Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may slow down the discussion but improve its quality . |
| 2 | LICENSING difficulties may slow down the building of nuclear power plants in the United States , Britain and West Germany — but the French still press on almost untrammelled by objectors . |
| 3 | We ought to go down the tip later on again . |
| 4 | Let's throw out the horrible one and put the nice one on . |
| 5 | But , as our correspondents in Europe report , this looks increasingly uncertain : The Irish may throw out the treaty at their referendum because of controversy over the ‘ abortion protocol ’ . |
| 6 | When he has attracted a female , she becomes the boss at the nest and may throw out the decorations to assert her occupancy . |
| 7 | We have seen how millions of fossils may make up the rocks themselves , crammed together layer after layer to form formations thousands of feet thick . |
| 8 | We can cut money off , let's make some easy quick decisions about cutting money off , let's chop out the arts you could do that on one line easily and I think you have to look at the long term you have to look at what happens in terms of our culture , our civilization if you do do that , how people change and to me it 's about and that was raised last night too about how an saying that they had put a limit on the cost of opera tickets forty pounds , compared |
| 9 | The key is turned to the left for maximum output , but if turned too far the integral cleaning needle engages and may snuff out the flame — you need to be really careful . |
| 10 | Let's snuff out the shod people and welcome the long shadows . |
| 11 | Mono-unsaturates ( MUFAs ) should make up the largest proportion of fats consumed . |
| 12 | ‘ Three or four goes should make up the mind for her , ’ said Raimundo evilly , as Perdita picked herself up off the dusty ground . |
| 13 | It did , however , recommend the immediate closure of the two oldest of Sosnovy-Bor 's four reactors , and suggested that nearby Western states should make up the energy shortfall to enable this to take place . |
| 14 | They must spring up the trees as the monkeys are driven into them and they are the ones that usually make the kill . |
| 15 | We must contact these people , we must build back the confidence to the unemployed , we 've given these people who are unemployed our good training , we need their expertise to come back and fight again if we 're gon na have any hope for the future . |
| 16 | Rather than invoking preservation bias or seasonal occupation of the habitat to explain the geological record , we should rule out the freezing winters and torrid summers simulated by the climate models . |
| 17 | We should build up the Western European Union as the defence pillar of the European union , but the treaty embodies the view set out in the Anglo-Italian proposal two months ago , and endorsed at last month 's summit of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation that whatever we do at European level must be compatible with NATO . |
| 18 | ‘ Right then , I 've called out enough instructions , now I 'll point to one of you and you must make up the instruction to be obeyed in just the same way as I have been doing . |
| 19 | The merger with the CBSI should slow down the fall in membership and thus the subscription base , though the eventual impact on reserves is hard to forecast . |
| 20 | Equally , management should think through the message which it wants to convey to employees so that it does not arrive too soon in a half baked form , leading to demands for endless meetings and possible confrontation . |
| 21 | If a husband wishes to set up his own business , his wife should think through the implications of having her husband at home all day , if she is at home too . |
| 22 | Those who relish the challenge of something different should seek out the striking Egyptian star ( Pentas lanceolata ) or its temperamental relative , flame of the woods ( Ixora coccinea ) . |
| 23 | MEGGITT 'S £110m bid for United Scientific Holdings could cost a further £25m , if the Singapore Securities Industry Council rules that Meggitt must buy out the 35 per cent minority in AVS , USH 's Singapore subsidiary . |
| 24 | If Richemont should buy out the Philip Morris stake it would trigger an obligation to bid for the rest of the shares . |
| 25 | At the end of the lease the tenant must yield up the premises , together with all buildings , fixtures , trees , and plants thereon , including even what he has himself added ; but to some extent this rule is relaxed in favour of trade and agricultural fixtures ; and a right to remove tenants ’ fixtures may be given by the terms of the lease . |
| 26 | This does not mean that we should act out the ‘ dark ’ side of our nature . |
| 27 | ‘ I must send out the invitations . ’ |
| 28 | Told her she must send out the original . |
| 29 | In this instance , you must finish off the raw edge of the hem either by overcasting or , for a really professional finish , by binding it with a fine bias binding . |
| 30 | It 's perhaps fitting that the Services and Communication Department should bring up the rear in this group of presentations , because one of its key priorities is to provide a coherent professional support service to the organisation as a whole . |