Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] [conj] the " 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 | 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 |
| 5 | I regret only that the article entitled ‘ Philosophy and Politics ’ and published in The Criterion for January 1938 , is not better . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The abstract reason why species migrate is that environments change so that the best place to be varies with time . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . ’ |
| 14 | Many pilots select the days on which they fly so that the weather is near ideal and not too windy . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Time savings appear only if the best plays are looked at early on in the game . |
| 18 | Add the chopped prunes , apricots , apples , raisins and broken walnuts and cook gently until the fruits plump up . |
| 19 | Add the sugar , honey and lemon juice and cook gently until the mixture is a thick syrup . |
| 20 | Place in a pan without water and cook gently until the rhubarb falls into a pulp . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Use to model a head , a torso and two arms — mould the body and head together but the arms separately . |
| 24 | Slowly press vertically until the arms are straight . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Cook away until the anchovies have vanished into a pulp and the sauce has thickened up slightly , possibly 30 minutes . |
| 28 | These mate , fly away and the females find new plants to lay eggs on . |
| 29 | Yet all these irritations fade away once the museum lays claim to the minds and emotions of its visitors . |
| 30 | It was interesting to observe how they arrived full of animation and determined to be good and entertaining guests and then to watch the slightly false vivacity fade away as the melin had its usual effect . |