Example sentences of "[vb base] [coord] [adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er , Mr brought slavery into it , but no one had more slaves than India and the Moguls and what about suttee where widows were burned alive on the funeral pyres of their husbands and still leap and still the system was des er was stopped by the English Just a moment the door was opened by Mr talking about slavery we do n't shut it on |
| 2 | In practice materials generally only reach a small fraction of their theoretical strength before they break and so the release of strain energy is usually far less than the energy which would be provided by an equivalent weight of explosive . |
| 3 | Narrow the aperture of the microscope and then we shall have as accurate a knowledge of the photon 's direction as we please and thus the uncertainty in the momentum transferred to the electron will be controlled . |
| 4 | A model describing the cleavage of DNA by Eco K has been proposed [ 12 ] which suggests that this DNA should bind two endonuclease molecules which will translocate DNA until the endonuclease molecules meet and then the DNA should be cut . |
| 5 | One result of this difference of reference is that it is possible to construct sentences which will be analytic or contradictory on the one interpretation but not on the other : ( 11 ) Nikolai offered us the message decoded but it was not decoded when he offered it to us 4.2 One curious feature about these adjectives is that they somehow seem to modify not only the noun which they accompany but simultaneously the verb as well ; if this is a genuine observation it will be surprising on general grounds , since it would be decidedly abnormal in syntax for one element to simultaneously qualify two different items . |
| 6 | It was proposed that bile delivery into the distal ileum would inhibit ileal motor activity , by peptide YY ( PYY ) release and therefore the effect of luminal bile on motor activity was examined and PYY release measured . |
| 7 | Most children have their characters they like and so the theme may well choose itself , but I include some ideas . |
| 8 | and then they say there 's a trip going round at the brewery , er you can either have the er twenty five minute trip or the , the forty minute trip , whichever you want , well of course everybody says the twenty five and then the rep always , it says oh well these fellas have been four times before so we stop in the bar and you can have what you want , spirits whatever you like and then the bucket comes out and it 's , it 's smashing |
| 9 | Well I think and probably the rest of the Labour group operate in a rather different way from the way that 's just been outlined . |
| 10 | You know they do But anyway the point I was making was that they call it distant intimacy . |
| 11 | The A N C and other organizations were unbanned there was free activity people can meet others across the colour line if they so wish but basically the apartheid structures are in place still . |
| 12 | Right , erh what I 'd like to do then is er I say could you just introduce yourself or what you 're working on at the moment where you work and then the sort of presentations that you make er and then give us one of your objectives so that by the time we 've got right round the room we 'll er hopefully have everybody . |
| 13 | When most liquids freeze they crystallize and usually the crystal , being more orderly , is better packed and therefore more dense than the mother liquid . |
| 14 | The world heritage programme depends not just on what the sites represent but also the way they are looked after . |
| 15 | I feel quite firmly that the only way forward is to move to the situation where marketers control not only what they spend but also the presentation of sales results in terms of changes as a result of alternative contributory factors . |