Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the end he settled for a rather Egyptian standing pose with both their faces front on and the bodies half turned away . |
| 2 | The troops crack on as the storm sets in over So Kon Po . |
| 3 | We try to determine the bodily functions that have become disjointed … the patient should have a good sleep , eat properly and the bowels must move more regularly . |
| 4 | But , of course , such slight diagnostic indications mean little unless a theory is to hand which can explain their crucial importance . |
| 5 | Two days after , I sit in while an Australian journalist wearing a Wayne 's World baseball cap backwards interrogates the other two on this matter . |
| 6 | Give me a sit down and a good fucking stern talking to . |
| 7 | It 's just the works like a trade union thing , they sit down and the management 'll tell them , or the workforce 'll say what about this , that and the other |
| 8 | I regret only that the article entitled ‘ Philosophy and Politics ’ and published in The Criterion for January 1938 , is not better . |
| 9 | They develop basically because the velocity of a stream diminishes fairly rapidly at its mouth , a condition which must have been accentuated during the Post-glacial rise of sea level : deposition starts , probably aided by flocculation of the finer particles where the effect of salt water is felt , progradation ensues , which further reduces the gradient and so increases deposition by a positive feedback process . |
| 10 | In the optimality theory , this is determined by the reservation price rule sell all if the price is above the reservation price , sell nothing otherwise . |
| 11 | The scents are possibly modified to pheromones in mating , for bees carrying scent apparently attract other males , so that about five display together whereupon the female chooses her mate . |
| 12 | The abstract reason why species migrate is that environments change so that the best place to be varies with time . |
| 13 | Britain is full of small business people who are breathing a sigh of relief that their business rate is limited to an increase in the retail prices index rather than the 60 or 70 per cent . |
| 14 | Later , in The Sense of Order , my book on decoration , I say somewhere that the shepherd boy who cut a twig from a willow tree and made a little pipe to play a tune on may have been a great genius but we can not tell . |
| 15 | But they can be slow to use , and many experienced users prefer the keyboard shortcuts they provide rather than the laborious use of mouse and pull-down menus . |
| 16 | If this should prove genuine , it is about as welcome as a High Court summons — another document I expect hourly unless the Bradford branch of the Inland Revenue adopts a more compassionate attitude to its clients . ’ |
| 17 | Many pilots select the days on which they fly so that the weather is near ideal and not too windy . |
| 18 | Moss and lichens grow only where the air is clean , which is a good sign in some ways , but moss can block gutters and valleys , eventually presenting all sorts of other problems too , particularly in heavy rain . |
| 19 | NIH officials say only that the witnesses were notified ‘ in the most expeditious way possible ’ ; members of BIG insist that a telephone tree was created in which one person was told to call several others . |
| 20 | Time savings appear only if the best plays are looked at early on in the game . |
| 21 | Add the chopped prunes , apricots , apples , raisins and broken walnuts and cook gently until the fruits plump up . |
| 22 | Add the sugar , honey and lemon juice and cook gently until the mixture is a thick syrup . |
| 23 | Place in a pan without water and cook gently until the rhubarb falls into a pulp . |
| 24 | For a number of years we have been trying to upgrade the quality of our business , in terms of the technical content of products , the level of design we build in and the price we charge . |
| 25 | The base comes in two sections which simply slot together and the top is fixed by putting the four screws provided into pre-drilled holes . |
| 26 | Use to model a head , a torso and two arms — mould the body and head together but the arms separately . |
| 27 | Slowly press vertically until the arms are straight . |
| 28 | And my employers Fitch ( Groupe Bull , Southern Electricity ) lost more sleep over whether the colours in our new letterhead would allow it to make any sense coming off a client 's monochrome fax machine than they ever did about the evocation of caring values . |
| 29 | WBC holder Hodkinson wants a £250,000 purse but Warren , who is McMillan 's promoter , said : ‘ I do n't want to see the big contests slip away because the fighters are too greedy . |
| 30 | Cook away until the anchovies have vanished into a pulp and the sauce has thickened up slightly , possibly 30 minutes . |