Example sentences of "[noun] [coord] [noun sg] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A waste disposer can , of course , be fitted into a single main sink , but do make sure your building or house has the sort of drainage system that will not be fouled up by liquid refuse in bulk . |
| 2 | On a pragmatic level , the pressure for self-government or franchise complicated the aristocracy 's game of preserving their own lordship while subverting that of their rivals . |
| 3 | On either side of this comes a layer of varying proportions of wool or cotton felt , curled hair or foam to give the mattress its softness . |
| 4 | These musical phrases give continuity to the action and are most valuable because they help both performers and audience to understand how moments in the story or theme affect the players . |
| 5 | The tenant should also consider deleting reference to the insured risks completely , as the damage or destruction rendering the premises unusable may not in fact stem from an insured risk . |
| 6 | Cable & Wireless said the transaction was only at a preliminary stage but the talks were taking place on the basis of Hong Kong Telecom 's average price last month . |
| 7 | Second , there would be great advantage in trying to develop a somewhat more coherent framework or strategy to achieve the goal of enabling local action . |
| 8 | One member uses coercion , expertise or position to dominate the others , and conformity pressures are strong enough to eliminate constructive criticism . |
| 9 | Using a potato baker or skewer to carry the heat through the centre of the potato lessens cooking time and reduces these losses . |
| 10 | Its auditor , Arthur Andersen & Co informed the company that it is withdrawing its audit reports dated August 19 on the company 's financial statements included in the 10K , Sequoia added . |
| 11 | The application of quantum mechanical methods to the understanding of molecular properties requires a detailed algorithm or program to translate the maths into an instruction suitable for a digital computer . |
| 12 | It is of the greatest importance for a potential buyer or tenant to assess the potential of a farm before committing himself to it . |
| 13 | Mum or Dad shows the top picture card in the tray and then sounds out each of the letters beneath . |
| 14 | If you can not get to water , use any bland , cold liquid such as milk or lemonade to bathe the area . |
| 15 | Nobody , he said , would put money into a company controlled by an outside body like theirs , with no financial liability or incentive to make the company profitable . |
| 16 | Another link within discourse is effected by parallelism , a device which suggests a connection , simply because the form of one sentence or clause repeats the form of another . |
| 17 | A subfamily of the Ophiacanthidae with small imbricating transparent scales or skin covering the disk , the scales often armed with spinelets or granules which may obscure them ; the disk sack-like , sometimes indented interradially ; the radial shields not integrated with the disk but over laid by the scales or skin covering the disk with only their distal ends evident ; the jaws as broad as long ; one to several apical papillae flanked by three to many oral papillae each side ; tentacle pores not conspicuously large usually armed with at least one tentacle scale ; arm spines vary in length but dorsal ones usually longer than one arm segment , sometimes forming a fan on proximal arm segments . |
| 18 | A subfamily of the Ophiacanthidae with small imbricating transparent scales or skin covering the disk , the scales often armed with spinelets or granules which may obscure them ; the disk sack-like , sometimes indented interradially ; the radial shields not integrated with the disk but over laid by the scales or skin covering the disk with only their distal ends evident ; the jaws as broad as long ; one to several apical papillae flanked by three to many oral papillae each side ; tentacle pores not conspicuously large usually armed with at least one tentacle scale ; arm spines vary in length but dorsal ones usually longer than one arm segment , sometimes forming a fan on proximal arm segments . |
| 19 | At every stage , the physiotherapist checks that there is no spastic reaction arising from the movements being done : if necessary , she supports the shoulder girdle or elbow to help the desired movements to be made with full control . |
| 20 | The result of this Meditatio was that the monk or nun experienced the truths of faith in an entirely new way . |
| 21 | However , the investor who had the luck or foresight to predict the fall could have bought November puts with an exercise price of 260p for 10p and sold them for 25p making a gross profit of 150 per cent . |
| 22 | If you 've been thinking of making domestic changes or improvements , but lacked the money or momentum to set the wheels of change in motion use today to make a start . |
| 23 | The biomass of colobines shows a close positive correlation with the ratio of protein to fibre at each site , while there is no evidence of predation or disease limiting the populations . |
| 24 | Being divorced from nature : inability or unwillingness to see/touch/smell/experience the elements , flowers , trees , or to walk on earth , rock , grass , sand . |
| 25 | Williams characterised ‘ pornography ’ as combining the explicit description or representation of sexual matter with a function or intention to arouse the viewer sexually . |
| 26 | It means that there are not only data and/or information used the problem-solving process but expertise ( knowledge + experience ) and reasoning as well . |
| 27 | There is no linkage , no indication of how to amalgamate one step with another and no indication of either rhythm or quality to make the movement come alive . |
| 28 | When she returns home from work she lives with the shutters down , with no natural light or air entering the house . |
| 29 | Our only real protection from these problems is for the horse trainer or handler to cure the anxiety before the problems develop — to banish fears in the horse , not to make them . |
| 30 | A trip by cable car or monorail gives the best view of the 180-acre site , four miles from Exmoor . |