Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [vb base] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For all its strengths , the game has a few flaws — you ca n't drop objects or give them to another character . |
| 2 | Two choices exist , either to sell the material for scrap or use it as a substitute . |
| 3 | Tip it into a food processor or mash it with a fork in a bowl , then return to the freezer . |
| 4 | Use the pips to make a necklace or stick them onto card to make a design . |
| 5 | The extent to which local authority initiatives divert schools from particular curriculum policies or lead them towards new approaches within the curriculum is , however , impossible to estimate . |
| 6 | Please pass on your ideas — whether they 're articles , photographs , or cartoons — to your local correspondent or send them to me directly at Key Street , and do not hesitate to telephone on with any suggestions you may have . |
| 7 | He has already reversed many measures taken by previous governments , which used martial law over economic matters and to detain political opponents or ban them from work or travel . |
| 8 | Be very careful of old fluorescent light tubes , which can explode if dropped , and never puncture old aerosol cans or throw them on a fire . |
| 9 | Many organisations , as I 'm sure you are aware , buy computer or receive them as gifts , but they do n't make full use of them because of the lack of money for the necessary training and consultancy . |
| 10 | on the training course or guide you through it on the training course . |
| 11 | It 's the way to breach the drift defence — change direction or swamp them by numbers . |
| 12 | Anyone who can rekindle a friendship should write to him at Flat 11 , Grove Court , Cooden Drive , Bexhill , Sussex or ring him at 0424–212456 . |
| 13 | In the summer months do n't shut your plants in a hot car or leave them in the sun while they are waiting to be loaded . |
| 14 | So , pack your cycle clips and either pick up a brochure from your local travel agent or call us on freephone . |
| 15 | For full details see your travel agent or Call us on 01– |
| 16 | Ask for it at your local café , put it in your tea or sprinkle it on your ice-cream any way it 's great ! ’ |
| 17 | But these are not just shoelaces — use them to be different ; plait , twist , braid or cord them for a variety of looks and purposes , from bracelets , necklaces , hair bands , bag cords or to brighten up a pair of trainers . |
| 18 | Cities and towns are to be encouraged to reduce the use of cars or ban them within defined areas under a European Commission plan to tackle exhaust emissions and improve air quality . |
| 19 | Why did the banks cheerfully lend billions to a man who would never open the family books or provide them with a balance sheet ? |
| 20 | ‘ It did n't distress or alarm me in any way , certainly not as much as many other things that I have seen that have earned certificates ’ . |
| 21 | Defoe in 1730 had considered a poor man in constant work could earn from 4s to 5s ( 20-25p ) a week , " which will barely purchase bread and cheese and clothes for his family , so that if he falls sick or dies his wife and children infallibly come to the parish for relief , who allow them a small pittance or confine them in a workhouse " . |
| 22 | Control the interview or lose it to the candidate ? |
| 23 | If children did visit they should be with an adult who could explain the pictures or stop them from seeing the more controversial ones . |
| 24 | There are a number of additional options with which you can limit the extent of the search or increase it by ignoring spaces and making the search non case-sensitive . |
| 25 | Serve them chilled either as an aperitif or try them with white meat , poultry dishes and cheeses . |
| 26 | The judge also had to consider a submission made by the mother that the return of the children ( if ordered ) would expose them to a ‘ grave risk of physical or psychological harm or place them in an intolerable situation ’ within the terms of paragraph ( b ) of article 13 . |
| 27 | As new treatments and technologies proliferate and new needs are identified these demands escalate , but even as early as 1954 , the then Minister for Health , Enoch Powell , discovered that it became a " positive ethical duty for ( providers ) to beseige and bombard the government and force or shame them into providing more money … and then more again " ( Powell 1966 ) . |
| 28 | There is no way in which he can free himself from my control , not unless I lose my nerve or allow him to be abducted by some plagiarist , and not unless I allow any of my own present personal dilemmas connected with my own personal escape to lodge unbeknown to me in the words which make up this fictional character . |
| 29 | I mean the main thing is people can borrow on the true price of the house and then they can have an 80 or 90 per cent mortgage and when they come to pay the mortgage they have the £500 subsidy for twelve months or take them into the next twelve months . |
| 30 | Filled with windswept harmonies , stripped , emotional guitar playing and the kind of plaintive , country-tinged songs that niggle you from here to the grave , the latest offering from Nebraska-born songwriter Matthew Sweet will win the favour of anyone whose tastes lie somewhere north of Gram Parsons , south of The Beatles , east of CSN&Y and west of the Pixies . |