Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [adv] [noun sg] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This has become almost par for the course in English qualifying campaigns under Robson : they were breached only once in reaching the last European Championship finals . |
| 2 | JOHN PERMAN , the former depot manager at Charlton , has taken over responsibility for the primary distribution project from BOB PARLE to enable Bob to take up his new duties as departmental director , distribution operations , when Derek Graham retires in August . |
| 3 | The company has taken out insurance for the directors and officers of group companies in respect of their duties as directors and officers of the group . |
| 4 | She had never so much resented having been made to take over responsibility for the dog from old Adam , who had been used to walk him , than on that day . |
| 5 | While Greg was living up at the farm she forgot to bring down milk for the cat . |
| 6 | As time was short we walked briskly for 4 hours , before deciding that we would have to set up camp for the night . |
| 7 | Held , dismissing the appeal , that there was nothing in the policy of the Insolvency Act 1986 that indicated that Parliament intended to give the words ‘ carried on business ’ in section 265(1) ( c ) ( ii ) of that Act a meaning different from that which they had been held to bear in section 4(1) ( d ) of the Bankruptcy Act 1914 ; that a debtor did not cease to carry on business for the purposes of section 265(1) ( c ) ( ii ) until all the trading debts of the business had been paid ; and that , accordingly , the registrar had been right in holding that since the tax liability had not been discharged the debtor was still carrying on business and that he had jurisdiction to make the bankruptcy order ( post , pp. 122B–E , H — 123A ) . |
| 8 | Many diesel depots ceased to carry out maintenance for the Railfreight sector , with some facing the axe such as Gateshead and others concentrating on work for other sectors such as Bristol Bath Road . |
| 9 | Having refurbished two bits of year-old evidence to support the new Libyan thesis , he now weighed in with a two-year-old intelligence report about a meeting in Tripoli before the bombing — in mid-November 1988 — at which the Libyans were said to have taken over responsibility for the attack from the PFLP — GC after Jibril 's West German cell was broken up . |
| 10 | At the same time , the deterioration in Sino-US relations in the aftermath of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre and the improvement in US-Soviet relations during 1990 had added further impetus for a US policy revision . |
| 11 | For Leconte , who only four months earlier had undergone back surgery for the third time in little more than two years , it had seen the re-birth of what was — and can be again — a gloriously entertaining , as well as effective , career . |
| 12 | Mary Alston , one of the mainstays of the women 's union in the 1920s , had to care during this time for a sick sister , who was in and out of a nursing home ; much later , in the 1940s , she had to give up work for a while to care for her mother . |
| 13 | After the dissolution of the Soviet Union , Russia , whose delegation was led by State Councillor Sergei Shakhrai , had taken over responsibility for the former Soviet military divisions in the Baltic . |
| 14 | With Sir John Leveson , he was ordered to set up provision for the poor and to enforce the order of Privy Council of 1598 , and by this order they were both assessed in the Parish of Halling , Sir John for 7s 4d and Lambarde 6s and the whole total for Halling being £4 5s 8d . |
| 15 | The TEC have taken over responsibility for the service in keeping with their aim to encourage commitment to training . |
| 16 | Joyce Edwards , Quality Circle facilitator at Wedgwood Barlaston , pictured at the presentation , said : ‘ The most important aspect of the project was that the pupils themselves have taken over responsibility for the school and its property . ’ |
| 17 | Badger road mortalities , however , are reduced now as badgers have put on weight for the winter and venture out from their setts less and less . |
| 18 | It is my view that our ‘ establishment figures ’ in education have held back progress for a generation . |
| 19 | We have paid home insurance for the last 25 years and have never made a claim . |