Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv prt] the [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is it threatened , or do sufficient financial and manpower resources become available to carry on the thrust of research ? |
| 2 | It is a natural development to use further reservoirs or special settling tanks to carry on the process of clarification , to remove substantially all the solids in suspension . |
| 3 | We have just been informed by Mr R. Warner of Photomatic Limited that the business ceased in August 1991 , but he has made arrangements with another company to carry on the photo-printing of Litho copies . |
| 4 | Strictly , the Revenue can argue that s343 does not apply until the hive-up agreement has become unconditional and been completed in accordance with its terms ( for example , the novating of liabilities and obtaining of third party consents ) , since s343 requires Newco to carry on the trade in succession to the transferor , not merely beneficially own it . |
| 5 | Civil servants are employed to assist ministers to carry on the business of government . |
| 6 | While most people strongly condemn the drugs traffickers , critics point to the recent drive by international markets to drive down the price of coffee , Colombia 's main export — and to the continuing drain of resources into debt payments to Western banks — as evidence that the international community is not willing to make the kind of sacrifices needed to confront the social and economic roots of Latin America 's drug problem . |
| 7 | They believe the council , aware of its weak case in favour of the barrage , is trying to wear down the opposition by attrition . |
| 8 | She said well , tell Grant , she said he can have a reprieve , she said it 's May the eighth and , and she says , she probably heard me say it was Friday and that 's when I thought it was this Friday , so I had to phone erm the receptionist at daddy 's works , so she was going to pass on the message to daddy just to tell him just to work late as usual , Grant , rather than come in at teatime and then go back to work again . |
| 9 | Liz , from Northern Ireland , was visiting the Wirral to pass on the art of storytelling to librarians , who had travelled from all over the country Picture : FRAZER BIRD |
| 10 | ‘ The idea was to pass on the information from generation to generation , so children traditionally played a very important part , ’ said a spokeswoman for the Open Spaces Society . |
| 11 | It was argued that the government 's policy towards Austin Rover could be viewed as an attempt to slim down the company through rationalisation and privatise parts as they became profitable ( eg Jaguar ) , finishing up with an unprofitable rump which had very little chance of long-term viability on its own . |
| 12 | In the 1950s , the elderly were described as ‘ passengers ’ , threatening to pull down the standard of living enjoyed by society as a whole ; they were a regressive element , dampening the ‘ initiative of youth ’ , and playing a conservative role in social and political life . |
| 13 | To shake off the mood of secrecy , he took her out . |
| 14 | A statute of 1388 attempted to reinforce the Statute of Labourers , the measure enacted to control wages after the Black Death of 1348–49 , but attempts in 1389 to put it into practice showed that men were trying to shake off the stigma of villein tenure , even at the cost of taking a cash wage worth less in real terms than the combination of cash and food which they had been paid previously , insisting on working by the day rather than contracting for a yearly wage , and exploiting the possibility of alternative employment ( 65 , pp.92–5 ) . |
| 15 | ‘ If you had to sum up the idea of Playboy it is anti-Puritanism , ’ said Hefner at the time . |
| 16 | The first cassation seems to conjure up the beauty of music in a summer garden at night . |
| 17 | He said one of their main hopes was to tighten up the law on fire precautions in flats . |
| 18 | He said the council intends to tighten up the by-law on dog fouling making it an offence for owners not to clear up after their dogs . |
| 19 | As Jeffrey Richards showed in the first of three talks on Sexuality in the Middle Ages ( Radio 3 , Monday ) , you can always get past a lack of obvious data to find out the sort of thing that goes on in bedrooms . |
| 20 | One example of the use of historical information is to find out the rate of increase in wage costs relative to different job categories or different companies or different geographical locations . |
| 21 | Incidentally , it enables the Census Dissemination Unit to monitor use of the data easily , both by counting the number of users currently registered and by using the project accounting package VMACCOUNT to find out the amount of CPU time which has been used and by whom . |
| 22 | Beniaminio and Mario Di Conza have been in the hospital since June , undergoing investigations to find out the extent of organ sharing , before the operation which was completed yesterday . |
| 23 | And some day we all have to find out the difference between romance and real life . |
| 24 | There is little chance of the " professional " participator emerging with real understanding , for to find out the truth of religion it has to be wrestled with and lived , not just safely and probably patronizingly studied from a safe distance . |
| 25 | There is plenty of room for debate about this calculation — over how to guess at future cash flows , over what period to take , over how to work out the cost of capital , to name but three . |
| 26 | Our aim is first to determine the variation of electric field as a function of radius and then to work out the capacitance per unit length . |
| 27 | I would advise anyone taking up such offers to work out the amount of fabric required and the normal retail price of curtain tape and hooks in advance as a way of calculating whether or not the cost is fair . |
| 28 | There is evidence of a stampede as meat-eating theropods attacked a herd of herbivorous hypsilophodontids browsing in a region of Australia , and some paleontologists have managed to work out the method of attack of the predators and the defensive posture of the herds . |
| 29 | Although Tocqueville and Marx emphasized different features in the development of European and North American societies in the nineteenth century , they both recognized in some way the interplay of economic and political forces : Tocqueville by associating democracy with the values of an agricultural and commercial middle-class society , and by noting the possible implications of the incipient class divisions within manufacturing industry ; Marx by giving prominence to the political struggles of the working class as a movement to extend democracy , whether in his account ( in 1852 ) of the Chartist demand for universal suffrage as being , if realized , ‘ a far more socialist measure than anything which has been honoured with that name on the Continent ’ , or in his later analysis of the Paris Commune ( 1871 ) as a new form of democratic government , as ‘ the political form at last discovered under which to work out the emancipation of labour ’ . |
| 30 | It is possible , by examination and experiment , to work out the process of manufacture in many cases , and as much of the technology used in the past is still in use today , this boils down to testing hypotheses ( rather than guesswork ) . |