Example sentences of "[noun] [vb base] [adv prt] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The story bring out the significance of dreams and their interpretation at this time . |
| 2 | If you have any views pick up the phone and call me now . |
| 3 | Only after years of dogged activity by tenants backing up their own experiences with systematic surveys , did local authorities bring in the experts , and the tenants were right all along : they were living in leaking , sweating , unstable structures . |
| 4 | In both cases too , those private choices in some cases bring about the tragedy of the commons ( Hardin 1972 ) . |
| 5 | Some theorize that income distribution is mainly a result of government action ( wage policy , taxation , etc. ) while per capita income is mainly a result of transnational forces ( for example , the price that exports bring on the world market ) . |
| 6 | I am careful not to leave even the smallest scrap of yarn lying around as mother birds pick up the pieces and use them for lining their nests . |
| 7 | When I do that , it 's like summat inside of me is pulled out and streaks back up the street , under all the lights , right round the corner to where I ca n't see . |
| 8 | Sir [ James ] Stephen added : ‘ The effect of adopting this definition would be to include under one description all the cognate offences which at present make up the crime of theft . |
| 9 | Police procedures change , and even police attitudes change over the years . |
| 10 | While crackling flames eat up the beams |
| 11 | Through the network of INSET courses , inspectors , advisory teachers and personal contacts hunt out the names of schools where outstanding work is taking place or schools that have a reputation for being generally good . |
| 12 | With the advent of longer holidays taken at different times of the year and easier travel , people began to seek their entertainment further afield , but remnants of these past festivities remain around the county in various guises . |
| 13 | Of the relatively small amount of CDs issued in other currencies , yen and ECU make up the bulk . |
| 14 | Fish tucked into crevices peer out , while crabs scavenge over the reef and probe soft corals for food . |
| 15 | Along the road , another glimpse of the Buller of Buchan : they claim that in stormy weather the waves crash over the top of the Buller , a full two hundred feet . |
| 16 | When waves crash over the reef , the fish swims into a crevice , sticks up its bony trigger and locks itself in place so firmly that neither ocean currents , hungry predators nor inquisitive skin divers can extract it . |
| 17 | Kids eat up the money . ’ |
| 18 | Moreover , while there are good reasons for concern about the availability of services for ‘ revolving door patients ’ during the run down of the old psychiatric hospitals and while doubts remain over the capacity of district general hospital units to provide appropriate care to people in crisis , the relocation of the long stay population of psychiatric hospitals is achieving some successful results . |
| 19 | Doubts remain over the fitness of striker Ian Baird and midfielder Derek Ferguson , both of whom are suffering from hamstring injuries . |
| 20 | The amp 's master volume pot , headphone socket and mains switch make up the remainder of front panel controls . |
| 21 | The sensors pick up the change which is then fed back directly to alter the temperature or some other variable . |
| 22 | The snakes and the tardy remedy make up the entirety of God 's response . |
| 23 | Her lips pout around the filter and her cheeks collapse in as she draws deeply . |
| 24 | Such combinations make up the particles known as mesons , which are unstable because the quark and antiquark can annihilate each other , producing electrons and other particles . |
| 25 | The verdict brought relief for some neighbours who said they 'd seen too many animals suffer over the years . |
| 26 | Keynesians and monetarists disagree over the shape and stability of the liquidity preference curve ( the demand for money curve ) . |
| 27 | Disputes wage over the issue of whether or not nuclear families today are isolated from their kin . |
| 28 | Legislation to set up an umbrella agency to control pollution in England and Wales has been postponed because government ministries disagree over the scope and scale of the new body . |
| 29 | Its carved edges resemble horse harnesses , while two snakes coil around the top . |
| 30 | ‘ I have seen other drivers race around the barriers in the past . |