Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv prt] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And let me quote Locke er here we are are we he says but submitting to the laws of any country , living quietly and enjoying privileges and protection under them , makes not a man a member of that society then he goes on a little bit further down nothing can make any man so but is actually entering into it by positive engagement and express promise and compact . |
| 2 | Going on to a weight-reducing diet actually reduces the rates of hormone production by the thyroid , and in turn slows down the metabolic rate . |
| 3 | A computer chip checks voltage levels within the battery , and slows down the recharging process if this increases too rapidly , thereby , according to Innovations , avoiding the danger of explosive gases building up . |
| 4 | It is only the slow pace of human speech and human reactions that slows down the electronic processes that come into play when national security appears to be at risk . |
| 5 | US cities are different from British cities in that , housing goes down a long chain of ownership , becoming more downgraded with each owner , because the wealthy continually build new houses . |
| 6 | It is the official authority ‘ traditionally ’ associated with management , which goes down the scalar chain . |
| 7 | So Summerchild locks up his office and goes down the narrow staircase . |
| 8 | thank you , now we 're going to bind this up , you take the long edge , sorry that goes down the long edge comes first of all over the two fingers and round the base of the thumb |
| 9 | But do n't be fooled by the island 's exotic name or location just off Africa — once the sun goes down the whole place comes alive . |
| 10 | So as one goes down the stratigraphical column , if one leaves behind the spectacles of the specialist and looks about one with the wondering eyes of a child , one never ceases to be amazed at the diversity and yet the uniformity of it all . |
| 11 | Perhaps this is the reason for the bashfully truncated picture of the F/A-18 which , although admittedly showing the aircraft 's refined canopy shape successfully developed from the grasshopper 's eye concept , plays down the disappointing lack of progress in the other aspects mentioned . |
| 12 | Investment bankers say that grey markets allow short-selling that drives down a new issue 's price . |
| 13 | Hunsbury Hill Country Park , to the south west of the town centre , includes an historic Iron Age camp , extensive walks , and train rides along an old ironstone railway . |
| 14 | She was afraid then , rather as a skier might feel when he looks down the steep whiteness of a dangerous slope , or a high diver who seems far above the water , but the sensation was so unusual to her that she could n't be sure that it was entirely unpleasant still strongly mixed , as it was , with curiosity . |
| 15 | The candidate looks down the offered answers arid circles A or B or C or whichever answer he thinks appropriate . |
| 16 | Filigree Street crosses its turnwise end in the manner of the crosspiece of a T , and the Broken Drum is so placed that it looks down the full length of the street . |
| 17 | The village stands along a single street roughly parallel with the river . |
| 18 | This starts along a walled lane which opens out into a field . |
| 19 | Seven years after losing her sight Philippa now holds down a full-time job . |
| 20 | As well as looking after Thomas , Beverley holds down a busy job as an executive with Boots in Nottingham . |
| 21 | He is best imagined as an old-fashioned sawbones before the invention of anaesthetics , carving away placidly while an assistant holds down the screaming patient . |
| 22 | Each one searches along a zig-zag course . |
| 23 | ( If the proverb is not understood first time , the PP writes down the key word and then repeats the whole proverb up-to-time . ) |
| 24 | Out of a thousand cases reported in United States waters over a five-year period , only two resulted in death . |
| 25 | This is an acquired skill which develops over a long period . |
| 26 | You ca n't talk about it with him because the word ‘ art ’ starts off a whole series of shocked , guilty ideas in him . |
| 27 | Galerie St Etienne starts off the new year on a somewhat lugubrious note with a show called ‘ The Dance of Death : Images of Mortality in German Art ’ . |
| 28 | Managing director , George Sneddon heads up the regional management team of 24 UK staff who are supported by 123 Omani , Indian and Sri Lankan staff and a labour force of 1500 men . |
| 29 | Regional pig business manager left , heads up the regional team which includes pig sales manager ( East ) , right ; pig sales manager ( West ) ; pig technical manager and 12 regional sales specialists . |
| 30 | But Andebraham Giorgis , who heads up the educational division of the EPLF , is as interested in talking about the achievements and challenges of education as about the difficulties resulting from the war . |