Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] [verb] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even so , a miner such as Anthony High , who was formerly a cobbler , could earn money repairing underground shoes for the management , and in June 1846 he was given 3/ for repairing a blacksmith 's leather bellows . |
| 2 | This form of LBA is well known to court registrars , so this letter can be sent on the firm 's own notepaper , and there is no need to instruct solicitors to handle this stage of debt collection , |
| 3 | David Ashford , who 's a teacher , had even been given permission to take twelve weeks off work . |
| 4 | They should also be given permission to issue some form of fixed interest profit-related bond , be allowed to raise a proportion of their equity direct from the public and be subject to independent regulation similar to that of privatised utilities . |
| 5 | National Power and PowerGen have been given permission to burn that fuel at their power stations at Pembroke , Richborough and Ince . |
| 6 | Worried about renewed unrest , the government diluted plans to remove all subsidies in the second stage by setting an average maximum limit of 125 per cent for price increases on a basket of 11 essential foodstuffs including bread , sugar and cooking oil . |
| 7 | White liberals have recognised the problem and made attempts to recruit black parents in the 1970s ( ABAFA , 1976 ) . |
| 8 | A BUILDING society yesterday revealed plans to quiz would-be homebuyers on their private lives to assess what mortgage rate to charge . |
| 9 | The actor rode into historic Deadwood , South Dakota , with a 60-strong gang of architects and announced plans to turn 85 acres into a hotel and gaming city . |
| 10 | Prominent individuals , including Gen. ( retd ) Olusegun Obasanjo and Chief Anthony Enahoro , announced plans to promote new moves towards full multiparty democracy . |
| 11 | Shortly after Haq 's resignation the government announced plans to curb public expenditure by holding it during the current financial year ( ending in June 1990 ) at the 1988-89 level . |
| 12 | In this game , opposing groups attack each other by surrounding and touching . |
| 13 | It consists of two elements : ( i ) domestic rate relief , paid to enable authorities to relieve domestic ratepayers of a certain proportion of their rates ( currently 18.5p in the ) ; ( ii ) block grant , intended to supplement an authority 's own finances so that , irrespective of individual local needs and resources , it can provide a similar standard of service for a similar rate poundage to other authorities of the same class . |
| 14 | However , in September 1988 , the Secretary of State for Education announced proposals to allow certain people with no teaching training to become ‘ licensed teachers ’ at the discretion of local employers . |
| 15 | She did not want Lisa to have any part of Rachel , and she did not want Rachel to have any part of Phoebe . |
| 16 | That scarcely encourages attempts to justify extra-territorial application of the principle . |
| 17 | From adolescence on , peer groups exert more influence on attitude formation . |
| 18 | " The preface and to a still greater degree the text of the memorandum evince the author 's hidden intention to provide general ideas for the transformation of the whole of Russia " . |
| 19 | The Scottish Office has been urged to issue guidelines to help small authorities like Orkney deal with suspected multiple sexual abuse . |
| 20 | Complementary metal oxide semiconductor ( cmos ) circuits save power , allowing designers to put more circuits on a chip . |
| 21 | I 'd like to see schools claim less responsibility for the shaping of the citizen of the future . ’ |
| 22 | Decaying regions were to be given aid to create new industries along the lines of the Barlow report of 1940 . |
| 23 | Accumulating data indicate that heterozygosity at codon 129 plays an important part in the phenotypic expression of familial prion diseases . |
| 24 | We asked headteachers to consider those pupils in their school who fell into the category of unauthorised absentees , and with the help of guidance staff allot these pupils into descriptive groupings . |
| 25 | On screen , the locations certainly seem rough enough to give the impression that much of the filming must have been genuinely unpleasant , and the physical and emotional demands of the film , shot in high temperatures , led Dustin to lose twenty pounds by the time it was completed . |
| 26 | The proposed new Regulations will extend the relief to include traders performing similar functions in relation to financial futures and options on the London International Financial Futures and Options Exchange . |
| 27 | The Natural Environment Research Council has cancelled plans to build two types of submarine . |
| 28 | With the advent of computers enabling researchers to process large amounts of data , such research is likely to increase in the future . |
| 29 | By the beginning of the 1960s the government had given up the attempt to encourage employers to take special note of the needs of older workers . |
| 30 | Yet in spite of the drive to encourage employers to recruit more people with physical or mental difficulties — or retain them in the wake of ill-health — too many are still backing off from taking on such staff , according to the Department of Employment . |