Example sentences of "[noun] [vb base] [adv prt] [art] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nature has been banished , technology and its concomitant values reign over a harshly masculine world . |
| 2 | But even when he managed a very convincing Frankie Howerd imitation — eyebrows raised , cheeks sucked in , mouth open in a little ‘ oh ’ of mock surprise , Mr Kinnock seemed not to notice . |
| 3 | Our relationships take on a completely new dimension as we deepen our relationship with God . |
| 4 | Together the two relationships take on a more dynamic quality and the determinate relationship is mediated by human practice . |
| 5 | In other words , does English criminal law pick out the most heinous forms of killing as murders and manslaughters , or are the boundaries frozen by tradition ? |
| 6 | In March or April the flocks take on an even whiter appearance as the males moult into ‘ whiter than white ’ plumage with only a black mantle . |
| 7 | Stretching frequencies vary over a fairly narrow range in a set of related compounds . |
| 8 | As TGAT pointed out , pupils with special educational needs make up a very diverse group . |
| 9 | Atoms open up a much wider range of materials ; glasses ( the first client for FABMS was Pilkingtons which studied the effects of new metallic coatings ) , paint pigments , insulators , biological materials , adhesives and industrial catalysts . |
| 10 | ‘ On-site staff discuss the catering service at daily briefings and on a monthly basis carry out a more formal team briefing . |
| 11 | Later in the sequence the gastric contents take on a slightly more homogeneous quality , which may be caused by a reduction in particle size , although more prolonged imaging would be required to confirm this conclusively . |
| 12 | America 's foremost party terrorists follow up the phenomenally successful Cosmic Thing with another set of loony tunes . |
| 13 | These chargepayers make up a very small amount of the total value of outstanding community charge . |
| 14 | I mean I think the first is that the kind of evidence one picks up , none of it on its own can be considered , I think , to be totally objective or totally valid , but what it does is it builds up a part of a picture and gradually different sorts of evidence build up a rather more complicated , rather more perhaps accurate picture of a situation , and it 's really the cross-checking of different kinds of evidence that in the end gives the thing some kind of validity . |
| 15 | The five bells of the cathedral ring out a weirdly charming peal : perhaps some of the bells come from the foundry next door to the nineteenth-century cathedral . |
| 16 | In their work , the ideological contradictions of the middle-class liberal humanist attitude to the Industrial Revolution take on a specifically sexual character . ’ |
| 17 | It is built along the lines of the most severe late-Seventeenth Century North German instruments , and with its acerbic Kirnberger III tuning , the most innocuous harmonic passages take on a distinctly tangy flavour . |
| 18 | Most policies pay out a measly amount for expenses on delayed departures . |
| 19 | The pluses are that Mr Fry 's antiques-packed rooms give off a suitably mouldering , claustrophobic air , Staunton is very good as an over-protective mother who keeps haring off to ring the babysitter , all concerned do seem to know each other very well and it 's all very pleasant , untaxing and time passes jauntily enough . |
| 20 | In reality , of course , purchases of some items take up a relatively large proportion of household spending while purchases of other items take up only a very small proportion . |
| 21 | Unfortunately , some of our best intellects turn out the most miserable specimens of penman-ship conceivable and some of them are almost indecipherable . |
| 22 | Females make up an even smaller proportion of the prison population in this country , between 3 and 4 per cent at any one time . |
| 23 | The debates take on an almost sacramental nature as speakers resort to the most basic metaphors of reproduction and renewal in a search for the rites of an inner city spring ( Goldberg , 1990 ) . |
| 24 | Related species occur over a much wider area around the margin of North America and in Europe . |
| 25 | Teachers ' salaries make up an increasingly large proportion of recurrent budgets , especially at primary level , with other expenditures pared down to almost nothing . |
| 26 | ( Melastomataceae ) , while in the Malay Peninsula , raindrops run down the longitudinally dehisced capsules of Didymocarpus spp . |
| 27 | Such figures help to explain why those sentenced by magistrates make up a very much smaller proportion of the sentenced prison population on any one day ( 10 per cent in 1990 : Home Office , 1991 a ) than those sentenced by the Crown Court ( 90 per cent ) . |
| 28 | In the middle of the nineteenth century it was discovered that the highs and lows of sunspot activity recur over a fairly regular cycle of 11 years . |
| 29 | Note , however , that most species in tropical forests live over a far smaller area — that is have a far smaller range , then the average species in temperate regions . |
| 30 | Unlike its more common relative , E. pungens ‘ Maculata ’ , whose leaves take on a slightly muddy hue as they mature , ‘ Gilt Edge ’ stays a brilliant yellow-cream , and would make a superb contrast with the bright red stems of Cornus alba ‘ Sibirica ’ . |