Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] [prep] a [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Such people should be able to fight well from a lagging position . |
| 32 | FRESH ATTEMPTS to break the ambulance pay dispute deadlock are expected to coincide tomorrow with a health service union lobby of the Conservative Party conference as it opens in Blackpool , writes Helen Hague . |
| 33 | They provide a picture of construction , production and wholesale areas as major growth areas on an ‘ all Wales ’ basis , but the pattern of growth was found to vary markedly at a county level . |
| 34 | Getting Microsoft Windows to run remotely on a Sun Microsystems Inc workstation was seen as the last step in the development effort . |
| 35 | In 1864 the river Ystwyth in Wales was straightened to run parallel to a railway track . |
| 36 | ‘ His advice was to go immediately to a Casualty unit at a local hospital . |
| 37 | Mechanical engineering continued to perform well with a 12% rise in the value of exports to £599.4 million . |
| 38 | They had left it for me to finish alone on a chill blue , lonely morning five centuries later . |
| 39 | Kylie enjoyed the performance so much that when a Melbourne football club asked members of the Neighbours cast to sing together at a charity concert , she was at the head of the queue to sign on . |
| 40 | Strictly a two-seater it can , at the flick of a switch and the hiss of hydraulics , make itself a foot shorter to squeeze sideways into a parking bay . |
| 41 | After the Williams Report , it was very hard to argue convincingly for a laissez-faire approach to screen entertainment . |
| 42 | My own son , as a small boy , allowed to graze freely on a strawberry field during a ‘ pick your own ’ expedition and aware that he , unlike our basket , would not be weighed and charged , once achieved a mammoth strawberry-eating feat . |
| 43 | And if there 's no work and if there 's no means by which people can get themselves you know those sorts of basic things but you know I 'm not gon na si I I could n't say that the whole structure is going to ch change becau but I think erm I hope anyway and I do believe really that er I mean I hope that we 're going to stay together as a support group in some sort of form and Yes and there 's no way that we 're not going to support other causes in the way that we 've been supported . |
| 44 | to get outside under a pointilliste sky , |
| 45 | " The subsequent court case was heard at Lewes when the boat 's owner pleaded guilty , but his accomplice pleaded ignorance and managed to get away without a prison sentence , his excuse being that once he realised what was happening he felt obliged to remain on board as it would have been dangerous to leave the owner alone to handle the boat with a load of passengers . |
| 46 | The four man gang managed to get away with a £3,000 haul after breaking into Harper and Harper furniture store in Northgate , Darlington . |
| 47 | She was of a somewhat unusual design , rather narrow in the beam with a wide , bulbous underwater section midships , but in spite of a tendency to roll heavily in a beam sea she was a surprisingly good sea boat as she was to prove in the years that followed . |
| 48 | Scotland have been drawn in the same section as Ireland and Wales and are looking to go forward to a promotion play-off with the winners of a section involving Germany , Austria and Norway . |
| 49 | At one point of the fair it was the tradition for the landlord to go upstairs with a frying pan full of Hot Ha'pennies . |
| 50 | The University of Utah now decided to go ahead with a press conference . |
| 51 | Another Baby Bell , Pacific Telesis , sought his approval to go ahead with a cable deal in Chicago . |
| 52 | We see this as sufficient justification to go ahead at a pilot level of say eight student places ( rather than 15 for a later course with two lecturers ) , but also a warning that considerable effort will have to be put into consulting with partners both to incorporate their main concerns , and to advertise the course . |
| 53 | To move successfully to a market society the Soviet Union will need to draw on latent entrepreneurial values among its citizens . |
| 54 | One woman had the temerity to ask whether a person would be available to dig up and carry the ferns she hoped to take away during a bush walk . |
| 55 | The aim should be to move away from a subsistence standard of income in social security towards one that allows older people to participate more fully in society . |
| 56 | Frozen out of Japanese society , their ambition is to return home with a nest egg of at least two million yen ( £8,000 ) . |
| 57 | The alarm was raised when he failed to return home after a pottery class . |
| 58 | Despite all the homilies from the PGA that professional golfers must help the sponsor in every way possible , especially by cooperating with the media and especially with television , Jack had been known to stride straight past a TV interviewer without a word . |
| 59 | It is perhaps not the ideal place for a beautiful blonde to return late on a Saturday night . ’ |
| 60 | Whether it would be appropriate for the employee to return initially on a part time basis ; |