Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun sg] [to-vb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our rotten mainmast began whipping sickeningly to and fro and required five men constantly clinging to its lee mainstay to cushion the strain . |
| 2 | The purpose of this relief is to permit the bobbin case hook to pass the needle without touching it . |
| 3 | It remains to be seen just how much public money has had to be promised for the Heathrow to central London fast rail link to break the deadlock between airports operator BAA and British Rail . |
| 4 | Customs have now used the Polysar decision to review the position and have stated that they will deny recovery of input VAT incurred by a holding company in carrying out its basic functions . |
| 5 | Robinson smiled as he lifted the plastic cover from the slop bucket to reveal a lump of excrement . |
| 6 | The hydrogens are probably removed one by one : first , the methane loses a hydrogen atom to give the methyl radical , CH 3 , and extremely reactive fragment . |
| 7 | You do not need to be on income support to get a crisis loan but you must be able to show that it is the only means of preventing serious risk to you or your partner 's health and safety . |
| 8 | Do not overfeed , only place in the tank enough brine shrimp to match the size of the brood . |
| 9 | On 8 October , the Swedish government seems to have side- stepped its own strict wolf protection laws by pressuring the National Environmental Protection Board to issue a licence for her to be taken into captivity . |
| 10 | The men , who covered 1,350 miles unaided and set two world records , were said to be ‘ more dead than alive ’ when they radioed their base camp to request an airlift . |
| 11 | I have to make decisions every second about when I leave the rhythm guitar part to play the melody and how I balance between switching the pickup selection , reach over , mute the strings and play . |
| 12 | On Oct. 18 the House approved , by 379 votes to 37 , another stop-gap funding measure to enable the government to keep operating for another week . |
| 13 | In addition , a purchaser should have the necessary funding support to complete the deal . |
| 14 | The Dolphin SCI Technology A/S arm of Oslo , Norway-based Dolphin Server Technology A/S , already has an agreement with Vitesse Semiconductor Corp to make chips for its Scalable Coherent Interface high-speed bus in Gallium Arsenide — it runs at 1Gbps — and with Convex Computer Corp to use the thing . |
| 15 | In particular , this instrument was used during the case study to examine the information needs of customers in terms of time , security , reliability etc , and to decide how these factors might be improved . |
| 16 | Finally , draught-proof the point where the sashes meet by pinning on a length of plastic or metal spring strip excluder to cover the gap . |
| 17 | This is common at the beginning of a behaviour change programme to enhance the process and speed up the initial rate of change . |
| 18 | Activists in rich countries will organise consumer boycotts of genetically engineered foods , while farmers in the south take action to oppose the patenting of genes . |
| 19 | The initiative comes from the industry following the setting-up of the first Chinese Takeaway Association to represent the country 's 10,000 shops . |
| 20 | THE International Equestrian Federation is taking action to combat both physical abuse of horses and drug misuse to protect the reputation of the sport , writes Genevieve Murphy . |
| 21 | In 1980 he moved to the computer industry to develop the use of microcomputers in the personnel field . |
| 22 | Neil Jenkins ’ restart was gathered by Gary Armstrong and the scrum-half , like some meteorological mystic , harnessed the swirling gusts in the corridor down the east stand side to hoof the ball a gargantuan 70 metres . |
| 23 | In 1980 , three ‘ Laura Ashley ’ shops opened in Atlanta , Georgia , Baltimore , Maryland and Costa Mesa , California , and Laura derived great pleasure from travelling to the West Coast to attend the opening of this shop . |
| 24 | In the Central Market in San Salvador , the manager , General Noel Aparicio , created a special uniformed and armed vigilante force to intimidate the market women , " It got to the point where we felt we were entering a prison , not a market . |
| 25 | inputRoutines — Two low-level routines allowing the choice of an option and user action to end a wait period by a key press . |
| 26 | Ten years now he had lived in Vienna , fourteen since he had quit Russia for the last time , twenty-two since the day he had realized his boyhood ambition to become an officer in the St. Petersburg Grenadiers . |
| 27 | Tap any direction key to remove the highlighting from the text |
| 28 | Tap any direction key to remove the highlighting from the text |
| 29 | ( Tap a direction key to clear the highlight ) Proofread , correct , SAVE and log your work ( filename : YourInitials27 , see Task 4 ) . |
| 30 | The miraculous moment of transmutation , when lead turns into gold , as it were , can be proven to have taken place at the precise second when the first buyer hands over his American Express card to add the foreskin of the Infant Jesus or a mummified fish from the Miraculous Drought of Fishes to his collection . |