Example sentences of "[vb base] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maybe I 'm just being traditional in my tastes ; it is probably important to watch the compilation in small doses and not sit through the whole three hours as I did . |
| 2 | This was ( F t +1 ; - F t ) /F t , plus the interest at the risk-free rate ( r ) on the average price of the futures contract during the period , that is , r ( F t +1 ; + F t ) /2F t , to give [ F t +1 ; ( 2 + r ) - F t ( 2 - r ) ] /2F t as the measure of return on a future . |
| 3 | oh and I 've made a big rug at the centre , which I shall have home before Christmas , a big woollen rug I 've made , yes so , oh it 's a beautiful rug it 's with those er silver thing you push through the hole on the canvas |
| 4 | It looks an exquisite mess , but push through the vegetation bordering the path and the undergrowth clears . |
| 5 | The small professional garden design team offers an attractive range , called Tropical Shades , to keep you cool during the summer months . |
| 6 | The conventional notion of literary ‘ tradition ’ does , it is true , compensate for the lack of an historical overview , but because it implies a common pool of resources repeatedly drawn on by a succession of different writers , it is profoundly antithetical to Formalism and its key principle of defamiliarization . |
| 7 | The popularity of arbitrage portfolios suggests that the advantages more than compensate for the risk that the value of the arbitrage portfolio will deviate from the index at delivery . |
| 8 | As the award is conventional in its nature and can not in fact compensate for the injury suffered there is no logical reason to take one figure rather than another . |
| 9 | It is thought that this might give relief to the husband for capital gains tax for the period from when the settlement is established ( ie the court order or when the agreement between the parties was finalised ) until its termination , but the application of this section to such a situation is not wholly clear . |
| 10 | The urban poor , who burn kerosene to cook , for example , suffer as the end users if their government puts a levy on imports of petroleum . |
| 11 | With older children we might spend some time discussing this ( perhaps wondering if the giant would ever let us get near enough to open his mouth and clean his teeth for him ) ; with this age group , however , I immediately enthuse about the idea : " Right , that 's really good . |
| 12 | Often softened by nostalgia for what they recall as the security of their ‘ training days ’ , I have heard older nurses enthuse about the cosiness and order of day to day nursing . |
| 13 | My right hon. Friend knows that Opposition parties constantly carp about the level of pensions in Britain . |
| 14 | If the match at the County Ground is anywhere near as fast and lose as the game at London Road , then the Swindon fans are in for a thriller . |
| 15 | Distinguish between the rainwater drains and foul drains by flushing toilets and observing the manholes , then by pouring a bucket of water into external rainwater gullies . |
| 16 | Thus , Palmer and Frank ( 1988 ) distinguish between the interpretation of a man-made image ( whose meaning is to be reconstructed ) , and a ‘ natural ’ image ( whose meaning has to be extracted and standardized with belief systems ) . |
| 17 | They distinguish between the function of language as imparting meaning , ‘ making statements which can be assigned a set of truth conditions ’ ( ibid. ) , and its function of regulating and maintaining social or interpersonal relations between people . |
| 18 | Distinguish between the demand for bank lending and the demand for money . |
| 19 | This predicament forced him to examine his goals and to make one last push for the success which had eluded him for so long . |
| 20 | They were probably saved from an early Walesa push for the presidency by the recent row with West Germany 's Mr Helmut Kohl over the permanence of Poland 's western border . |
| 21 | In the second chapter of his work , Simmel traces the manner in which coinage as the medium used for money gradually loses any intrinsic value , and becomes exclusively a symbol for all other relationships . |
| 22 | Without insider trading , however , the position of those who sell during the time required for the price to rise from $50 to $60 is radically altered . |
| 23 | They are both over 450 yards and their design , as they curve through the protection of the heavy trees with a scattering of bunkers on the angles of the fairways , induces tremors in even the most hardened competitors . |
| 24 | He has contemplated suicide , he says ; he feels deep regret about the death . |
| 25 | " The one thing we regret about the move is that we ca n't still get HTV . |
| 26 | The main purpose of this elaborate system was almost certainly profit for the king . |
| 27 | So that it er er push off the water , kept the water at bay . |
| 28 | The practice of editors varies substantially , and these points are intended to suggest that some simple changes could improve the ways in which they communicate about the process and their decisions . |
| 29 | Now we know that gale-force winds in the Channel can topple sightscreens , we must put them upwind of the pavilion this winter , and build a new pavilion out of the insurance claim when they crash through the roof . |
| 30 | If preferences for local public services change during the life-cycle , there are added strains for the Tiebout mechanism . |