Example sentences of "[art] [n mass] and [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remember that within 10 minutes of our first conversation , Christopher asked me how I would feel if we closed down the Birmingham head office — his view was that the way to change the company 's culture was to close the headquarters and start again somewhere else . |
| 2 | It is quite possible to put a 4 cylinder engine into your 6 cylinder Land Rover The gearbox bell housing needs changing for a 4 cylinder version and the engine mountings must be cut off the chassis and moved backwards 6 inches Use a 4 cylinder exhaust system and cut 6 inches from the front pipe Use the 6 cylinder clutch Throttle linkage can be adapted from 4 cylinder cable , fuel pipes need modifying and the electric fuel pump removed Water pipes can be lengthened or use One Ten pipes cut to suit . |
| 3 | Its operators bring the dip to the sheep and take away the left-over chemical which is disposed of at an approved site . |
| 4 | I received my mail at the barracks and showered there in the mornings . |
| 5 | The companies rather lamely contend that the market determines fair prices and that the government 's demands can not be met since they do not track much of the data and do not sell directly to customers . |
| 6 | The pilot dipped the nose of the aircraft and dropped down behind the van , close enough to be able to read its registration number : only a delivery van from the nearby town . |
| 7 | No , went on a hovercraft well wen went on the hovercraft and came back on a , a ferry on the boat . |
| 8 | Spoon the sauce over the fish and serve immediately . |
| 9 | We ate the fish and polished off some cider while we watched the bombers blasting Caen , the British guns along the Orne joining in for good measure . |
| 10 | I thought I had missed the fish and cried out in pain . |
| 11 | Add the fish and toss gently in the oil mixture until coated . |
| 12 | No it 's not , because it simply attaches labels to the people and does n't understand what 's going on , |
| 13 | The movies succeeded because they had gone to the people and had seemingly bypassed every obstacle . |
| 14 | Have you been trawling the sales and picking up every urn and tub that caught your fancy ? |
| 15 | Control Data is using Openvision 's — formerly Discos — Unitree distributed hierarchical storage management software and its own Aria Volume Manager , which controls the media and drives separately from Unitree . |
| 16 | Control Data is using Openvision 's — formerly Discos — Unitree distributed hierarchical storage management software and its own Aria Volume Manager , which controls the media and drives separately from Unitree . |
| 17 | It is tempting to write ‘ If I had my way , I 'd fire all the staff and start all over again ’ , but top management does n't usually look very kindly on this kind of approach . |
| 18 | We arrive at the works and call in at their pollution control offices where they have a small full-time staff looking after pollution in the works . |
| 19 | She is , of course , renowned for her critical essays punctuated with cusses on the male of the species and does n't spare the blushes or the punches when exposing them to ridicule . |
| 20 | They 'd look at the waterworks and come back . |
| 21 | Did you put the roach and rud there ? |
| 22 | If you 've truly got nothing better to do , let's forget the charades and carry on where we left off … eh , my love ? ’ |
| 23 | And buy a sheep and come home with it and that over the bridge with it , all along and along er that road there and th and when we used to come from that school in , he used to be coming with a sheep on the string like this and the poor thing , I used to look at the old sheep and he often used to be tired you see . |
| 24 | Question : What starts off life as a salmon , goes to a plaice and ends up with a sole ? |