Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The sensor will react instantaneously to body heat and bring on a light outside your home whenever anyone approaches .
2 However , the use of pig fat in the enfleurage process will be off-putting to the vegetarian who may have to forgo the pleasures of jasmine and tuberose or track down a supplier of the even more elusive vegetable oil absolutes .
3 Stripes can go a bit fuzzy , too , and most people bring along a selection of clothes .
4 Better still , bring along a coach from your parish .
5 Or more seriously bring along a book on figure drawing to help you and do n't be afraid to hold a pencil at arm 's length to measure proportions .
6 The source of meaningfulness of these ideas lies in the logical relationships that bind together a cluster of basic ideas into a coherent pattern Thus if the idea of numerical diversity presupposes the possibility of irreducible relations , the idea of irreducible relations , in its turn , presupposes the possibility of an objective order , and the idea of an objective order ( I shall argue ) is unintelligible without the idea of a plurality of points of view occupied by different selves .
7 6 Bind together a group of cinnamon sticks with Christmas ribbon and secure with a pin .
8 I find the textual basis for this interpretation very flimsy , in fact there is clear erm erm erm textual evidence for precisely the opposite and let me cite erm one instance Locke is here talking about tacit consent and the purchase of property and erm he says whenever the owner who has given nothing but such a tacit consent to the government will by donation , sale or otherwise quit the said possession , he is at liberty to go and incorporate himself into any other commonwealth or to agree with others to begin a new one in any part of the world they can find free and unpossessed whereas he that has once by actual agreement in any expressed declaration given his consent to be of any commonwealth is perpetually and indispensably obliged to be and remain unalterably a subject to it and can never be again in the liberty of the state of nature .
9 We have n't got er I mean obviously a lot of the staff that are on these temporary contracts are from the adult team .
10 Well , it 's something er I mean obviously a lot of people like the idea of going over to the Swindon Oasis , now er we 've had at the back of our minds , if it was at all possible to er put something similar at Didcot , obviously nothing as grand as the Oasis , but something quite similar , and obviously they would come to Didcot and not bother to go over to Swindon .
11 Lay down a number of clubs , say four as shown ( photo above ) , at different intervals on the practice green ( first make sure you are allowed to chip onto the practice green ) .
12 Mummy would have Mrs Thing bring in a trolley with cakes and sandwiches and tell her to play the piano for the Guests .
13 What I 'm , what I 'm saying is if , if you want to really stir people up , bring in a procedure within telling them what you 're doing , and then imple implement it at a later date and people will say , this is not quality .
14 Well bring in a picture of him
15 bring in a reign of terror and have
16 The deans and chaplains of colleges were nervous lest the evangelicals bring in a firebrand of a missioner who would repel their undergraduates not only from his mission but from religion .
17 A couple of recent collections which bring together a range of articles on a variety of topics are 'Femininity' , ‘ Masculinity ’ and ‘ Androgyny ’ : A Modern Philosophical Analysis , edited by Mary Vetterling-Braggin ( 1982b ) and the special issue of Radical Philosophy ( 1983 ) on ‘ Women , Gender and Philosophy ’ .
18 What distinguishes the series of Criminal Justice Acts is the comprehensiveness with which they bring together a range of generally disparate proposals , originating from different sources , bearing on the content of the criminal law , the powers and procedure of the courts , and the treatment ( in the widest sense ) of offenders .
19 They bring together a range of information not otherwise collected .
20 Campra , whose expressed aim was to combine French musical expression with Italian liveliness , was perhaps copying the acknowledged pioneer of the French cantata , Jean-Baptiste Morin : four of the 12 works in Morin 's first two collections ( 1706,1707 ) introduce only a change of mode from air to air by way of contrast , and in the others the only secondary keys used in principal movements are the relative , IV and V. But as Morin was an otherwise obscure figure it is more likely that Campra was pursuing his own ideals , themselves anchored in Lullian tradition .
21 I send in a couple of men ? ’
22 After sending in a tape , with a biography , contact address and a photo , a useful approach can be to update the A&R department every time your band does one or a series of gigs. send in a sheet of paper personally addressed to your target A&R person .
23 But I slip down a couple of back roads and I find it soon enough .
24 Most trilobites were broadly oval-shaped being rather longer than wide , not greatly convex , and with eyes that occupy perhaps a quarter of the length of the head .
25 The settlement of the barbarians was plainly varied , and our sources provide only a hint of its complexities .
26 Break up a little of the white or plain dark chocolate for decorating and melt over a pan of simmering water ( see step 1 ) .
27 While he was away at the buffet , MacMinimum said quietly to John : ‘ For God 's sake , say not a word on railways .
28 I mean to move on silently escaping , but I crash straight into a trolley , pushed by a bloke looking like one of the heavyweights in a James Bond film , so I leap away at speed as he snarls after me and knock over a pile of bean tins .
29 Two decades later , policyholders who have contracts which provide just a return of premiums on death , with that amount ravaged by inflation in the intervening period , have compared the modern alternative and found the earlier contracts wanting .
30 Some policyholders who have contracts which provide just a return of premiums on death have compared the modern alternative and found the earlier contracts wanting
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