Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [adv] the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | A classic example was when he found himself at the centre of media and national attention after taking over the chairmanship of the troubled Westland Group in June 1985 . |
| 32 | Four years after taking over the leadership of the party , he can still seem shallow and dull . |
| 33 | A week after Chapman 's resignation George Cripps also left the club , after handing over the books for the previous two years to Mr J. W. Bromley , a former director . |
| 34 | Quinn hit the opposite pavement thirty-three seconds after putting down the phone on Zack . |
| 35 | George and Tony used to pay themselves £350 a week after setting up the firm at the height of the last recession in 1982 . |
| 36 | Oh I 'm sorry my Lord perhaps I could read the passage out and then er I can hand it up to your Lordship but it after setting out the dictor from Mr Justice in the Midland Bank . |
| 37 | then said that he found other difficulties in Lord Roskill 's speech in Reg. v. Morris , and after setting out the facts of the case and quoting a long passage from that speech , at p. 332 , and also the answer to the certified question he continued , at pp. 283–284 : |
| 38 | The Rev. Thomas Arnold , founder of the Oral School for the Deaf at Northampton in 1868 after trying out the system with only a limited success with a special class at the Yorkshire Institution where that great advocate of sign language , Charles Baker , was Principal , did probably more than any other person to establish the oral system in Britain with the fine academic record of his school . |
| 39 | I also met the police station er Sergeant and and after discussing further the matters with him erm then I was happy an armed operation was er was necessary . |
| 40 | For example Bergmann et al , 1978 found that 38 per cent of a sample of 83 patients with organic mental disorder referred to a day hospital assessment unit lived alone ; and the authors concluded , after following up the sample for 12 months , that those who lived alone were least likely to be maintained at home for that period of time even with substantial support from social services , and recommended that resources should be concentrated on those who lived with their families . |
| 41 | This part is taken from the first 4 bars of the Pride And Joy solo and illustrates a great device for filling out the sound of your lines . |
| 42 | So , while it is always worth seeking out the names of journalists who have a special interest in your subject , and if appropriate sending the releases to them at home as well as to their office , always be sure to send your releases to the newsdesk and perhaps to one or two others on the paper too if it is appropriate . |
| 43 | Look , I know I have a reputation for serving up the truth with more than the traditional British accompaniments . |
| 44 | Dictionary for seeking out the meaning of every word you are uncertain about . |
| 45 | Rachel Billington went for Powell and Iris Murdoch ( ‘ If we 're talking about pushing forward the boundaries of the novel ’ ) . |
| 46 | I tried to sell it , but no one was willing to offer me more than five shillings , so Bob uses it for picking up the produce from the market every morning . ’ |
| 47 | There is now considerable scope for pushing back the onset of morbidity in old age into fewer and fewer years with properly targeted health promotion and illness prevention policies and the widespread adoption of healthier lifestyles . |
| 48 | Well to make that sort of revenue they will actually need to fly rather more than two million passengers a year , and in the present state of the world aviation market I reckon that 's quite a tall order , in fact if they fell short of it by five percent in a particular year that would be capable of using up the kind of capital and reserves which we 've been talking about . |
| 49 | Thus , methods of drawing together the components of care were developed , especially in federally funded initiatives such as the Community Support Program . |
| 50 | This was later to be criticised as imposing an unnecessary conservatism on design ( pp. 104–10 , below ) , but at that time ( with shortages of skilled draughtsmen and engineers , and the overriding priority of speeding up the installation of safe and reliable sets ) it was widely supported by the manufacturers and the CEB as well as in Whitehall . |
| 51 | Given the paucity of aggregate savings and the narrow base for taxation , most governments in LDCs resort to budgetary deficits , financed through the printing of money , as a means of speeding up the process of economic development . |
| 52 | Perhaps the best way of illustrating just how this operates in practice and how far-reaching its effects can be in terms of building up the involvement of an entire school community in a philosophy and policy for the future is to show what has happened in one Lincolnshire school . |
| 53 | For the first time the new cannon offered relative ease of production , and a greater degree of safety in use , unlike the former practice of building up the guns from iron bands held together with loops . |
| 54 | Secondly , there are two methods of building up the image within the printer . |
| 55 | It is easy to see why : the track is only six lanes wide so that the crowd is closer to the action than usual , and the organizers have the knack of building up the anticipation for the big event so that once it gets under way , emotion bubbles over . |
| 56 | The process of building up the strength of shared commitment can seldom be consciously managed in a schools . |
| 57 | I use this basic method of building up the design on a bed of leaves , as it gives a good three-dimensional effect , but there are several other ways to achieve an equally pleasing design . |
| 58 | It is the duty of the community to provide through its social and welfare services the advice and support which such parents and children need … such help should always be directed towards building up the responsibility of the parents whenever this is at all possible ( Home Office , 1960 ) . |
| 59 | I did get and proved the place I 've been going that actually more accidents due to blocking and you sort of back up the stairs with you |
| 60 | Resistance to this proposal came especially from the SPD in both East and West Germany , which supported the idea of early unification but not of bringing forward the elections in the West . |