Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv prt] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Muriel writes off these youngsters with their strange clothes and weird hairstyles as if they were a lower kind of creature altogether . |
| 2 | Keith holds up both hands , fingers out to quiet them . |
| 3 | ‘ Smith is more mobile and searches out more openings . |
| 4 | The local law society holds out these solicitors to the general public as having substantial criminal experience but the rule seems to fulfil a symbolic role for the profession . |
| 5 | The problem , however , was that although efficiency demanded that an inspector be experienced and the commissioners , Fullerton believed , would appoint his son if they were permitted , ‘ they are actuated in all these matters by the influence of the Earle of Isla , who often fills up these employments at London without any presentments ’ . |
| 6 | Research amongst other knitters on my course bears out these findings and thus proves the theory ! |
| 7 | He has said he lost something like £15,000 in potential earnings as a freelance builder and an injury suffered in the tournament has meant that he is unable to work — so he loses out both ways . |
| 8 | Tears came again to Franca 's eyes , strange tears , tears for everything , for herself as everything , tears out of the terrible cloud of hope and fear that hangs over all things . |
| 9 | Outside , a camera-strapped tourist haggles before he hands over some notes for a photograph of a mother lost in a dome of ragged blankets and the two children who peep out behind her . |
| 10 | Porter argues that it is also important to distinguish between experience-curve ( learning-by-doing ) effects and reduction of costs through economies of scale , i.e. the reduction achievable in any one period by increasing efficiency through the use of larger production plants , thereby spreading infrastructure costs over more units of output . |
| 11 | Nothing is easier than to obey a master who is perhaps exacting , but who rules over all details of life , assures one 's daily bread , and makes it possible to banish all concern from the mind . |
| 12 | But the frozen ground cuts off many birds , particularly waders , from their normal food supplies . |
| 13 | Secondly , I am well aware that the idea of a ‘ Crisis Centre ’ conjures up all kinds of pictures . |
| 14 | Freud told the old Man that had he not become an analyst , he would have been an economist , which conjures up all sorts of hilarious possibilities . |
| 15 | DENNIS JARRETTCHECKS OUT SOME ADD-ONS , ADD-INS AND PLUG-INS . |
| 16 | The individualistic bias that Rawls is accused of by Nagel is not that he rules out such conceptions but that he is not neutral regarding them because he makes their successful pursuit more difficult than that of individualistic conceptions of the good . |
| 17 | The demand for a high degree of falsifiability rules out such manoeuvres . |
| 18 | Each language has its own phraseology , its own idiom which rules out many options that are potentially available as grammatical sequences . |
| 19 | She ( Jane 's editor ) is so jittery it 's said she wriggles about on her chair to such an extent that she wears out several pairs of knickers a week ! ’ |
| 20 | He stands up carefully and reaches out both hands . |
| 21 | When you figure out which city you 're in , click on the Globulator icon ( who thinks up these names ? ) and then click on the world map to select the correct city . |
| 22 | So , the detail of the survey results points up several ways in which the readiness of perhaps one in five borrowers to take account of total credit cost and APR , when considering loan options , is likely to be undermined , thwarted , or occasionally even entirely misapplied , in practice . |
| 23 | My local authority , quite rightly , takes on those children because they are in need , but it receives no financial assistance to cope with them . |
| 24 | If rebates are extensive this takes on some aspects of an income tax too . |
| 25 | Although we can specify types of people , e.g. computer scientists , typographers , editors , publishers , and more generally scientists versus humanists , much of the current technology breaks down these specializations . |
| 26 | in their book , discussion ranges over many methodologies in many countries and readers are offered choices . |
| 27 | It means that instead of County and District Councils you have one authority that takes over both sets of functions . |
| 28 | And she 'd say oh , yes she gets up most nights now , in the middle of the night . |
| 29 | The method used by the original Canon laser engine is called ‘ write black ’ because it charges up those areas of the drum that are going to become black when printed . |
| 30 | Linked to video materials , this opens up all kinds of possibilities for learning by individuals or small groups . |