Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] [noun pl] of " in BNC.

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1 There are prototyping packages available which will set up screen layouts and bring in blocks of code for validating and presenting data .
2 I like to keep the background dark , and just bring in elements of sky and buildings and use the Norman to highlight the model . ’
3 It is also the centre of a men-only pilgrimage in February , when local farmers bring in handfuls of hair cut from the tails of their animals and burn them before the sanctuary as an offering to St Blaise , as the patron saint of stock-breeders .
4 They often drag down members of their family into their coal cellar of degradation as they fuel the fires of self destruction .
5 This has led to intensive attempts to standardise costed " packages of care " which bring together considerations of outcome with workforce and workload planning .
6 I can see how those faded images might suggest sultry nights of Mediterranean passion even if to me they now evoke only memories of sunburn and Retsina hangovers .
7 Of the lagomorphs , snowshoe hares are animals of forest and forest-tundra ; Alaskan , varying and arctic hares are widely-ranging tundra species ( some taxonomists say merely races of a single species ) .
8 This goes to show that alliances formed in the conflict over recreation and access to the countryside are by no means the same as those which coalesce over issues of wildlife preservation and landscape change .
9 Why do you pick up the evening paper and linger over tales of local gossip or distress when you have important tasks to carry out ?
10 As the novel progresses , more and more details ( like the protagonists ' arrival at an island not marked on any charts ) are released which trigger off fears of their being the victims of conspiracy .
11 If we preserve both standards of review we then have to assign different subject-matter areas to each test .
12 It advised a future Conservative cabinet to : ( i ) build up stocks of coal at power stations ; ( ii ) plan contingency coal imports ; ( iii ) introduce dual oil and coal-fired burning in power stations ; ( iv ) cut the social security entitlements of strikers ; and finally , ( v ) set up mobile police squads to deal with flying pickets and obtain sufficient numbers of ‘ reliable ’ non-union drivers to cross picket lines .
13 Some sophisticated services send out portfolios of material to selected users and these are updated from time to time .
14 Most astonishingly , it has recently been discovered that many trees send out messages of danger when under attack from insects .
15 8 times a day staff dole out pounds of corn and the lakes turn into watery motorways jammed with traffic .
16 Review over findings of fact has also increased as the judiciary have increased their control over open-textured and subjective conditions of jurisdiction .
17 But in so far as I achieve awareness from your viewpoint I feel the pull towards your goals , and even when I resist , I do so very much as I push away inclinations of my own which are dangerous to my long-term ambitions ; a choice between your goals and mine belongs among my choices of ends .
18 If we wish to know the heritability of size we breed together sets of parents of different sizes , and measure the size of the offspring .
19 Wash away traces of tears with warm weak tea .
20 Put aside thoughts of altering , he wrote .
21 held-a football club as occupier should foresee that crowd could become unruly and break off pieces of concrete which if thrown could cause injury to visitors in this case on duty police officers .
22 Jeremiah longed for the day when God would , so to speak , underwrite both sides of the covenant .
23 Mr Brian Riley , of Watson Firth solicitors , said the vehicles which line both sides of Hollyhurst Road reduced the speed at which traffic could travel .
24 Yet average figures often cover up cases of hardship and even if in real terms salaries for some academics appear generous , others feel disadvantaged and discontent .
25 With a dado rail you would hang all of one type first , but we did n't do this as we needed both pieces wet so we could cut right through the overlap point with a sharp knife and remove both pieces of waste to leave a perfect butt joint .
26 Plenty of sun and well-drained soil are essential ; water well at midday in dry weather , pinch out tips of shoots regularly to prevent flowering .
27 As you build up and level out areas of the garden , keep the soil in place using retaining walls .
28 Pores along the hairs filter out molecules of the right size and these are analysed .
29 The pronouns do not ‘ stand for a noun ’ , nor indeed for anything else , but map out paths of communication between human beings , transactions .
30 Seek out sources of advice : Having confirmed your pregnancy with your GP raise the issue and sense out the response .
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