Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may be possible , while accepting the underlying general principle , to argue against its applicability to nuclear weapons : for instance , by saying that a nuclear bomb is not a chemical weapon as such , the poison gas being a mere incidental by-product ; or to go back to the fundamental prohibition of ‘ weapons that cause unnecessary suffering ’ and argue that the suffering caused by a nuclear weapon is not disproportionate to its military effectiveness . |
| 2 | Occasionally , hormonal disturbance , particularly of the thyroid gland , may lead to a slowing down or speeding up of the metabolic rate . |
| 3 | 6.2.1 submit to a statement in such forms as shall require in respect of the preceding accounting period giving details of all Licensed Products leased or sold by during the preceding accounting period including details of the net selling price of the Licensed products and the amount or amounts due to , and |
| 4 | When included , the inner shape was taken to be a hole or cut out in the total shape . |
| 5 | The enquiry looked at 1208 people who , in the application year ending 31 March 1980 , enquired , submitted application forms or dropped out at the various stages of the process of seeking to be matriculated , as well as those who matriculated and graduated . |
| 6 | We could see Jane Russell again at the Empire , or walk up to the Arcadian to see Sanders of the River . |
| 7 | I would therefore display a becoming restiveness , or look round for the usual dispatch-case , so that when he started slowly rising to his feet , which he did as if by some inner mechanism , I could , like an adjoining lift , follow him slightly behindhand . |
| 8 | Women must either follow the male career route and spend little time with their children , or drop out for the vital middle years that filter out the top managers . |
| 9 | In other words , thirty-six ( or about two-thirds ) of the families that were resident in Willingham in 1575 had either moved or died out in the male line during the course of a century and a half . |
| 10 | Or shovelled off into the Old Folks like me . |
| 11 | Faithful readers will recall that , despite being bottom of the Banks Group Northern Youth League , the lads had played the entire season without a booking or sending off until the catastrophic 82nd minute of the final game . |
| 12 | We do not think the criterion can be put any better or more clearly than it is put in R.S.C. , Ord. 62 , r. 12(2) and would hold that , on the true construction of the 18 February 1985 mortgage , the defendants are entitled to be paid or to retain out of the mortgaged property all their actual costs , charges and expenses ( including the receivers ' remuneration ) except in so far they are of an unreasonable amount or have been unreasonably incurred and with any doubts as to whether the costs have been reasonably incurred or are reasonable in amount being resolved in favour of the defendants . |
| 13 | Pearn and the members of his staff had started a monthly publication called Burma Today , giving news brought out by men who had gone in with Wingate , photographs taken by army photographers or by RAF planes on patrol , and first-hand accounts by people smuggled out of occupied Burma or coming out from the growing number of liberated areas . |
| 14 | Students of our naval past may treasure those small books bound in wood salvaged from the Mary Rose , which heeled over and sank off Portsmouth in 1545 ; or brought up from the Royal George which , a tarnished monument to the neglect of the Admiralty , went down at Spithead in 1772 with nearly a thousand souls . |
| 15 | The reason often lies in an over-eager management who are continually hounding the PRO for more column inches or to keep up with the supposed coverage of competitors . |
| 16 | Here at Club M'Diq you can either do your own thing or involve yourself in the daily and evening activities and events available for free ; you can lazy on the spacious sandy beach , or go off on the optional excursions to see something of what this colourful Moslem country has to offer . |
| 17 | ‘ I would hope if sufficient parents support me they will either postpone the tests until Easter , by which time the children will have some idea of what it is like , or go back to the previous system . |
| 18 | If you can help please telephone DAD on Darlington or call in at the local office at the Friends Meeting House , 6 Skinnergate , Darlington . |
| 19 | Individual difficulties would be singled out for special treatment : ‘ When a passage went wrong during practice , she did n't mentally beat herself with a stick and get angry , merely went over it again , maybe more slowly or homed in on the particular difficulty that had tripped her up and worked on that . ’ |
| 20 | About 30 passengers were allowed to leave or slipped out of the back door in Tallinn , leaving some 50 passengers and crew to continue the journey to Stockholm . |
| 21 | Meanwhile , for one glorious day , millions were able to ‘ take action ’ and assuage a whole year 's guilt in one go , by writing a cheque , phoning in a credit card number , or trotting along to the local collection point with cash . |
| 22 | Chemical activity is often limited , particularly on irregular items , because the product runs off or dries out before the necessary contact time has elapsed . |
| 23 | Soil films probably react differently because of partial oxidation , heat modification or drying out of the uppermost layers , forming a ‘ case hardened ’ skin which protects the body of the soil . |
| 24 | The appeal raises important and , to our minds , difficult questions of principle regarding the right of a mortgagor on the taking of a mortgage account to object to the level of costs , charges and expenses which the mortgagee claims to be entitled to charge against or retain out of the mortgaged property . |
| 25 | Whatever has to be copied is typed or handwritten on to the exposed surface of the special paper creating a reverse image in carbon on the back of the paper . |
| 26 | It seemed to Preston that if you avoided being stabbed to death by terror gangs , you stood an even chance of being burned to death by sudden conflagration , or pushed on to the live line by a psychopath lurking among the rush-hour crowds , or struck down by a heart attack brought on by the extreme rage and frustration of trying to understand a platform announcement . |
| 27 | The boat skipper gives Kevin a choice — swim or struggle on in the bad weather and lose your money . |
| 28 | Standing stork-like and hanging on to the various bathroom fittings , she cleaned her teeth and made a reasonable toilet . |
| 29 | Just as we might buy a new outfit , then take it home and change out of the old and into the new , so Paul likens the complete change needed if we are to live as followers of Christ . |
| 30 | We met one of the Medics who informed me that the bodies of Les and the other three Commandos had been taken through the village and laid out with the other dead in front of the Chateau . |