Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] the [adj -er] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Long I have lingered by the banks of the Ness , looking on the town clinging to and rising above its banks ; often have I gone to the castle hill to trace the windings of the stream , which was ever smiling back or reflecting the sadder tones of the sky , and to gaze on the distant land of mountain and plain ; and I have also spent many hours in rapt admiration of the sylvan pictures that render the walk through the islands on the Ness a walk of walks : it yielded a joy as deep as that I received from the walks on Goat Island , within hearing and seeing of the rapid-flowing waters of Niagara . |
| 2 | John 's case also suggests how the perceptions of those professionals involved at an early stage of an assessment and the actions that follow may influence , direct or constrain the later perceptions and actions of other professionals . |
| 3 | We ca n't free enough capital to buy new sites and develop the earlier ones as we 'd like . |
| 4 | Previous losses have fallen heavily on members of some syndicates , giving rise to claims that insiders have diverted the best business to selected syndicates and channelled the higher risks and charges to ‘ dustbin ’ syndicates , with a high proportion of investors with little or no knowledge of the business . |
| 5 | She suggested we try and cook in turns and bring the smaller children to play together in the workshop . |
| 6 | At the time of writing we have had two productive days clearing the front of the Horderley station platform and building the lower courses of the new facing wall . |
| 7 | Although the village of Villeneuve-Renneville is located on the plains beneath the Côte des Blancs , its vineyards are set back , and occupy the lower slopes of le Mesnil-sur-Oger . |
| 8 | He has to abandon some of his contemporary behaviour and to accept the older patterns prevalent among the majority of the congregation . |
| 9 | This process appears to have the potential to offer the most elegant solution and to accept the larger volumes demanded by the public and legislators . |
| 10 | Two decades later , policyholders who have contracts which provide just a return of premiums on death , with that amount ravaged by inflation in the intervening period , have compared the modern alternative and found the earlier contracts wanting . |
| 11 | Some policyholders who have contracts which provide just a return of premiums on death have compared the modern alternative and found the earlier contracts wanting |
| 12 | In the twelfth century came a wave of Cistercian expansion to add to and replace the earlier foundations . |
| 13 | Thus , a statute of 1543 condemned ‘ untrue ’ translations of the Bible and forbade the lower orders to read even those licensed by the government . |
| 14 | The bold make-up she affected was all wrong today ; it hid nothing , and accentuated the harsher signs of ageing . |
| 15 | and I both shouted and told the younger pupils to move back and get into a single line . |
| 16 | He gave his scalp a good scratch , then smoothed his hair down as best he could and twisted the longer bits at the back into a coil which he stuffed inside his collar . |
| 17 | ‘ But you must put your feet up and let the younger ones get on with being busy for a change . |
| 18 | The effect is the opposite to taking logs : squaring stretches out the upper values and compresses the lower ones , and cubing does so even more powerfully . |
| 19 | Instead , Petherbridge has created a charming eccentric shambles , demonstrating the movement exercises of a 19th century Professor of Stage Deportment and Declamation , speaking Shakespeare while spinning plates and splashing the wilder shores of directorial ambition : ‘ One ca n't , ’ he purrs with delight , ‘ walk across the stage without bumping into several concepts . ’ |
| 20 | Earlier , less advanced forms were driven south by the expansion of superior types in Asia , Africa and America , but occasionally a barrier appeared that held back the advance and allowed the earlier forms to take refuge in an isolated southern area . |
| 21 | The BB was formed , wrote Smith , because of the need ‘ to improve the discipline of the Sunday School ; to hold and interest the older boys , and to reach them and influence them , not only on Sunday , but all through the week ’ . |
| 22 | Anti-terrorist officers were quickly on the scene and investigating the further reports of suspect devices . |
| 23 | Therefore the EC central banks made arrangements to sell the stronger currencies when they threatened to break through the snake ceiling and to buy the weaker currencies when they seemed likely to fall through the snake floor . |
| 24 | This compares the performance of different units within the group , and gets the weaker members to adopt the practices of the best . |
| 25 | It was a new dichotomy , to confuse and criss-cross the older ones of class and party . |
| 26 | The farmers of Devon and Somerset around Exmoor and in ‘ soft ’ country wanted a stick-and-dog beef animal and selected the lighter types among the Red Wessex , heavier at the rear and lighter in the forequarters . |
| 27 | Suki — ‘ I hate being called Susannah ’ — will also host a question and answer session and outline the finer points of good stroke discipline . |
| 28 | It will operate only in urban areas — hence the lower cost — but once out of town the caller can transfer to the existing cell system and pay the higher charges . |
| 29 | Apply the palest colour over your eyelid up to the browbone , and use the darker colours for emphasis at the outside corners of your eyes . |
| 30 | The seaside photographer who promises ‘ Memories to treasure ’ with every happy snap might have been present at every major golfing occasion in the Eighties as the players of the age showed their capacity for repeating and exceeding the highwater marks of the very recent past . |