Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv prt] [noun] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Feta cheese has a storage life of two months ; crumble over salads for an instant Mediterranean flavour . |
| 2 | Instead , he wholeheartedly takes them over : they show up materialism as an inadequate position and leave the way open for his spiritual immaterialism , with God at its centre . |
| 3 | Put up lengths in the usual way , smoothing with a sponge , then flatten seams with a seam roller . |
| 4 | Pores along the hairs filter out molecules of the right size and these are analysed . |
| 5 | It 's very surprising just how few people can actually look up a reference , or seek out information on a given topic ! |
| 6 | A UNITED Nations cash crisis threatens to reignite violence in Hong Kong 's Vietnamese detention camps and snuff out hopes of an orderly end to a 17-year problem . |
| 7 | Authors at the conference , in social and business sessions include Shirley Hughes and Aidan Chambers , who round off conference at the Random House Breakfast on Wednesday , Anthony Sampson , Terence Blacker and Terry Pratchett , the guest of honour at the annual dinner dance . |
| 8 | One of the few draw-backs of computer faxes is that they treat all faxes as bitmap files and gobble up memory at an alarming rate . |
| 9 | No I do n't think there were , there might have been one or two , yes I do know one that used to make some form of er something for the saddlery trade and you know those houses opposite the alms houses in Road , there are some alms houses on the one side , then there 's some houses that lie up steps on the other side of the road if they 're still there . |
| 10 | Now , look up Livesey in the classified telephone directory . |
| 11 | But because parents bring up girls in a different way to boys in most cultures , women experience life quite differently and so bring a uniquely female perspective to many issues of local as well as global importance . |
| 12 | This is not cheap : housing costs eat up 44% of a typical wage-earner 's income , as opposed to 14% in the 1950s . |
| 13 | We 've had to set it up like that , because sometimes people working late would like to pick up calls , expecting a call , or pick up calls on a different handset , . |
| 14 | They often pick up stories in the national news . |
| 15 | The triceps make up 60% of the upper arm while the biceps make up only 40% and yet it is still the case that most people tend to have overdeveloped biceps . |
| 16 | He always yawns a lot and says Who ? in a bored voice when I pass on news from the Edwardian , but I suspect he 's interested . |
| 17 | Position the plant in the centre of the pot so that its crown is about 2 cm ( 1 in ) below the pot rim ( 1 cm/½ in if the compost is soilless ) , spread the roots out if they do not already form a compact ball with the soil and , holding the plant with one hand , fill in compost with the other all round the roots until the pot is full . |
| 18 | Fill in details about the present state of the room in the first column ; then what you would like or propose to do about it in the second , and finally , in the last column , what it 's going to cost you . |
| 19 | Copy the cashing-up slip on page 76 , and fill in details for the following . |
| 20 | the French are convinced that the Germans want to preserve their monetary hegemony as EMU approaches : the more dominant the Mark is , the more Germany will be able to dictate conditions and draw up plans for a European central bank based on the Bundesbank . |
| 21 | They set up camp on the uninhabited island ; and started a barbecue . |
| 22 | It was because of events like that at Castlemorton Common near Malvern in May , when around 20,000 travellers set up camp for an illegal Bank Holiday festival , that the Government announced tough new measures to deal with illegal encampments . |
| 23 | previous intercourse may have in some way altered her — set up antibodies of an unknown kind . |
| 24 | That let off seemed to breathe relief back into the home side , and not for the first time this season the imposing physical presence of youngster Ferguson proved crucial with a deft header which set up Cleland for a fine angled finish from 15 yards for the leveller . |
| 25 | One chilling line read , ‘ The Rushdie affair can not help but set back hopes for an early release for the western hostages in Lebanon . ’ |
| 26 | For Marlene , her team and 40,000 Runrig fans , these four words bring back memories of a fantastic outdoor concert on the water 's edge . |
| 27 | Roll out marzipan to a round large enough to cover the cake . |
| 28 | Have a look in your local haberdashery or DIY store or find out details of the complete range of Velcro fastenings by writing to : . |
| 29 | In an article in today 's Mail on Sunday Dr Owen also warns Tory leaders that if they rule out coalition with the Liberal Democrats they could end 13 years in |
| 30 | I mean if you go down Cornmarket in a normal summer , you can hardly hear anything but erm American voices , so it just shows that there is a vast potential there , but it 's getting them here . |