Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [adv] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Research stressed political and administrative factors in isolation and never succeeded in analysing the way local politics are linked to wider social and economic processes . |
| 2 | To do that you need to add limestone which then converts into er calcium oxide in the heat of the blast furnace and then reacts with the sand to form slag . |
| 3 | I paint the main tree using a slightly stronger mix using a sponge and then paint in the finer detail with a brush . |
| 4 | Thus , McConaghy and his colleagues carried out a series of experiments on what they call ‘ allusive thinking ’ , a concept similar to overinclusive thinking and actually measured by them with a clinical , thought disorder test . |
| 5 | On the other hand , if you have lost your partner and like two branches of a tree , you had grown together in kindness and only lived for each other through thick and thin , then talk inwardly to your partner . |
| 6 | This apparently involves sending patients an eyesight test card and then running through the test itself over the telephone . |
| 7 | One of his successors , Lord Fisher , explained that gaiters were for the restriction of blood circulation and possibly accounted for the number of swollen heads among their wearers , but he added that , ‘ I myself find them a very comfortable kind of bondage ’ . |
| 8 | It may also be argued that numbering an Information Memorandum shows an intent to control and restrict the circulation and therefore complies with Companies Act 's requirements for prospectuses and the provisions of the FSA . |
| 9 | Our camera … got the closest shave and nearly crashed in the middle of the forest … |
| 10 | As the time approached for me to concentrate on my matriculation , I decided to offer Charlie the opportunity to buy out my share of the partnership and even arranged for a qualified accountant to replace me in order that they could take over the book-keeping . |
| 11 | yeah — i talk to him the next time i see him ; - ) ( joke ! — well i stayed at the same hotel as the norw. players before our game against england and actually talked to a couple of players … the next time i will have a chat with leeds-fan rekdal ; - ) i will however forward your wishes of luck if/when i write to the supporters club . |
| 12 | Although he bought Jenny a £2,000 diamond engagement ring and happily re-settled in his Brentford mansion , his scoring prowess deserted him after a vicious tackle by Stoke 's notorious Chris Kamara left McAvennie with a broken leg , an injury that kept him out of first team football for months . |
| 13 | In actual practice you could find an analysis that very often the things that have been repressed have not been repressed in the sense that they 've been totally submerged from your consciousness and totally forgotten without any trace , but what often happens is they 've become isolated or , or divorced from their context in your memory . |
| 14 | The difference between materialist , scientific thought and idealist , ideological thought is that the former recognizes the determination of consciousness and so returns to an empirical or ‘ real ’ world of practical activity to generate abstractions . |
| 15 | Katherine wandered back into her bedroom and lazily sorted through her wardrobe , before finally settling on a simple gown of heavy blue satin that was at least two seasons out of date , but which served to hide her fuller figure as she refused to wear a corset . |
| 16 | The film included a suggestive ten-minute episode , set in an eighteenth-century brothel , in which a male customer chose a female prostitute , helped her undress in a bedroom and finally got into bed with her , and a frankly explicit ten-minute episode of a newly wed bride and groom set in a hotel bedroom . |
| 17 | One of my greatest pleasures was to load my gun , draw the curtains in my bedroom and then crawl under the bed . |
| 18 | Time is always well spent when practising steep turns : not the classroom type where you pick up more speed and then go into the turn , but the sort you might use for thermalling . |
| 19 | If the money supply is not expanded sufficiently to meet this demand , interest rates will rise , this in turn will discourage some investment and so contribute to the slowing down in the growth of output and eventually lead to the upper turning-point . |
| 20 | The fisheries developed off Greenland and Iceland , started by colonial investment and now protected from foreign exploitation , are helping to raise standards of living ashore . |
| 21 | In his book , On the Trail of Terror , David Leppard wrote later that , privately , Hayes believed the Lockerbie bomb had been a dual device , triggered by a barometric switch and then running on a timer , but that not enough of it had been recovered to be sure . |
| 22 | But the French referendum on closer European ties left a huge headache for Premier John Major , currently EC president and still reeling from last week 's pound crisis . |
| 23 | In the end , Reagan came very close to defeating Ford , obtaining more popular votes in the primaries than the president and only losing on the ballot for the nomination in the Convention by 111 votes out of a total cast of 2,257 . |
| 24 | In spite of his gift to the sport , Keller was anxious not to abuse his status as President and never went to a rowing event unless invited . |
| 25 | In the twelfth century , the author of Glanvill , describing the manner in which a complaint of rape was to be made , had the rape of virgins in mind when he wrote : ‘ A woman who suffers in this way must go , soon after the deed is done , to the nearest vill and there show to trustworthy men the injury done to her , and any effusion of blood there may be … ’ |
| 26 | A third point was that Crown counsel at the trial , Mr. Pantry , improperly tried to cross-examine the defendant and also commented to the jury on the defendant 's exercise of the right to silence and that the trial judge was wrong not to correct him . |
| 27 | Anchor worm ( Lernaea ) is similar , in that it is a crustacean parasite and usually introduced with new ( especially recently imported ) Koi . |
| 28 | They gave up every kind of luxury and frequently bathed in cold water . |
| 29 | Every Tuesday and Thursday afternoons I repeat Goldsmith 's Geography and afterwards trace on maps , Countries , Islands , Seas , and Rivers . |
| 30 | The vilification of a young man — with convictions for car theft and now working with young boys making prize-winning community videos — edged on violence . |