Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [noun] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She is trying for a Fleet Street career — but vowed to carry on actions against the Daily Telegraph and Daily Mail . |
| 2 | A statement in its memorandum of association that the company 's object shall be to carry on business as a general commercial company shall mean that its object is to carry on any trade or business whatsoever , and in such a case the company has power to do all such things as are incidental or conducive to the carrying on of any trade or business by it . |
| 3 | A company is allowed to carry on business in the usual way until steps are taken to enforce the charge . |
| 4 | Even if your company 's main task is , for example , to carry on business in the chemical industry , this can probably be changed , if you wish to , merely by going to the annual general meeting . |
| 5 | Ugly and irregular in their bodies as in their features , delineated in harsh thick outlines , these creatures are either static , frozenly waiting — as if for blows — or blackly and stiffly at work , or walking down roads with the clumsy , painful gait of arthritis sufferers . |
| 6 | Jill Neville was , and is , a novelist , whose arrival in Britain had been part of an earlier 1960s Australian wave , more tied to bohemianism than to the music and the scene that sucked in Australians in the mid 1960s . |
| 7 | Bernice sucked in air with a rasping gasp that hurt her throat . |
| 8 | He sucked in lungfuls of the cool fresh air and looked around for human habitation . |
| 9 | That would help us track down details from the relevant auctioneers . |
| 10 | Minoan wall frescoes showing youths leaping over bulls in the Cretan manner have been discovered in the Nile Delta . |
| 11 | Feta cheese has a storage life of two months ; crumble over salads for an instant Mediterranean flavour . |
| 12 | Sir Leon Brittan , the EC Commissioner responsible for competition policy , had said on Aug. 30 that the Commission would consider opening up membership of the unified financial services market to members of the European Free Trade Association ( EFTA ) ; he stressed , however , the need for reciprocal liberalization in those countries ( Switzerland and most of Scandinavia imposing tight limits on the extent of foreign shareholdings in their domestic companies ) . |
| 13 | In 1628 , now established as chief minister , he drew up proposals for the systematic preservation of official papers of all kinds , including those relating to foreign affairs ; but nothing came of this . |
| 14 | The family drew up plans for the four-bedroom house after their previous home on the same site in the village of Meopham , Kent , was destroyed by fire . |
| 15 | Interestingly , Cassoni was recruited because Bill Lowe , who headed up development of the original IBM personal computer , left to join Gulfstream . |
| 16 | Even in his own troubled mind , Vologsky dredged up sympathy for the old man . |
| 17 | He never darkened its doors , but he thought it was the proper place for weddings and christenings and funerals , and he was always prepared to rig up lights for the annual parish nativity play , with a dimming spotlight to beam sentimentally on the Virgin Mary . |
| 18 | They are the Brockman River 1990 Sauvignon Blanc and Cabernet Sauvignon and the 1991 Chardonnay , products of the Chittering Estate Winemaker Steve Scapera learned his art in California and last year built up exports to the American market to 41 million . |
| 19 | FROM Graham White come more photographs of Tamiami Airport , taken during the expensive mopping up operation after the terrible night of August 24 . |
| 20 | There are three polarisation states for deuterium nuclei , so only a third of the atoms in unpolarised deuterium will line up perpendicular to the magnetic fields . |
| 21 | It is this stage of trials that can be quite lengthy as teachers need to be able to try out material at a suitable place in the curriculum . |
| 22 | Not that Airdrie 's football is the sort that would pack out stadia on a regular basis — the bulk of the near-40,000 who went along to Ibrox on Saturday were there to see ritual slaughter — but in the context of this confrontation with the glitzy Rangers , the Broomfield side 's special brand of grim resistance was undeniably compelling . |
| 23 | Jason Drysdale , the son of a former Hartlepool United defender , caught out Middlesbrough with a superb free-kick for David Holdsworth to score . |
| 24 | Before they were colonized the Zande regularly carried out autopsies on the dead bodies of suspected witches , to see whether their bodies revealed any trace of the deadly ‘ witchcraft substance ’ ( mangu ) or essence in the small intestine . |
| 25 | Lovell ( 1986 ) reviews around a dozen papers which have carried out tests of the rational expectations hypothesis using direct survey data . |
| 26 | Having carried out savings of a similar amount last year , he says there 's no fat left to trim . |
| 27 | ( In fact , if you want to work out calories on the odd day you will need to have even more detail than this : you will need to weigh out quantities of food , including things like butter , you should note the make of chocolate biscuit , and so on . ) |
| 28 | The arrowed peaks show clearly how weights tend to concentrate around multiples of a basic weight unit . |
| 29 | However Mr Stevens ' visit to Belfast and his trip to see Nelson has prompted speculation that he was asked by Sir Hugh to go over details of the Finucane murder again with Nelson in case something was overlooked in the original investigation . |
| 30 | A third branch of the communications flowing out of EUCOM goes over landlines to the European headquarters of the US Air Force at Ramstein , Germany , from here the messages split up , going directly to the control centres in the convoys and to main operating bases such as Greenham Common . |