Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [verb] [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After bluntly pointing out the shortcomings of the existing system , the Royal Commission recommended a restructuring in which the criminal and civil work of the High Court would be separated . |
| 2 | After accidentally bringing about the death of his wife and child , he sets up his own suicide . |
| 3 | defiance of house rules ( e.g. breaking rules about playing with matches , about not switching on the TV before the children 's programmes begin , about sitting at the table until the meal is finished , or about not taking food out of the fridge without permission ) ; |
| 4 | While I am about it , I had better apologise on behalf of a contributor , who was castigated by post for not looking up the meaning of a phrase that was , to him , mysterious . |
| 5 | He thought them rather silly for not understanding how the trick was worked . ) |
| 6 | One of them , recently relieved of a large Norwegian and still visibly tense , said she 'd lost interest in food and would settle for not having all the cup handles knocked off . |
| 7 | The family solicitor threatened to sue the council for not carrying out the panel 's decision and allowing the children to go home . |
| 8 | I wish to notify other divers that while diving in Cornwall earlier this year , my buddy and I were charged £2 each for just walking down the slip for a shore dive . |
| 9 | Even so , he had taken the precaution beforehand of secretly informing both the United States and West Germany of his plans . |
| 10 | This technique develops a conceptual model of a process , subjects it to a number of experiments and studies the results with the aim of eventually predicting how the model will behave under certain conditions . |
| 11 | The only way of effectively cutting out the risks of HIV transmission is by having safer sex with all your partners . |
| 12 | Instead of merely examining how the law enforcement process in its broadest sense constructs a false image of serious crime and its perpetrators , they suggest we should consider the social construction of criminal law categories . |
| 13 | In the hope of perhaps pushing up the timber and the fruit and veg . |
| 14 | So it 's an impact outside of just closing down the car factory , and on the question of the effects on the community . |
| 15 | Equally erm , and this is a kind of aside , there 's the problem for the newcomer of not knowing how the flats Where , you know where each flat , where each block is , so you get in there and you and you 're trying to find , for example , or wherever , and you have n't got a clue , sort of where to start |
| 16 | If there was any criticism of the engine , it was that the aluminium alloys used gave the impression of not standing up the rigours of 40 years under the ground quite so well . |
| 17 | Instead of obsequiously handing over the dosh as any self-respecting minion temporarily permitted to breathe the upper air would have done , he started reciting terms and conditions . |
| 18 | SIR — What irony that the Iron Curtain of communo-socialism has collapsed throughout Eastern Europe , but we in Britain are on the verge of possibly turning back the clock 13 years to renew our disastrous affair with socialism . |
| 19 | But it is a matter of realistically weighing up the pros and cons . |
| 20 | It was found that males and females would become sexually excited and were strongly motivated to mate even though they seemed incapable of correctly carrying out the act of copulation . |
| 21 | The farmers have the cost of regularly cleaning out the ditches and renewing the drain pipes which lie beneath the fields . |
| 22 | At this time the idea of simply dividing up the group into product groups was also broadened . |
| 23 | The scope for misunderstanding and the possibility of simply giving up the attempt increases hugely when the less tangible , less definable aims and outcomes of partnerships are considered . |
| 24 | Thus we can always tell what colour a face should be by looking at its centre , regardless of how mixed up the cube is . |
| 25 | This report , of the Medical Royal Colleges and their Faculties in the United Kingdom , concerns itself with the diagnosis of brain death , but at the outset acknowledges that ‘ the dilemma of when to switch off the ventilator has been the subject of much public interest . ’ |
| 26 | Resistance from left-wing militia forces and loyalist Civil and Assault Guards was intermittently intense but incapable of seriously holding up the advance . |
| 27 | I mean , what I was going to say , from what I 've picked up from some of the comments from some of the district , district councils ' consultation it makes me wonder if they 're capable of actually taking on the role of social services in joint commissioning . |
| 28 | Anyway , what I really want to talk about is engineering for our future in a way because I mean most of you er , listen to the doom and gloom and all the ni , all the er kind of statistics we 've seen that come out of the Engineering Prize Federation , the C B I , I wish somebody , for a change , would put a little bit of gloss on it instead of actually bringing up the statistics which show how badly we 're doing ! |
| 29 | They begin by asking the question : in the period immediately following a defection , what would stop the firms getting together and , instead of actually carrying out the punishment , agreeing to reinstitute the collusive agreement ? |
| 30 | as well , well I could do with really clearing out the goats . |