Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adv] [verb] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He knew how things worked in London , where to go to obtain what he wanted or needed , had contacts with the underworld , was smart enough and experienced enough not to make mistakes of the kind that draw a visitor to the attention of the authorities . |
| 2 | EMPLOYEES at Burstwick got together recently to bid farewell to two of their long serving colleagues . |
| 3 | This time it was his wine collection , housed in specialy built cellars of Headington Hill Hall in Oxford ; the wine , over 3,000 bottles is being sold off by administrators . |
| 4 | An appeal fund set up after the tragedy has so far raised £149,664 in memory of James . |
| 5 | London has so far had luck on its side with three massive IRA bombs failing to detonate . |
| 6 | A woman on the dole in a Sunderland sink estate tells me she has only voluntarily paid rent for two weeks in three years . |
| 7 | But the railway station has only tardily gained recognition for its contribution both to the railway system in particular and to culture and society in general . |
| 8 | You have to work much harder to stay friends with them . ’ |
| 9 | And it needs not only to provide access to files or data , but actually to connect applications running anywhere on the network — and through the application , to connect the minds that are putting the applications to work . |
| 10 | The modern woman should know just how to disarm suspicion with a floppy silk collar , how to imply kindliness with a tasteful floral print , or intimidate with a well-placed lapel . |
| 11 | Blake 's work for MI6 included not only gathering intelligence from the Russians but tracking down and watching Communist spies sent over into the West . |
| 12 | All profess greenness nowadays , of course , but climate change has not yet become part of their instinctual combat kit with its codes telling them instantly what to do when action is joined over , for example , trade union legislation and welfare payments . |
| 13 | Erm as you know sir , you 've heard already er the department has not yet received advice from the region as to the content of strategic guidance . |
| 14 | The first line — ’ Our Father which art in heaven , hallowed be thy name ’ has not yet given way in children 's parlance to ’ Our Father in heaven , may your name be hallowed ’ , or , ’ Our Father in heaven , may your holy name be honoured . ’ |
| 15 | Hauge says his assessment is still incomplete , since he has not yet had access to Soviet military records . |
| 16 | A buyer of goods can sue the seller or a third party for conversion if he has ownership of the goods even though he has not yet got possession of them . |
| 17 | However , this redistribution has not yet taken place to any significant extent , with the acute hospital sector managing to preserve its stranglehold upon health care expenditure . |
| 18 | TopLog International has not yet put pen to paper with Univel Inc to support Unixware , as reported last week ( Ux No 399 ) . |
| 19 | Nouvel has not yet sunk foundations into British soil , but his work on his home turf in France has produced a crop of prize-winning designs and an endless stream of commissions . |
| 20 | Third , since 1984 , unions in RENFE have won the right to negotiate over the level of minimum service , and management has not normally run services in excess of that level even if resources were available . |
| 21 | On this approach , to take an old example , if one dug a pit for the victim to fall into , one would not be guilty under s.20 because one has not directly applied force to the victim . |
| 22 | However , one study has not only shown persistence of enhanced platelet reactivity in response to collagen and sodium arachidonate despite a 1 6-week period of near normal glycaemic control but also an increase in platelet reactivity to ADP ( Jackson et al , 1984 ) . |
| 23 | Of course anything as scientific as a mechanical test has not always found favour with traditional craftsmen or indeed with business men . |
| 24 | I fear that this has not necessarily taken place in every case . |
| 25 | Taylor Woodrow , traditionally the most conservative of contractors , has just unexpectedly parted company with its chairman , Peter Drew . |
| 26 | Banks — in Belfast last week to give a reading from ‘ Complicity ’ ( Little Brown , £15.99 ) — has once again struck gold with a psychological thriller that draws the reader in from the first grisly murder on page one . |
| 27 | THE Princess of Wales has once more caused disquiet among fashion commentators by sticking to her own rules . |
| 28 | In a bizarre case that has once more focused attention on the accountability of art restorers , a United States Circuit Court of Appeals has heard arguments on a decision that , for now , requires an American city to pay more than half-a-million dollars for restoration work on a city-owned mural which that city never contracted to restore . |
| 29 | Such a view has more recently found favour in the National Health Service where the medical profession is encouraged to develop managerial skills . |
| 30 | Less than six months before the contract is enforced , the Department of Health has still not issued specifications for software producers . |