Example sentences of "[det] [verb] [adv prt] [art] [noun] " 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 | That hungers down the blood-smell even to a leak of its own |
| 3 | The heating was on inside the car but it did little to drive out the chill that seemed to have settled in her bones . |
| 4 | Therefore the area of the rectangle shown at the bottom of the last page is equal to base x height and the area of the triangle is unc We can now see that to work out the area of any triangle we simply need to remember are unc |
| 5 | The most appropriate technology for many people will be one that helps a country to organise a postal system so that stamps are available , to bring radio within everyone 's reach and that holds out the possibility of early telephone links . |
| 6 | Latest word from the grapevine is that IBM Corp 's 3390-9 disk drive may be put back to June 1 or June 8 ( CI No 2,165 ) , and there is a certain lack of confidence that the thing will be an easy sell given that it is significantly slower than the lower capacity drives , making it unsuitable for most leading edge mainframe applications ( CI No 2,165 ) : the conspiracy theorists conjecture that it is not a product that the sales force and the market actually want , one that could have been developed simply to respond to something a competitor was planning but in the end never launched , but that it has cost sufficient to develop that to write off the effort now would leave a nasty hole in AdStar Inc 's balance sheet — much better to put the thing out in the confidence that some users will bite , and write the work off over perhaps a five-year product life . |
| 7 | This slows down the towplane , leaving it at low speed below the glider and having its tail pulled up out of control . |
| 8 | This goes down a lot better . |
| 9 | This goes back a generation , to when Maltese marriage customs were very strictly observed . |
| 10 | But you can not expect another to carry out a task if he or she is constantly being observed by someone else . |
| 11 | This builds up the muscles which locate the knee joint , helping to stop it moving above and grinding up bits of cartilage . |
| 12 | This points up the possibility that the organizational differences built into the preliminary study may be only surface ones , masking ‘ deeper ’ structures of thinking about the nature of social work . |
| 13 | So you know to check it and go back and do it differently and it 's the same with this moved up a level now , that you you keep in keep in charge of it . |
| 14 | Some build up a sense of foreboding that is either confirmed or denied , some make us laugh all the way through , some seem written only to outrage . |
| 15 | ‘ Our message is that there has never been a time like this to pick up a bargain , ’ a spokeswoman said . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | This bears out the view of 77% of our respondents that society is more dangerous nowadays . |
| 18 | HEALTH fears over raw sewage washing up on a Fife beach have resulted in one local authority forcing another to clean up the pollution . |
| 19 | ‘ 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 . |
| 20 | This uses up the energy of the photon , so it is absorbed . |
| 21 | Does this sum up the kind of house you want , or have I missed something ? |
| 22 | This opened up the prospect of democracy being installed not by a bourgeois government but by ‘ a revolutionary democratic dictatorship of the proletariat and peasantry ’ . |
| 23 | This shows up the reason for this tough line which , unfortunately , is no longer the stance that the Court of Appeal now unequivocally adopts . |
| 24 | This rules out the possibility that autoantibodies are merely a consequence of hepatitis C virus infection . |
| 25 | This conjures up the picture of Thomas the disciple who refused to believe that Jesus was alive again after being killed and buried unless he could see with his own eyes the evidence of the injuries Jesus 's body had received . |
| 26 | This cuts out the travel agent and was pioneered in the United Kingdom by the Danish firm Tjaebourg ( which also has its own airline , Stirling Airways ) . |
| 27 | This cuts out the need for a cumbersome bus or taxi journey from Manchester Piccadilly to catch a flight . |
| 28 | This cuts out the need for a cumbersome bus or taxi journey from Manchester Piccadilly to catch a flight . |
| 29 | This cuts down the risk of a photographer becoming stale and running out of ideas about how to present the material . |
| 30 | The former England centre half turned out a record 629 league games for Don Revie 's brilliant Leeds side — and now masterminds the campaigns of the Republic of Ireland . |