Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [adv prt] [det] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | I accept the argument which er Noble Viscount put so clearly that there may be a case for bringing in some outside people , but if this is to be done , it seems to me that the police authority itself is the authority best able to judge what particular gaps need to be filled and the one of the amendments to which I am speaking erm does contemplate giving power to the authority to co-opt members with experience which might not other ways be available , for example from among the ethnic minorities . |
2 | There 's a case for bringing back those old style Tory values . |
3 | Both organisations had as their chief promoter Rabbi Solomon Schonfeld , a brave and dedicated man who could take personal credit for bringing out some 250 children from Vienna and Berlin . |
4 | The police force for sniffing out these theological criminals was the notorious Inquisition . |
5 | ‘ Now , sit in this chair next to me , ’ he said , and with a sudden change of tone and manner , said , ‘ You must not blame us for keeping up such high standards of public behaviour . |
6 | Park Foods is in fine fettle after selling off all none-core business identified in a refocusing exercise a move which has clearly had a beneficial effect on profits which soared by a third from £7.7m to £10.3m before tax at the end of March this year . |
7 | Late one night she forgets to turn off the gas after heating up some left-over mutton vindaloo , and a loud explosion rocks the mansion as Tracey 's beautiful designer kitchen goes up in smoke . |
8 | After setting up this joint venture Courtaulds is merging its remaining acetate businesses and its fine chemical business to form a new business named Courtaulds Chemicals . |
9 | ‘ Now I 've got ta round up some more lads for the Ancient Britons , ’ Otley said . |
10 | The pool area is an ideal spot for soaking up that golden tan and is only a short step to the beach . |
11 | So that few minutes at the end is important for picking up these extra marks you 've been trying to throw away , okay , where you can do it , and the few minutes at the beginning is to look through and find that question wherever it was , that one on the last page . |
12 | Our civilization has at least this to its credit , he wrote , that it has found a way of rounding up this dishonest crap and incarcerating it in morgues , in fortified places with guards and alarm bells and the rest , thus keeping it off the streets , protecting decent citizens , and now , he wrote , there are even moves afoot to repel intruders by making them pay hard cash to enter these fortified places . |
13 | Bioremediation appears to be a very attractive , and in many cases a cost-effective way of cleaning up many contaminated sites . |
14 | Oxford United lost almost half a million pounds last season despite selling off several key players . |
15 | They had articulate and powerful protectors — Ingard 's own application to develop the land had been turned down , and the planning authorities were wholly capable of turning down any other application they might not like . |
16 | Clearly the task of separating out these different strands of historical change is an enormous one but the mere outlining of these problems reminds us that the sociologist must always be sensitive to the differential cultural and historical experiences often hidden under such general and abstract labels as ‘ industrialization ’ , ‘ migration ’ , ‘ urbanization ’ , ‘ capitalism ’ and so on . |
17 | Wobbling torch lights sorted out packs and bedding and within seconds of lying down all three men were fast asleep . |
18 | In the stables , Bunny Chaloner was perfectly capable of warding off any too-friendly girl . |
19 | This latter approach , of phasing out all non-structural tax allowances over the life of a parliament , could become even more radical if the personal allowances were included in the programme . |
20 | Another great way of ironing out any technical barriers in each scale pattern is to work out your favourite Pentatonic licks in all five patterns . |
21 | Reich subsidy to the city had now reached its limits and Schacht was in favour of cutting off all further aid . |
22 | So the cat is almost certainly performing a mimicry display , reacting like a snake in the hope of triggering off some deep-seated fear of a venomous bite in the assailant 's mind . |
23 | It is an irony that as the government makes great claims about its job creation record for West Belfast it is at the same time in the process of running down some major sources of employment in the area , most notably the Royal Victoria Hospital . |
24 | Australia has accepted the UK 's offer of £20 million as compensation for cleaning up former nuclear test sites . |
25 | So this is a time for shedding illusions and for staking up such relative certainties as exist . |
26 | We 've got ta set up this little D J yeah , D J's corner in the basement |
27 | What Sylvia had accomplished while doing her homework was to convince her subconscious mind that she was quite capable of entering an enclosed space without fear ; and since it is the subconscious which is responsible for sending out all those panic signals — the racing heart , the sweating palms , the feelings of nausea and so on — those symptoms did not appear . |
28 | Whilst scholars debate how far economic changes have been responsible for breaking up these traditional arrangements , there is evidence that the idea persists that this form of joint household is an ideal which people would put into practice if they could ( Benedict , 1976 ) . |
29 | It is a tactical device for breaking down any one market into a number of separately identifiable sub-markets in order to be able to reach that sub-market ( or segment ) with a particular marketing mix . |
30 | The theme , the Mirror went on , ‘ is the rising cost of living , the inability of the masses to meet the increases and the part played by the speculator in bringing about this unfortunate condition ’ . |