Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [verb] [adj] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You do n't want to go wasting that on a taxi . |
| 2 | JACK Lee , whose name will always be associated with the Midland School of Embalming , which he founded just after the war and from which he has trained many hundreds of embalmers the world over , has decided to take more of a ‘ back seat ’ and has handed over the principal 's chair to John Davis , although he will still be ‘ in the wings ’ as an advisory tutor . |
| 3 | The Enterprise in Higher Education Initiative for Northern Ireland has made funding available for a programme of curriculum and staff development , and co-operation with industry and commerce , with the aim of extending opportunities for students to engage in such activities and to study relevant aspects of commercial and economic awareness and enterprise initiatives . |
| 4 | Because we had evidence that memories of the exercise tended to fade quickly , it was decided to exclude schools which had submitted reports at the very earliest stage ( autumn 1980 to summer 1981 ) , and schools which were not due to submit reports until the last stage of the first cycle ( autumn 1985 to early 1986 ) were also excluded because they could not be expected to have made much of a start on the process . |
| 5 | The Russian , who has confirmed herself this year as one of the world 's greatest athletes by setting four world records , is said to have tested positive at a meeting in Lievin , France , last month after equalling her 60 metres hurdles world record . |
| 6 | Sheila Stroud and Mark Evans are said to have hired White as a hitman . |
| 7 | If your psychoanalysis is reports , and not just the actions , of it can be a , used as arguments to er , allow this story to emphasise what the human ages evolved at specific suicide of men , erm , goes on to show examples of his erm , he actually claimed to have used this as a sort of process of identification of even fantasizing , in order to try and er demonstrate how er , I think it was Hadrian 's Wall was built , try to identify with engineers and architects who built Hadrian 's Wall , in order to try and work out what the actual function of the wall was . |
| 8 | I 'm afraid we 're just going to have to weather this for a while , and gloat twice as much when we turn the tables . |
| 9 | If your expectations or primary motivation in doing a particular job is to be upwardly mobile , it is unlikely that you are going to want to get involved in a job which remains at the bedside . |
| 10 | Wootton is understood to have felt unhappy with a proposed role that would include responsibility for existing HCK media accounts , with Colman 's in-house independent Media-Star handling any new business for the merged agency . |
| 11 | She is understood to have become ill at a party after unknowingly taking the illegal drug . |
| 12 | It appeared that signer 2 very clearly used speech throughout , one presumes to make lip-reading easier for a deaf audience . |
| 13 | Only in 1532 did he alight on the policy of the royal supremacy : the idea that the English monarchy had enjoyed an unlimited authority over the church within its realm for centuries and only now needed to start exercising this on a more regular basis . |
| 14 | Martindale is another valley which seems to have altered little for a century or more . |
| 15 | In contrast , this ratio does not seem to have played much of a direct role in explaining rising aggregate labour supply . |
| 16 | The aircraft had come to rest inverted in a ploughed potato field with the sail and engine on top of the pilot . |
| 17 | They must prove to Thadeus that they 're here to destroy what he hates , and they 've got to do this in a reasonable period of time . |
| 18 | It 's this macho attitude , we 've got to bring this to a conclusion , that I 'm arguing about . |
| 19 | She had gone to work first for a radical magazine , perched in a cramped office behind Kings Cross . |
| 20 | I 'm hearing things now that I have not heard in fifteen years that I 've been on this County Council and I would suggest erm to Mr that when he 's talking about things that this County Council ought to print , and I think the one suggestion he came up with is very sensible , he could perhaps follow up with a catalogue of those things which he considers need doing that after a hundred years have not been done . |
| 21 | Our players have struggled to master that as a unit . |
| 22 | And we always have used to have that on a Wake Sunday . |
| 23 | ‘ We have got to get used to a climate in which Britain is now in control of inflation . |
| 24 | Of , one of the words that she was talking about , people have started using wicked for a normal phrase . |
| 25 | Many of the anthropologists dealing with political organization have chosen to approach this from a conflict perspective . |