerical simulations of the Lorenz equations show the following behaviour : ( 1 ) For 1 { r { 13.926 , all numerically computed trajectories spiral into the stable stationary points C+ . |
| 29 | Their behaviour was at times appalling ; when little they would spend long stretches of each class on the floor behind the benches , playing with bits of mercury , pricking it with needles and pen nibs , watching it slip into the coarse splintery cracks of the dusty floorboards , and forcing it out again , marvelling at the way it shrugged the dirt off its rounded shoulders . |
| 30 | Descend into the secret underground haunts of the Smugglers of Hastings . |