Example sentences of "[conj] [vb -s] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the ad contains the words Company Member of the Master Locksmiths Association , and/or displays the MLA 's distinctive logo of two crossed keys ( reproduced here ) , you can be confident that you 've made the right choice . |
| 2 | Anyone who withdraws more than net interest or pledges the Tessa as security for a loan immediately loses the tax exemption and has to pay tax on all interest credited up to that time as though it were income arising during the year when the withdrawal or pledge took place . |
| 3 | They buy a cot , a changing table , a convertible buggy/pram , a baby seat to go in the back of the car , a changing mat , a night-light , a sterilizing unit , five large bottles plus teats , five small bottles plus teats , five baby-grows ( newborn size ) , three undervests ( newborn size ) , three pairs of socks ( newborn size ) , a mobile with four fluffy ducks dancing around a clockwork mechanism that plays the Brahms Lullaby , a wallpaper frieze with chickens on it which Paul has to put up in the nursery , a van-sized packet of newborn nappies , a tub of cream to put on the kid 's bottom , a bucket of white emulsion to freshen up the nursery walls , a lampshade with more chickens on it to brighten up the nursery light , a parasol to go on the buggy and a breast pump for expressing milk . |
| 4 | The track that crosses the BCR at Longville Bridge runs below the railway at this point , and perhaps the screen was for the benefit of users of the track , but as it is also below the railway on the opposite side of the ford , and no screen was suggested there , it seems doubtful that this was the reason . |
| 5 | yet the gear change itself is quicker and lighter than the long throw , rubbery device that spoils the Vauxhall . |
| 6 | The phrases have become metaphors , some writers suggest , for all the zest and excitement that drives the Pacific 's inhabitants ever onward . |
| 7 | A number of kame terraces and transverse moraines in the Glenelly valley indicate that the ice decayed westwards along the valley , then southwards across the col that separates the Glenelly and Moyola valleys . |
| 8 | To the north-west of Nuneaton , multidisciplinary resurveys coupled with detailed work in quarries around Hartshill and Stockingford have shown that the so-called Boundary Fault that separates the Precambrian and Lower Cambrian successions from the overlying Triassic rocks is in reality an unconformity , thus indicating that hard-rock resources in the area are significantly greater than hitherto supposed . |
| 9 | ‘ A code that forbids the Stroicim Inchinn . ’ |
| 10 | Nor has the KGB conducted many privately organised invasions as the CIA did against Cuba at the Bay of Pigs . |
| 11 | I do not understand why we should be dealing with local government finance in Scotland in a Bill that covers the United Kingdom . |
| 12 | Of course , there are other situations when the toughness that accompanies the Rambo self-image is useful in disarming trouble-makers and preventing further crime , as happened more than once during field-work . |
| 13 | In London , substantial pump-priming , from public funds , by extensive infrastructural provision and aggressive marketing combined with a more buoyant and dynamic economy has induced far higher leverage ratios and inspired a prolific construction boom that dwarfs the Merseyside renewal . |
| 14 | Now compare this sum with the replacing the motherboard in an XT 8086 class machine that has the EGA video |
| 15 | No past rival of Western democracies , not even Hitler 's Germany , has presented to the outside world a more opaque image of policy-making than has the USSR , and in no sphere does this arouse greater confusion and concern than defence policy . |
| 16 | It has linked with Leverton , the Unilever subsidiary that holds the UK Caterpillar distributorship , to offer generating plant in the 50KW to 1MW bracket , based on a diesel engine converted to burn natural gas , with the waste heat used wherever possible . |
| 17 | Since previous fractionation studies have indicated that only a single DNA-activated kinase exists in HeLa cells , we are led to the conclusion that it is the DNA-PK that phosphorylates the c-Jun bZIP region in crude cell extracts . |
| 18 | And now comes the Armonk bombshell : it is committed to IBM 's RS/6000 and PowerPC at a time when everything that bears the IBM name has overnight become tainted . |
| 19 | The giant tusker that bears the Buddha 's tooth relic in the perehera , richly garlanded with lights ( right ) . |
| 20 | Already , in some parts of the country , it 's difficult to find a cleaner that uses the CFC 113 process because many have installed new equipment in time for the ban , according to the Textile Services Association , and the situation is only likely to get worse . |
| 21 | Martin ( 1988 , 1989 ) describes a simple algorithm that uses the ED centroids , with a spreading function to allocate people to neighbouring grid squares , which incorporates Tobler 's idea . |
| 22 | A legal row is brewing around the University of California at Berkeley ‘ AT&T code-free ’ BSD4.3 and 4.4 operating system releases , resulting in Unix System Laboratories filing a complaint with the New Jersey Federal Court against Berkeley Software Design Inc ( BSDI ) , an independent company in Falls Church , Virginia that uses the BSD software as the basis for commercial products . |
| 23 | Nippon DEC also announced the other day that it has developed and will be distributing software that interfaces the DEC VAX series with NEC Corp 's APEX 2400 and APEX 7400 series of PABXs . |
| 24 | It is conceivable , though unlikely , that ectopic expression of N-Oct 3 induces expression of another gene(s) that encode(s) the N-Oct 5 proteins . |
| 25 | Of interest near the entrance to the old church is a floor-mounted grate that protects the Pietra degli Innocenti , the Stone of the Innocents , on which , legend has it , the Roman Emperor Valentian executed four innocent court officials framed by jealous colleagues . |
| 26 | It seems unlikely that there is sufficient demand for commercial time for advertising to take over completely from the TV licence system that finances the BBC : at £77 per household ( 1991–2 cost ) , the licence brings in approaching £1500 million , compared with total TV advertising expenditure in 1991 of £1974 million . |
| 27 | The Santa Cruz Operation has named Michael Skelton vice president , marketing , the Americas and Northeast Asia , a title that includes the US and Canada . |
| 28 | The Chinese want to put pressure on Vietnam , and Peking has made clear that it will continue sending arms until the Vietnamese-installed government of Hun Sen agrees to some form of power-sharing that includes the Khmer Rouge . |
| 29 | They have a long agenda that includes the GATT trade talks and a host of foreign issues , including Iraq , Bosnia , Russia and , to British embarrassment , Northern Ireland . |
| 30 | The Vatican 's ‘ Etruscans ’ show has a five-city itinerary that includes the Dallas Science Museum , the Morris Museum in Morristown , New Jersey , the Museum of Five Art at Brigham Young University in Provo , Utah , and the Birmingham Art Museum in Alabama . |