Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [adv prt] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 A disabled woman in Wigan has won £10,000 damages from the council after it failed to carry out necessary adaptations to her home .
2 In the interim , they agreed to carry out further research into land-based disposal .
3 The smaller parish or community council may prefer to carry out all business through the full council instead of appointing committees .
4 You may want to light up different parts of the garden at different times of the year as different plants and shrubs come into flower .
5 MacDonald 's rescue plan for Norton involves bringing in new sources of finance , selling the German FUS subsidiary ( he says he 'll get £100,000 — Norton paid £8 million ) , and designing ( personally ) a new , lower-cost bike to replace the F1 .
6 The monetary committee offers to carry out regular checks on ‘ a confidential set of indicators … primarily measures of external competitiveness ’ .
7 With pal Andrew Christie , 21 , Paul planned to smash up parked cars with the baseball bat .
8 Thus the company is uniquely placed to sum up current interest in alternative fuels for diesel and petrol engines .
9 Dorigo and Kelly got caught out many times on Saturday , the central defenders are suspect , so the full-backs should be helping them not leaving them more exposed .
10 Out of season they helped build up local defences by filling sandbags .
11 The committee also recommended that the government clarify the rules covering the supply of heat and energy so that anyone planning a CHP scheme would not need to carry out long negotiations with the electricity industry .
12 An external auditor will need to carry out detailed checking of records and procedures .
13 You want your perceptions heightened … and you want to shirk off all notions of human morality .
14 environmental constraints if the organization is big enough to qualify as strategic , and I am really concerned about the planning er application in which I know that Da Professor Lock is interested that I think developments of that scale have nothing to do with the employment needs of the district , that they would in fact involve bringing in large numbers of people from other areas who as I have said before , might appreciate jobs nearer their present places of employment , and it would also unbalance the Harrogate housing market and put on pressure for more land to be taken in and around Harrogate for housing for the people who 'd come to that development .
15 On the road , the Christian driver has pointed out those inscriptions on the walls of the Dog River .
16 Yes thank you Chairman erm I think important question very similar question I think we 're we 're all wondering whether the changed landscape of West Sussex , the changed use of West Sussex has had any influence on the flooding and as the County Council has pointed out worst amount of rain we 've had for about seventy years or so I think it 's very useful and important er to ask questions an and when this crisis is over we reflect on what we can learn from it , but I must bear in mind that it is first and foremost extraordinary climatic conditions which have caused these problems and that in itself of course might have implications erm the whole of global warming does tend to come to mind when you see what 's happening in Australia as well as what 's happening here erm that 's certainly not anything that agencies great or small can have any control over .
17 John Smith tried to kill off such speculation by emphasising that in a general election last week 's results would have given Labour a majority of 87 .
18 They tried bringing out political prisoners after rebellions in Britain , they tried kidnapping new recruits , and they tried legislating to keep up the number of white men that planters must employ , but white men still left for England or went on to new parts of the Americas rather than compete against slave labour .
19 The MEDIATRON is a modified stereo-cassette recorder , which is designed to carry out simultaneous recording of audio-signals , trigger pulses for photographic slides and digital signals from a computerized information retrieval system .
20 In checking to ensure that your employers have striven to strike a fair balance , it could be worth asking whether they have considered drawing up some form of ‘ points table ’ or other grading system , by which the relevant matters can be assessed .
21 At the prizegiving , the winner is expected to pass on any tips to other members of staff .
22 This is the man who has conjured up fresh doubts about the validity of the so-called Dianagate tapes .
23 This is the man who has conjured up fresh doubts about the validity of the so-called Dianagate tapes .
24 On the other hand the British government was disturbed to find , early in 1955 , that the credibility of the nuclear deterrent in Europe might be weakened as the Americans tried to spell out differing roles for tactical and strategic nuclear weapons in the defence of the West .
25 AUSTRALIAN he-man Mel Gibson , best known for ‘ Mad Max ’ and ‘ Lethal Weapon ’ , has picked up kinder notices for his ‘ Hamlet ’ than perhaps he or anyone else expected .
26 In the first case , elitism does not provide an explanation , being merely a loose term to describe a social category about which other features rather than the elite characteristic provide what explanation there is ; in the second case , the power elite looks remarkably like a social class , and elite explanation has come back full circle to its point of departure .
27 The ministry of agriculture has carried out successful trials on the new tests but says the government has yet to make a final decision on wether to fully adopt the new system .
28 The impartiality and fairness with which he has carried out all tasks during many years on the school 's management team have been beyond reproach .
29 Dunn ( 1983 ; 1984 ) in Cambridge has carried out extensive observations of sibling relationships and the effects of general family functioning of the arrival of a new baby .
30 The Guild of British Tie Makers has carried out extensive research into tie wearing and has discovered that , far from being viewed as a current trend , the tie is considered an essential item in a man 's wardrobe .
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