Example sentences of "[coord] [adj] [noun sg] [to-vb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Curve the leaves up slightly around the edges and transfer to foil or non-stick paper to dry out . |
| 2 | How can a twenty-two-year-old mother with three small children , whose stock of crockery consists of three cups and four plates , find the economic or emotional hardware to plug up the six-inch hole around the pipe running from her sink to an outside drain , or similar holes round all the pipes in her kitchen ? |
| 3 | Once it became clear that there was no possibility of raising the funds for the National Trust or English Heritage to take on the house , SAVE began to look at other options . |
| 4 | said there had probably never been a better time than now for a private company or public body to carry out a property audit . |
| 5 | When the patient is out alone , he may need to use taxis or public transport to get around . |
| 6 | The answer to this is surely a date stamp which will force the disorganised or unscrupulous outlet to sell off old stock cheaply or discard it . |
| 7 | With dowel joints , use abrasive paper wrapped round an pencil or similar object to clean out the dowel holes . |
| 8 | Sometimes research is commissioned , and the researcher is approached by government , local authority , business , or charitable organization to carry out a specific enquiry on their behalf . |
| 9 | However , this last figure includes women who were induced or given oxytocin to speed up contractions . |
| 10 | This raises essential issues about the nature , direction and image of the CAB which are important for trainees on basic or intermediate training to think through . |
| 11 | Until recently it was not uncommon for a librarian in a public or academic library to carry out an annual check of the entire stock in this way . |
| 12 | Does he have the vision and political nous to carry on the changes begun — but certainly not completed — by his predecessor ? |
| 13 | On 28 July 1971 the Rhodesia Herald published a letter from me in response to a vitriolic attack by a Rhodesia Front Party MP : When Mr Irvine claims that the university campus is both a hotbed of evil living and orientated to the ‘ unpractical arts ’ subjects , did he visualise arts and social science students abandoning their studies in history , sociology and political science to take up carpentry and plumbing ? |
| 14 | It has been a tactic of both supporters and opponents of economic and monetary union to play down the significance of these proposals , the first saying that monetary union will not significantly compromise sovereignty , the others sometimes dismissing talk of European union as nothing more than Euro-waffle . |
| 15 | Now the Ulster Architectural Heritage Society is to set up a ‘ Buildings at Risk ’ service to identify those most in danger and to encourage potential restorers in the public and private sector to help out . |
| 16 | But he also knew I have a hard bitten , tough as old boots , ice cool and unemotional image to keep up . |
| 17 | Lyric Fantasy burst onto the scene in last year 's Queen Mary Stakes , and her stablemates Pommes Frites and Risky bid to follow up this time round . |
| 18 | Lyric Fantasy burst onto the scene in last year 's Queen Mary Stakes , and her stablemates Pommes Frites and Risky bid to follow up this time round . |
| 19 | Mr Howard dismissed the French and German threat to press on with unity ahead of the rest of Europe . |
| 20 | The scenario reads : pressure on living standards added to general contempt for the regime leads to massive strikes which cause the economy to nosedive and popular discontent to boil over . |
| 21 | But the problem with these groups is not that they 're wimps , but that they 're runts ; not that they 're vulnerable or soppy , but that they 're flimsy , What 's happened is that the perfectly valiant and appropriate refusal to grow up has become a refusal to grow , musically — to take on space , drift , experiment . |
| 22 | He was helpless ; he was not convinced , but he lacked the self-assurance and moral authority to go back to his office to use his official powers to requisition the people 's promade . |
| 23 | About 99% of the women approached agreed to participate and annual loss to follow up was about 0.3% . |
| 24 | This is an efficient and easy way to work out your story ideas in advance by translating them into film language before shooting begins . |
| 25 | The Bible provides a clear and simple way to clear up the major cause of trouble , and that way is reconciliation . |
| 26 | Installing draught excluders around opening windows and exterior doors is a quick and simple job to carry out . |
| 27 | Instead of scraping them , a heavy expenditure was incurred on pumps , carts and hired labour to keep down dust levels by watering : " the mud indeed is so very deep all the winter and so fluid after rain , as to render it unsafe to meet horses , owing to their feet throwing the mud not only over an horseman 's clothes but also into his eyes " . |
| 28 | It is a quiet and comfortable village to stop in , as I know from having stopped there , with good walks up into the hills and good fishing — for trout , which begin to come into their own around here as the mountain fish . |
| 29 | Apart from this summit meeting of minds there will also be the chance for other boffins of the black and white board to take on past champion John Hegarty , who is challenging all comers . |
| 30 | However , financial problems , ever-increasing feelings of personal isolation and frustration , and constant pressure to give up something like engineering , forced me to leave college halfway through the course . |