Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv prt] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 31 | To be just , that is to say , to justify its existence , criticism should be partial , passionate and political , that is to say , written from an exclusive point of view that opens up the widest horizons . |
| 32 | On the face of it , this seems like a happy ending that ties up the loose ends . |
| 33 | She saw the only viable feminist film practice to be one that breaks up the familiar structures of visual pleasure , thus exposing and problematising the habitual violence which is the male gaze . |
| 34 | It is formed when the sun 's ultraviolet radiation breaks up the two atoms of oxygen molecules into single atoms . |
| 35 | If the moral ground changes , then the Kwikbuk plc PR division quickly maps out the new features and adapts accordingly . |
| 36 | The effect is the opposite to taking logs : squaring stretches out the upper values and compresses the lower ones , and cubing does so even more powerfully . |
| 37 | The defence infused a breathless energy into every move ; they bustled the northern cracks into comparative impotence ; they beat back this magnificent fighting line which has been the terror of a dozen clubs as a break-water hurls back the lashing waves . |
| 38 | ( If the limescale was indeed clumping together , this is what one might expect — a sand filter takes out the finest particles ) . |
| 39 | The vicar takes out the four balls and the waxman , Mr Tommy Temple , who has had the job since 1940 , carefully cuts away the wax and the names are read out . |
| 40 | In a rejoinder to Darling 's criticisms , Kirk ( 1978 ) , a member of the committee , points out the specific references in the report to the weakness of Hirst 's approach , and the addition of appeals to the social usefulness of educational activities ( something foreign to Hirst who was concerned primarily with intrinsic worth ) as evidence of an attempt to look beyond a cognitive based curriculum . |
| 41 | He 's extremely cheerful , if somewhat misguided , as he points out the many features of the room , and mentions that the public rooms in the Cottage will be opened at seven o'clock . |
| 42 | Adelaida points out the different groups : the ‘ grandmothers ’ , who sit in the sun spinning and chatting ; the ‘ complete illiterates ’ , mostly older Aymara women who are making their first letters with painstaking care ; the ’ functional illiterates ’ who have had some schooling and progress more rapidly ; and the groups which practise their recently acquired literacy skills using materials on health and nutrition . |
| 43 | ‘ A friend of mine , ’ he said , ‘ an American , sometimes travels on the top of a double-decker bus and in a very loud American voice points out the national monuments . |
| 44 | It now makes sense to join the rest of the world by paying for what we use , say experts Kent Meters in Luton , Bedfordshire , a firm which turns out a million meters a year — and sells them abroad . |
| 45 | The need to catch whales goes back a thousand years or more in Japanese history . |
| 46 | One of my favourite memories of her goes back a few years to when she was playing Martina Navratilova in New England . |
| 47 | In a few places , as in the lower Neretva valley , a breach in the mountain wall permits a gulf of Mediterranean air to penetrate inland , but more commonly the unbroken barrier shuts out the ameliorating influences from the sea . |
| 48 | Greene may have half-intended readers to identify Mr Savory with Priestley , and every year throws up a few romans clearly in need of a clef . |
| 49 | He draws out the richest tones that he is capable of here . |
| 50 | When he 's finished his ballet routine — ‘ Lots of people come to see what Joe Mangle is going to do , and when I appear on stage doing my best arabesque , you can feel people thinking ‘ Oh no , he 's really lost the plot ’ — he throws out a few one-liners . |
| 51 | While this is fine for short items it misses out the real benefits of stylesheets . |
| 52 | He lays down the only terms on which it is possible for him to take up residence with his people . |
| 53 | 5.1 to also lays down the permitted hours for off-sale premises . |
| 54 | Society lays down the basic rules of the marriage contract . |
| 55 | Most countries have a written document known as " the constitution " which lays down the main rules governing the structure and functions of government and which regulates the relationship between the state and its citizens . |
| 56 | Emma Pearce explores the creative options offered by oils , and weighs up the latest products on the market . |
| 57 | Emma Pearce explores the creative options offered by oils , and weighs up the latest products on the market . |
| 58 | Turry has to be the best-armed hero of all time and when he picks up a few power-ups you 'd think he was invincible . |
| 59 | From the buffet we could see the restaurant where a ten-piece dance band was playing ‘ Mambo italiano ’ and about thirty couples danced various improvisations on the Western dances according to whether they came from Leningrad , peking , or East Berlin , where the TV picks up the Western stations . |
| 60 | The microphone picks up the surrounding sounds and feeds them to the amplifier . |