Example sentences of "[conj] [vb base] [adv prt] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 They have cleared their shelves of anything that could offend the public or bring down the wrath of the tabloids .
2 To find out more about how Regional Railways have changed their ways , telephone Darlington ( 0325 ) 355111 or York ( 0904 ) 642155 or pick up a folder and timetable from your nearest staffed station .
3 No one 's going to make me buy a postcard with a baby otter on it , or pick up a leaflet on alpine lichens .
4 To help , just contact Sight Savers at 21 The Strand , Bromsgrove , Worcestershire B61 8AB ( tel : 0527 579226 ) or pick up a leaflet from Sound Control at 61 Jamaica Street , Glasgow G1 4NN for a sponsorship form , and then go along to either the Birmingham Town Hall on Sunday September the 20th between 2.00pm and 4.00pm , or our Scottish Music Show at the SECC in Glasgow at the same time .
5 For competition leaflets please contact ‘ Streetwise ’ , or pick up a leaflet from your local Woolwich branch .
6 Richard Coleman , managing directors of Compass Commercial Services , agreed that the MoD was a significant marketplace , although most of the contracts were now being let on a retender basis and a new insecurity in what was already a high risk business had recently presented itself — the application to the public sector of Transfer of Undertakings legislation , when incoming contractors are obliged to retain staff at current rates of pay , terms and conditions , or pick up the redundancy liability .
7 or pick up the aesthetics of road-haulage .
8 However , the use of pig fat in the enfleurage process will be off-putting to the vegetarian who may have to forgo the pleasures of jasmine and tuberose or track down a supplier of the even more elusive vegetable oil absolutes .
9 Or Make up a story about meeting a sea monster .
10 Erm there is a further implication in this conception , and again I quote whosoever therefore out of a state of nature unite into a community must be understood to give up all the power necessary to the ends for which they unite into a society to the majority of the community unless they expressly agreed in any number greater than the majority and this is done where are we by barely agreeing to unite into one political society which is all the compact that is or needs to be between the individuals that enter into or make up a commonwealth .
11 Secondly , the exporter could insist on payment or make out a bill of exchange in DMs and thus transfer the foreign exchange risk to the importer .
12 He had never been in a wood in his life ; but he was sharp enough to know that he might hide in a bush , or swarm up a tree … ‘ . )
13 These worms have a similar food-gathering strategy to the more familiar filter-feeding tubeworms , but instead of the feathery heads of fanworms have long , sticky tentacles which they wave in the current or drag over the substrate in search of food particles which are then carried back to the mouth as the tentacles are drawn in .
14 Thus there is no net loss or gain over the period of time .
15 Direct capitalist control or influence over the communication of ideas ( mass media , publishing , universities ) , and capitalist influence over the state , both structure ‘ debates ’ in liberal democracies .
16 He continues pouring from one container to another , and after lots of experience and conversation with the adults around him can begin to estimate how much he is going to need to fill the guinea pig 's water bowl or top up the vase of flowers .
17 If you intend to buy mail order , make sure you are familiar with the shoe and the correct size or send in an outline of your foot to help the supplier .
18 ‘ We are very worried someone is going to fall down the cliff or slip off the ship and break something .
19 Drill or channel out the wall plaster for rear cable entry
20 Drill or channel out the wall plaster for water pipe entry
21 Dip this end into hormone rooting powder while it is still moist from the cut so that some powder adheres , shake or tap off the surplus and lay it aside for a few minutes while the others are being prepared .
22 It may then penetrate the side of a tank or fly over the top .
23 Or smash up the house or something .
24 One after another they stepped up and gripped the stump of chalk which snapped in their fingers as soon as it was pressed to the board , sputtered and crumbled when they tried to move it , or let out a squeak to turn the teeth round in your gums .
25 The S1 and S2 buttons on the GK-2 controller can be used to reassign the footswitches to hold , pitch up or pitch down an octave , control signal modulation or to start or stop the in-built sequencer ( of which more later ) .
26 After all , it was join him or prop up the door for a few hours .
27 Even if they evict us , or break up the camp or deliver the fucking things — it 'll go on .
28 Finally , without taking my eyes off the flowers , I may move the vase closer , or walk around the table and look at the flowers from different angles .
29 So to the beach Kaptan and I would go , or walk around the garden , pulling out weeds , me trimming back the undergrowth while he handed spare tools up the ladder .
30 As you stroll or stumble along the ridge , you are presented with a vista of deep gullies , rarely without snow , and terrifying chimneys slicing up through the rock .
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