Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under a local anaesthetic , a whisk-like device will be passed down a fine tube into the gall bladder and rotated at 30,000 revolutions a minute , mincing the gallstones to a paste which is then sucked out through a tube . |
| 2 | In these struggles , Bourdieu generalizes the model from Weber 's sociology of religion and speaks of avant-garde ‘ prophets ’ supporting heterodoxy and modernist autonomization in struggle versus bureaucratic ‘ priests ’ who support orthodoxy . |
| 3 | ‘ Garbage wrapped in silk is still garbage and stinks as such , my friend . |
| 4 | Because of this : the exposure of the Social Democrats , the exposure of the Second International , the liberation of the working masses from the influence of Social Democracy , the isolation and overcoming of Social Democracy , is the immediate task for the Communist Parties . |
| 5 | My mother wanted to live a posh life and have dinner parties with other rich Jews and cook gefilte fish and wear a wig and dance with fashionable rabbis at weddings , you can imagine how Dad took to that . |
| 6 | Any substance can be converted into a homoeopathic remedy and used in this way . |
| 7 | reprints from the stereotype plates of the double-columned Cheap Edition , with a different frontispiece and bound in pictorial green glazed boards . |
| 8 | One of Minton 's lithographs , Jamaica , was printed under the auspices of the Artists ' International Association and sold at four guineas , with discount for schools and institutions . |
| 9 | Detlef Starck and Ralf Nielebock , both from Dusseldorf , are in North Wales on a visit arranged through the International Police Association and aimed at improving links between different forces . |
| 10 | It 's the very essence of human beings to call in question every form of life , every form of thought , and to raise the possibility of thinking and living in some other way , and perhaps just for this very reason , some final and definitive formulation of the , of human nature , of human knowledge , of human conduct , is in principle unobtainable , and that the best that the philosopher can ever hope to do , is to show that this formulation , that formulation or the other wo n't work . |
| 11 | For one thing it is for the Holy Spirit to tell us in that hour what we are to say , and for another thing the people we prove to be in that hour will be determined , not by our thinking about that hour , but by our thinking and living in this hour . |
| 12 | He did n't doubt there were many others also who had brothers , fathers or sons among the fifty thousand Irishmen slain in the Great War and who had to swallow their grief and mourn in private . |
| 13 | The three special ambassadors sent to James II in 1685 , for example , to congratulate him on his coronation and ask for English help against the Turks , unsuccessfully demanded privileges which were regarded as quite unjustified — to be " conducted " at their audience with the king by a duke rather than as usual a mere earl and for their coaches to be allowed to enter the courtyard of the royal palace . |
| 14 | Possibly the Edinburgh-Glasgow push-pull trains represented the sector 's highest quality product , being formed of Mark 3 stock and powered by smart and newly overhauled Class 47/7 locomotives . |
| 15 | Then add the sesame paste or peanut butter , remaining soy sauce , chilli oil , remaining salt and chicken stock and simmer for 4 minutes . |
| 16 | Just look at the success that German Shepherd breeders had when they methodically examined their breeding stock and bred from those with the best hips . |
| 17 | At a time of crisis when teenagers and their parents ( or brothers and sisters ) are at loggerheads , angry and resentful , contracts provide an opportunity for the family to take stock and to break through vicious circles of retribution and unreason . |
| 18 | Would you please let me have the photos we supplied for your exhibition , so that they can be added to our stock and used by other people . |
| 19 | Increase the heat under the stock and reduce by half . |
| 20 | A more gender-balanced communication requires that there be a process of redefinition and change in all areas of human activity . |
| 21 | When a nerve impulse gets there this chemical is released by the nerve terminal , crosses the narrow cleft and reacts with special receptors on the muscle side of the junction , which , when they 're stimulated by this chemical , lead to muscle contraction . |
| 22 | Its running expenses are provided by Marburg University , and Volkswagen and IBM are paying handsomely for its computerisation and networking to other institutions . |
| 23 | If found guilty , he will be Russia 's most prolific serial killer and qualify as one of the most depraved mass murderers of all time . |
| 24 | Or just complete and send us the application form overleaf , and we shall send your membership card and pack within 28 days . |
| 25 | Or just complete and send us the application form overleaf , and we shall send your membership card and pack within 28 days . |
| 26 | Or just complete and send us the application form overleaf , and we shall send your membership card and pack within 28 days . |
| 27 | Scott looks back at it as someone who has learned a great deal and contributed to shifting opinion about private and statutory sector relationships . |
| 28 | Unfortunately , difficulty is often experienced in getting fertilizer down to the roots without lifting and replanting in fresh compost or otherwise considerably fouling the water . |
| 29 | Lovat had gone , probably tied to a stretcher , placed on a jeep and taken at full speed to the First Aid post . |
| 30 | Quite apart from the obvious undesirability of verbal agreements for the sale or purchase of land , no transfer of land can be validly achieved in France other than by an acte de vente , which is a notarial document prepared by a Notary and signed by all parties or their Attorneys before him … |