Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb base] [adv prt] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you have any views pick up the phone and call me now . |
| 2 | In both cases too , those private choices in some cases bring about the tragedy of the commons ( Hardin 1972 ) . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Fish tucked into crevices peer out , while crabs scavenge over the reef and probe soft corals for food . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Kids eat up the money . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Doubts remain over the fitness of striker Ian Baird and midfielder Derek Ferguson , both of whom are suffering from hamstring injuries . |
| 12 | The sensors pick up the change which is then fed back directly to alter the temperature or some other variable . |
| 13 | Her lips pout around the filter and her cheeks collapse in as she draws deeply . |
| 14 | Keynesians and monetarists disagree over the shape and stability of the liquidity preference curve ( the demand for money curve ) . |
| 15 | Disputes wage over the issue of whether or not nuclear families today are isolated from their kin . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Its carved edges resemble horse harnesses , while two snakes coil around the top . |
| 18 | The authors hold out the hope that at a future date , when the processes involved are better understood , the damage done to the ozone layer may be reversed . |
| 19 | Unless the promoter of change has the power to reward the new form of behaviour and/or penalize persistence with the old form of behaviour , schemas are unlikely to change whatever managerial symbols and signals circulate around the organization . |
| 20 | Kids walk along the street , look at the concert poster , see the band 's name and read ‘ sold-out ’ . |
| 21 | A small boy in pyjamas put down the basket he was weaving and looked at the face for a second or two , then turned back to his basket . |
| 22 | Old voices echo down the hall , |
| 23 | THE BROODING , lidded eyes look over the coffee cup . |
| 24 | The sun has warmed the walls of the garden , the cherries hang on the tree . |
| 25 | Noses trawl along the formica sideboards hoovering up powder . |
| 26 | The pool is filled with water and bubbles and the kids scoot down the slide attached to the climbing frame into the bubble bath and the arms of a playworker who picks up one of the children and kisses his little red bum . |
| 27 | As the waves or pulses pass down the fibre they mix with their delayed echoes . |
| 28 | I do remember seeing two — maybe three — cars pass on the Silcaster road , but I did n't notice anything shown up in their headlights . ’ |
| 29 | The following paragraphs set out the response of the University of Oxford to the HEFCE 's invitation in circular letter 17/93 to submit information on its strategic plans and financial forecasts up to 1996–7 . |
| 30 | I do n't paint from dark to light or light to dark in any special sequence , but as my eyes flit over the paper I add bits of colour here and there . |