Example sentences of "[vb base] [coord] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 They should have rushed back here , started up the engines and dashed out to sea , and we 'd have sent a police launch or the local equivalent of the Customs and Excise after them . ’
2 The ‘ change of life-style ’ argument is unsound because the change is not necessarily greater the further you fly or the more time zones you cross .
3 Honour and the Unattainable Ideal .
4 If he is , he will know that the CBI opposes absolutely the reintroduction of the labour laws that the Opposition propose , the tax changes that the Opposition propose and the minimum wage that the Opposition have in mind .
5 But the six-day week , the 7.5 hour shift and the other things that make Asforby possible would be impossible if things were left to the National Union of Mineworkers .
6 and he 's attitude was in the end well if you do n't want the education as it comes , we 'll teach you the education that you want and the first thing was
7 class room , give the children an exercise to do and that was it , they did it , and no questions were asked and that 's how they want and the other guy was he just did it himself he , he was n't abusive but he , he was n't good with the kids and
8 The first is that the book is written for engineers ; project management is for many the first form of management they encounter and the first form to which they are appointed .
9 The fact that it has not happened says a great deal both about the appointments process and the legal profession .
10 The results of sequential APGPR propeptide assay of urine and serum were analysed using the Wilcoxon matched pairs signed ranks test and the urinary APGPR concentrations and excretion from normal and morbidly obese groups analysed using the Kruskal-Wallis one way analysis of variance ( ANOVA ) .
11 SilverPlatter and the Royal Society of Chemistry have announced the availability of Analytical Abstracts ( AA ) on CD-ROM .
12 There was a fireplace too , as there was in Remove and the other first-floor classrooms , Six and Upper Six , and in the Staff Common Room .
13 Only in the late nineteenth century did these contracts generally disappear and instead the land was sold or let and the old people lived off the cash proceeds .
14 Despite all the publicity that the homeless receive and the many organisations set up to help them , there are still desperate people who do not know how to get help .
15 Scottish Television should be congratulated on The Munros Show and the new series will be eagerly watched by many .
16 Felts come in various thicknesses , the thicker they are the more they cost and the better protection they 'll give your carpet .
17 The items fill one or two column inches and are meant to amuse ; the sexual innuendoes abound and the implicit humour is of the seaside postcard variety .
18 They say that first impressions count and the first thing you notice about the new Dan 486DX/50 is that it 's heavy .
19 The giant cells of the caterpillar 's body die and the dormant cell clusters suddenly begin to divide rapidly , nourishing themselves on the soup of the disintegrated caterpillar body .
20 Woodsmoke and the pungent aroma of apples and Michaelmas daisies spiced the dusk .
21 John Stuart Mill remarks in A System of Logic ( Book VI , Chapter 7 ) : ‘ It is not the empirical generalisations that count but the causal laws which explain them . ’
22 Does my hon. Friend agree that the principal attraction of grant-maintained schools is not the additional funding that they receive but the greater independence from the LEAs that they then enjoy ?
23 One after the other , the bubbles plop and the rough edges sizzle back just like they 're being eaten away by invisible acid .
24 One little push and the whole world 's one , no woman 's better than the next !
25 Then the male fertilizes the eggs once they are inside his pouch and then he looks after them until they hatch and the poor male staggers around with an enormous great pouch full of wriggling er baby sea horses until they 're finally born .
26 The eggs hatch and the young tadpoles develop within the froth until , at the appropriate time , the lower part liquefies and the tadpoles drop out and fall into the water below .
27 Caringolat and the other tutors at Por Tanssie would surely have been stupefied by such a lewd spectacle .
28 Berge and the entire Mitterrand government were made to look complete fools when , a few weeks later , he was appointed to succeed Sir Georg Solti as head of the Chicago Symphony — arguably the great powerhouse of American orchestras .
29 Figure 1 illustrates the appearance of HEp-2 cells with the strongly adherent control strain E851/71 , a weakly diffuse adherent biopsy isolate and the non-adherent control strain Sc13 .
30 The two major problems involved are related to the spelling changes that can occur when morphemes combine and the multiple segmentations that are possible for many words .
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