Example sentences of "[vb base] [prep] the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We distinguish between the independent financial entity and the competitive units it owns . |
| 2 | And if the murderer were an outsider , then how account for the locked front door , the intact alarm system , and the fact that Lorrimer must have let him in ? |
| 3 | Because neither business organizations nor the public regard the maximization of owners ’ profit as the only legitimate aim of business , distributable profit can no longer be regarded as the sole or premier indicator of performance . |
| 4 | His first priority was to climb on to the rim of the sink and peer through the upper left-hand corner of the kitchen window . |
| 5 | Perhaps if we are American we long for the early seventeenth-century Puritan theocracy of New England . |
| 6 | So why not make things hard for yourself and send for the full Just Desks catalogue or call in at our showrooms and see everything else we can offer you . |
| 7 | SEND FOR THE FREE TITAN BROCHURE OF YOUR CHOICE |
| 8 | In the last , MacMillan 's choreography makes Bratfisch , the prince 's coachman , appear as the only sympathetic yet helpless onlooker at the sordid proceedings . |
| 9 | Yeah well that 's what I was gon na say , so forget about the other blue ones they can have that . |
| 10 | ALWAYS known by his initials , J.P.M.Millar for more than 40 years ran the National Council of Labour Colleges ; an organisation which through classes , lectures , weekend and summer schools , and the massive number of correspondent courses organised by his wife Christine , provided shots and shell for the emerging Labour movement . |
| 11 | ALWAYS known by his initials , JPM Millar ran the National Council of Labour Colleges for over 40 years ; an organisation which through classes , lectures , weekend and summer schools , and the massive number of correspondent courses organised by his wife Christine , provided shots and shell for the emerging Labour Movement . |
| 12 | For parameter values , and r increasing from 1 , numerical simulations of the Lorenz equations show the following behaviour : ( 1 ) For 1 { r { 13.926 , all numerically computed trajectories spiral into the stable stationary points C+ . |
| 13 | Their behaviour was at times appalling ; when little they would spend long stretches of each class on the floor behind the benches , playing with bits of mercury , pricking it with needles and pen nibs , watching it slip into the coarse splintery cracks of the dusty floorboards , and forcing it out again , marvelling at the way it shrugged the dirt off its rounded shoulders . |
| 14 | Descend into the secret underground haunts of the Smugglers of Hastings . |
| 15 | He and I do not perhaps instantly fit into the standard parliamentary stereotypes of the steady old stallion and the keen young foal who are usually harnessed together for this occasion . |
| 16 | I disagree with the right hon. Member for Guildford . |
| 17 | An exceptionally rare occasion — the intensely moving concert-drama by Arthur Honegger , to the poem of Paul Claudel , calls for massive forces … 4 actors , 5 solo singers , children 's choir , double chorus and large symphony orchestra featuring an ondes martenot under the brilliant young American conductor David Robinson . |
| 18 | It tends to ignore some of the more interesting theoretical issues concerned with the ways in which Chomskyan notions of Universal Grammar interact with the immediate linguistic , cognitive and contextual features that are the properties of individual children and fails to suggest how research into language acquisition is developing in other areas . |
| 19 | Maggie awaken from the damp heavy warmth of Ted 's body dead in sleep and the blankets piled on the single bed with a dip in the middle brushes her hair and clutches back at the ribbon of dreams from the night before . |
| 20 | When they first appear in the early Ordovician the majority of nautiloid shells are straight or slightly curved ; they are ‘ unwound ’ forms . |
| 21 | Details of courses for returners organised by nursing agencies or commercial conference organisations appear in the national weekly nursing press from time to time and in local newspapers . |
| 22 | I like to watch the phosphorescence curling away from the hull and I like to watch the brilliant specks of light fade in the black deep water far in the ship 's wake . |
| 23 | There were several other plates dotted about the table , one containing best gammon sandwiches , another holding generous helpings of pork pie , and the others mostly displaying white and brown triangles of bread and butter , to be heaped with a liberal spoonful of the plum preserve from the small barrel-shaped pot nearby . |
| 24 | He flicked his hand and I thought I saw a few spots of red appear on the shiny white tile beside me . |
| 25 | The cupola and pendentives descend to the great flat sides , pierced by semi-circular headed windows and the arcades below . |
| 26 | She had a particularly fine line in funeral cards , ’ he overheard the tall fat soutane say to the small fat soutane as he wandered by . |
| 27 | Try to relate the interim end-result of everything you do , decide or say to the overall profitable contribution expected of you at the year 's end . |
| 28 | MIDDLESBROUGH and Cleveland Harriers were third to take the bronze medals in the youths race at the national cross-country championships at Newark . |
| 29 | Nowadays , though , only bassist Simmons and guitarist/vocalist Paul Stanley remain of the original be-costumed quartet , originals Paul ‘ Ace ’ Frehley and drummer Peter Criss having ‘ retired ’ with alledged drink and drug-related problems . |
| 30 | Check out agencies , such as the London-based Cornerstone ( 071–486 5551 ) , which act for the large financial institutions and handle their repossessions . |