Example sentences of "[to-vb] [coord] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The faster the heart beats the more rapidly we may be inclined to breathe and the more oxygen we take in . |
| 2 | When Lee turned out of the door and looked down to where the battered bird would have landed there was nothing to see but the same old Z-shaped crack in the hard , grey pavingstone and a streak of blood . |
| 3 | In our opinion , in all three cases , a promise made by A to B in consideration of B doing or promising to do something which he is already bound to do should be enforced by the law , provided that in other respects such as legality and compatibility with public policy it is free from objection ; thus a promise in return for an agreement by a police authority to give precisely the amount of protection it was by law bound to give and no more should be unenforceable as being against public policy . |
| 4 | Once the lids of the outer case and the leaden shell had been removed , the workman prised off the lid of the inner coffin ; the slightly yellowed silk sheets were drawn back and there lay the body of the child , looking as if he had gone off to sleep but a few moments before . |
| 5 | To cite but a few examples , he notes that a ‘ refreshing drink for such as are ill of fevers ’ was whey in which was boiled violets ( Viola riviniana ) , , ‘ field bowl ’ . |
| 6 | To cite but a few examples , the thistle is the official badge of the Clan Stewart . |
| 7 | Because the life-experience of women is normally so different from that of men , they are likely to conceptualise freedom , equality , rights , responsibility and autonomy , to give but a few examples , in a rather different way from men . |
| 8 | The hoax warnings , the bombs which fail to explode and the few which do are undoubtedly disrupting normal life , especially in London . |
| 9 | Among these are landscapes , nature , including close-ups , and photographing people , to mention but a few . |
| 10 | Metals , glass , brick , paper , plastic , cotton , nylon for example are non-volatile at room temperature and therefore non-odorous , whereas the solvents carbon tetrachloride , trichlorotrifluoroethane , alcohol etc. , perfumes and petroleum products , to mention but a few , are volatile to some extent at room temperature and consequently have distinctive odours . |
| 11 | Various methods of measuring odour strength using dilution techniques have been developed , including the Katz and Allison Olfactometer , the ASTM syringe technique , Nader apparatus , and the Hemeon apparatus , to mention but a few . |
| 12 | Lead , in the 19th and early-20th centuries , was responsible for a host of occupational disabilities among house painters , plumbers , glaziers , dyers , printers and potters to mention but a few . |
| 13 | I would remind those who yearn for their bloodlust to be perpetuated that , in their day , so also were public executions , the burning of witches and ritual disembowelling to mention but a few of the highlights of our glorious heritage . |
| 14 | The ministry of Net Trust has many faces — discipleship , counselling , crisis counselling , drug rehabilitation centre referrals , court case referrals , welfare rights awareness , housing , child cases and domestic violence , to mention but a few . |
| 15 | Of the manual occupations , hosiers , cappers , founders , and barbers , to mention but a few , all had the minimum assessment of £5 for median ; so also had the various building trades , with the exception of the marblers who averaged £50 on a small sample . |
| 16 | He had been President of the Bristol Rotary Club , chairman of governors of many schools and colleges ( notably R.M.C.S. , Shrivenham ) , and was a Liveryman of the Guild of Air Pilots and Navigators , to mention but a few of his activities . |
| 17 | In sociology , for example , it embraces the broad perspectives or approaches , such as Marxism , symbolic interactionism , structuralism , to mention but a few , to more specific explanations of , say , social mobility or suicide , to the highly particularistic hypotheses specific to a research project . |
| 18 | Many of the techniques that came to be associated with variable analysis , the survey , cross-tabulation , indicators , covariation , to mention but a few , were not all invented by Lazarsfeld and his co-workers , though a number were , but begged , borrowed and stolen , from a variety of other fields and brought together as a distinctive and integrated way of constituting a theoretically informed and theoretically consequential empirical social research approach . |
| 19 | In many countries , regional and national newspapers report on these prisoner cases — the Slovenian Catholic weekly Druzina , the French national daily Le Monde , and the Pakistani daily The Muslim , to name but a few . |
| 20 | Yet another is Lorca 's love of the city , a curious contradiction of his anti-industrialism , which only comes out explicitly in Leonard 's devotion to Montreal , though he soon became snared by New York , London , Paris , Athens and Los Angeles , to name but a few of his favourite cities . |
| 21 | Between 1959 and 1969 poetry production was to triple , thanks to the industrious imagination of such as Phyllis Webb , Eli Mandel , Daryl Hine and not least that battery-hen of poets , Irving Layton , to name but a few . |
| 22 | Altering the look of a step can involve changing the time signature or tempo to which it is danced , the direction it takes or a change of épaulement , its quality and expressiveness , to name but a few . |
| 23 | This is a fantastic place for birdwatchers — puffin , falcon , raven , gannet , guillemot and cormorants , to name but a few , make their homes along the coastline and on its islands for part of the year . |
| 24 | The Allied Bomber Campaign , the Dambusters Raid , the liberation of Rome , the Battle of the Bulge and of course D-Day to name but a few . |
| 25 | The part-time element of a battalion is made up from all sections of the community : farmers , solicitors , factory workers , office managers , garage mechanics and the unemployed , to name but a few , alI united by the common desire to see their country rid of terrorism . |
| 26 | Generally we meet in Forum , stand outside and sort out our plan for the evening , and then stroll down the street to cactus , the old western style bar , Doors or Hamam 's , to name but a few . |
| 27 | The visitor will find hibiscus , bougainvillea , angel 's trumpet , thunbergia , abutilon , plumbago and datura , to name but a few . |
| 28 | These include birds of prey flying demonstrations , morris dancing , archery tournaments and car rallies , to name but a few . |
| 29 | I have found , with growing experience , that many of the great authors ( Elliott , Stapledon , Scott-Watson , Howard , Balfour , Fraser , and Voisin , to name but a few ) yield more and more wisdom at the second and third reading . |
| 30 | A whole series of laws bears the personal imprint of the Prime Minister — the abolition of the Greater London Council , the poll tax , identity cards for football supporters , to name but a few . |