Example sentences of "[adv] [vb base] [art] [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | This would encourage separatism , and thereby undermine the whole integrity of the Church of England , which it had been the aim of the Tories all along to protect . |
2 | Then vigorously rub the right hand into your left elbow saying that you are going to rub the coin away . |
3 | It was this that prompted me to scrutinize Greek tragedy and thereby gain the new view of the Hellenic spirit that I have been putting forward . |
4 | Glass bevels , placed throughout the composition , poignantly suggest the shattered debris from a synagogue and shop windows . |
5 | The pelagic zone also includes a few creatures that are land-based , but none the less make a significant contribution to the marine ecology : birds such as the puffins , gannets , boobies , auks , terns and penguins ; the pinniped carnivores — seals , sea-lions , fur seals , and walruses ; other carnivores — the sea-otter and the polar bear ; reptiles such as some marine crocodiles and the marine , herbivorous iguana of the Galapagos Islands . |
6 | This will , of course , only introduce a new level of complexity . |
7 | That analysis is so well understood in North America that their discrimination statutes merely enact a general prohibition on employment discrimination on account of disability . |
8 | Old phone books apparently make an ideal alternative to straw , and they 're far cheaper . |
9 | If these can not be readily appreciated by children — as is often the case with young children who are typically limited to understanding tasks which make immediate sense — then children will produce inappropriate responses and apparently lack the mental capacity in question . |
10 | Sometimes we so devalue a physical approach to the world that we begin to devalue action itself . |
11 | Spray apply caustic cleaner and very gently agitate the compacted soil with the edge of a wire brush tilted so that the wire bristles contact only the joint area and not the tile face . |
12 | I naturally commend the hon. Member for Staffordshire , South ( Mr.Cormack ) on his choice of subject for debate . |
13 | I can not express to you the charm that hangs about a mountain like Ben Each as the mists swathe its rocky sides ; they rise , they fall , they whirl , they soar as on wings of light , they cast shadows , they give grand mystery , and anon reveal some hidden dell , some great bare precipice , or perhaps display a glowing patch of verdure . |
14 | It is also interesting to note that endorphins are released when acupuncture is practised and perhaps make a significant contribution to the therapeutic effects which may be achieved . |
15 | You will need to remove all pots and switches to do this , so make a good diagram of the wiring before you do so . |
16 | Two-dimensional spaces are particularly easy to visualize and so make an ideal vehicle for introducing the concepts that will be used later in discussing curvature in space–time ( three spatial dimensions plus one time dimension ) . |
17 | Gently melt the low-fat spread in a saucepan and add the flour . |
18 | Pipe rosettes around the top of the birthday cake , and gently press the appropriate number of candles into the rosettes . |
19 | Selling to the variety multiples is more a matter of negotiation at higher levels whereby the buyer and the sales manager negotiate price and delivery and the salespeople merely provide an after-sales service at individual outlets . |
20 | The two books taken together provide a fascinating portrait of the break-down of conventions over the century between their composition . |
21 | The study of Magritte 's art , long dependent upon Suzi Gablik 's short monograph completed in 1970 , has received a sharp boost with the publication of three new books , each of which serves a slightly different purpose but only together provide a comprehensive evaluation of the artist as he has been researched by David Sylvester and Sarah Whitfield . |
22 | Educational activities and annual leave , together provide the main reason for staff being unavailable for work . |
23 | 1.1 Direct and indirect restraints Most cases quite obviously involve a direct restraint on the covenantor from doing a certain thing or things . |
24 | I think it 's easy to be glib about this , there are clearly an awful lot of landlords and landladies around who provide an excellent service and merely want a reasonable rent in return for offering a decent service . |
25 | Individual nuclear family units not only provide the maximum number of outlets for commodity production , but also facilitate social control . |
26 | Amoebae not only provide an important reservoir of intracellular legionellae , increasing uptake of the bacteria in adverse conditions ; warm water systems they can also provide a continuous supply of extracellular bacteria . |
27 | " I only want the ordinary sense of the word . " |
28 | Private Members ' Bills not only preserve an important margin of policy initiative for backbench MPs , but Westminster 's increasing role as a centre for interest lobbying also strengthens its function as the crucible of interest representation in political life . |
29 | In recent years , there have been several examples of governments excluding or controlling television cameras in order to control the ‘ flow of information ’ and so minimize the political impact of the medium . |
30 | To remove the paper from the system — and so eliminate the huge cost of shifting paper about — current thinking advocates the establishment of a centralised depository alongside the clearing house , where stock certificates would be held and ‘ immobilised ’ , although not eliminated or ‘ dematerialised ’ as originally intended with Taurus . |