Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [noun sg] [prep] an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead , he wholeheartedly takes them over : they show up materialism as an inadequate position and leave the way open for his spiritual immaterialism , with God at its centre . |
| 2 | Although official prices rose only 2 per cent , unsatisfied consumer demand ( estimated at a value of 165,000 million roubles ) drove up inflation to an annualized rate of 7.5 per cent . |
| 3 | One of the few draw-backs of computer faxes is that they treat all faxes as bitmap files and gobble up memory at an alarming rate . |
| 4 | Paul 's family in Swindon have given up hope of an early release . |
| 5 | It was because of events like that at Castlemorton Common near Malvern in May , when around 20,000 travellers set up camp for an illegal Bank Holiday festival , that the Government announced tough new measures to deal with illegal encampments . |
| 6 | From travelling around I get the impression that , although they say they want to , most branches have other concerns which prevent them from taking up recruitment in an effective way . |
| 7 | Anyway , one of them escapes and sets up home in an abandoned but working car-wash in Hayes , Middlesex , while the rest die of starvation in the internment cells . " |
| 8 | At the last moment he caught sight of Owen , who had taken up position at an adjoining table , and raised hands to heaven . |
| 9 | Carrying out surgery on an old person is the wrong allocation of resources |
| 10 | If it is in one of the basic sciences , then graduates normally carry out research in an appropriate university department leading to the award of PhD degree . |
| 11 | THIS WEEK Timothy Raison , minister for Overseas Development , will read a report from his civil servants advising him to hand over control of an international conservation treaty to the Department of the Environment . |
| 12 | It soon became evident that their overlords , the British , intended to hand over power at an early date . |
| 13 | On March 7 , the Group of 12 ( a newly formed coalition of the country 's main opposition parties , ranging from communists to conservatives ) issued a joint statement calling upon the populace to rise up against Avril and force him to hand over power to an interim civilian administration as the first step towards the holding of free elections . |
| 14 | Unit trusts are regulated by the Life Assurance and Unit Trust Regulatory Organisation ( LAUTRO ) and the Investment Management Regulatory Organisation ( IMRO ) , and they have a Unit Trust Association ( UTA ) which carries out supervision on an informal basis , and is more of a lobbying body on behalf of the unit trust industry . |