Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [subord] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first are generated by scanners and need careful handling , the accompanying bitmap for display purposes may not reproduce properly although the image will print correctly — this is caused by the difference in screen resolutions between the two systems . |
| 2 | The fact that the d.c. supply may remain on when the receiver is turned off at its own switch ( usually ganged to the Volume control ) is a worry . |
| 3 | Conversely , where the tenant is likely to give discounts to certain customers ( eg those who pay by credit card , or employees ) , or where he is likely to have sales or special offers , his advisers should attempt to ensure that it is the amount he receives rather than the full retail price which is to be included in the calculation of turnover . |
| 4 | Both women went to a ‘ smoking cessation course ’ the company laid on before the policy went on stream . |
| 5 | who wants to go somewhere when the channel tunnel |
| 6 | Even if Mr Lang decided on a form of franchising rather than the formation of privatised companies , that would be seen as privatisation by the back door . |
| 7 | Lotions or creams smoothed on while the skin is still damp will seal in extra moisture . |
| 8 | Because this treatment is a holistic therapy , the person as a whole will be treated rather than a specific problem area and this treatment often involves a combination of techniques , such as dietary therapy , water treatment , hot or cold water packs and massage . |
| 9 | She was roughly shaken , but clung on until the man said : |
| 10 | Will it not encourage the image of a model singing rather than a singing model ? |
| 11 | The troops crack on as the storm sets in over So Kon Po . |
| 12 | In the circuit of Fig. 6.14(a) , for example , linear acceleration and deceleration profiles are produced by integrating a signal which turns on when the motor is to accelerate and turns off when deceleration in required . |
| 13 | Anyone who wanted to fight a battle to keep a right to report rather than a statutory duty can forget it . |
| 14 | Thus , one might characterize one 's grasp on the experience of seeming to see a red object as something is going on in me ( I do n't know what it is ) which is like what goes on when a red object is acting on my eyes ; or … like what goes on in me to make me behave in a red-object-appropriate way . |
| 15 | This account of how aircraft accident investigations are conducted , or should be conducted , in the field is necessarily only a brief outline of what can take place and does not include much of the work that goes on when the wreckage is examined in detail in a hangar , or in the case of AIB at their substantial facility at Farnborough . |
| 16 | The steepening of the lee slope by accumulation at the top goes on until the angle of rest of the material is exceeded ( AB on Fig. 11.6c ) , when shearing takes place along a slightly less steep surface ( CD on Fig. 11.6c ) . |
| 17 | For the locals life goes on until the race approaches … over 100 police are on duty … they 've managed to close the city centre for the leaders but for the tailenders there 's a real old jam … |
| 18 | Dubois asked slowly as the Doctor ushered him and Petion back out . |
| 19 | It would seem that the old wall did not finally disappear altogether until the eighth-century , well after the city had been devastated by the Goths . |
| 20 | From that point onward the story is a bonus but overall you read for the quality of language and the quality of seeing rather than the material . |
| 21 | ( " The war brides among us must labour on till the boys come home " . ) " |
| 22 | As she came through the side roads to her house she heard a few trial notes on a wind instrument of some sort — a clarinet , was it ? a run of notes that seemed to carry on where the last solitary trill of the bird had stopped , and then a beat , beat , beat of a bass and a drum slowly swinging in , and the band , trying out their numbers high up in a house , lilted together into a piece , melancholy at base with gay little twiddles from the clarinet bravely calling that nightfall was not the end of hope , not a closure — a little bit of swing filtering over back gardens to draw people out , out into the spring night , a beat along the channels of their blood suggesting that this hour , as the light dies , as the dusk creeps along the ground , is not an ending but a beginning . |
| 23 | Premier John Major is prepared to lead an unprecedented series of bruising encounters at Number 10 to allow warring departments to agree on where the Treasury axe will fall . |
| 24 | For these reasons the Department considers it to be of the utmost importance that the form is used in all of the appropriate circumstances and clearly it will help if it can be completed right after the incident has taken place . |
| 25 | But sportsmen must retire ; their bones insist upon it , and most try to do so if not at the height of their powers — that is too much to ask , no matter how determined the vows of youth — at any rate a day before they are asked to go rather than a day after . |
| 26 | The staff will stay on until the parents arrive to pick up the children . |
| 27 | The task was to report verbally whether the dividing contour in the 9.5°x3.2° rectangle matched the probe line , which was presented immediately below the rectangle following its offset as shown . |
| 28 | To see that there is a take up of the car contract hire scheme , it constantly has to be held , or kept unde , the scheme has to be kept under review , to make sure that it is attractive and it is what er , the employees want to see , and would prefer rather than an alternate means of transport . |
| 29 | But , of course , such slight diagnostic indications mean little unless a theory is to hand which can explain their crucial importance . |
| 30 | When we write the stories of people we know , we often fall into the trap of identifying too strongly with our subject and not giving the reader enough to go on because the material is too familiar to us . |