Example sentences of "[adv prt] [noun sg] [noun] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Consultation Draft which preceded the issue of the COB Rules explained that in order to carry on investment business of the same description ( and so qualify as a market counterparty ) , the putative market counterparty must carry on an activity in relation to a description of investment which both fall in the same paragraphs of Sched 1 to the FSA as the activity and investments of the firm . |
| 2 | Carrying on investment business without the appropriate authorisation , except where professionals are dealing with professionals , is not only a criminal offence but may render unenforceable any contract entered into . |
| 3 | Thiam , 58 , a former banker , named a 27-member power-sharing government the following day , bringing in opposition figures including the controversial Abdoulayé Wade , leader of the Democratic Party of Senegal ( PDS ) who had come second to Diouf in the presidential elections in both 1983 and 1988 . |
| 4 | In 1981 a tentative move in this direction occurred with the publication of a government guide ( Non-Departmental Public Bodies : A Guide for Departments ) laying down ground rules on the future nature of quangos and their relationships with departments . |
| 5 | A plan to take down Minto House in the Scottish Borders and rebuild it stone by stone as a country club in Japan has been abandoned . |
| 6 | Jane Glover succeeded him as Artistic Director in 1984 , and has successfully broadened the policies of the orchestra by bringing in chamber music of the 19th and 20th centuries , while maintaining a strong commitment to the Haydn/Mozart period . |
| 7 | We had to halt as cartloads of bones dug up from the cemetery were taken down Paternoster Row to the charnel house . |
| 8 | ALTON Townswomen 's Guild handed over charity cheques at the annual general meeting . |
| 9 | It was with some relief that they assented to his desire to take over outreach work in the local community . |
| 10 | IBM Corp is said to be going to relieve the Open Software Foundation of one of its heaviest burdens and take over integration responsibilities for the Distributed Management Environment . |
| 11 | IBM Corp is reportedly going to relieve The Open Software Foundation of one of its heaviest burdens and take over integration responsibilities for the Distributed Management Environment ( DME ) . |
| 12 | AN ageing French woman ekes out a privileged life pulling off jewel heists with a decrepit sidekick . |
| 13 | Strangely , in writing off pop programmes as a lost cause , British TV seems to have ignored the example of MTV , which has come to define that genre across much of the world . |
| 14 | His mouth gave a wry twist as he remembered an old lady in his home town who used to buy up sympathy cards by the dozen . |
| 15 | Anglian DTI spokeswoman , Sarah Squire , said money taken from the EICS would be used to fund the new One Stop Shop scheme , where Training and Enterprise Councils set up consultancy services at a single location . |
| 16 | Coming Up Cabaret night at the Commercial , Shildon . |
| 17 | At home , the SPB ( it became the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds only in 1904 ) began to set up Nature reserves during the 1880s , as the decline in some native species became apparent . |
| 18 | A report from US National Park Service scientists has argued that the proposed use of underground water systems by the city of Las Vegas may dry up water supplies in a large area of the National Park system . |
| 19 | No it 's four hundred gallons , it 's , it 's , it 's , they do n't like to take any more than that because of the , the weight of water , it 's quite heavy er although they have one special equipment here again one of these roll-on roll-off ones , which is a water tank equipment , and er it carries about a thousand gallons or two thousand gallons of water , er in a tank , water tank and that if you are very short of water will be sent on as well to boost up water supplies in a particular area , so erm that was another one of these pods that we , we designed and , and put on the run . |
| 20 | Working with Thirkell , Pilger had drawn up sample pages of a new design , using gobbledegook text except for the headlines . |
| 21 | The Central Statistical Office has beefed up output figures for the first three quarters of 1992 , as a result of revised figures showing farm production in the first three quarters averaged 5 per cent more than originally estimated . |
| 22 | The Organization of American States ( OAS ) , meeting on May 17 in Nassau , the capital of the Bahamas , agreed to step up trade sanctions in a renewed attempt to persuade the military-backed provisional government to restore constitutional rule . |
| 23 | Small enterprise schemes , such as helping to set up engineering workshops in the Third World , can look very attractive on the face of it . |
| 24 | Remember those heady days not so long ago when 800 journalists packed into the ballroom at the Mirage Hotel in Las Vegas to see King and Tyson before the disgraced champion beat up Razor Ruddock for the second time ? |
| 25 | But despite the difficulties of reaching the camps , relief workers and supplies are getting through , A doctor and a nurse from the British charity Oxfam are already at Ebenat camp , and Danish health workers are setting up health services for the 5000 people there . |
| 26 | It also said that it could take up to 15 years to clean up oil pollution along the Saudi Arabian coast . |
| 27 | It has also beefed up debt collection by the simple expedient of using the phone instead of relying on writing to people for all its credit control . |
| 28 | But Daly has had the big finger pointed at him before , for excessive drinking , for allegedly smashing up hotel rooms on the minor tours , for his whole attitude . |
| 29 | The Cabinet did what it could both to promote talks and also to set up emergency procedures under the Civil Contingency Unit chaired by Merlyn Rees , the beleaguered Home Secretary . |
| 30 | Setting up production facilities in a new target market will often be risky , even though labour might be much cheaper in the targeted country . |