Example sentences of "[det] [verb] [adv] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everything here is dynamic and very competitive ; hotels , restaurants , theatres , which beach you go to , and that drives down the prices and car prices unfortunately . |
| 2 | Jimmy Knapp , leader of the rail union RMT , said : ‘ This drives home the dangers of BR 's programme of de-staffing stations which is gathering pace . ’ |
| 3 | Elsewhere , the White armies offered the subordinate peoples of the old empire only the same as before , and this made even the Bolsheviks seem acceptable . |
| 4 | This builds up the muscles which locate the knee joint , helping to stop it moving above and grinding up bits of cartilage . |
| 5 | This bears out the results found by Rob Sadler and Liz Spencer in their survey : that people would like more information on , and are enthusiastic about , the advantages of renewable energy . |
| 6 | If this happens then the parents have the right of way , so to speak . |
| 7 | If this happens then the coatings ' ability to act as a barrier between the metal implant and the body can be lost . |
| 8 | ‘ If there were only six stetches in the field and eight ploughs working , the first baiter then put the second baiter and another to open up the furrows and lay the tops , so all the ploughs were employed . |
| 9 | Among other things , this opens up the multiculturalists and antiracists to the very charge of propaganda and indoctrination which they level at the textbooks , authors and teachers they are attempting to challenge . |
| 10 | This expressed precisely the interests of the peasantry . |
| 11 | This covered up the shoes completely , but left the border areas open to work on . |
| 12 | However this reflects more the wishes of the academics than their market and — in recent years great pressure has been brought to bear to remove this compartmentalisation . |
| 13 | hanging out the window shouting abuse at one another coming up the corridors |
| 14 | This draws together the findings from the body of the report . |
| 15 | At present we 're limited by the powers available under the Trustee Investment Acts nineteen sixty-one , this sets out the amounts which we may invest in narrow and wide ranges of investment . |
| 16 | This indicates how the proponents of ‘ law and order ’ have picked up and run with the ball that was set rolling by the Justice Model , with very different effects from those that the Justice Model 's original advocates desired or expected . |
| 17 | This explains why the authorities , wanting the 1981 provisions to be successful in influencing monetary growth , applied the provisions to these institutions . |
| 18 | When a local policeman told Sharon Rogers that , ‘ by the time you 're 16 you 're going to be pregnant , homeless and stuffed up with drugs ’ , she believed this summed up the attitudes of many of the police and social workers she encountered during her offending career . |
| 19 | This summed up the feelings behind the protest . |
| 20 | This smooths out the highs and lows of paying bills throughout the year . |
| 21 | It is one thing to distinguish a cuckoo 's egg from those of its host , but quite another to tell apart the eggs of two different starlings . |
| 22 | This set up an Examinations Council , GCE Board and CSE Board in Northern Ireland . |
| 23 | This blocks up the jets and air passages in the carb leading to the engine stopping . |
| 24 | This explained why the sounds of battle had come from east of this dell . |
| 25 | So however And then you start you 've got to start and use very little polish and very little methylated spirits and what we call to work out the the all that oil has to be lifted out and it 's you dra it 's you work in circles and work in circles cos that fills in the pores and then near when you 're on maybe bout the last th th takes about three or four coats you know , working on it All depends just how how how long it takes to get it filled up . |
| 26 | She was wrapped in an old cloak which did little to ward off the elements , but she was oblivious to any discomfort . |
| 27 | An understanding of this can do much to damp down the fires of impatience , and kindle those of tolerance in younger people , for ‘ Granny 's old stories ’ . |
| 28 | By definition the private seller did not sell in the course of a business ; that rules out the conditions in section 14 ( i.e. as to merchantable quality and fitness for purpose ) . |
| 29 | These fit exactly the preferences described in Backus and Driffill ( 1985 ) . |
| 30 | Of course , if schoolchildren are to use the library effectively they must know how it operates , how it is administered and how it is organized , but these arc only the preliminaries . |