Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [verb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lahaina 's sponges can be folded or rolled to go anywhere in the filter . |
| 2 | The detailed procedural rules ( including how closing and opening balance sheets must be established ) control as to what part of the assets may be sold or distributed go far beyond the scope of this paper . |
| 3 | And having arrived in Zurich , or having returned there at the end of a tour round north Switzerland , visitors will probably want to spend a little time in a city about which they have heard so much . |
| 4 | Polybius explains in Book 3 why he proposes to extend his exposition to cover the next twenty years by saying : " Since judgements regarding either victors or vanquished based purely on the actual struggles are not final … |
| 5 | So they have to make a choice : should they stay Japanese , or try to blend in with the locals ? |
| 6 | Secrets are not confined to the great houses of antiquity : Mr Merdle in Little Dorrit has his own new secrets , and is uneasy beneath the eye of his butler in his new London palace : ‘ He would have clasped himself by the wrists in that constabulary manner of his , and have paced up and down the hearth-rug , or gone creeping about among the rich objects of furniture , if his oppressive retainer had appeared in the room at that very moment . ’ |
| 7 | Control children who were found to have died or to have moved out of the study area before their matched case had cancer diagnosed were replaced . |
| 8 | But any ( unmoving ) object placed between the half-silvered mirror and the screen will now occupy a larger area of the image and therefore appear either to have grown larger , as if swelling , or to have come closer to the camera , even though it has not actually moved at all . |
| 9 | You can slide the grill pan full of their favourite sausages under the high level Sola grill and when it 's all cooked and so evenly browned the Apex 's large 2 handled grill pan pulls forward and can be either lifted right out , or left to sit safely on the safety stops . |
| 10 | Senior managers ( or coaches ) only intervene when the work groups come unstuck or threaten to break away from the main organisation like rebellious satellites . |
| 11 | THE MERGER initiatives of the large accountancy firms were thrown into further disarray yesterday when the UK firm of Deloitte Haskins & Sells pulled out of the worldwide merger with Touche Ross . |
| 12 | Several other countries have either scaled down their original expansion plans for nuclear power , delayed the continuation of their nuclear power expansion or begun to look seriously at the phasing out of existing nuclear power stations . |
| 13 | Nearly all were undertaking their own personal therapy or had done so in the past , and all were appropriately supervised . |
| 14 | The grounds of appeal were , inter alia , that ( 1 ) the justices had exercised their discretion to award costs on the wrong principles as it had not been shown that the local authority had acted in bad faith or unreasonable in the performance of its statutory duties or had acted unreasonably in the conduct of the proceedings before the court ; ( 2 ) there were no circumstances which justified the making of the costs order ; ( 3 ) the justice should have found that there were good reasons for the local authority to be concerned about the father 's ability to care for the children , the local authority was not bound to adopt the view of the guardian ad litem and the local authority had communicated the decision not to oppose the father 's application within a reasonable time on receiving the report of the guardian ad litem ; ( 4 ) the justices had been wrong to assume that the change in the view of the local authority amounted to an admission that the views of the local authority had been wrong all the time . |
| 15 | Those who foresaw the inevitability of this could take one of three ways out : commit suicide like the Itelmens ; resist and fight like the Chukchis ; or learn to get along with the newcomers . |
| 16 | So often the right tool for the job is hanging in the tool shed at home when you are helping a friend in his house , or have broken down in the car away from home . |
| 17 | Skills develop and change to compensate partially for the changing capacities . |
| 18 | ( 1986 ) and Borgman ( 1980 ) have found from their studies that older children especially are not willing to move to a new family if contact with their biological families is to be severed , though of course some children may be unable to voice their reluctance and tend to go along with the plans . |
| 19 | Many of these have since been taken on by the wider society and are to be found in all its corners influencing even those who would now deny them any real significance and tend to look back on the decade as only times of silliness and self-indulgence . |
| 20 | Barn owls roost during the day in the main tree in the picture , and tend to fly out between the bushes on the right . |
| 21 | I have finished my letter and sit staring down through the orchard thinking about those who have occupied the slit trenches since 6th June : Taff , the mortar team , the others who have gone and have been replaced by new faces . |
| 22 | He has acquired an autonomy and influence staggering even by the standards of a country where anomalies are institutionalised . |
| 23 | Here there was a powerful tradition of French interest and influence tracing back to the Crusades , and some history of earlier French educational effort . |
| 24 | The final example is perhaps an unexpected mathematical experience as there is no discussion of the tower itself but rather the child has been carried to the top of the high tower in his imagination and asked to look down at the people below . |
| 25 | Dreams of Comfort and Anthony and David mixed with memories of the war and became tangled up with the figures on the painted ceiling above her bed and the work she had been doing for Kesselring 's trial . |
| 26 | Although today these vital units of the railway system are being phased out by the modern fully automated control centres , there still remains the lonely , isolated signal box , often miles from anywhere , that on a dark winter 's night can conjure up strange happenings and instil fear even in the heart of the most level-headed signalman . |
| 27 | And when I found Dr Kenneth , he told me someone had seen Isabella and Heathcliff meeting secretly in the garden earlier that evening . |
| 28 | It had a cast of virtual unknowns and failed to score highly in the ratings , with average viewing figures of only five million — although it had picked up in recently . |
| 29 | It had a cast of virtual unknowns and failed to score highly in the ratings , with average viewing figures of only five million — although it had picked up in recent weeks with about seven million . |
| 30 | it made its last appearance at Watkins Glen — a reluctant Andretti again at the wheel — and failed to shine even in the wet conditions of practice . |