Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv prt] [art] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Beefy is a hero to the thousands that turn out to see him through rain and shine as he marches down the south coast . |
| 2 | The complexity of decision-making ( eg. to obtain the go-ahead for new projects etc ) slows down the decision-making process , causing unwanted delays . |
| 3 | However , when searching for a particular route from the ‘ z ’ , a linear search must be employed to establish whether it exists or not , which slows down the search time compared with the 26-way tree where all 26 routes are allocated . |
| 4 | Below the vernier is an illuminated mute button which shuts down the output socket sited on the far right , so when the tuner is put in line between the guitar and amp it mutes the signal after the tuner , for silent tuning on stage . |
| 5 | He tears down the hardboard panel next to the front door and clambers in , with Iain behind him . |
| 6 | Slip through the wire fence ( obviously bent ) and follow the level until , at a point some 100 yards before a large building ( old engine sheds ) , a vague path drops down the spoil heap to some trees . |
| 7 | Main picture : In the kitchen/dining room a magnificent arrangement of satin ribbons finishes off the table setting |
| 8 | BLIND MAN BEATS UP A BULLYING BULL TERRIER |
| 9 | Tajan clocks up a record $3.8 million for the Haute Epoque Perrier sale |
| 10 | It heads up a pop promotion with a wonderful shout line : A-WOP-BOP-A-SIDGWICK-A-LOP-BAM-PAN ! ! |
| 11 | He heads up the Insurance Ombudsman Bureau ( phone 071–928 4488 ) , which was set up in 1981 and which provides an independent service for the resolution of disputes between personal insurance policyholders and holders of unit trusts , and companies that belong to the scheme . |
| 12 | David Skinner heads up the project team . |
| 13 | She holds up a sepia portrait of a turn of the century belle in a high-necked Russian blouse , standing before the backdrop of a painted Arcadia , with balustrades and beckoning groves . |
| 14 | He holds up a cricket bat . |
| 15 | ( Holds up a limpet shell . ) |
| 16 | She holds up a Waitrose bag . |
| 17 | One holds up the east-west streets . |
| 18 | He sketches out the prosecution case , suggesting that Lenny McLean sought to teach Humphreys a lesson because ‘ he was being a darned nuisance ’ . |
| 19 | A chimney fascia fits over an island unit or covers an existing chimney . |
| 20 | Everyone is aware of the sensation experienced in a lift as it starts to descend , and in a car when it goes over a humped-back bridge . |
| 21 | John fills in a gardening diary every day and often refers back to it to find out when they mulched or did other jobs . |
| 22 | He asks for credit terms and , at the trader 's suggestion , he fills in a finance company 's hire purchase proposal form , which is in fact an offer made by the customer and addressed to the finance company to acquire the item from the finance company on hire purchase terms . |
| 23 | … this closes the directory browser and fills in the Command Line section on the Program Item Properties box . |
| 24 | Many cities and counties are little better placed , as each layer of government passes down the spending obligations but not the money to fulfil them . |
| 25 | Movement in these circumstances is over short distances and occurs down a pressure gradient . |
| 26 | Sometimes a single boulder bounds and clatters down the scree pile , echoing loudly , sometimes a larger mass breaks away , sometimes the scree itself shifts and readjusts itself in a prolonged rattling clatter — a noise rather like the sea swashing back over pebbles . |
| 27 | Where rifting occurs over a mantle plume the sub-lithospheric mantle will be up to 200°C hotter than normal and large quantities of magma will be generated . |
| 28 | One of these is the methanation reaction which occurs over a nickel metal catalyst and which was originally discovered by Sabatier and Senderens 80 years ago , Although this is widely used to make synthetic natural gas for example , there is even more interest in the production of compounds containing higher numbers of carbon atoms . |
| 29 | As it passes over a toll point in the road ( essentially a wire loop buried in the surface ) a radio beam from the loop will interrogate the number plate and feed back the vehicle number to a central computer . |
| 30 | Guitarist Robbin Crosby sulks over an equipment failure . |