Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] the [det] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The next stage is to find a piece of plastic or card tube which will just slide snugly over the wound coil to provide the former for the pickup coils . |
| 2 | But the 25-year-old flyer made the most of his come-back chance when he starred in last weekend 's win at Derby . |
| 3 | His achievements to date were listed : charges laid on the railway in the Tobruk area on the night of 14 October ; a failed attempt to do the same near Sidi Barani which resulted in the death of the patrol commander , Lieutenant Shorten ; two further breaks in the railway on 24 October ; nine breaks on 29 October , and finally another attack on the track on 31 October . |
| 4 | In June 1940 Britain proposed an ‘ indissoluble union ’ to France , in a last desperate bid to keep the latter in the war . |
| 5 | However , the discovery that the speed of light appeared the same to every observer , no matter how he was moving , led to the theory of relativity — and in that one had to abandon the idea that there was a unique absolute time . |
| 6 | ( The same critic said the same of Little Big Man . ) |
| 7 | If traditional metaphor brings together two semantic fields by means of a similarity of signifieds , then the pun does the same by virtue of a homonymy or similarity of signifiers . |
| 8 | The view is excellent from all seats , although the two passengers in the middle of the benches have to lean from side to side to make the most of it . |
| 9 | Within the overall pattern we must look very carefully for the local variations , realize the implications of both soil and climate , and plan our holding to make the most of the resources . |
| 10 | And in an attempt to make the most of very limited quotas , even licensed vessels have been dumping back into the sea all but first-class specimens — an outrageous practice that fisheries minister Helmut Angula says Namibia ‘ will not tolerate . ’ |
| 11 | HARTLEPOOL South made the most of nearest Marske Eppleton being on cup duty to open up their lead at the top . |
| 12 | The assumption that the universe looks the same in every direction is clearly not true in reality . |
| 13 | Filmed like DORRIT in Edzard 's own studio at Rotherhithe , THE FOOL recalls the former in a palpable recreation of a vanished world : a world of physical and spiritual claustrophobia , evoked with an almost fetishistic attention to detail . |
| 14 | We believe it only on grounds of modesty : it would be most remarkable if the universe looked the same in every direction around us , but not around other points in the universe ! |
| 15 | Dotty and Grace had gone in the ambulance with St Ives and Desmond Fairchild was in the Oyster Bar making the most of the unexpected drinking time . |
| 16 | With a flat-rate charge , each household pays the same for its water , whatever its size . |
| 17 | The willingness of part-time farmers to go on training courses demonstrates their determination to make the most of their farms . |
| 18 | But there 's no mistaking Madge 's absolute technical control and his determination to make the most of the grand old man 's music . |
| 19 | In terms of Henry Thornton 's antithesis between reputation and religion and the need to sacrifice the former to the latter if it aided the antislavery cause , Clarkson had sometimes seemed too attached to reputation . |
| 20 | What must be hurting him today is that others did not have the courage to do the same to him . |
| 21 | It is our aim to do the same on the draft treaty on political union . |
| 22 | ‘ I babysit for them about once a fortnight while Graham stays at home with our own children , and she or her husband do the same for us , ’ explains Sally . |
| 23 | Thomas fitzBernard as Chief Justice of the Forest heard Forest pleas in twenty-nine counties between 1178 and 1180 , and his successor Geoffrey fitzPeter did the same between 1184 and 1185 . |
| 24 | But what are the chances of having the financial security to make the most of retirement ? |
| 25 | In the presence of calmodulin , its K m increased to 33μM , but its Hill coefficient remained the same at 3.8 . |
| 26 | Their failure to make the most of the scientific literature seems to begin early in their academic careers . |
| 27 | A child , named Lewis after his father , was born to Goram and his wife 18 months ago , and added another stabilising dimension to the life of a player now consumed by the need to make the most of the gifts that were handed down from father to son . |
| 28 | 4 Make a rough diagram of your design and determine whether it is appropriate to the size of the site , e.g. a herb border on the grand scale will not be successful in an area 3 x 3 metres ( 10 x 10 ft ) ; in other words the proportions of the design should be such that there is room to make the most of them in the area concerned . |
| 29 | Only a noise directly ahead at eye level sounds the same to both ears . |
| 30 | Basically this involves using the right foot to draw the ball into the post from the left side of the field and the left foot to do the same from the right side . |