Example sentences of "[adv] [vb base] [prep] the [noun] " 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 | It follows that ‘ those sensations must be all that we can , at bottom , mean by their attributes ; and the distinction which we verbally make between the properties of things and the sensations we receive from them , must originate in the convenience of discourse rather than in the nature of what is signified by the terms ’ . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | PRESIDENT Clinton 's forthcoming healthcare reforms hold little fear for the SmithKline Beecham , its chief executive , Bob Bauman , said yesterday . |
| 6 | It found little favour in the United States , where there was however considerable interest in securing some workable arrangement . |
| 7 | Of course , such con- ditions did not disgrace every mill , nor were they wholly absent outside the factory system . |
| 8 | The eggs eventually hatch inside the mother 's pouch , the young crawl out and clamber up on to her back . |
| 9 | Neither of these two men can control with any certainty , however , the factor that will perhaps exert the most influence on the SPD 's election chances . |
| 10 | This lack of Bolshevik militancy ( and the reluctance to comply with Moscow 's directives ) was particularly galling for the Comintern since , as one of its own documents acknowledged , ‘ the Chilean Communist party is the one with the most influence amongst the masses out of all the South American Communist parties ’ . |
| 11 | No , well mostly toilet in the middle of the night but I go straight back to bed and go back to sleep again . |
| 12 | But the Indians rarely profit from the mahogany trees cut from their land . |
| 13 | In practice the tenant has little influence on the choice of insurer . |
| 14 | True , Shearer got little change from the skirmish with Neil Ruddock , his pal from Southampton days . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The third way of calculating the multiplicand and now the one that finds most favour with the courts is to deduct a percentage from the deceased 's net income figure to represent what he would have spent exclusively on himself . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | But otherwise the City found little cheer in the results . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Some partnership deeds do , however , expressly provide for the payment of a salary in addition to a share of the firm 's profits . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | He stood at the barn door and watched the Gazelle finally lift off , its own lights rising up to slowly mingle with the stars . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | I think they have very little say from the point of diagnosis to treatment of anything . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 ’ . |
| 29 | Refugee recipients had very little say in the administration of services and were insufficiently encouraged to do so . |
| 30 | Patients are at the bottom of the pecking order and have very little say in the running of services . |