Example sentences of "[verb] [coord] [adv] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Taxes Act 1988 , ss671 and 672 apply where any person has power to revoke or otherwise determine a settlement or any provision thereof , and the settlor or his spouse may become beneficially entitled to all or any part of the settled property or income thereof as the result of such revocation or determination . |
| 32 | The LA has the power to revoke , suspend , curtail or prematurely terminate a licence if the holder has ( a ) broken any conditions attaching to his licence , or ( b ) been convicted of any offences which are of the type relevant to determination of the applicant 's fitness to hold a licence in the first place , or ( c ) been made bankrupt or gone into liquidation . |
| 33 | The Wolverines ' borrowed silks lent them invaluable seconds wherein to close with those guards and sever their throats before they could fire or even cry a warning . |
| 34 | Third World governments need to help the submerged economy emerge and gradually become a part of the official one . |
| 35 | Apparently David Sole uses his free arm to pull his opponent 's legs from under him , thereby causing the scrum to collapse and invariably gaining a penalty . |
| 36 | Black spot has to be taken very seriously because , given the right conditions , it can ravage and virtually destroy a rose garden in just a few days — I have seen this happen , and it is not a pretty sight . |
| 37 | Between 1740 and 1760 there was introduced and popularly used a sauce-boat in the shape of a shell , sitting on a short-stemmed , moulded foot . |
| 38 | The trees and shrubs wavering in the wind had stilled and now resembled a child 's Plasticine world . |
| 39 | It generalized and perhaps idealized a mass of experimental data , as Boyle 's Law of the volumes and pressures of gases , and Ohm 's Law relating potential difference and current through a resistance both do . |
| 40 | Larval termites look like those most primitive of insects , the bristletails ; larval horseshoe crabs are visibly segmented and so reveal a similarity with the trilobites difficult to perceive in the adult ; the free-swimming molluscan larva looks very like that of the segmented worms and thus suggests a link between the two groups . |
| 41 | Let's go and just have a drink , Ted 'll look after the kids , your Lucy can sleep in Frieda 's bed , be a bit of company for her . ’ |
| 42 | The eye does not sweep smoothly from left to right when reading but instead makes a series of fixations with rapid movements ( saccades ) between fixations . |
| 43 | Tell Tony 's gon na leave but actually has a go at me as well . |
| 44 | For this reason the pursuit of new business is an exciting and exhausting experience that stimulates , tires and sometimes defeats a consultancy . |
| 45 | A role for trade unionism which continued to confine its main purpose to the sale of labour at the best price it could get for it was bound to prompt unions first to seek and then to exploit a monopoly of it ; bound to make incongruent two prime objectives — full employment and a stable currency ; and bound to present Government with reasons of national interest or excuses of ideology for intervening . |
| 46 | More generally , governments in Japan , the US , and Europe have promoted and lavishly funded a number of large-scale pre-competitive research consortia ( such as the VSLI consortium , SEMATECH , MCC , ESPRIT , and others ) , and antitrust law and practice in both the US and Europe have become noticeably more lenient with the passage of the National Co-operative Research Act in 1984 and the announcement of the block exemption from Article 85 in the EEC for certain categories of R&D agreements in 1985 . |
| 47 | Had ICI focused earlier on shareholder value creation , he said , it would not have allowed a value gap to develop and so become a target for Hanson 's predatory schemes . |
| 48 | Two life sentences for the man who imprisoned and sexually assaulted a schoolboy . |
| 49 | Not only then do they come from a professional sub-culture which permits and often encourages a range of physical contact ( quite apart from the obvious sporting activity , PE departments in schools often administer their own disciplinary code ) but they also have the physical self-confidence to undertake the risks that are present in these encounters . |
| 50 | I also told them about the financial statement we had issued and afterwards received a letter asking if I would send on a financial statement , which I did " . |
| 51 | These gardens have taken many years to complete and now include a children 's Play area , a small lake with swans and fountains and a large sloping grassy area surrounded by trees and seats . |
| 52 | A MEMBER of a West Indian ‘ Yardie ’ gang who tortured and sexually assaulted a businesswoman for two days was jailed for 10 years yesterday . |
| 53 | Edit or just have a look at it ? |
| 54 | At the same time as the petition was being circulated , the Action Committee wrote and widely circulated a letter that anyone , anywhere , could send to their own MPs . |
| 55 | The latter is a widespread contemporary attitude among those known as members of the ‘ New Right ’ , which condemns the ‘ culture of dependency ’ that they believe the welfare state engenders and instead favours a market economy in which initiative is rewarded . |
| 56 | He enjoyed the party , danced , drank and generally had a whale of a time . |
| 57 | In 1576 Thomas Cherrington complained in the Queen 's Council of the Marches , that Thurston Woodcock , lord of Meason , had assembled a gang armed with long staffs and billhooks , and had forcibly ploughed and then enclosed a piece of his waste ground with a ditch . |
| 58 | At some stage after you have leapt out through the waves you will need to gybe and hopefully catch a wave back in . |
| 59 | ‘ But there are a lot of hazards which could kill or seriously injure a child . ’ |
| 60 | ( 3 ) Any person who resists or wilfully obstructs a constable in the execution of his duty , or a person assisting a constable in the execution of his duty , shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding one month or to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale or to both . ’ |