Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Drexel successfully pioneered a mezzanine layer of financing between equity and bank debt for medium-sized American companies . |
| 2 | But that is not the end of the story ; networks will not only serve the interests of the market ; they bring within reach the possibility of the surveillance of whole populations , with serious implications for personal privacy . |
| 3 | Knowing that Mr Radley 's word was his bond , that judge gladly accepted the offer . |
| 4 | Place potatoes in just sufficient water to cover , bring to the boil , then simmer slowly to prevent the potatoes falling apart . |
| 5 | Cool enough to wear a jacket at night . ’ |
| 6 | Pat obviously has no self-control . |
| 7 | As I learned more of missionary work all over the world , I began to realise that there had to be a tremendous effort to help undernourished people to grow their own food for themselves , a task which is still tragically unfinished , and will remain so until the nations of the world , rich and poor , combine together to sacrifice a meagre percentage of their gross national product , which experts calculate to be necessary to abolish hunger in a generation . |
| 8 | Frequently too , people who live in a particular geographic location combine together to form a pressure group if their neighbourhood has been earmarked by government for the siting of , for example , a new motorway or nuclear power station or the dumping of nuclear waste which is considered to constitute a substantial threat to their safety and health . |
| 9 | Apart from quartz , silicon and oxygen combine together to form an atomic building-block known as the silicon tetrahedron , with a single atom of silica surrounded by four atoms of oxygen . |
| 10 | The detailed structure of the individual plates that combine together to build the skeleton are the basis for the classification of the corals , as well as the general form . |
| 11 | The mythologies of tragic sacrifice that have coalesced around gay writers like Oscar Wilde and Joe Orton tend only to impede a fully contextual understanding of how their sexuality and textuality inform each other . |
| 12 | For example , proposals such as those to base service provision on charges or vouchers are impractical and tend only to increase the differences between the services available in different areas and to shift the costs from the more visible budgets of the services to the less visible ones of the individual , relatively powerless consumer : either their pockets or their time and energy will be hit . |
| 13 | The one who took the lead looked big enough and mean enough to relish a ruck if there was a chance of one . |
| 14 | Inverting the situation , a shell can be paraboloid when the applied ( live ) load greatly exceeds the self weight and is distributed horizontally . |
| 15 | Tired cliches like the ‘ information revolution ’ and the no longer new ‘ new technologies ’ tend merely to conceal the degree to which the production and publishing of the national newspapers and the rituals , allegiances and routine expectations of their various readerships have been reworked and transformed . |
| 16 | I mean only to endorse a complex , two-stage way of reasoning about the responsibilities of officials and citizens that finds a natural expression in the personification of community and can not be reproduced by a reductive translation into claims about officials and citizens one by one . |
| 17 | I mean only to provide the following answer to the argument from coordination as an argument for conventionalism . |
| 18 | And then , his right hand , rising to undo the buttons of her high-collared black dress , his other arm unconsciously straining her to him , closer and closer so that she could feel his arousal brought on a memory so dreadful to McAllister , a memory which she had fought against for months — and fear suddenly won the battle . |
| 19 | And yet if you want properly to hear a Prom there is often little alternative but to stay at home with the radio transmission , so wretched are the acoustics in large areas of the Royal Albert Hall . |
| 20 | We want rather to see the state intervene only to prevent such use of land as is clearly anti-social or wasteful , while otherwise development is guided and determined by choice and by economic forces . |
| 21 | The women appear rather to get a share of the compensation for the " " il fit " " , the " unpleasant trick " ( 4184 ) that the clerks had suffered during the preceding day . |
| 22 | In addition , should Aegon increase its stake to 80 per cent , the possibility of closing the with-profits fund altogether becomes a serious one . |
| 23 | With this arrangement , two small or standard mattresses and bases fit together to make a double bed . |
| 24 | Pocket springs can help with differences of up to 4 or 5 stone , or try a zip and link bed with two different mattresses and bases that fit together to make a double bed . |
| 25 | The skulls of an elephant and of a man are different shapes , but this is not because the molecules which fit together to make an elephant 's skull are a different shape from those that make a human skull . |
| 26 | Hideous colours melt together to overwhelm the eye . |
| 27 | The response was tremendous and Peel constantly repeated the sessions . |
| 28 | At this stage we want only to make an initial contrast between explaining and understanding . |
| 29 | The bitterness with which he attacks pastoral poetry implies a sense of loss : ‘ 'T IS all a gloomy , melancholy Scene , / Fit only to provoke the Muses ' Spleen ’ . |
| 30 | She is one of the successful new generation of country artists brave enough to stretch the genre , and talented enough to take its audience along for the ride . |