Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [adv] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most have been down to either rank bad defending or bad luck . |
| 2 | The greater part of their duties in terms of expenditure was not handed down to the boroughs but passed over to newly established joint boards for police , the fire brigade , passenger transport and the probation service because these functions require wider operational areas than the boroughs can provide . |
| 3 | But their dependence on it may cut people off from even considering other buying methods . |
| 4 | ‘ We are still looking for riders , ’ adds Pavitt who called last night 's match off at 6pm following heavy rain . |
| 5 | He went off at once to fetch another load . |
| 6 | This beautiful small cow is elegantly built with fine bones , a fine , clean head held alert and set off by gaily carried white horns which curve upwards , tapering to black tips , and which are quite long in proportion to the size of the animal . |
| 7 | Rhinos are mainly hunted for their horns which are then used in the Middle East for ceremonial dagger handles and also ground up for so called healing properties . |
| 8 | To see what he has been up to lately visit Curt Marcus before the 31st of the month . |
| 9 | Jalalabad has up to now disproved this theory . |
| 10 | The squad , which will benefit from fitness and training programmes set up by recently appointed British Athletics Olympic National Coach , Frank Dick , is to be coached by former British No. 6 Teresa Catlin , and is seen as being a vehicle that will give youngsters the opportunity to feed through into the Main squad . |
| 11 | Senior civil servants can scarcely be blamed for thinking of their political masters as relatively temporary and likely to move on before fully understanding departmental problems and the merit of traditional policies . |
| 12 | However , a case can be made out for cyclically adjusting such figures so that the long-term trend of unemployment may be observed . |
| 13 | I 'll start looking out for somewhere to live next time I go down . |
| 14 | Today , manual remuage is still widely used , but it is carried out on specially designed wooden boards , hinged together to stand like an inverted ‘ V ’ and known as pupitres ( the French for reading desks ) . |
| 15 | Another alternative is to drape fabric back over specially designed hold-back hooks in brass or chrome . |
| 16 | You should aim to avoid inducing them to break their contracts by walking out without either giving that notice or agreeing that the notice period be shortened . |
| 17 | ‘ I set out to wilfully parody other music papers like Melody Maker who were so pompous ( plus ça change ! ) so I did things like call our letters section Gasbag after MM 's rather earnest ‘ Mailbag ’ . |
| 18 | The examinations , which are purely oral , are carried out by specially trained native speakers . |
| 19 | So there 's a lot of people walking about with just taking bloody tablets who probably really should have a by bypass . |
| 20 | In fact , the Council went on at once to put this principle into practice and agree that admission to communion ( that is to say , in common parlance , partial intercommunion ) may be accepted ‘ in order to promote closer union ’ ( Orientalium Ecclesiarum 26 ) . |
| 21 | If I ca n't get to the person they want I try and say to them , ‘ Look , can you please ring back ’ , because if they left a message , that message would have been lying on my desk until the next morning , until I get round to actually phoning that person internally , saying this person rang . |