Example sentences of "[verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | which , Julie still cooks everything straight from Marks and Spencers on it , I mean you only dirty the bowl , I mean you do n't even dirty the microwave |
| 2 | He 's on to the ball before anyone else , but he conserves the energy of his horses . ’ |
| 3 | Feminist methods frequently situate themselves socially and historically in ways which distinguish the concept of the subject they work with from the one which underpins qualitative psychological methods , and which give these methods a different significance . |
| 4 | 14.7.2 Distinguish the tort of negligence |
| 5 | Of those pubs which are listed — and there are still dismally few — such an attitude inevitably leads to a total disregard for those special qualities which distinguish the pub interior . |
| 6 | Distinguish the benefits of matching and randomization in designed experiments . |
| 7 | We can therefore , at least in principle , distinguish the D 3h and C 4 nu ; structures by the numbers of bands in the spectra . |
| 8 | However , it is these measurable indicators which distinguish the service from many other education business strategies . |
| 9 | But how can the competing factors in the industry then distinguish the service they provide from that of their competitors ? |
| 10 | These differences distinguish the mouse from the human TEF-1 sequence . |
| 11 | Harry went slowly and cautiously through the gully , feeling his way at every step until his eyes had accustomed themselves to the darkness , and could judge distances and distinguish the shapes of the weathered planes of rock that leaned over him . |
| 12 | The most import ; ant characters which distinguish the Ophiacanthinae are the often long and narrow mainly internal radial shields ; the small scale-like plates of the disk and the relative broad jaw coupled with a relatively simple arrangement of apical and oral papillae . |
| 13 | Both lack pongine characters , retaining the primitive condition for the characters that distinguish the pongine clade . |
| 14 | ‘ Stylistics ’ thus becomes an essentially comparative study of the patterns of preference shown by the writer in his selection from the linguistic resources available to him , a question of the relative frequencies of choice which distinguish the language of his text from that of others ; it is an ‘ application rather than an extension of linguistics ’ ( p.217 ) . |
| 15 | This distils the ratios to that sub-set which , when taken together and appropriately weighted , best distinguish the characteristics of the failed and silent sets of firms . |
| 16 | Know and understand some practices and customs that distinguish the lifestyle of two religious/cultural groups and evaluate one of them |
| 17 | We consider these properties to be advantages of our vaccine rather than disadvantages , as it is just these properties that distinguish the MicroGeneSys vaccine from the other candidates . |
| 18 | The same two terms , ‘ bibliography ’ and ‘ history ’ serve to describe both subjects , and it is only the order in which they are cited and , in natural language , the connecting words that distinguish the statements of the two subjects . |
| 19 | Shortly after her ninetieth birthday she died at West Cross , Swansea , 13 December 1935 , leaving a personal fortune of £112,000 , almost exactly equalling the debt she had inherited from her father over forty years earlier . |
| 20 | The closer the number of times we felt cold came to equalling the number of times we felt warm , the more inclined we would be to think of the words ‘ warm ’ and ‘ cold ’ as applying to the sensation only indirectly . |
| 21 | There were eighty-eight photos or illustrations relating to this court case and the aftermath , virtually equalling the number found for all the other rape cases in the year . |
| 22 | Otherwise it is n-ary , with the value of ‘ n ’ equalling the number of entities . |
| 23 | Neale was re-elected captain for the 1991 season last November , already equalling the record for longest serving captain . |
| 24 | Hastings claimed all the Lions points with six penalties , equalling the record for a Lion set by Tony Ward in South Africa in 1980 . |
| 25 | Hastings claimed all the Lions points with six penalties , equalling the record for a Lion set by Tony Ward in South Africa in 1980 . |
| 26 | The futures price tends to fall over time towards the spot price , equalling the spot price on the delivery day , at which time the basis is zero . |
| 27 | The futures price tends to rise over time towards the spot price , equalling the spot price on the delivery day , so again the basis is zero at delivery . |
| 28 | A massive 1000 t steel rotor with 10 m long arms could be spun so that the tips moved at 1000 m s -1 , equalling the speed of sound in steel . |
| 29 | ‘ You could n't so much as bruise the mosses on it but I 'd know . |
| 30 | Because the sets were completely different , the Theatre Royal having a much taller stage , White had to restage the movements during the two-week break . |