Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [verb] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Looking round for somewhere to hide the wrecked toy she climbed on to a chair and put the doll on top of the nursery cupboard . |
| 2 | Communist influence in the ILP was growing and although the ILP leadership remained hostile to Communism , there seemed to be opportunities for greatly expanding the Communist Party at the expense of the older and larger party . |
| 3 | The area of most impact potential for KBS 's is in on-line ATE testing which has the potential for greatly reducing the overall number of testing steps , thus reducing testing time , and offering more refined fault isolation help to the user . |
| 4 | As shown in Figure 2.13 , these range from trivial ones such as merely copying the first operand to the more useful ones discussed above . |
| 5 | The multimedia hardware industry has for long recognised the vital importance of these tools . |
| 6 | After successfully completing the academic stage [ law degree , CPE or Diploma in Law ] and the Legal Practice Course you then have to undertake a two year training contract which will enable you to put into practice the knowledge and skills that you have learnt . |
| 7 | The new Vigilant lost no time in making her mark when in June 1966 the Queen , after formally opening the new east wing of the London Custom House ( restored after wartime bombing ) embarked on the Vigilant at Custom House Quay for the short journey to Westminster Pier . |
| 8 | After narrowly losing the 1784 by-election , Hotham visited Sussex , where he embarked upon the ambitious scheme of transforming the fishing hamlet of Bognor into the select watering-place of ‘ Hothamton ’ . |
| 9 | She is understood to have become ill at a party after unknowingly taking the illegal drug . |
| 10 | Lester Piggott , his brilliant successor from the 1960s to the 1980s , was driven by such a desperate , obsessive need for wealth and security that he was sent to prison for persistently defrauding the Inland Revenue of its share of his millions . |
| 11 | For best results the main subject should be subdivided on the print-out into smaller subject fields . |
| 12 | Then in the 18th century , either the choir was awful or the weather was awful , er nobody 's too sure which , but they then settled for just seeing the one thing they knew by memory which was this Eucharistic hymn : Todaym Parchym that they sang in the hall every night as a grace , and that 's how it 's gone on . |
| 13 | The following Saturday I began a tour of Chelsea , Fulham and Kensington , staring into shop windows up and down the three boroughs and watching young men going about their business in the hope of eventually finding the right person to run Trumper 's . |
| 14 | Assistant Recorder Mr. John Wardlow stopped the trial on the second day of the hearing and directed the jury to acquit Philip O'Connell of indecently assaulting the 19-year-old woman and causing her actual bodily harm . |
| 15 | The young man was found not guilty of indecently assaulting the 16-year-old schoolgirl by the jury after a three-hour retirement . |
| 16 | Alternative vehicles for getting nicotine into the bloodstream skin patches , chewing gum and a recently-developed nasal spray — triple your chances of successfully kicking the smoking habit . |
| 17 | Are they a means of merely reapportioning the existing cake ? |
| 18 | Many camcorders are provided with a means of manually overriding the automatic exposure control setting . |
| 19 | There is no purely linguistic way of generally marking the intended use . |
| 20 | The Community shall adopt measures with the aim of progressively establishing the internal market over a period expiring on 31 December 1992 … |
| 21 | Last night UN officials were accusing the Serbs of deliberately sabotaging the humanitarian rescue mission as their forces closed in on Srebrenica . |
| 22 | Addressing the Russian Federation Supreme Soviet , he described the compromise programme as " an attempt to preserve the administrative-bureaucratic system " which would " lead the country to catastrophe " , and accused the central authorities of deliberately sabotaging the Russian Federation 's plan to proceed with the Shatalin programme from Nov. 1 . |
| 23 | Pressure group Friends of Twyford Down has accused the UK Department of Transport of deliberately misleading the public inquiry into the extension of the M3 motorway through the down [ see ED 61 ] . |
| 24 | This example illustrates the necessity of always putting the substantive motion to the vote . |
| 25 | Sandblasting of the Great Slab area at Stanage to remove graffiti painted on over the August bank holiday has had the beneficial side effect of totally cleaning the afflicted area of chalk and rubber marks , and has also increased the friction . |
| 26 | Job evaluation has long been popular in the private sector as a way of formally assessing the relative value of different jobs — and it is frequently used as a basis for deciding pay . |
| 27 | He cut off sharply , aware that the statement had negated his earlier pretence of hardly knowing the young pilot . |
| 28 | A match with the newly-crowned WBC champion would silence the critics who accuse him of forever taking the soft option . |
| 29 | Joshua Morris had given up hope of ever reaching the promised land . |
| 30 | Instead of erroneously portraying the social charter as a formula for increased unemployment and as a dangerous capitulation to the trade unions , should we not realise that a policy of co-determination that gives employees a say and a stake in the running of their firms is the very reason why the economies of so many western European countries have been so successful ? |