Example sentences of "[adv] [vb base] the [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Both cultures , however , have recently spawned new restaurants in London which thankfully drag the eating-out experience from the outmoded , plastic-flexing Eighties into the less-affluent Nineties .
2 This is thus seen to be a continuous monitoring activity as changes late in the development programme , within say the concepts stage , could severely affect the confidence in all downstream activities including the actual articles being produced .
3 If the government remains determined to reduce unemployment to U* , it will have to increase the rate of growth of the money supply even further and so push the inflation rate to 8 per cent ( at point G ) .
4 These lone pixels together display the oscilloscope trace .
5 Below lay the infant Nfis .
6 In a strong enough wind the ground effect is virtually non-existent .
7 So make the storyline move .
8 Should one turn away weaker candidates , and so lose the university income , or admit them , with the possibility of academic , cultural , and pastoral problems ensuing for several years ?
9 There is evidence to suggest that the most successful projects are pioneered by ‘ champions ’ , who not only sponsor the project proposal in the first place but manage the implementation phase and often the early stages of fully-fledged operation .
10 ‘ So if the hoped for vatable activity is tagged on to an existing business the Customs and Excise or the Tribunals , may refuse to accept the activity as a business and so deny the VAT registration , ’ says .
11 Frame the shot in the viewfinder , and gently press the camera button to start the shot while holding the picture steady .
12 I only want the television page
13 Is the Prime Minister aware that people in my constituency of Blyth Valley eagerly await the RECHAR money ?
14 Down the middle so put the pencil sort of in the middle
15 ‘ I only hope the Christmas pudding is all right , ’ said Christine anxiously .
16 With a loud thud the barn flap flew up and Knocker , with a speed contrary to his barn door dimensions , stood between them .
17 Additional problems are created by the heaviness of the monsoon rains which not only wash the sulphur dioxide and oxides of nitrogen out of the air and over the marble but further erode any weaknesses in the stone .
18 Mr Clark , who stood as a parliamentary candidate in Motherwell North at the last election , added : ‘ I very much welcome the council group decision to demonstrate its confidence in Alex Salmond . ’
19 So let the Review Board eat its words , when I win the annual all-industry award for originality .
20 ( e ) If , as is normal , the regulations merely give the directors power to refuse to register , as opposed to making their passing of transfers a condition precedent to registration , the transferee is entitled to be registered unless the directors resolve as a board to reject .
21 Why did British fiction so suddenly revive the conte philosophique in the years around the war 's ending , along with its fierce , diagrammatic crudities of tone and substance ?
22 Law-abiding Teds were urged to throw away their zoot suits , and so repudiate the hooligan element — an initiative that entirely flopped .
23 A strategy , such as the present Government 's , of increasing the degree of means-testing or ‘ targeting ’ within the social security system is likely to deter even larger numbers of older people from claiming benefit , and so extend the age discrimination of the system .
24 In the long run the Phillips curve is vertical because consistent expectations and outturns are established so that the equilibrium real wage and the natural rate of output obtain .
25 Bob and Beryl Owen bought the Hall in 1978 and they both greatly enjoy the guest house business .
26 He said , it 's happened before and he advised her to go to the police and er so he , he said er when and the police told her when you come back we 'll have all this typed out , your statement but we 'll need you to sign so tell the coach driver to stay at , stop at the police station for you to sign it and I , I said to her , how , how did you manage to stop that boy ?
27 So pack the sun oil !
28 With a loud twang the Doom Diver is propelled high into the air , his exulted cries and excited squeaks gradually dimming as he becomes a tiny speck above the Goblin army .
29 Faced with his second mutiny in barely a day Jones agreed , though insisting his men must not search or damage the house but merely demand the family silver .
30 This one contains henna and protein which gently penetrate the hair shaft .
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