Example sentences of "[vb base] [coord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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31 The article ‘ Scientists disagree and the seal hunt goes on ’ ( This Week , 2 December , p 547 ) distorts the recent report by the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea ( ICES ) on harp and hooded seals in the north-west Atlantic .
32 However , from little acorns big trees grow and the step by small step approach is more likely to succeed .
33 While it is a great temptation to buy just one more fish , you can be creating problems for a future date as the fish grow and the filtration can no longer cope with the waste they are producing .
34 The essential common features are bicarbonate buffer , presence of lactate and pyruvate and a macromolecule [ generally bovine serum albumin ( BSA ) ] .
35 The sight of a teetotal singer who 's pushed a broom , been a cinema usher and an employee for a cess pool firm , advertising hyper-expensive cognac is a bit off , really .
36 ‘ We also know of a supporters coach and a couple of min-buses going .
37 Forms of thought are bounded ; they occupy but a portion of intellectual space .
38 It is a device for securing a make-believe absolute majority where no genuine absolute majority exists , and the winner is not the candidate most voters want but the candidate most voters are willing to accept .
39 It is then also necessary to estimate the costs of treating that morbidity , something which neither RAWP nor the review attempted .
40 Most pickers earn the equivalent to the government minimum daily wage in a day 's work , but they do not get any of the benefits of social security payments , minimal though they are , that employed workers receive nor the security of a regular wage .
41 The balance between self and majority interests sometimes conflict and a balance must be maintained even if this means sacrificing the opportunity to attract or retain some families .
42 There can be a sharp discrepancy between the degree of freedom and dignity that workers believe they deserve and the control that employers think is necessary for their authority to be maintained .
43 For the moment we shall suppose that you probably recognise the type of writer in ( a ) as some impersonal / institutionalised writer addressing a general reader rather than a particular individual ( paying attention to Place and Remove and the ellipsis in the second sentence ( the ) finger nearest ( to the ) stop ) .
44 Kandersteg and the hotel Victoria combined are ideal for families with young children .
45 If the sales mix and the profit margins of the two products are different this causes problems because while overall sales volumes targets may be achieved total contribution will vary depending upon whether the higher or lower margin product dominates the sales mix .
46 For I swagger and I swallow and the earth is my hotel And I chew my meat in heaven and I lash my tail in hell !
47 The companies act and the act on the stock exchange are considered to be of primary importance for the creation of a free market economy .
48 The same rule holds true when simple fillings no longer suffice and a tooth has to be crowned or a bridge has to be placed .
49 Tug and the girl slithered out and Doyle jerked the gun towards the narrow squeeze-stile in the drystone wall beside them .
50 The Fairies Hill Lock Cut and a colliery basin emerge together on the right midway between the railway viaduct and another around the following bend , to be followed soon after by a further bridge for a dismantled railway , such was the proliferation of lines in this area .
51 The back is assembled and the piece of timber cut out to make the rail is laid ‘ in the square ’ over the two back uprights by hand , with a mortiser or router , the tenons cut and the piece fitted into place .
52 Kuhn cites as an example problems associated with the aether and the earth 's motion relative to it in Maxwell 's electromagnetic theory , towards the end of the nineteenth century .
53 when when they stop and the time goes on what 's the time between this that they go
54 Though pharmacologists now know how the present antimalarials work , quinine was initially based on a folk remedy and the rest were developed by producing chemicals and testing their effects .
55 Underneath sits an envelope containing a set of full colour postcards , some strange origami object and a set of remastered/repackaged CD versions of ‘ Saucerful Of Secrets ’ , ‘ Meddle ’ , ‘ Dark Side Of The Moon ’ , ‘ Wish You Were Here ’ , ‘ Animals ’ , ‘ The Wall ( Pts 1 & 2 ) ’ and ‘ A Momentary Lapse Of Reason ’ .
56 That was until four overgrown , talking terrapins with a fine line in Valley Speak and a craving for pizza turned Barron into the director of the ‘ most successful independent film of all time , by at least $60m ’ .
57 I think the one thing , that that really annoys me about the royal family is the way they speak and the fact that the way that they speak is still re re regarded by certain sections of the , population , both in Scotland and in England , as being er , the correct way in which the English language should be pronounced , which is of course , arrant nonsense !
58 Dr Alderdice said afterwards : ‘ What is really needed is political leadership from the Government to give our people hope and a belief in democratic politics . ’
59 Even in these circumstances , where one might expect unemployed people to be net receivers , McKee shows that they give as well as receive and the list of what they give looks remarkably similar to the list of items which they receive .
60 In offering them something and being positive , not judgemental , in giving them support and a belief in the visual medium and the fact that they can participate in it freely . ’
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