Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv prt] the [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 | 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 . |
| 9 | David Skinner heads up the project team . |
| 10 | One holds up the east-west streets . |
| 11 | He sketches out the prosecution case , suggesting that Lenny McLean sought to teach Humphreys a lesson because ‘ he was being a darned nuisance ’ . |
| 12 | … this closes the directory browser and fills in the Command Line section on the Program Item Properties box . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | They 're , they 're built in remote places so you 've got all the , the er wild life around them and then you 've got er farmland which uses pesticide and stuff like , which kills off the insect life and to birds all young and stuff like that . |
| 16 | As with blood , X-irradiation kills off the stem cells , so that when cells are lost from the surface there are no new cells to replace them . |
| 17 | Again , just as it does in the skin , X-irradiation kills off the stem cells and this soon has dire effects on the surface of the gut , giving rise to one of the major causes of radiation sickness . |
| 18 | While good co-operation from the nursing and medical practitioners speeds up the rehabilitation process , only the chartered or fully qualified physiotherapist with specialist training in the treatment of hemiplegic patients is equipped to provide a total programme of rehabilitation , based on an individual assessment of the patient 's limitations and potential . |
| 19 | But after a while straight pieces of knitting cease to be satisfying and we progress to shaping , which speeds up the making-up process and also saves on materials . |
| 20 | The accretion process spins up the neutron star to millisecond periods over a timescale of 10 7 –10 8 yr , and , when mass transfer ceases , the system consists of a millisecond pulsar in a circular orbit with a low-mass companion . |
| 21 | Grant climbs up the aluminium ladder into the crow 's nest and surveys the horizon with binoculars . |
| 22 | And then of course they 've got this soldering iron type thing called the diathermy cautery device that seals up the blood vessels and this is being stabbed into her . |
| 23 | ‘ The waiter makes a note of the table number , and Charlie digs out the credit slip at the end of the evening . |
| 24 | The launcher shoots out the pilot kite , which opens , catches the wind , and pulls out the main kite . |
| 25 | The sun-and-moon chart hangs on the kitchen cupboard , where we can consult it . |
| 26 | ‘ Another thing that we 've had a lot of use from was the baby bouncer ; it 's the type that hangs on the door frame . |
| 27 | If records are stored in the next available position in the prime data area — the consecutive spill method — but a link field is provided from the home record or from the last synonym , this avoids unnecessary head movements and cuts down the search time required for the consecutive spill techniques . |
| 28 | When the mouthbrooder picks up her eggs she gathers up the Synodontis eggs with them which she incubates inside her mouth along with her own fry until they are released as tiny replicas of their natural parents — possibly after preying on the cichlid fry while they are inside her mouth . |
| 29 | Rhyolites are pale grey or buff-coloured rocks with a micro-crystalline structure and a rather distinctive sugary texture or ‘ feel ’ — like obsidian , they usually have a well-developed banding running through them , which shows up the flow folds in the lava plainly . |
| 30 | If you have the sort of hairstyle that shows up the root regrowth within three weeks , necessitating retouching with either bleach or colourant , consider a restyle . |