Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [verb] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eliot goes on to wish for a combination of religious , anthropological , and neurological knowledge as exemplified by Rome , Cambridge , and Harley Street . |
| 2 | He begins by presenting the information content of several protein families and goes on to deal with a variety of subjects , such as the evolution of the genetic code , neurobiology , the primaeval soup , black holes and cosmology . |
| 3 | A taxi firm run by women for women says it plans to carry on operating despite a ruling that such services discriminate against men . |
| 4 | Because of their youth and vulnerability , and since they were less likely to be union members , apprentices and turnovers might be persuaded by employers to carry on working during a strike . |
| 5 | The general idea , using these methods , was to carry on recording until a quota sample of sixteen people in each area had been filled . |
| 6 | ‘ Folly , I do n't want you to go on looking for a place of your own . |
| 7 | It also allows the police and Customs to permit accountants to go on acting for a client after they have disclosed suspicious activity to them . |
| 8 | After a while I sat down in a secret place by the Cherwell and fell to musing about how I had once myself aspired to Oxford , how one of my lecturers at Edinburgh had urged me to go on to read for a B.Litt. there , but of course the war had put an end to any such ambitions . |
| 9 | ‘ I cared only to escape from a life that was irksome and narrow , ’ said Taliesin , drinking his wine and reclining in the chair rather negligently . |
| 10 | One person with immobilising arthritis might continue to cope alone sustained by a network of friends and family . |
| 11 | ( i ) where the specified event happens in respect of a member , any share registered in his name may , notwithstanding paragraph ( 1 ) of this Rule , remain so registered for a period of not longer than six months from the date of the specified event ; provided that no voting rights shall be exercised in respect of any such share while it remains so registered ; and |
| 12 | ( i ) where the specified event happens in respect of a member , any share registered in his name may , notwithstanding paragraph ( 1 ) of this Rule , remain so registered for a period of not longer than six months from the date of the specified event ; provided that no voting rights shall be exercised in respect of any such share while it remains so registered ; and |
| 13 | ‘ My singing career sort of got off the ground through the show too because it was when a few of us from the show got together to sing at a benefit concert for a football club in Australia that I first publicly sang ‘ The Locomotion . ’ |
| 14 | The organisation housed on the corner of Old Broad Street and Throgmorton Street has mercifully reverted to a name which accurately describes where it is and what it does . |
| 15 | Since the middle of the nineteenth century this has produced a persistent surplus of population in the countryside with a consequent depression of wage levels-Rural depopulation has rarely proceeded on a scale to compensate for the reduced demand for labour in rural areas and neither has the demand for labour in the countryside been adequately stimulated by the provision of sufficient alternative employment opportunities to agriculture . |
| 16 | First seen alongside Neneh Cherry , singing and standing on her head with the early-Eighties cult dance band Rip Rig And Panic , Andrea Oliver has since sung with a variety of outfits and , in between organising and cooking for a weekly night at West London 's Globe club , has recently joined forces with Malcolm Joseph ( previously with soul band Seventh Heaven ) to form new band , Her . |
| 17 | Under Article 86 , the Commission has successfully dealt with a number of abuses such as the granting of loyalty rebates ( e.g. Hoffman-la Roche ) , refusals to supply ( e.g. commercial solvents ) , and price discrimination ( Chiquita ) among others . |
| 18 | If she 'd been staying on the boat for any length of time it would have been necessary to find somewhere to go for a shower or a bath , but it did n't look as if that particular problem would arise . |
| 19 | This has naturally led to a drop in the price receivers are able to get for a failed business , and thus a drop in the surpluses the receiver hands to the liquidator . |
| 20 | The prescriptive monarchy of the United Kingdom stands constitutionally isolated in a world where some forty independent republics , large and minuscule , trace their historical origin from a period of rule under the British Crown in Parliament . |
| 21 | This is one of the many books which address the snobbery of the English , which flash at their readers the lawns of country houses , the baize of gambling-tables , which tell tales of those virtuosos of ostentation and disregard who have in common a contempt for commonness , for the middle class ; and it could be said of such books that their chief resource is the eccentricity which has long amounted to a convention of upper-class life . |
| 22 | One has only to return from a trip to the Continent , for example , to see what a shabby and second-rate country Britain has become . |
| 23 | They can take into account a painting 's decline in value if it has actually sold for that price , but because the decline in prices has only occurred at a dealers ' auction , they will not accept that a similar composition by the same artist would automatically be valued at much less than the price paid for it . |
| 24 | Britain has only agreed to a package of £65 billion a year . |
| 25 | Even the humdrum tasks are varied enough to militate against a sense of monotony . |
| 26 | Since this study was published , the number of families coming into these categories has greatly increased as a result of deteriorating economic conditions and changing social circumstances . |
| 27 | There was a row of bright enamel saucepans , an Italian coffee pot and two or three painted ceramic jars on the shelves ; Melissa bent down to peek into a cupboard and saw an array of packets and tinned foods and several types of pasta in glass jars . |
| 28 | Smaller library authorities have traditionally faced the problem of lack of staff ‘ mobility ’ , with difficulties in releasing staff from normal service points : the ability of libraries with larger establishments to release groups of staff , making internal training viable and economic , or to be able to afford external courses , has perhaps contributed to a tendency to define training largely in terms of off-the-job courses which may have discouraged some libraries from even attempting to develop a coherent overall training plan . |
| 29 | YVONNE MURRAY has suddenly emerged as a contender for a trip to the world indoor championships in Toronto next month . |
| 30 | Though he , too , declared the distinction between written and unwritten constitutions old-fashioned , it is a pity that his summary has not served as a starting point for subsequent commentaries on the British ‘ constitution ’ . |