Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [verb] [adv] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | NORMAN Riddell , the chief executive of Capital House , the fund management arm of the Royal Bank of Scotland , has resigned to take up a similar position at Invesco-MIM . |
| 2 | Although Liz Cole-Hamilton , 41 , has worked throughout her marriage , she has now decided that the time has come to take on a new challenge . |
| 3 | The Lord Chancellor originally intended that lenders should be self-regulating , but since publishing the white paper he has decided to set up a new Authorised Conveyancing Practitioners ' Board , with consumer representatives , to police lenders offering conveyancing services . |
| 4 | The Transport Secretary has decided to set up a new rail pension scheme to safeguard their interests . |
| 5 | The Dutch government has helped to set up a national halons " bank " to ensure the most effective use of the chemicals . |
| 6 | At Guy 's Hospital the poisons unit has had to set up a psychiatric liaison service to help such patients . |
| 7 | I have since asked my constituent for an update of the position and she has confirmed that the family has had to put in a good deal more extra money to finance both daughters than it had previously expected . |
| 8 | Karl Gesner has had to swallow quite a few blows to his ego over the last few days . |
| 9 | The Department of the Environment has agreed to set up a second air pollution monitoring station at Longlands College , Middlesbrough . |
| 10 | Already the opposition has united to set up a working group on immigration , with a view to formulating a new bill . |
| 11 | Scottish Roman Catholic priest James Morrow has pledged to take out a private prosecution for murder against the doctors . |
| 12 | Livernash ( 1963 ) would even claim that the structure of bargaining in the United States has been primarily determined by union preferences and , unlike the situation in some European countries , employers appear to have exerted only a minimum positive influence . |
| 13 | Police were reported to have broken up a pro-independence demonstration in Lhasa , the Tibetan capital , on March 20 . |
| 14 | In July FIS militants were reported to have burned down a divorced woman 's house " to purge her sins ' , resulting in the death of her three-year-old son . |
| 15 | Further research has failed to turn up a single firm IBM Corp mainframe deal for this quarter anywhere across Europe , and the disk business is not going to save any IBM bacon either : word in leasing circles is that users are so averse to buying new disks that prices of used 3380Ks have risen by some 25% . |
| 16 | An inquest has failed to establish how a twenty six year old barman came to be found dead in his flat . |
| 17 | The Dowty group has failed to fight off a hostile bid by T-I , one of Britain 's largest engineering firms . |
| 18 | According to Milan Ramljak , President of the five-man Croatian Commission and lecturer in law at Zagreb University , in spite of the war and the absence of any help from the Federal Commission , Croatia has managed to collect together a large file of evidence , including soil sample analyses which may be significant when they can be compared with analyses of the treasure and the cauldron in which it was found . |
| 19 | One of the region 's independent breweries has managed to fight off a hostile takeover bid — at least for the time being . |
| 20 | The kind of boat fishing at sea that I 've always done has had quite a few fathoms below the boat , but here the water was clear and only a few feet deep , we were certainly less than one hundred yards offshore . |
| 21 | I 'd expected to last only a few minutes before my first ducking but the gentle wind was perfect for getting used to the moves . |
| 22 | He 'd helped set up a new research wing , which was due to be officially opened in a fortnight 's time . |
| 23 | I 'd helped to start up a mixed-sex Lancaster Gay Switchboard and learned a lot from radical faggots . |
| 24 | Susceptibility to the toxic effects of paracetamol taken in overdose differs between people , which may explain why some patients survive having taken large amounts of paracetamol while others die having taken only a few tablets more than the eight tablets ( 4 g ) a day recommended by the manufacturers . |
| 25 | She ran downstairs , circling the lift-shaft , certain that he 'd be gone , but when she emerged into the street , he seemed to have moved only a few yards , walking slowly , his head bowed . |
| 26 | He seemed to have taken on a new lease of life . |
| 27 | Just as the 1972 Conference on the Environment and Development in Stockholm is said to have ushered in a new era of international cooperation ( at the very least , it led to the creation of the United National Environment Programme ) , so its 1992 successor could just provide all world leaders with some kind of working map for the future . |
| 28 | Indeed , on the evidence of surviving specimens ( the numbers of which are surprising given the delicacy of the material ) the glass worker is often seen to have embraced both a painterly and sculptural flair for colour , form and detail highlighting his creativity and sophistication . |
| 29 | They 'd planned to stay there a long time and they left fingerprints all over the place |
| 30 | Police investigating the accident in which Leslie Crowther was critically injured have ruled out a mechanical failure as a possible cause . |