Example sentences of "[vb base] [to-vb] [adv prt] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There will be occasions when you want to drain down the cold water system . |
| 2 | In this case , a more precise purpose might be , " I want to find out the relative sizes of the most common dinosaurs so I can draw scale pictures of them on a wall chart . " |
| 3 | Organisers expect to sell out the 52 matches , culminating with the championship at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena , California . |
| 4 | ‘ I want to walk up the other valley too , ’ said Betty . |
| 5 | I expect to rub out the new rail link under London , the national centre for wind-power , the cross-Channel terminus at King 's Cross and the Little Podlington by-pass . |
| 6 | You 've got to get Boris 's agreement before anyone can press the trigger or is this actually much more dangerous than it sounds , is he saying we want to take over the nuclear weapons . |
| 7 | The only conclusion I can draw is that the two-pack AC lacquer that was used on the first table was something that I will not use again on dark timber if I want to bring out the full colour of the wood . |
| 8 | Do n't be afraid to make good use of filler and stain to patch up the odd failure . |
| 9 | In Section 1 we seek to lay out the main sources and strategies for innovation , and indicate the kind of conflicts that are intrinsic to creative management . |
| 10 | If we manage to sort out the syntactical problems , we might find that in the end the other issues will get sorted out of themselves . |
| 11 | Even as you begin to draw back the snap punch , pick up your front foot and set it down diagonally forwards and outwards , using a thrusting action from the rear leg to cover ground . |
| 12 | WC apps : 9 Winners : 1930 , 1950 If they really have got their act together and manage to cut out the cynical stuff , Uruguay could achieve much more this time . |
| 13 | AFTER four days of sparring , Eric Vanderaerden unleashed his Sunday punch to knock out the fading hopes of Sean Kelly , and the whole of Ireland , in the Nissan Classic , which finished in Dublin yesterday after five days and 925km . |
| 14 | We always like to tie up the loose ends in this court . ’ |
| 15 | As the original solute is successively diluted , so the mirroring , shape-specific water polymers build up and continue to pass on the shape-encoded information to successive potencies long after the original starting material has been diluted out . |
| 16 | If the Government decide to run down the nuclear industry , apart from the loss of 120,000 jobs in the north-west , in the area that I represent , would it be possible to meet the Government 's target for reduced carbon dioxide emissions by the year 2005 , let alone by the year 2000 , under the Labour party 's policy ? |
| 17 | However appalled , Ramsay could do nothing more at this stage than try to carry out the original plan . |
| 18 | Try to work out the best solution to your background problem , then forget altogether about conventional seating ( one or two sofas , armchairs , occasional chairs ) . |
| 19 | They go to business school , read management books and consult consultants as they try to work out the correct equation . |
| 20 | While the tannery try to sort out the best hides before they 're sent , these flaws can not be helped , so Klondyke cut round them , since otherwise the scar might eventually open up and spoil or even split the strap . |
| 21 | If we try to weigh up the two sets of complaints , bearing in mind the greater need of the people in the Exodus passage , we might say that honours , or dishonours , are about even . |
| 22 | Chromosomes are the ‘ blueprints ’ that the body cells use to make up the new individual . |
| 23 | Later , it is important to try to understand and work through the different strands of feeling which go to make up the total experience of loss . |
| 24 | The reproductive system , the digestive system , the thinking system all go to make up the overall system . |
| 25 | The third weakness is a fundamental one : various institutional differences in the operation and segregation of the many sectors that go to make up the financial services industry . |
| 26 | The Bullock Report offered clear support for language in teacher education : ‘ Among the modules that go to make up the professional training element there should be a compulsory one on language in education ’ ( DES , 1975 : 337–8 ) . |
| 27 | Though he does not develop the metaphor , Paul would , I think , agree with the fuller details to be found in I Peter : individual Christians are spiritual stones which go to make up the spiritual temple which is built on Christ ( I Pet . |
| 28 | While this kind of breakdown does help one to comprehend the various strands and stages that go to make up the current system , it is rather crude . |
| 29 | The novel proves that knowledge is possible , but also that it is in a sense artificial : it does not come from the past , historical knowledge in particular can not simply be uncovered , laid bare and put out to view ( or rather , the novelist can no longer create the illusion that the past is speaking for itself ) ; it is a construction of the past , and the reader is conscious of , and in compliance with , the careful disposition and organization of the disparate elements that go to make up the whole edifice . |
| 30 | They include current selection theory describing the mechanisms of biological change , accounts of animal studies that provide evidence concerning the psychobiological ‘ platform ’ from which human life ascended , inferences from infrahuman primates and other animals to man , and finally a treatment of the evolution of the component faculties that go to make up the human mind . |