Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] the [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those blacks were hitting the deck as soon as it moved , and in the reverberating seconds when we all look to see who 's been hit , the suede nips down the alley and into the car . |
| 2 | you know , this woman that I , goes down the school that talks , who I talked to , she knew from Peterborough and I think she 's German , she 's got an accent , I 'm sure for certain she 's German , anyway she 's got twins in Robert 's class and she was talking to me today and she was telling me her husband moved out to move from Peterborough with his job so I said what does he do ? and she said he 's a scientist , so I said oh is he ? , |
| 3 | You mentioned that there 's a great degree of toughness since 1979 on Treasury targets and public expenditure , and the word goes down the line and there 's no argument . |
| 4 | Their specification however , looks down the road and anticipates the need to provide for both Microsoft Corp NT interoperability and Windows NT SparcWare applications in future . |
| 5 | The second generalization , that kasabat kadis did not normally , after the beginning of the sixteenth century , make the jump to the mevleviyets needs only the qualification that " normally " must be emphasized , since exceptions do occur , though rather less frequently than do exceptions from the first generalization . |
| 6 | This is recognized taxonomically by the division between the Ponginae , which contains only the orang-utan and its putative fossil relatives , and the Homininae , for the African apes and humans . |
| 7 | Altman strips away the pretence and mythology to expose the film industry as precisely that ; a business like any other , dedicated to the pursuit of profit . |
| 8 | It is this phase where there are many failures because the size of task being addressed is large ; normally there has been a formal specification of the work to be done , and the technologist has not the experience nor the qualifications to carry the work through . |
| 9 | Denis Smith says … he 's known John for a long time and has just the experience and talent that Oxford need |
| 10 | ‘ Basically it covers just the house and the immediate grounds , ’ she said . |
| 11 | It was illogical to accept that an accord and satisfaction fell within s 286(5) but fell outside s 287(1) , which referred to where a company releases or writes off the whole or part of the debt . |
| 12 | The history of the English monarchy well illustrates both the importance and the unimportance of war . |
| 13 | The 640-kb YAC clone y178–3 contains both the GLA and DXS178 loci . |
| 14 | The gearbox logical space thus intersects both the engine and the output shaft spaces to provide these global requirements . |
| 15 | However , in this radical attitude towards the relationship between nature and man — and his science — lies both the promise and the abiding problem of ecological engineering . |
| 16 | As for the Chancellor himself , Mr Parkinson said : ‘ I think he has both the backbone and the brains and the determination to see us through this difficulty . ’ |
| 17 | Tim Gavin , the Wallaby no.8 who missed the World Cup because of a severe knee injury , has both the presence and the respect of both team-mates and opponents plus the international experience to do a most capable job . |
| 18 | Because of his age and of coalition games of musical-chairs , he may nonetheless not win this post for which he has both the expertise and the gravitas . |
| 19 | The programme covers both the theory and practice of management . |
| 20 | Similarly the term polar desert covers both the area and the vegetation characteristic of it . |
| 21 | The violin covers both the alto and soprano ranges , the viola those of the tenor and alto , and the cello all four vocal parts . |
| 22 | The floor scissors exercise is an all-rounder which stretches and tones up the abdomen and the whole of the lower body . |
| 23 | She , too , holds up the spoon and tries to tempt me . |
| 24 | Miranda shouts out the name and then covers her face , giggling ; Xanthe turns , buries her head in Feeny 's breast . |
| 25 | Its products are no longer in demand , it has n't the capital or the rating to expand or diversify ; its management is moribund . |
| 26 | If he has n't the will or the stomach to do that , he had better make way for someone who has before millions intended to help this country are thrown away . |
| 27 | That illustrates graphically the fact that in 1980 we had fewer pedestrian deaths than West Germany and now we have more . |
| 28 | Diacogiannis points out that the APT specifies neither the number nor the identity of the explanatory factors and that this problem is not solved by the use of the factor analysis methodology and therefore : |
| 29 | Such distinctions are very difficult for the newborn baby , who has neither the experience nor the necessary mental and physical equipment . |
| 30 | Let's start with America , a giant country run by a giant nerd who has neither the will nor the know-how to deal with problems of his making . |