Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [noun sg] of [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | Interestingly , Cassoni was recruited because Bill Lowe , who headed up development of the original IBM personal computer , left to join Gulfstream . |
| 3 | It is difficult to put forward a programme which holds out hope of a better life when you have singularly failed to live up to your promises during your term of office . |
| 4 | CONTINUING HIS LOOK AT HOW TO USE IMAGES IN YOUR DOCUMENTS , JOHN BENNETT CHECKS OUT SONE OF THE BEST PC DRAWING PACKAGES AND EXPLAINS WHY YOU DO N'T HAVE TO BE MICHELANGELO TO USE THE . |
| 5 | Paul 's family in Swindon have given up hope of an early release . |
| 6 | The Governor has effectively given up control of the Bermudian police to the local government , though he still retains the right to be consulted . |
| 7 | Yet they all move together in the right way at the right time to carry out part of a complicated manoeuvre . |
| 8 | It is almost conventional for discussions of localities to miss out experience of the Second World War , although First World War experiences are more commonly considered . |
| 9 | With every move the visitor transfers from one ear to another , steps over the roughed out eye-socket of a sleeping figure , or dodges round a protruding nose . |
| 10 | The track index will take up part of the first track of each cylinder . |
| 11 | And now the Forestry Commission is using shirehorses to thin out part of the ancient woodland at Westonbirt Arboretum in Gloucestershire . |
| 12 | Laser beams consist of photons which , though small by atomic standards , have a cumulative inertial effect , Dr Carl Wieman of the University of Colorado , who heads one research group , says that cooling an atom with a laser beam is like trying to slow down movement of a heavy object by bombarding it with ping-pong balls . |
| 13 | Marshal Shaposhnikov said Russia 's Foreign Minister would be asked to open talks with the Ukrainian leadership on handing over part of the 300-ship fleet to Ukraine for a coastal defence force . |
| 14 | Lending Services continued to play an active part in the work of the Library and Information Co-operation Council ( LINC ) and the Circle of Officers of National and Regional Library Systems ( CONARLS ) , handing over chairmanship of the latter body to the Irish Central Library for Students at the AGM held in Edinburgh in May . |
| 15 | Even belting out duet of the Cuban anthem ‘ Guantanamera ’ with salsa star Celia Cruz . |
| 16 | Without declaring for or against the coup , Sukarno issued an ordinance stating he had taken over command of the armed forces . |
| 17 | With Hewlett-Packard Co heading for $18,800m turnover this year and Fujitsu Ltd at around the $26,000m mark , while Digital Equipment Corp looks hopefully to Alpha to rocket it off its $14,000m-a-year launchpad , the contenders to take over leadership of the mainstream computer industry from IBM Corp are lining up — and a major new round of mergers and acquisitions could be on the way . |
| 18 | When pressure was eventually put on L.E.A.s in the 1950s to take over employment of the various county organisers whose salaries hitherto had been paid from Carnegie Trust funds , most authorities did so on condition that the organisers ' work should be extended to schools . |
| 19 | Although the offer was not completely rejected by the Palestinian side , they made it clear that it fell short of Palestinian aspirations for a legislative council to take over control of the occupied territories from Israel [ see p. 38837 for Palestinian self-government proposal tabled at the fourth round of talks ] . |
| 20 | Support for my argument that agency care is likely to be used comes from the findings of a follow up survey of a nineteen er sorry , comes from the findi , I I 'll start that sentence again . |
| 21 | The mean follow up interval of the remaining 73 ( 25 men ; 48 women ) was 6.1 years ( range 4 to 12 ) . |
| 22 | ‘ My homesite was Cape Wrath but before I ever made my first flight a Man came and … ’ and he began to tell her his story , of the Zoo , of the Cages , of the Men there and his sudden escape … only leaving out mention of the other eagles in the Cages for in his heart he knew their pride would ask that he did not mention their names to a free eagle , nor would they wish for pity from outside . |
| 23 | In striking down part of a 1983 law designed to shield rape victims from intrusive questioning about their past , the court ruled by seven to two that the law had rendered inadmissible evidence which could be essential to the constitutional right to the accused to receive a fair trial . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Last year , it acquired the small Abbots and Sussex dairies , also based in the south , and in January picked up part of the Co-operative Wholesale Society 's milk distribution business . |
| 26 | Today a fully paid up member of the Conservative Party . |
| 27 | Parents opening accounts will find that The Royal Bank of Scotland 's Rainbow Savings account comes out top of the major high street banks , paying 8.25 per cent net , followed by the Bank of Scotland 's Supersaver at 7.82 per cet . |
| 28 | Parents opening accounts will find that The Royal Bank of Scotland 's Rainbow Savings account comes out top of the major high street banks , paying 8.25 per cent net , followed by the Bank of Scotland 's Supersaver at 7.82 per cent . |
| 29 | Parents opening accounts will find that The Royal Bank of Scotland 's Rainbow Savings account comes out top of the major high street banks , paying 8.25 per cent net , followed by the Bank of Scotland 's Supersaver at 7.82 per cent . |
| 30 | First , Franco still held out hope of a late Axis victory , believing — astonishingly — that Hitler possessed and would soon deploy secret weapons and " cosmic rays " . |