Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] [adv prt] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the retailer builds up a good relationship with his customers they will keep coming back — and maybe tell their friends . |
| 2 | This high level is a primary risk in heart disease , since excess cholesterol builds up a sticky silt-like deposit in the arteries , impeding the passage of blood and increasing the pressure on the heart . |
| 3 | IBM Corp is to supply the Norwegian government 's Supercomputing Committee with two RS/6000 PowerServer 980s and 12 Model 580 workstations linked as a cluster : hosted by the University of Oslo , the installation kicks off a three-year joint venture project between IBM and Norway 's supercomputing centre . |
| 4 | The main route goes along a narrow elevated ridge from Gray Crag to Thornthwaite Crag where you 'll find the tallest cairn in the Lake District at around 20ft high . |
| 5 | As a complement to a career based on forgetting the past , the play sketches out an alternative one based on remembering . |
| 6 | The hot rocks technique holds out the best hope for exploitation of geothermal energy . |
| 7 | The Association of British Insurers points out an increasing trend among major insurers to offer selective cover for people who already have some elements of cover under existing household and life policies , or free with their credit and charge cards ( NatWest 's Gold card offers the only truly standalone , comprehensive travel cover ) . |
| 8 | Chef turns up the racing heat |
| 9 | My dilemma points up a basic dichotomy in the educational aims of the school . |
| 10 | Young children do imitate the aggressive acts of televised models as much as live models ; furthermore , this effect persists over a considerable period of time and is particularly pronounced when the aggressive model is portrayed as successful . |
| 11 | Out of a thousand cases reported in United States waters over a five-year period , only two resulted in death . |
| 12 | The DJ fills out the early evening playing the most obvious indie-dance records , as he will finish the evening . |
| 13 | In such a case , the freight forwarder fills out a proprietary or neutral air waybill form , which bears the issuing airline 's identification , and inserts the number of the air waybill of the first airline to fly the goods ( often referred to as the ‘ master ’ air waybill ) . |
| 14 | Just because yours is n't as good , her mind fills in the blank space . |
| 15 | Overhead , a great circle of dark azure swirls round a gleaming crescent moon and into it , majestically , in the last light , sails Yr Wyddfa , as if to remind us that her magic lives . |
| 16 | ALL AT SEA : Madge shows off a great , but unwinnable , prize |
| 17 | The second deterrent is a financial one : course participants do not have to pay fees , since the course itself is financed by the DES , but they do have to fund their living costs over a ten-week period — a not inconsiderable financial commitment . |
| 18 | Its critics claim that any assessment based on arbitrary demographic characteristics rules out a substantial number of people who would have been accepted on the basis of their individual performance , and is therefore unfair to them . |
| 19 | The action revolves around a failed robbery and the attempts of the various hoods involved ( all dressed in black suits and ties and given colour-coded aliases ) to figure out which one of their number is an undercover cop . |
| 20 | Basic research takes up a tiny percentage of that life sciences budget . |
| 21 | The light travels down an open tube until it hits a curved mirror at the bottom ; the rays are then sent back up the tube on to a smaller , flat mirror placed at an angle of 45 degrees , so that the rays are directed into the side of the tube , where an image is formed and magnified by an eyepiece . |
| 22 | Erm Freud 's hypothesis is that this religion left Egypt because of the persecution , Moses was one of Akhenaten 's followers who went out into the desert , erm here as I 'll explain in the lectures er some of my own research opens up a new angle on this that Freud did n't know about and why they went out into the desert , why they picked up these er Hebrew erm er immigrants who were living on the fringes of the Egyptian Empire . |
| 23 | The Mail keeps up the relentless post-election good news : ‘ Birds are nesting . |
| 24 | The defender takes up a left fighting stance ( all combinations are best practised from the fighting stance , as this allows a greater amount of protection and freedom of movement ) and faces the attacker , who executes a front kick to the defender 's mid-section . |
| 25 | I 've got millions of beer bottles in my cellar , or My car breaks down every five minutes |
| 26 | While Halliday takes on a new role , David Irwin is just happy to return to the scene . |
| 27 | The sooner DOL gets back the better IMO . |
| 28 | The next chapter takes up a particular , rather special case of explosive , runaway evolution , the case that Darwin called sexual selection . |
| 29 | Being at the other end of an extremely hostile divorce suit can be a very nasty experience — especially when your expartner cranks up an aggressive lawyer to screw you . |
| 30 | But the term takes on a specific meaning in those studies in the sociology of policing which are inspired by ethnomethodology and phenomenology , where it describes a quality of the accomplishment of these tasks — that they are produced in a taken-for-granted , commonsensical , and habitual manner . |