Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [vb base] [adv prt] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By reducing the angle the jet can be used as a liquid broom sweeping debris and water to a drain or pick up point . |
| 2 | Anti-competitive behaviour is defined as ‘ conduct aimed at other companies/partnerships operating in the market , including practices seeking to prevent new entry or drive out competition through loss-making pricing ’ . |
| 3 | The programme was devised in response to feedback from the previous term 's courses on assertiveness and time management , which suggested that one day courses did not allow for adequate reflection on the issues , practice or follow up discussion . |
| 4 | The thoughts and images that bring about ecstasy should be accumulated from every source so that when one fails , then there will be others that can be tried . |
| 5 | Judith Chegwidden , of Putney CLP , said a Labour government must be tough enough to face up to special interest groups and those , including herself , who had ‘ dangerous consumerist tendencies and want to own motor cars in urban areas — cars that pour out pollution and make people 's lives a misery ’ . |
| 6 | The trust is preparing to launch its two-year appeal to pay off land purchase loans , improve road access for the disabled , provide parking , toilets and a wildlife pond and carry out site clearance . |
| 7 | Never afraid to speak its mind and dish out criticism , it contains an article by North-West 's Billy Anderson who vents his feelings about the lack of North-West representation at international level . |
| 8 | Never afraid to speak its mind and dish out criticism , it contains an article by North-West 's Billy Anderson who vents his feelings about the lack of North-West representation at international level . |
| 9 | ‘ We had been escorting a convoy from Halifax to the UK and were ordered to leave the convoy , refuel in Reykjavik and take up patrol of the Denmark Strait , 150 miles west of Iceland . |
| 10 | Joan had accepted without reservation her half-sister 's suggestion that she go with Prince Richard and take up residence in the Tower . |
| 11 | ‘ Greasers are almost like hoods ; we steal things and drive old souped-up cars and hold up petrol stations and have a gang fight once in a while . ’ |
| 12 | It was largely due to her that Fred had been able to secure the leasehold of the cafe and build up trade by extending the seating arrangement and brightening up the fare on offer . |
| 13 | He discovered that this talk and barter over food had brought on an almighty appetite . |
| 14 | Case studies of screening and follow up provision will then be conducted in a range of schools in the same LEAs . |
| 15 | But a rates cut could hit the pound and push up inflation — the main worry for Bank of England Governor Robin Leigh-Pemberton . |
| 16 | If using ordinary rollers , aid the process by switching your hairdryer on to the cold setting and whizz over hair for a few minutes before unwinding the rollers . |
| 17 | oil of dill to make dill water for infantile flatulence ; seeds have sedative effect and stave off hunger |
| 18 | Certainly it 's one small car which I can drive for several hours at a stretch and step out feeling refreshed . |
| 19 | Tabletools , a new suite of tools accompany PV-Wave , allowing users to hot link into relational database environments and draw off subset tables using SQL-like syntax . |
| 20 | Yet for many years gerontologists , in the many disciplines that make up gerontology , have been arguing that the gloom is overstressed , that future prospects need not be so bad as is often suggested . |
| 21 | Recently refurbished and extended , it provides a meeting room , a smaller games room with snooker table , and a kitchen , and is well used for all the activities that make up village life . |
| 22 | Briefly summarised , these are first , that photosynthesis may be ‘ switched ’ on and off reversibly : and second , that its behaviour is highly modular in that the complex series of reactions that make up photosynthesis can be reviewed as going on inside a number of ‘ boxes ’ , each fairly distinct and separable from each other — the light-harvesting mechanisms , the conversion of the light energy to ATP , the use of ATP to make carbohydrates and so on . |
| 23 | Expectancy theories are concerned with the relationships among the inputs that make up motivation . |
| 24 | Before any computer system can generate or understand spoken words the complex waveforms that make up speech must be turned into a digital form that the computer can cope with . |
| 25 | It is also possible for financial institutions to be directly authorised by the SIB , and there are also channels through which non-financial companies that carry out investment business that is incidental to their main activity ( e.g. Treasury departments of large companies ) to be directly authorised by the SIB . |
| 26 | Memories as epileptic twinges that fade out reality , that causes their minds to go reluctantly back to another time , another place where they hardly ever go now except in their dreams and in their nightmares . |
| 27 | The government made counties keep track of all waste produced in their areas and draw up disposal plans . |
| 28 | We will require local authorities to define minimum standards of accessibility in their areas and draw up transport plans which meet them . |
| 29 | Living on a low income requires strict budgeting and control over expenditure . |
| 30 | The research will involve theoretical development and both econometric work and back up case study analysis . |