Example sentences of "of [noun] and [vb base] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Using a metal straight-edge ( clamp in place if you have a large frame ) hold your knife at an angle of 60° and score the card in easy strokes until you 've cut through . |
| 2 | The following activities will need a lot of co-ordination and imply the need for full-time posts : Schools/Industry curriculum development , — monitoring and placement of students who achieve Compact goals , — Work Experience . |
| 3 | The troops ' intervention in the ambulance strike is being authorised under a Whitehall arrangement which enables one department to request ‘ military aid to the civil ministries ’ from the Ministry of Defence and pay the bill afterwards . |
| 4 | THE troops ' intervention in the ambulance strike is not being authorised under the Emergency Powers Act , but under a Whitehall arrangement which enables one department to request ‘ military aid to the civil ministries ’ from the Ministry of Defence and pay the bill afterwards . |
| 5 | He got grape concentrate , sugar , cooking brandy and a large bottle of bleach and put the mixture into a large saucepan Elinor used for making marmalade . |
| 6 | Landlords believe that the Rent Acts unfairly interfere with freedom of contract and exacerbate the housing shortage . |
| 7 | Cut and paste is used to move the selected text to a new position in the document , copy and paste is used to duplicate a section of text and place the duplicate in a new position . |
| 8 | For example , if we take the domain of banking and consider the definition of the word ’ mortgage ’ as derived from the CED : |
| 9 | Wilson fears for education generally , that the market pressures could bring in an entrepreneurial ethos which could change the nature of institutions and leave the morality of the market-place unchallenged . |
| 10 | More rigorously geometric than her previous and distinctively organic work , the new sculptures appear to mark a change of direction and approach the work of Bruce Nauman or Robert Morris , but their content is consistent and in them Houshiary continues to explore the journey from the body or self to its spirit , as she works towards a major exhibition at Grenoble 's Magasin in 1993 or 1994 . |
| 11 | Walker 's worry is that neo-Nazis will travel from all parts of Germany and treat the clash between the champions of England and of Germany almost like a mini international He is confident that Leeds have taken all reasonable precautions but added : ‘ The great bulk of Leeds supporters are well behaved and will subject themselves to checks . |
| 12 | Mr Kinnock promised a patriotic Government with a sense of purpose to get Britain out of recession and rebuild the country 's essential public services . |
| 13 | Taking a solicitor 's advice at the outset can bring peace of mind and mean the difference between success and failure . |
| 14 | When this happened , as it did in the golden age of cotton hand-loom weaving for instance , it could lead to an eventual oversupply of labour and restore the advantage to the hirer . |
| 15 | Now the organisers are hoping to drum up support from local businesses to beat the threat of closure and keep the Playday alive . |
| 16 | To reject the self-determination of nations and insert the self-determination of the working people would be absolutely wrong , because this manner of settling the question does not reckon with the difficulties , with the zigzag course taken by differentiation within nations . |
| 17 | He took a sip of tea and set the cup aside . |
| 18 | For more than two months the men received full pay but did nothing more strenuous than drink cups of tea and read the paper . |
| 19 | One way to achieve this is to identify semantically related pairs of words and compare the performance of the technique using these pairs to that of unrelated pairs . |
| 20 | At twenty-one he had married Elizabeth Egerton of Tatton and become the tenant of Sledmere for life . |
| 21 | Mr Baker made it clear that the leadership was determined to use the conference — under the slogan ‘ The right team for Britain 's future ’ — to lift the flagging morale of supporters and raise the party in the opinion polls . |
| 22 | As she strained her ears , trying to pin-point its exact location , she gave an exclamation of disgust and thrust the duvet aside . |
| 23 | It will insist on positive discrimination on grounds of race and sex , reduce the age of homosexual consent , ban the killing of foxes and encourage the killing of human foetuses . |
| 24 | The sociologist of religion ( usually ) does not just plonk down a whole lot of data and let the reader make what he or she will of it . |
| 25 | The information in the Labour party 's document all comes under the new education standards commission that will take over responsibility for Her Majesty 's inspectorate of schools and co-ordinate the work of local inspectors . |
| 26 | The implication is clear : Jesus 's followers are to stem the tide of godlessness and prevent the sourness of decay in practical ways in the working world . |
| 27 | It 's blood that 's being lost at a high rate , it 's dangerous whatever ver vessel it 's coming from , so you will stop it by pad , pressure and elevation , you will attempt to reduce the loss of blood and assist the formation of a clot , once you 've assisted in the formation of a clot , by putting the pad on it , would it be sensible to have a little peak to see how it 's doing ? |
| 28 | And the local tavernas are the best places to sample the delicious Greek cuisine or to simply sit back with a glass of ouzo and watch the world go by . |
| 29 | Where there is an obvious leader in terms of skill and experience the answer is easy . |
| 30 | Occasionally , however , the insider is moved across a new boundary severe enough to create a rite of separation and provide the scope for an introspective analysis to generate something akin to a new vision . |