Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [adv] with the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Throughout the 1980s , it battled to achieve two crucial , strategic shifts : to reduce its dependence on bulk , low-margin , commodity chemicals which tend to swing wildly with the economic cycle — in favour of high value-added , high-margin ‘ effect ’ chemicals ; and to cut the share of sales accounted for by the UK . |
| 2 | Such a world view is the product of a perception conceptualized to contend dramatically with the instant experience of dealing with highly emotive , personal conflicts at street level , or the tensions of ritual ‘ battles with criminals ’ . |
| 3 | We should prefer to go along with the European Communitywide scheme so that British industry is not put at a disadvantage . |
| 4 | Just two days before the share sale was due to close , the Greater Manchester Council superannuation fund failed to come up with the expected £250,000 . |
| 5 | Ordinary wild plants , it seems , are weedier than crops , but both have a long way to go to catch up with the real pests . |
| 6 | I got mixed up with the wrong crowd for a while … |
| 7 | But if I ever got caught out with the big guy in the skull mask and the big axe thing then I 'd probably ask to end up coming back as my son because he 'd have my amazing charm , dazzling character , obscene talent ( ? — Ed ) , and chiselled good looks ! ( and gift for talking utter bullshine ! — Ed ) . |
| 8 | She just could n't wait to go through with the whole messy , life-destroying business . |
| 9 | The Blackpool cars were the largest , seating 84 , and two conductors were carried to cope respectively with the upper deck and the large platform doors . |
| 10 | To try to meet up with the real thing . |
| 11 | IBM Corp is still not ready with a full scale disk array for its mainframes , but next week , the company is expected to come out with the new 3390-9 disk drives , offering three times the capacity of the 3390-3 — could be as much as 60Gb on the As , 100Gb on the Bs ( CI No 2,046 ) — but they will be somewhat slower than the existing ones : a new 3990 controller that will be able to talk to disks that do not exist yet is expected to follow later , probably in the autumn . |
| 12 | As such , he or she has to work closely with the creative people and with media : in some agencies this includes the media planning , too . |
| 13 | JOHN KASMIN , or ‘ Kasmin ’ , as everyone calls him , has come up with the ultimate solution to the art slump . |
| 14 | East Grinstead , West Sussex-based company Shakespeare Speechwriter UK Ltd , formerly EMG Software , has come up with the ultimate system for keyboard-phobes — a voice activated personal computer . |
| 15 | This hits application performance , but the company has come up with the innovative idea of letting users run NLMs in protected mode until they are proved stable , after which they can be invited into the same memory segment as the core operating system to boost performance . |
| 16 | The Social Democrat Edith Niehuis has come up with the dubious argument that , because of the Catholic approach to female priests ( who have practised in the Protestant Church here for two decades ) , the tax is an ‘ unconstitutional discrimination against women ’ . |
| 17 | One-colour borders have been enjoying renewed popularity recently , and Mr Fothergill 's Seeds has come up with the perfect quick answer to monochrome gardening . |
| 18 | Now , last weekend 's cycle ride down the new section of the M forty once looked threatened by being blown away as the Met Office warned of impending storms , but in fact the sun shone down on the riders and today , less than a week the counting is done and Mike Biddolph from Oxfordshire County Council , who also took part in the event , has come up with the grand total of — how much have you raised Mike ? |
| 19 | In the USA , I discovered from a report by Dermot Pungavie in the Daily Mail , for those mourners who wish to view but are short of time , one funeral director in Chicago has come up with the novel idea of drive-in viewing . |
| 20 | Gilt holding may be expected to increase again with the rising public deficits of the early 1990s and the reductions in corporate profits and equity dividend payments in a time of recession . |
| 21 | He felt himself to be so uneducated that it seemed hopeless even to try to catch up with the ordinary things that people knew . |
| 22 | But in fact it added to my Saturday work because I was expected to clean more with the new machine . |
| 23 | BAR-BELLE AVIATION 'S fleet of four aircraft , Invader N7079G , C-45 N8389H , Harvard IV G-BRLV and Maule M.6–235C G-MOUL , has expanded further with the recent addition of Piper J3C-65 Cub G-BTUM , formerly based at Crowfield , reports Geoff Jones . |
| 24 | I know ZZAP ! has done away with the classified adverts , but I 'm writing to you , hoping you 'll print this : ‘ Wanted — ZZAP ! 64 issue numbers 55 and 68 . |
| 25 | The detailed character of financial , administrative and legal restraints imposed by Whitehall may change but the general effect remains the same — local councillors are expected to fit in with the political priorities of the government of the day . |
| 26 | It is designed to fit closely with the national study conducted by the Centre for Employment Initiatives ( 1984 ) to facilitate the comparison of many of the results . |
| 27 | It has to do rather with the infinite , universal wholeness of all things , of that all-embracing totality which may or may not be labelled ‘ God ’ , but which includes and enfolds everything within itself . |
| 28 | Martin will need to press ahead with the new football stadia report . |
| 29 | ‘ My mother especially is becoming worn out with the constant caring and the sleepless nights . ’ |
| 30 | This chapter has dealt chiefly with the non-consensual offences , and this is important , because it is the absence of consent which is the crucial factor in many cases of sexual assault . |