Example sentences of "[adv prt] [noun sg] [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 | At last , it 's party time Down South after the never-ending election |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | And I 'm glad the Chancellor has been fairly tough on public spending and holding down pay in the public sector . |
| 7 | Marshal Shaposhnikov said Russia 's Foreign Minister would be asked to open talks with the Ukrainian leadership on handing over part of the 300-ship fleet to Ukraine for a coastal defence force . |
| 8 | This handed over responsibility for the poor law from the boards of guardians to the local authorities . |
| 9 | JOHN PERMAN , the former depot manager at Charlton , has taken over responsibility for the primary distribution project from BOB PARLE to enable Bob to take up his new duties as departmental director , distribution operations , when Derek Graham retires in August . |
| 10 | John Routly , the Ffestiniog Railway chairman , recently told members of the Ffestiniog Railway Society : ‘ Discussions are taking place between us the Welsh Highland and Gwynedd County Council , the aim being to create a divisional board representing both the FR and WHR to take over responsibility for the Welsh Highland if the Minister of Transport makes the transfer . |
| 11 | Without declaring for or against the coup , Sukarno issued an ordinance stating he had taken over command of the armed forces . |
| 12 | With Hewlett-Packard Co heading for $18,800m turnover this year and Fujitsu Ltd at around the $26,000m mark , while Digital Equipment Corp looks hopefully to Alpha to rocket it off its $14,000m-a-year launchpad , the contenders to take over leadership of the mainstream computer industry from IBM Corp are lining up — and a major new round of mergers and acquisitions could be on the way . |
| 13 | When the state took over recruitment under the Military Service Acts , the party continued to be involved : many agents were transferred to the army , where they continued to do the same job , and many party offices were lent to the government as recruitment centres . |
| 14 | In the years that followed the Brigade was called to a vast number of outside fires , until they eventually handed over control to the National Fire Service in 1942 . |
| 15 | Although the offer was not completely rejected by the Palestinian side , they made it clear that it fell short of Palestinian aspirations for a legislative council to take over control of the occupied territories from Israel [ see p. 38837 for Palestinian self-government proposal tabled at the fourth round of talks ] . |
| 16 | When pressure was eventually put on L.E.A.s in the 1950s to take over employment of the various county organisers whose salaries hitherto had been paid from Carnegie Trust funds , most authorities did so on condition that the organisers ' work should be extended to schools . |
| 17 | The military government in Burma said it would hand over power to the pro-democracy opposition which took an overwhelming lead in the elections for the National Assembly . |
| 18 | With the approach of the second anniversary of the brutal suppression of pro-democracy demonstrations by the State Law and Order Restoration Council ( SLORC ) , and no sign of the regime handing over power to the National League for Democracy ( NLD ) despite the latter 's sweeping electoral victory in May 1990 [ see pp. 37457-58 ; 37612 ] , there was a marked increase in tension and a renewal of violence at protests in early August . |
| 19 | Even if your company 's main task is , for example , to carry on business in the chemical industry , this can probably be changed , if you wish to , merely by going to the annual general meeting . |
| 20 | A company is allowed to carry on business in the usual way until steps are taken to enforce the charge . |
| 21 | Three main developments should be noted : ( 1 ) the opening up overseas of branch offices of English or Welsh partnerships ; ( 2 ) the creation of new partnerships overseas carrying on business in the English firm-name and involving some , or all , of the English partners together with foreign lawyers ( the counterpart of the multi-national practices which will shortly be set up in the UK ) ; ( 3 ) associations between English and foreign ( typically from the USA ) firms to carry on business together in a third country or as a regional or transnational grouping . |
| 22 | Authors at the conference , in social and business sessions include Shirley Hughes and Aidan Chambers , who round off conference at the Random House Breakfast on Wednesday , Anthony Sampson , Terence Blacker and Terry Pratchett , the guest of honour at the annual dinner dance . |
| 23 | Even in his own troubled mind , Vologsky dredged up sympathy for the old man . |
| 24 | Type 3 shows that elite competition can be stable , with democratic arrangements building up support for the political system in a ‘ centripetal ’ fashion , so long as the political culture of the country is relatively homogeneous . |
| 25 | There are three polarisation states for deuterium nuclei , so only a third of the atoms in unpolarised deuterium will line up perpendicular to the magnetic fields . |
| 26 | The other groups had set up camp on the far side , waiting for a few clear days and the worst of the snow to melt . |
| 27 | They set up camp on the uninhabited island ; and started a barbecue . |
| 28 | He made himself over by taking up body-building in the Scottish style — which is long and lean rather than pillows of bulk — and changed his name from Thomas to Sean ( in Edinburgh , he 's still universally known as ‘ Big Tam ’ ) . |
| 29 | Alien is primarily a mood piece as well as a visual display — there are slow passages in which little happens , building up suspense for the main action scenes , the deaths of six crew members . |
| 30 | What many fear is that , despite negotiated settlements ’ being fashionable in other parts of the world , the US will be more than happy to leave El Salvador to Arena , freeing it to step up aid to the Nicaraguan contras and removing , once and for all , any chance of success for the peace plan being negotiated by the five Central American presidents , which has never been supported by the US . |