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 | More than 4,000 12 to 16year-old members of the Halifax Building Society Quest Club filled in questionnaires for the latest survey . |
| 6 | In any other case , bankruptcy proceedings must be begun in the county court for the insolvency district in which the debtor has resided or carried on business for the longest period during the six months immediately preceding the presentation of the bankruptcy petition ( r 6.9(2) ) . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Bernice sucked in air with a rasping gasp that hurt her throat . |
| 10 | He sucked in lungfuls of the cool fresh air and looked around for human habitation . |
| 11 | That would help us track down details from the relevant auctioneers . |
| 12 | Hendry , who has now earned over £200,000 during the 1992-93 season despite his relatively poor run of results , added : ‘ When you believe that you 're the best player in the world it 's very depressing when you keep on playing like an idiot . ’ |
| 13 | Minoan wall frescoes showing youths leaping over bulls in the Cretan manner have been discovered in the Nile Delta . |
| 14 | Feta cheese has a storage life of two months ; crumble over salads for an instant Mediterranean flavour . |
| 15 | Understandably , Tony O'Dalaigh is anxious that what he describes as the ‘ chaos with Archaos ’ does n't hang over reports of the 1991 Dublin Theatre Festival ‘ I would n't want it all to obscure the fact that in terms of the festival 's visibility and the people who turned up to see the shows we had the most successful festival in years . |
| 16 | However , how many times have you seen your ball deviate off course at the last moment due to someone not repairing their pitch mark ? |
| 17 | Like Camdessus , Conable urged creditor nations to write off debt to the poorest nations [ see also p. 37731 for LDC conference in Paris ] and claimed that a 10 per cent cut in military spending by members of NATO would free enough resources to double development assistance . |
| 18 | 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 ) . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Interestingly , Cassoni was recruited because Bill Lowe , who headed up development of the original IBM personal computer , left to join Gulfstream . |
| 22 | Even in his own troubled mind , Vologsky dredged up sympathy for the old man . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | FROM Graham White come more photographs of Tamiami Airport , taken during the expensive mopping up operation after the terrible night of August 24 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | You will , however , get the chance to try out alcohol in the third week of Stage II of the diet . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | We swam out perpendicular to the two to three knot current , until we were in its heart . |
| 30 | I 'll format out ones to the next two decimals , range formats , I 'll make that unprotected cell the range protects . |