Example sentences of "[vb base] [noun] [verb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They fear plans to widen the availability of alcohol licenses could see off many traditional pubs . |
| 2 | Salvage experts extinguished a fire on an Iranian oil tanker early yesterday and stemmed a leak that had caused a 30-mile oil slick 100 miles off Morocco , a maritime official said . |
| 3 | In short , the phylogenetic basis of the id seems most definitely to be a set of basically egoistic and anti-social sexual and aggressive drives which cause all men to see each other as sexual rivals and which make sons desire the death of their fathers for possession of the mother and sisters . |
| 4 | His mistakes usually make Lukic pick the ball out of the net . |
| 5 | It 's like people who eat marmalade has no peel in it . |
| 6 | Bath/shower mixers have a connection for a shower hose and a diverter so that flow can be directed to the shower ( see Chapter 8 ) . |
| 7 | When we finally make proposals to build a repository we must be confident they will satisfy safety standards that are amongst the toughest in the world . |
| 8 | SR1 and SR2 are the send/receive switches connecting the transmitting or receiving equipment to the cable , while SS1 and SS2 are variable low resistance transmitting shunts . |
| 9 | When you borrow money to buy a car , the bank claims the car as ‘ security ’ . |
| 10 | Indeed , for some purposes its cheapness and speed make quota sampling a procedure which could be more extensively used in some academic research where a general indication of the attitudes extant in a specified population is required . |
| 11 | Yet if you accept that managers change styles to suit the occasion or their mood , it is a small step to suggest that they should aim for constructive change , either tactically or as a permanent shift . |
| 12 | Judge Slack said the law must take its course . |
| 13 | Hold down Alt and tap P to cancel the paragraph reformatting |
| 14 | Loperamide oxide increased the rate of gastric emptying but slowed both small intestinal and whole gut transit . |
| 15 | I want Mum to ask the doctor why they keep testing me — what do they think is wrong ? |
| 16 | Leaks from inside DEC say OpenVMS runs a lot better on the Alpha platforms than OSF/1 does . |
| 17 | Patricia Beachy and Jane Deacon , writing in the American Journal of Gynecologic and Neonatal Nursing , suggest strategies to increase the safety of neonates while they are in hospital . |
| 18 | Piotr Prabucki scored a consolation in the 73rd minute when he sent an angled shot into the net off Digby 's fingertips . |
| 19 | Every year a significant number of babies are born with facial defects , such as a cleft lip or palate , and many undergo operations to rectify the damage . |
| 20 | First , he points out that the process of ostensive definition , whereby the solipsist attempts to give a meaning to the term ‘ pain ’ by pointing ( mentally ) to a sensation , is one which only works when we already have a background of conceptual knowledge , and can not be used to construct such knowledge from a blank sheet . |
| 21 | Champion Kasparov said the match would definitely take place in Britain and Manchester had not been ruled out . |
| 22 | Now we expect operators to identify the root cause and make the problem go away themselves , ’ said factory systems manager . |
| 23 | Head west to reach the head of a stream , Twrch Fechan , where the idea is to pick up a right of way travelling south-east to return to the walk starting point . |
| 24 | They say Mind presumed an inquiry would involve the families and those advising them and we were astonished when it did not . |
| 25 | On the other hand , if the arguments for accruals accounting are accepted , then fund accounting requires an operating statement and a balance sheet for each fund . |
| 26 | They run parallel to the Alpine Fault , a remarkably straight transform fault representing the boundary between the Indian and Pacific Plates . |
| 27 | Keifer Sutherland plays the boyfriend , and after three years he 's still obsessed with the search for his lost love . |
| 28 | Keifer Sutherland plays the boyfriend , and after three years he 's still obsessed with the search for his lost love . |
| 29 | Trobriand islanders use the tug-of-war , cricket , the collection of yams and great and freely expressed sexual enthusiasm as the planks of their complicated beliefs . |
| 30 | Peers urge PM to back the charter . |