Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv prt] [noun] [prep] a [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 | It 's very surprising just how few people can actually look up a reference , or seek out information on a given topic ! |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | This is not cheap : housing costs eat up 44% of a typical wage-earner 's income , as opposed to 14% in the 1950s . |
| 8 | 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 , . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | previous intercourse may have in some way altered her — set up antibodies of an unknown kind . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | One chilling line read , ‘ The Rushdie affair can not help but set back hopes for an early release for the western hostages in Lebanon . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Roll out marzipan to a round large enough to cover the cake . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | They either brew up tea on a little gas stove beside their car , or pop into a coffee house for a bun and a flick through The Observer Book of Birds . |
| 18 | AN Ulster actress was injured during a terrorist shoot out scene in a new TV film , it has been revealed . |
| 19 | The first is that both parties to the contract carry on business in a Contracting State ; the second , that rules of private international law lead to the application of the law of a Contracting State . |
| 20 | If it is in one of the basic sciences , then graduates normally carry out research in an appropriate university department leading to the award of PhD degree . |
| 21 | Coventry , flying high , take on Spurs in a live TV game tomorrow night at Highfield Road . |
| 22 | At a preview it was introduced live by John Butcher MP , Under-secretary of state for Industry , asserting that futurologists who write off Britain as an industrial nation are ‘ talking a load of hooey ’ . |
| 23 | They write off Ireland as a spent force , which in my experience is a foolish thing to do . |
| 24 | In addition , our study is the first to present longterm follow up data in a large number of constipated children ≤4 years of age . |
| 25 | Gloria in the highest at closing time London 's famous Town and Country Club shut up shop with a superb show from Van Morrison , reports Myles Palmer |
| 26 | Ian says we both ought to leave and either take up work as a married couple in another practice with a view of eventual partnership or set up on our own somewhere , a good long way from here , of course . |
| 27 | Paradoxically however the demand for better films saw the American film industry move away from its natural habitat and take up residence in a suburban section of what was essentially a southern Californian oasis . |
| 28 | With so many weapons to hand , some cancel out others in a tangled web of incentives and disincentives . |
| 29 | If the pound was expected to devalue to £1 = $2.4 then the holder of sterling balances could sell his £1,000 now ( at £1 = $2.8 ) , buy back pounds at a future date ( at £1 = $2.4 ) , and hence make a sterling capital gain of £167 . |