Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 're on Sixth Avenue , puffing on a prosaic perfecto and minding our own business — when John turns down Twenty-Second Street , breaks into a run , and starts loosening his pants … |
| 2 | Patten turns down Foxley Wood plan for ‘ instant town ’ : The decision to halt a scheme for 4,800 houses signals a shift in government policy , Richard North reports |
| 3 | This not only affects individuals , but also slows down service development to meet changing patterns of need . |
| 4 | The alternative ( and now much more common ) free format mode requires separators such as a space or a comma to appear between items of data ; this slows down data entry for a skilled keypuncher but is probably preferable for the non-expert since problems of field misalignment can not occur . |
| 5 | The taxi goes down Paseo Escalon . |
| 6 | It comes off at North Cheams and goes down Church Hall Road , and up Priory Road , till it the end of Avenue |
| 7 | Although the law imposes only base-line standards , therefore , it can nevertheless create conditions which increase the chances of high quality performances being achieved . |
| 8 | Killer bug shuts down baby ward |
| 9 | In the aggregate , however , the community can not reduce its bond holdings and the attempt to do so only drives down bond prices and , therefore , leads to an increase in interest rates . |
| 10 | But unc has only n columns ; hence unc and the minor have at least n — ( p + q ) common columns , i.e. unc has at least n — ( p + q ) linearly independent columns . |
| 11 | Norwegians worry about the difficulty of keeping people on the land of a country that is larger in area than Italy or Britain , but which has only 4.3m citizens . |
| 12 | And , instead of a sea of individual appellations , Alsace has only AC Alsace ; and AC Alsace Grand Cru for wines produced from both the best grapes and the best sites . |
| 13 | This last is otherwise obvious ; A has only p columns , so that AB , of order ( n × n ) , has at most p linearly independent columns ; i.e. it is of rank p at most , and so must have at least n — p zero eigenvalues . |
| 14 | As yet , the Greens pleas for the planet do n't seem to be swaying the electorate with polls showing the party has only 2% support . |
| 15 | His address sparked an international campaign , aimed mainly at Japan ( South Korea has only observer status at the UN , Taiwan is not represented at all ) . |
| 16 | For example , Delight Extra Low spreads deliciously on fresh bread but contains only 20% fat , compared with 80% for butter or margarine and 40% for most low fat spreads . |
| 17 | The method involves the generation of a ‘ normal ’ or background image which contains only bone marrow , liver and spleen activity . |
| 18 | One minute you say trustfully that he contains only soya meal and the next you suspect him of harbouring chunks of minced-up nameless anatomy . |
| 19 | British Telecommunications Plc 's Syncordia Corp facilities management venture has a contract from food flavourings company Firmenich to link six of its sites in Geneva , Amsterdam , Cologne , London and Princeton , New Jersey : the five-year deal , for an undisclosed amount , covers only data traffic . |
| 20 | D'Indy even adds apparently obbligato lines to some of the vocal items . |
| 21 | ON THE BAWL : David Kelly shouts down Steve Walsh |
| 22 | ON THE BAWL : David kelly shouts down Steve Walsh |
| 23 | The John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford holds fortnightly vaccination clinics . |
| 24 | Britain wants more UN peace efforts in Bosnia . |
| 25 | er I think we get a saturation point and the thing that annoys me is that young fellow who came to the club had a got , we got a special went to the special trouble of getting a for him and I can not get it off him and he lives up Newton way somewhere I 've been to him three times |
| 26 | It has both size drives , two free half-length 16-bit slots , and a further three empty full-length slots . |
| 27 | Lori Keating , who was the MEDIA programme UK press consultant in 1989 , and who now heads up Mediation UK , will be the seminar 's main speaker . |
| 28 | ‘ I hear that anyone who rings up Elizabeth Bowen in the morning gets a pretty sharp retort . |
| 29 | She has had no real contact since but occasionally rings up Mr Smith and Andrew to enquire how her ‘ bairn ’ is getting on . |
| 30 | She has had no real contact since but occasionally rings up Mr Smith and Andrew to enquire how her ‘ bairn ’ is getting on . |