Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb -s] [adv prt] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the retailer builds up a good relationship with his customers they will keep coming back — and maybe tell their friends . |
| 2 | This high level is a primary risk in heart disease , since excess cholesterol builds up a sticky silt-like deposit in the arteries , impeding the passage of blood and increasing the pressure on the heart . |
| 3 | IBM Corp is to supply the Norwegian government 's Supercomputing Committee with two RS/6000 PowerServer 980s and 12 Model 580 workstations linked as a cluster : hosted by the University of Oslo , the installation kicks off a three-year joint venture project between IBM and Norway 's supercomputing centre . |
| 4 | The main route goes along a narrow elevated ridge from Gray Crag to Thornthwaite Crag where you 'll find the tallest cairn in the Lake District at around 20ft high . |
| 5 | As a complement to a career based on forgetting the past , the play sketches out an alternative one based on remembering . |
| 6 | Chef turns up the racing heat |
| 7 | My dilemma points up a basic dichotomy in the educational aims of the school . |
| 8 | Young children do imitate the aggressive acts of televised models as much as live models ; furthermore , this effect persists over a considerable period of time and is particularly pronounced when the aggressive model is portrayed as successful . |
| 9 | The DJ fills out the early evening playing the most obvious indie-dance records , as he will finish the evening . |
| 10 | In such a case , the freight forwarder fills out a proprietary or neutral air waybill form , which bears the issuing airline 's identification , and inserts the number of the air waybill of the first airline to fly the goods ( often referred to as the ‘ master ’ air waybill ) . |
| 11 | Just because yours is n't as good , her mind fills in the blank space . |
| 12 | Overhead , a great circle of dark azure swirls round a gleaming crescent moon and into it , majestically , in the last light , sails Yr Wyddfa , as if to remind us that her magic lives . |
| 13 | The second deterrent is a financial one : course participants do not have to pay fees , since the course itself is financed by the DES , but they do have to fund their living costs over a ten-week period — a not inconsiderable financial commitment . |
| 14 | The action revolves around a failed robbery and the attempts of the various hoods involved ( all dressed in black suits and ties and given colour-coded aliases ) to figure out which one of their number is an undercover cop . |
| 15 | Basic research takes up a tiny percentage of that life sciences budget . |
| 16 | The light travels down an open tube until it hits a curved mirror at the bottom ; the rays are then sent back up the tube on to a smaller , flat mirror placed at an angle of 45 degrees , so that the rays are directed into the side of the tube , where an image is formed and magnified by an eyepiece . |
| 17 | Erm Freud 's hypothesis is that this religion left Egypt because of the persecution , Moses was one of Akhenaten 's followers who went out into the desert , erm here as I 'll explain in the lectures er some of my own research opens up a new angle on this that Freud did n't know about and why they went out into the desert , why they picked up these er Hebrew erm er immigrants who were living on the fringes of the Egyptian Empire . |
| 18 | The Mail keeps up the relentless post-election good news : ‘ Birds are nesting . |
| 19 | The defender takes up a left fighting stance ( all combinations are best practised from the fighting stance , as this allows a greater amount of protection and freedom of movement ) and faces the attacker , who executes a front kick to the defender 's mid-section . |
| 20 | The next chapter takes up a particular , rather special case of explosive , runaway evolution , the case that Darwin called sexual selection . |
| 21 | Being at the other end of an extremely hostile divorce suit can be a very nasty experience — especially when your expartner cranks up an aggressive lawyer to screw you . |
| 22 | But the term takes on a specific meaning in those studies in the sociology of policing which are inspired by ethnomethodology and phenomenology , where it describes a quality of the accomplishment of these tasks — that they are produced in a taken-for-granted , commonsensical , and habitual manner . |
| 23 | Wire wool takes on a new meaning when you see Sophie Ryder 's flock of sheep at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park . |
| 24 | To lend naive party cheer , the young American DJ whacks up the dry ice machine which spurts more of its obnoxious fumes into the heart of the room . |
| 25 | In order to show the relations between power and the ‘ ordinariness ’ of ordinary living , the chapter picks out a particular ideological moment . |
| 26 | This Code of Practice sets out the basic practices employed by Midland Bank and its subsidiary companies in connection with their lending to personal customers in the United Kingdom . |
| 27 | A mindless act of violence sets off a chilling , psychologically tense tale . |
| 28 | Chanel sums up the new colour and shape of accessories . |
| 29 | Before detailing the two main components of LMS , this introductory chapter sets out the general framework of change . |
| 30 | If you prefer to mount a stalwart defence you can wait behind long lines of hand gunners , massed ranks of halberdiers and hold important positions with volley guns while your artillery softens up the advancing enemy . |