Example sentences of "[vb base] the [noun sg] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lighting and water movement are also important to feeding because they influence the way many relatively-immobile sessile marine invertebrates gain their nutritional requirements . |
| 2 | ‘ So you go to the bathroom and turn the doorknob — push the door open — go inside — close the door gently behind you so that you do n't wake up anybody else in the house ; now you go to the basin — put the plug in — turn on the tap — it 's a very stiff tap … ’ ( p. 196 ) . |
| 3 | I push the door open and join the girls in front of the mirror . |
| 4 | Establish exactly where it is with the aid of the locator system … and then introduce your Norfolk long-spade. push the blade 10 or 12 inches ( 25 or 30 centimetres ) into the ground immediately above the exact position of the ferret as defined by the locator and then put your ear to the ash shaft of the long-spade . |
| 5 | ‘ There 's a real chance that if the banks really push the price high , public spending becomes such that it would allow Mr John MacGregor , the education secretary , to reopen the whole argument . ’ |
| 6 | 1 ] Create/Edit a page 2 ] Display a page 3 ] Display the directory 4 ] End the program Select an option When option 1 is selected , the user is shown a blank page on to which text and graphics can be entered . |
| 7 | The southern Italian peasant , he said , acts as if following this rule : ‘ Maximise the material short-run advantage of the nuclear family ; assume that all others will do likewise . |
| 8 | Tear the packet open and take the condom out , taking care not to damage the rubber with fingernails or jewellery . |
| 9 | In terms of this new time coordinate the Schwarzschild metric becomes . |
| 10 | Eric Lustbader The Kaisho 7th June , £14.99 P.o.s. : dumpbins , full colour poster Advertising : national and men 's magazine advertising |
| 11 | And then you fold , you paste the bottom first , then you fold that up . |
| 12 | Repeat the exercise several times on each leg . |
| 13 | ( c ) Then all the students repeat the sentence one by one , to fix the tune in their minds . |
| 14 | Unfortunately it is then suggested that you repeat the calibration each time you use the unit . |
| 15 | Repeat the process several times until the green becomes marbled with white . |
| 16 | The brilliant clarity of his prose , the steady forward pace , bring the reader close to the actions and moods of the travellers . |
| 17 | Now bring the throttle all the way back and maintain the five per cent glide . |
| 18 | AZHAG THE SLAUGHTERER 130 points Wyvern : +180 points |
| 19 | We lack the information necessary to relate it with confidence to specific plate tectonic events , as is possible for the Cretaceous , but the Cambrian sea-level rise might well have been a consequence of opening of the Iapetus Ocean , with the growth of a spreading ridge ( Anderton , 1980 , 1982 ) . |
| 20 | The government 's representative at the inquiry , Energy Department official Christopher Wilcock , described it openly as ‘ a broad , political — and I stress the word political — strategic judgement ’ . |
| 21 | Databases remain the number one concern for the second year running , whilst Unix standards are listed as the 8th most important issue , compared with their showing at 19th position last year . |
| 22 | I just wish now to say I declare the Exhibition open and to say how pleased I am to see so many old friends here today . |
| 23 | Having begun proceedings , the Commission must , within four months , either give clearance on the basis that the merger is compatible with the Common Market according to the criteria described above , or else declare the merger incompatible with the Common Market . |
| 24 | The public roughly seems divided between people who deny the struggle any sexual significance at all , and those who , seeing the significance , attribute it to sexual morbidity and hysteria . |
| 25 | Yet if we deny the creature this understanding , which even Clark himself seems to acknowledge , yet insist with him that it nonetheless fears death , then it is in the distinctly paradoxical position of fearing something of which it could not , in any sense , be aware . |
| 26 | I fear the world invisible is more visible to him than to the rest of us . |
| 27 | ‘ When I introduce the film this evening you must say a few words too , ’ I said , and he agreed . |
| 28 | we rub the woodwork smooth . |
| 29 | The Grid 's unchanging purpose is to demonstrate , in special training courses , how leaders can modify their own management styles to become personally more effective , and develop the synergy inherent in their teams . |
| 30 | I think we we need to actually go back to erm or develop the stage one thing and and increase what we 've done . |