Example sentences of "[det] [vb -s] [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 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 . |
| 4 | This slows down the towplane , leaving it at low speed below the glider and having its tail pulled up out of control . |
| 5 | This goes down a lot better . |
| 6 | This goes back a generation , to when Maltese marriage customs were very strictly observed . |
| 7 | This builds up the muscles which locate the knee joint , helping to stop it moving above and grinding up bits of cartilage . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | This bears out the view of 77% of our respondents that society is more dangerous nowadays . |
| 11 | This uses up the energy of the photon , so it is absorbed . |
| 12 | This shows up the reason for this tough line which , unfortunately , is no longer the stance that the Court of Appeal now unequivocally adopts . |
| 13 | This rules out the possibility that autoantibodies are merely a consequence of hepatitis C virus infection . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 ) . |
| 16 | This cuts out the need for a cumbersome bus or taxi journey from Manchester Piccadilly to catch a flight . |
| 17 | This cuts out the need for a cumbersome bus or taxi journey from Manchester Piccadilly to catch a flight . |
| 18 | This cuts down the risk of a photographer becoming stale and running out of ideas about how to present the material . |
| 19 | With a straight tail the front part of the body of Leosothosaurus has to be lowered , and this levels out the back-bone and balances the body around the hips . |
| 20 | In many cases , this loads down an essay with so many notes that it becomes difficult to read . |
| 21 | This opens up a directory browser so that you can navigate across the disks and down through the directory structure to find the program you want ( in this case QFTD.EXE ) . |
| 22 | Island-hopping by coconut timber dhotis is the way the natives travel ; for guests to the Maldives this opens up a world of coves gently lapped by crystal-clear waters , underwater coral mazes and watersporting opportunities — alternatives to basking on the shores of an isolated stretch of sand . |
| 23 | Perhaps this opens up the idea of the Government substituting depreciation accounting in place of principal repayments of loans but imposing the same control over the depreciation charge that it imposes on the minimum revenue provision . |
| 24 | This opens up the route for having a company a partner and allocating to the company partner such share of the profits as the partners think appropriate in each year . |
| 25 | This opens up the possibility of negotiations between the Commission and the parties concerned and the Commission has shown itself willing to resolve cases on the basis of undertakings in [ two ] of the [ five ] proceedings it has brought to date . |
| 26 | If the performance can be staged specially for video , this opens up the possibility of bringing in extra lamps and interrupting the action at agreed points to shift the lighting round to suit the camera . |
| 27 | If the marker uses semi-standard annotations ( e.g. ‘ Style-sheet not used : … ‘ ) , this opens up the possibility of writing a checking program that analyses the annotations in some marked work and checks whether the mark suggested by the annotations is seriously out of line with the given mark . |
| 28 | This chapter has suggested that in the majority of large public companies the separation of ownership and control is a reality , and that this opens up the possibility that in some of them , subject to the variable constraining influence of market forces , managements will pursue deviant goals and/or shirk . |
| 29 | This opens up the prospect of developing the preliminary work done by Zamecnick , Stephenson and others into a general strategy for anti-viral therapy . |
| 30 | 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 . |