Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv prt] [adj] [noun] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also send in any records of mole remains in owl pellets or the diets of other predators . |
| 2 | The parade of lunacy and corruption will continue , but all you will be able to do is go red in the face , mobilise glycogen from your under-used body , build up huge deposits of cholesterol in your coronary arteries and eventually explode , collapse and croak . |
| 3 | Build up deeper tones of colour in several layers . |
| 4 | The urbanisation of workers and their employment in ever-larger factories break down old barriers of skill and status among the workers , and bring about a realisation of collective class identity and shared interests . |
| 5 | Take in every little movement they make , watch how they immediately gulp down some items of food , when at other times they will suck and blow it out several times before consuming it . |
| 6 | They let off frequent bursts of fire into the air to remind everyone that the only law in Somalia is administered down the barrel of a gun . |
| 7 | Maybe — I cut off that line of thinking . |
| 8 | We cut up small pieces of carpet into different sizes and we 've got about fifteen different folders |
| 9 | My friends yield up enough evidence of sickness . |
| 10 | The day after she came I put up another roll of chicken wire . ’ |
| 11 | a ) Cut out two strips of paper each about 3cm wide and about 15cm long . |
| 12 | Make a circle about 7cm across and cut out two strips of card about 1 cm wide and 5cm long . |
| 13 | Seventy two so you 'll start from , that bit 's , that 's gone now if you like if somebody came along and they cut out that piece of cake . |
| 14 | Roll out each portion and cut out various sizes of triangle from each , enough to form ‘ fins ’ to go along the dragon 's back and tail . |
| 15 | Roll out a little white fondant and , with different sized cutters , cut out various sizes of circle for the spots on the toadstool . |
| 16 | Cut out this picture of Rainbow Rabbit or if you do n't want to cut your magazine , you can trace the picture and colour it in . |
| 17 | I see no trace of desire for a better world ( at least Public Enemy , whatever their ideological shortcomings , hold out some kind of hope ) ; no sign of the basic ( but increasingly unfashionable ) humanistic values of tolerance , compassion , and respect for difference ; and , artistically speaking , no mystery , imagination , or spirit . |
| 18 | From the loaf I have taken with me I tear off several pieces of crust and toss them one by one into the current , which carries them over the spot where the chub surfaced . |
| 19 | Though nuclear stations give off minute quantities of carbon dioxide , their effects on global warming are negligible compared with coal and gas which also produce pollutants contributing to acid rain . |
| 20 | Labour was convinced , he said , that sensible environment policy could both promote employment and open up new areas of opportunity for industry . |
| 21 | The consequently enlarged margins , especially when tied to the acquisition of operations shed by their rivals in peripheral territories , open up new avenues of growth unsuspected by ‘ rational ’ calculations of advantage . |
| 22 | One is that it displaces wage costs out of the more expensive core to the somewhat cheaper periphery ; another is that it leads to stable long-term relations with suppliers which open up multi-directional flows of information between the partners in the subcontracting network . |
| 23 | ‘ They clear up large areas of riverbank , and provide an early warning of problems like pollution and algae-bloom which DO kill fish . ’ |
| 24 | If you mumble or burble , give up all thought of advocacy . |
| 25 | Pick up one edge of band with wrong side facing you . |
| 26 | One idea is that we pick up all sorts of information during our waking hours without being consciously aware that we are doing so ; the function of dreaming is to allow our brain to process all this information at the unconscious level . |
| 27 | Pick up some tubes of Daler-Rowney 's Designer Gouache and you could find yourself whisked away on a colourful trip to Venice and Rome . |
| 28 | Layer up three sheets of filo pastry , brushing with butter between each sheet . |
| 29 | The descriptions can be as varied as you like along this sort of theme , providing the adventurers with something to think over as they approach the Castle . |
| 30 | By the middle of the eighteenth century the Parliament of England first and then Great Britain had established de facto control over all aspects of government . |