Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv prt] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So keen are GKR not to be identified with the less ethical and aggressive end of the search market that it maintains it frequently turns down business ; from any other search firm , this statement might be questionable , but GKR 's standing in the market , and the obvious importance of its untarnished reputation in gaining that position , suggests that it is probably the truth . |
| 2 | Mother turns down offer |
| 3 | Labour turns down move towards electoral reform |
| 4 | It reduces the likelihood of split ends by 30–40% , slows down hair ageing , is a penetrating hair moisturizer , conditions without build up and reduces tangling . |
| 5 | This not only affects individuals , but also slows down service development to meet changing patterns of need . |
| 6 | The transmissions use those soliton waves we told you about way back in summer 1990 ( CI No 1,459 ) , which are electronically induced and never lose their shape as they whiz through optical glass fibre , so that signalling errors are all but non-existent , obviating the need for costly error-correction equipment , which also slows down transmission . |
| 7 | Silver plants usually have a thick coating of felty fur which slows down evaporation . |
| 8 | PHONEY TV SOAP GOES DOWN DRAIN |
| 9 | It comes off at North Cheams and goes down Church Hall Road , and up Priory Road , till it the end of Avenue |
| 10 | The sand eroded accumulates down wind from the dune , where , being fresh , it is recolonised by marram and stability is thus regained . |
| 11 | Russia plays down scale of Tomsk-7 blast |
| 12 | Stewart plays down crowd 's stone attack |
| 13 | Killer bug shuts down baby ward |
| 14 | In the aggregate , however , the community can not reduce its bond holdings and the attempt to do so only drives down bond prices and , therefore , leads to an increase in interest rates . |
| 15 | Question : What starts off life as a salmon , goes to a plaice and ends up with a sole ? |
| 16 | And in fact there 's one that , a daughter of one , lives up way somewhere . |
| 17 | Raider beats up widow aged 99 |
| 18 | And in ‘ Macbeth ’ , ‘ when Tarquin ‘ rapes ’ the crown , and the Boar climbs into Duncan 's slashed skin and stands up King of Scotland ’ , one must simply groan , because for all the tortuous extravagance of metaphor , and the twists and turns of myth intended to give it power like twisted elastic , one is not being told anything novel . |
| 19 | Sywell-based Sloane Helicopters Ltd , which regularly clocks up record annual sales of the Robinson R22 helicopter , has been appointed UK distributor for the forthcoming four-seat R44 . |
| 20 | Mrs Jeryl Whitelock ( a good friend of Convocation ) presented Sir Michael Bishop and Ed Parker , who heads up CAMPUS made a very humorous introduction of Duncan Nichol , chief of the N.H.S. who had a mind-blowing multibillion pounds to spend . |
| 21 | Lori Keating , who was the MEDIA programme UK press consultant in 1989 , and who now heads up Mediation UK , will be the seminar 's main speaker . |
| 22 | Lack of funding holds up railway upgrading |
| 23 | Acid scare holds up freight train |
| 24 | A Mickey Dolenz lookalike beats out bongo rhythms frontstage to complement their dance grooves , while vocalist Stella dances around in her multicoloured cat suit , not yet the most comfortable of performers but there 's enough spirit in the band to suggest their debut waxings will be well worth checking out . |
| 25 | A Mickey Dolenz lookalike beats out bongo rhythms frontstage to complement their dance grooves , while vocalist Stella dances around in her multicoloured cat suit , not yet the most comfortable of performers but there 's enough spirit in the band to suggest their debut waxings will be well worth checking out . |
| 26 | ( No answer , he looks out front . ) |
| 27 | This humanistic vision of vigour and common purpose quite simply writes out deviancy , strange pain , breakdown of communication , the incapacity to be ‘ moved ’ . |
| 28 | In a secular society , where death no longer holds out hope of an after-life and heaven , the quality of the life we know we have has assumed an importance previously given to the life of the soul . |
| 29 | It is difficult to put forward a programme which holds out hope of a better life when you have singularly failed to live up to your promises during your term of office . |
| 30 | If the weather holds out work could be completed in a short time . |