Example sentences of "[adv] [vb base] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Put all ingredients into a saucepan and slowly bring to the boil . |
| 2 | Meanwhile put vermouth , glace de viande and mustard in a small saucepan , slowly bring to the boil , add cream , boil again , take off heat . |
| 3 | When present , the impurities cause concrete made from mining spoil , ‘ mundic , ’ to crumble in damp conditions as trace elements slowly combine with the cement to reduce the lattice structure to a mush . |
| 4 | Of course , such con- ditions did not disgrace every mill , nor were they wholly absent outside the factory system . |
| 5 | The eggs eventually hatch inside the mother 's pouch , the young crawl out and clamber up on to her back . |
| 6 | No , well mostly toilet in the middle of the night but I go straight back to bed and go back to sleep again . |
| 7 | But the Indians rarely profit from the mahogany trees cut from their land . |
| 8 | In practice the tenant has little influence on the choice of insurer . |
| 9 | True , Shearer got little change from the skirmish with Neil Ruddock , his pal from Southampton days . |
| 10 | Share prices showed little change throughout the day however and the FT-SE 100-Share Index closed just 1.0 down on the day at 2,817.0 , with just under 593 million shares changing hands . |
| 11 | Though residents find little change in the quality of living under these arrangements , they are generally pleased with the traffic calming that has resulted , though less so than those who live in the streets that have been completely rebuilt . |
| 12 | The Philips Report ( HMSO 1954 ) forecast little change in the dependency ratio overall in the following twenty-five years ( 1954–79 ) , on the assumption that the same proportion of persons would continue to be employed in each age-group . |
| 13 | Considerable pressure to conform exists within the lesbian feminist communities , and those of us who conspicuously deviate from the norm either get stared at or are ignored . |
| 14 | Chemical element from industrial operations , nitrates from the excessive use of chemical fertilisers , and sewage waste from an ever-increasing human population all eventually leach into the sea . |
| 15 | Some partnership deeds do , however , expressly provide for the payment of a salary in addition to a share of the firm 's profits . |
| 16 | The judge concluded that since rule 4.4(4) of the Family Proceedings Rules 1991did not expressly provide for the making of an application ex parte for a residence order and since section 9(5) of the Children Act 1989 prohibited him from making either a prohibited steps order or a specific issue order to achieve that result he had no jurisdiction to make the orders sought . |
| 17 | A range of personal items — new clothes , underwear , make-up , haircuts , public transport , leisure services — rarely appear in the expenditure diaries of mothers in low-income households . |
| 18 | I think they have very little say from the point of diagnosis to treatment of anything . |
| 19 | In former days this emotional moment could not arise because archbishops had little say in the choice of bishops and no say at all in the choice of their successor . |
| 20 | Prior to the 1980 Act it had been observed that the law had been ‘ heavily weighed in favour of the local education authorities and schools with parents having few rights ( although many duties ) and little say in the decision-making process ’ . |
| 21 | Refugee recipients had very little say in the administration of services and were insufficiently encouraged to do so . |
| 22 | Patients are at the bottom of the pecking order and have very little say in the running of services . |
| 23 | But customers will have little say in the matter . |
| 24 | The court heard several witnesses say they saw Mr Austin 's car suddenly swerve to the right in the outsidfe lane , then violently to the left and into the front of the bus forcing it off the carriageway . |
| 25 | But without proper government action , they only scratch at the problem . |
| 26 | By Gerald Larner FOLLOWERS of the BBC Philharmonic — that small but discriminating section of the concert audience in the North-west — will have noticed a peculiarly high proportion of works featuring solo trumpet in the orchestra 's current programmes . |
| 27 | After giving instructions about his place of burial , he required them to go to his study and take out three great hampers of books and burn them , ‘ Inasmuch as all the comedies , tragedies , pastorals , etc. , heroical poems , love hymns and the like are full of idolatry and especially tend to the overthrow of the Christian religion . ’ |
| 28 | only sell on the telephone . |
| 29 | Formally , neither has much influence on the policy-making process . |
| 30 | From 1340 until his death in 1348 the archbishop never again held high office or exerted much influence in the king 's government . |