Example sentences of "[vb base] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maybe I 'm just being traditional in my tastes ; it is probably important to watch the compilation in small doses and not sit through the whole three hours as I did . |
| 2 | This was ( F t +1 ; - F t ) /F t , plus the interest at the risk-free rate ( r ) on the average price of the futures contract during the period , that is , r ( F t +1 ; + F t ) /2F t , to give [ F t +1 ; ( 2 + r ) - F t ( 2 - r ) ] /2F t as the measure of return on a future . |
| 3 | As I push through the dancers towards Tamsin , the boy sinks helpless to the deck . |
| 4 | oh and I 've made a big rug at the centre , which I shall have home before Christmas , a big woollen rug I 've made , yes so , oh it 's a beautiful rug it 's with those er silver thing you push through the hole on the canvas |
| 5 | I push through the tourists and into the Horse Guards . |
| 6 | It looks an exquisite mess , but push through the vegetation bordering the path and the undergrowth clears . |
| 7 | The small professional garden design team offers an attractive range , called Tropical Shades , to keep you cool during the summer months . |
| 8 | The conventional notion of literary ‘ tradition ’ does , it is true , compensate for the lack of an historical overview , but because it implies a common pool of resources repeatedly drawn on by a succession of different writers , it is profoundly antithetical to Formalism and its key principle of defamiliarization . |
| 9 | The popularity of arbitrage portfolios suggests that the advantages more than compensate for the risk that the value of the arbitrage portfolio will deviate from the index at delivery . |
| 10 | A successful team blends these different roles together so that the strengths of one compensate for the weaknesses of another . |
| 11 | During night missions inside Iraq , the laser shines from the belly of the bomber , and is kept on target by the pilot or the weapons officer , with the help of electronics that compensate for the aircraft 's movements . |
| 12 | As the award is conventional in its nature and can not in fact compensate for the injury suffered there is no logical reason to take one figure rather than another . |
| 13 | It is thought that this might give relief to the husband for capital gains tax for the period from when the settlement is established ( ie the court order or when the agreement between the parties was finalised ) until its termination , but the application of this section to such a situation is not wholly clear . |
| 14 | The urban poor , who burn kerosene to cook , for example , suffer as the end users if their government puts a levy on imports of petroleum . |
| 15 | Returning now to that day in 1811 , the hair-raising events of those next few hours graphically unfold through the words of the voyagers themselves , taken from a contemporary account in The Gentleman 's Magazine : |
| 16 | With older children we might spend some time discussing this ( perhaps wondering if the giant would ever let us get near enough to open his mouth and clean his teeth for him ) ; with this age group , however , I immediately enthuse about the idea : " Right , that 's really good . |
| 17 | Often softened by nostalgia for what they recall as the security of their ‘ training days ’ , I have heard older nurses enthuse about the cosiness and order of day to day nursing . |
| 18 | My right hon. Friend knows that Opposition parties constantly carp about the level of pensions in Britain . |
| 19 | If the match at the County Ground is anywhere near as fast and lose as the game at London Road , then the Swindon fans are in for a thriller . |
| 20 | Distinguish between the rainwater drains and foul drains by flushing toilets and observing the manholes , then by pouring a bucket of water into external rainwater gullies . |
| 21 | Thus , Palmer and Frank ( 1988 ) distinguish between the interpretation of a man-made image ( whose meaning is to be reconstructed ) , and a ‘ natural ’ image ( whose meaning has to be extracted and standardized with belief systems ) . |
| 22 | According to Alexander Henderson , in The History of Ancient Wines ( 1824 ) , the ninth century saw the beginning of a distinction between the various wines of Champagne ; references henceforth distinguish between the wines of the Vallée de la Marne and those of the Montagne de Reims . |
| 23 | They distinguish between the function of language as imparting meaning , ‘ making statements which can be assigned a set of truth conditions ’ ( ibid. ) , and its function of regulating and maintaining social or interpersonal relations between people . |
| 24 | Distinguish between the demand for bank lending and the demand for money . |
| 25 | distinguish between the Tunguska terminal explosion and energy released by ablation and deceleration during atmospheric entry , with the explosion representing just the last 1% of the bolide 's energy . |
| 26 | Some , but only some , members of the resistance distinguish between the Palestinians who were brought in by the Iraqis to do a bit of their dirty work , and Kuwait 's large and long-established Palestinian population . |
| 27 | But maybe cos there was no opportunity , they did n't see there to be I mean like they did n't know any better but as soon as , I mean things are rapidly changing they 're given the opportunity to erm I mean through the struggles to actually take charge of the conditions and to gain so some material and perhaps there was beginnings of them seeing that well perhaps we ought to look more to this sub-culture and to erm |
| 28 | Oh yes , er yes they were , they were er of course there was a great divide there I mean between the Liberals I mean they were the only two parties in those days . |
| 29 | The happy medium mean between the extremes of hot and cold furnishes to the chaste and sober eye all that can be wished for . ’ |
| 30 | This predicament forced him to examine his goals and to make one last push for the success which had eluded him for so long . |