Example sentences of "[adv prt] [noun] [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a crucial role for partnerships in taking on responsibility for the local co-ordination of education . |
| 2 | He had put on weight in the short time since going to Mrs Gracie 's ; he was plump . |
| 3 | And drags down Mira to the nether World . |
| 4 | ‘ So you brought in Gerald on the open side . |
| 5 | Prescriptivism is , in essence , the view that it is possible to lay down rules for the correct use of language . |
| 6 | Existing agreements lay down guidelines for the maximum credit period and the minimum interest rate . |
| 7 | We give more money to the Common Market budget than we give in aid to the third world . |
| 8 | He struggled to bring in attractions like the popular singer Sandie Shaw but the ballroom was in trouble . |
| 9 | More than 4,000 12 to 16year-old members of the Halifax Building Society Quest Club filled in questionnaires for the latest survey . |
| 10 | At last , it 's party time Down South after the never-ending election |
| 11 | As Reinhard Drifte has observed , ‘ Here for the first time , the idea of a Japan-US security treaty emerges along lines of the actual treaty of 1951 . ’ |
| 12 | Meat production in the Soviet Union was down 12% in the first part of this year , while milk production has fallen by 10% . |
| 13 | In the nightmare my father , the under-gardener , my brother and I were throwing sticks to bring down walnuts from the great tree halfway between our home and the Court . |
| 14 | No well more or less the branches had the opportunity to send in resolutions to the national agreement which were dealt with at conference . |
| 15 | A NEW TV detective will use breaks between programmes to embark on his first case — to track down investors in the latest sale of BT shares to the public . |
| 16 | The festival of Sekaten is marked by a week of playing sacred musical instruments called gamelans , brought in procession to the Grand Mosque — a colourful and tuneful display . |
| 17 | Fill in details about the present state of the room in the first column ; then what you would like or propose to do about it in the second , and finally , in the last column , what it 's going to cost you . |
| 18 | That would help us track down details from the relevant auctioneers . |
| 19 | At home she 'd be doing a bit of shopping , gardening perhaps , or turning down invitations to the over-sixties whist drive . |
| 20 | Private machinery orders collapsed in December , down 28% from the previous month . |
| 21 | The government says local authorities can narrow the care gap by pushing down prices in the independent sector . |
| 22 | Every £1 in extra revenue brought in 93p at the bottom line , said the board , with the new 7 per cent Government levy on sales the only deduction . |
| 23 | For the second year running the Artemis Group recorded lower profits , down 35% on the previous year . |
| 24 | It was reported on Oct. 14 , 1989 , that the first attempt to bring together COMECON and EC officials in Moscow was effectively boycotted by the EC in an attempt to play down links between the two organizations in favour of developing bilateral relations . |
| 25 | Varices may form along adhesions between the abdominal wall and the gastrointestinal tract , particularly the small bowel . |
| 26 | Furthermore , on Jan. 5 Azerbaijanis reportedly tore down stretches of the 12-km-long border fence between Nakhichevan and Turkey . |
| 27 | The Clegg Commission was abolished in 1980 and eventually the government managed to squeeze down pay in the public sector through its use of cash limits . |
| 28 | And I 'm glad the Chancellor has been fairly tough on public spending and holding down pay in the public sector . |
| 29 | The extension of the LFA has left this gross anomaly unaffected since it brings in land at the lower elevations outside the original LFA boundary . |
| 30 | The number of job offerings was down 11% from the previous year , with studio teaching positions particularly hard hit . |