Example sentences of "[vb base] [prep] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 'How about repeating that line , like a chorus … |
| 2 | Peel potatoes , place in a pan with sufficient water to cover , bring to the boil then simmer for abut 3 mins , until tender . |
| 3 | Those differences in income with age which remain after considering each type of household separately can mainly be explained in terms of two factors . |
| 4 | It is clear that the Committee " s project of combating the " diseased " majority cultures and sustaining a healthy sense of Englishness by mobilizing literature in education , has little place for serving industrial needs . |
| 5 | We come here to what seems to me to be the central dilemma in second language pedagogy : the conditions appropriate for acquiring communicative resources are different from the conditions of their use . |
| 6 | Roughly chop the potatoes and cook in boiling salted water for 10 to 15 min or until soft . |
| 7 | Cook in boiling salted water until tender , about 12 min . |
| 8 | Cook in boiling salted water for 10 min , or until tender . |
| 9 | There s concern from backbenchers that the Government did n't wait for todays report before making last weeks announcement . |
| 10 | For the genealogist , however , the principal value of the returns lies in the help they provide in tracing elusive ancestors . |
| 11 | Certain daily newspapers delight in exposing wasteful practices in governmental departments , quasi-governmental agencies and soon . |
| 12 | You should have been a guerrilla leader , Sara , you delight in winning small skirmishes . " |
| 13 | We got about six sentences too deep in our conversation for her to institute personal questions about my background , without appearing offensive ( she had to treat me as a person now and not a peon ) , even for Asians who delight in asking pertinent questions as to age , income , etc. , unthinkable for more backward Europeans . |
| 14 | Wild sows appear to be aware of this danger , and often hesitate before lowering each foot to the group . |
| 15 | Elements of the new approach include looking at the cost of environmental degradation of an area in terms of : its effect on house prices ; the cost of alternative methods of transport ; the value local people place on maintaining environmental features intact ; and an assessment of the cost of replacement , for example moving a colony of badgers . |
| 16 | We build at getting better things , where if we do n't actually watch it , we build at getting worse at things . |
| 17 | Moreover , many clostridia generate H 2 from pyruvate via ferredoxin , whereas enterobacteria evolve the gas through cleavage of pyruvate by puruvate formate lyase . |
| 18 | She says they fly by sprinkling magic dust on their antlers . |
| 19 | I would have thought that support for marketing new ideas in the difficult early stages is an excellent investment of taxpayers ’ money . |
| 20 | Amdahl Tuxedo Transaction Manager 4.2 , based on the Unix System Laboratories Inc product , offers support for migrating some transaction processing applications to UTS from IBM Corp MVS systems while maintaining links to corporate databases in the MVS/CICS environment . |
| 21 | If this is the justification we seek for abandoning medical sex classification and resorting to a legal method , then it can not defend itself from reproach . |
| 22 | Erm she said about , you know , the thickness or the bulging er the information and worry about giving personal details and , and that was good , that was fine . |
| 23 | Orange Free State have won South Africa 's Nissan Shield limited-overs title after beating Eastern Province by four wickets . |
| 24 | After all , I put of starting this essay until five minutes ago . |
| 25 | So before we embark upon solving concrete examples let us turn to a graphical illustration of the electric field . |
| 26 | This does not of course mean that management control has detrimental effects in all companies , since that would be to ignore the significance of management values , and in any case the extent to which managers benefit from pursuing non-profit goals is unclear . |
| 27 | Will not people in Scotland quickly benefit from having several NHS trust hospitals ? |
| 28 | An opportunity to profit from this excellent Savings Plan and benefit from growing financial protection for your family |
| 29 | All urban groups contrive in maintaining cheap food prices-as well as international capital and contractors who have interests in copper mining in Zambia ( in order to keep the pressure of union militancy for higher wages from squeezing profits ) . |
| 30 | About 650 people die from smoking attributable diseases every year in South Tees and the bill for hospital care for smoking-related illnesses is £1,895,000 . |