Example sentences of "[vb base] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 By all means snoop into my answer machine and sit through 20 messages suggesting I travel on a coach to Grimsby to review a Jive Bunny concert .
2 But I do move today that we transfer the technical post that will become vacant in the pollution section by the end of this year to the food section , and that Matthew together with the chief environmental health officer consider how best to write a job description , and advertise for that post , and that while I do not see us securing a budget of two thousand five hundred pounds as under fifteen b , I do recommend that the health education authority are contacted , that their help-line is used , and that our E H O's use their premises in the coming new year .
3 This chapter pursues our general theme of exploring locales and localities as the context of interaction between people and the understandings people gain through such interaction .
4 The economic and social position of this upper class is determined by their ownership of productive wealth , and the substantial incomes they gain through such ownership .
5 For a right of participation to be meaningful it would obviously require as free a flow of information as possible and the development of institutions securing equality of access and influence for all participants .
6 Another pervasive , and important , influence for this head was technology .
7 ‘ They should select a side for the Tests and then pick for one-day games , ’ Doshi said .
8 A sense of rejection or an inbuilt feeling of hostility or hate for other people is an ingredient of sexual dissatisfaction or aggression .
9 Mix to a smooth dough , knead for 10 minutes , the cover with a damp cloth and leave for 1 hour .
10 Turn onto a floured surface and knead for 5 minutes until smooth .
11 Photocopy for personal file , send original to Salaries & Wages ( see attached ) .
12 Photocopy for personal file , send original to Finance Dept ( see attached ) .
13 It has been suggested that the high levels of motivation found among successful mature students more than compensate for lower levels of formal qualifications which many have .
14 Relationships with that partner may be judged successful or otherwise according to the ways in which they duplicate , replace or compensate for parental relationships .
15 This may seem to be a gloomy picture but it must be noted that , in relation to work , age is not a large aspect of individual differences compared with natural endowment , and that increases in ability can more than compensate for small decreases in capacity .
16 SEP had simply assumed that expenditure on upkeep would more than compensate for any deterioration of its warehouses ’ .
17 But the promotion of Gillian Shephard to the Cabinet should more than compensate for any misgivings ’ , Sangster said .
18 Its principal strengths lie in the ability to ( a ) make selective use of available visual cues ( for fluent readers much of the visual stimulus remains unattended [ Just & Carpenter , 1987 ] ) and ( b ) utilise an understanding of the text that can guide the reading process and compensate for any degradation or ambiguity within the visual stimulus .
19 Although the evidence presented does not refute the claim that in the long run exchange rates compensate for domestic inflation differentials , it does show that over periods of several years real exchange rate anomalies can and do occur .
20 US giants unite for electric car research
21 Stain for 5 min .
22 Stain for 5 min in a Coplin jar .
23 ( vii ) Stain for 5 min with 2% Giemsa or any other conventional stain ( see Section 2.3 ) , or C-band as described in Section 2.4 .
24 ( ix ) Incubate extracted cells at room temperature for approximately 20 min in an appropriate dilution of the specific antibody in PBS — Tween + 3 mg/ml BSA , wash twice in PBS — Tween and stain for 20 min in the second ( labelled ) antibody diluted in PBS — Tween + 3 mg/ml BSA .
25 You 've done more than you thought you 'd ever get away with and so in a sense it 's all gain from here , in fact it 's been all gain for some time and so you ca n't complain and you do n't intend to if fate deserts you now .
26 ‘ If it is a close-run thing in any one of these seats , it could make the difference between a win or a lose for one side or the other . ’
27 Most banks and monetary authorities distinguish between two types of bank deposits :
28 We can get a somewhat clearer idea of how enzymes work if we distinguish between two kinds of chemical bond , which differ in the nature and magnitude of the forces holding the atoms together .
29 Issue numbers distinguish between two kinds of modification record :
30 Official government statistics distinguish between socio-economic groups , which it is claimed , bring together ‘ people with jobs with similar social and economic status ’ .
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