Example sentences of "[noun sg] [coord] [verb] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Your partner should be lying down on his or her back with a cushion or rolled up towel under the knees to prevent any strain in the lumbar region . |
| 2 | By reducing the angle the jet can be used as a liquid broom sweeping debris and water to a drain or pick up point . |
| 3 | She was always clutching a fistful of sweets or biting into a between-meals snack of bread and condensed milk or scraping out bowls in which Aunt Margaret had mixed cake . |
| 4 | Ruth had a phase of bringing home flowers obtained during her days of truancy : daffodils and tulips perhaps picked from the park or swiped off graves . |
| 5 | If the alternative Freelink pickup and/or set down point is more than 10 miles away from the one your originally booked , we will contribute £5 per person towards any extra costs that may be incurred by you and £10 per person if the alternative is more than 30 miles away . |
| 6 | Its decisions could be positive , by directing investment or controlling both prices and production , or negative , through punishing those who ignored its decisions . |
| 7 | Not a sprinting or climbing specialist but a strong all-rounder who can be guaranteed to force the pace in long stages , controlling the peloton or chasing down breakaways . |
| 8 | Thus at any particular point in that debate ministers will have to weigh the merits of cutting the hospital building programme or holding down nurses ' salaries against raising the prescription charge , or of reducing the number of home students against charging a higher fee to overseas students . |
| 9 | For further information on the Blues Festival Programme or to set up interviews with musicians performing at the Blues Festival please contact : |
| 10 | The Tomahawk can not change course , choose alternative targets , fight off opposition or bring back pictures of the damage done . |
| 11 | Next I had to run errands and to do various little jobs like drawing a pint of vinegar from a big barrel in the warehouse or sawing up blocks of salt with a special saw into a prescribed thickness , ready to be packed in brown paper . |
| 12 | Anti-competitive behaviour is defined as ‘ conduct aimed at other companies/partnerships operating in the market , including practices seeking to prevent new entry or drive out competition through loss-making pricing ’ . |
| 13 | So we , we , we 're still working to middle peasants being able to earn twenty five or thirty percent of their income from exploitation , either hired labour or renting out land and we wo n't touch it at all . |
| 14 | The programme was devised in response to feedback from the previous term 's courses on assertiveness and time management , which suggested that one day courses did not allow for adequate reflection on the issues , practice or follow up discussion . |
| 15 | One of these is the pressure exerted by ice-crystal growth , the idea being that this is directional and that if the direction of growth is resisted by the wall of a void or crack then pressure will be exerted which may be sufficient to wedge the crack apart . |
| 16 | According to this , ethical propositions do not say something which can be either true or false in the sense of reporting or misreporting how things really are in some realm of values ( though we can call them ‘ true ’ or ‘ false ’ to signal our agreement or disagreement ) . |
| 17 | Consequently , I would like to suggest the following working distinction : learning refers to actions , beliefs , and so on , that come about either through direct imitation of others , or as a conditioned response to punishments and rewards ; invention refers to actions , beliefs , and so on , that result from internal processes of thinking and working out solutions to problems ( though acknowledging that such processes are influenced by the individual 's experience ) . |
| 18 | In the previous subsection I distinguished invention from learning by stressing the extent to which the former involves internal processes of thinking and working out solutions to problems . |
| 19 | It is a wonderful way of assuring the presence of core stock and building up stock in Dillons stores . |
| 20 | So I do feel for the chump who , late for a smart dinner party , dashes into the local off-licence and forks out £50 for a bottle of Mouton Rothschild 1988 . |
| 21 | Can not you trust me to ensure a square deal and to ensure even justice between man and man ? |
| 22 | Remove any debris from the garden pond and thin out plants showing signs of excessive growth . |
| 23 | The trust is preparing to launch its two-year appeal to pay off land purchase loans , improve road access for the disabled , provide parking , toilets and a wildlife pond and carry out site clearance . |
| 24 | This heats the interior of the prostate to around 45°C , probably improving blood circulation and flushing out infection . |
| 25 | He smashed a hole in the shop window using a hammer and grabbed about £3,000-worth of gold jewellery before making off on foot . |
| 26 | Fire crews broke into the back bedroom and pulled out Shona Smith , 16 months , and Gavin Hurley , 8 . |
| 27 | Now is the time for someone to make a movie and show how music and the summer of love has affected everything . |
| 28 | Tod and I are feeling so terrific that we 've joined a club and taken up tennis . |
| 29 | Cornelius stuck his head out of the window of the first-class sleeping compartment and breathed in Scotland . |
| 30 | It is important that the national epidemiological project ( the phenylketonuria register ) should continue to monitor the screening programme and follow up adolescents and young adults , as well as women of fertile age and their offspring , so that long term outcome can be documented . |