Example sentences of "[coord] [adv prt] [to-vb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1935 the maximum production for Champagne was set at 50 hectolitres per hectare which could be annually modified by a special commission up or down to suit the specific conditions of the harvest . |
| 2 | If there is more information than can be displayed on the page at any one time , the lines can be ‘ scrolled ’ up or down to access the hidden information . |
| 3 | THE ARRIVAL of a live album usually comes with a tacit admission that a band are either low on new material or about to suffer an imminent career flop and need one last cash-in . |
| 4 | The statistics in these countries contained too few births to women aged 45 and over to permit a useful assessment of the interacting effect of older age and birth order upon late fetal mortality . |
| 5 | Single motif procedures vary according to your machine , but I can do a very easy one on my Silver Reed machine by setting the machine to weaving , using an appropriate punchcard and moving the single motif cams in and out to make a big woven moon on a plain background . |
| 6 | Cornish celebrities of his acquaintance included John Couch Adams , discoverer of the planet Neptune , and Mary Kelynack , renowned as the lady who , at the age of eighty , walked from Newlyn to London and back to see the Great Exhibition of 1851 . |
| 7 | Less than a second later he was jerked up and around to meet a devastating punch straight to the jaw . |
| 8 | Somebody had planted a few saplings as if to justify the name , but they looked extremely sorry themselves , sadder even than the Fir Tree in Hans Christian Andersen 's story and about to meet a similar fate . |
| 9 | The situations of the two antiheroes are similar : both men rejected by a hypocritical social order and about to meet an unnoticed death by water.Just as , in his murder scene , Berg heightens the tension by building his music round a single repeated note ( B ) , so here Britten touches on the same procedure , using a held F sharp for the momentous dialogue between Ellen and Balstrode ( which also partly explains the curiously inert harmonies of Ellen 's song " Embroidery in childhood " ) . |