Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] [adv prt] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The couple is expected to set up a separate residence for themselves on or shortly after marriage ( that is , and has long been , a general European pattern ) , and the chief obligations of the spouses are to each other and to their children , and only after that to their own families of origin . |
| 2 | Finally , a unit can be added to print out a complete network diagram . |
| 3 | The word Resident normally implied , at least officially , a preponderance of diplomatic over administrative duties , but it was clear from the beginning that a Lugardian Resident was expected to take on a large number of purely administrative tasks . |
| 4 | NORMAN Riddell , the chief executive of Capital House , the fund management arm of the Royal Bank of Scotland , has resigned to take up a similar position at Invesco-MIM . |
| 5 | At the same time it was announced Leckpatick chief executive Malcolm Woods had resigned to take up a new position as managing director of John Kelly , Belfast . |
| 6 | Although Liz Cole-Hamilton , 41 , has worked throughout her marriage , she has now decided that the time has come to take on a new challenge . |
| 7 | No woman should be expected to bring up a large family on her own . |
| 8 | ( d ) Restraint covenants Whenever it is intended to open up a new office the partners must as a matter of urgency consider the adequacy of the restraint covenants to which they have agreed to submit themselves and which they have imposed on their key employees . |
| 9 | The Soviet neutralisation plan for the Persian Gulf may have been intended to open up a strategic dialogue on a broad front to enable Soviet diplomats to introduce Western military preponderance in the Gulf region tacitly or explicitly into the negotiation process for the limitation of Soviet military influence in other regions . |
| 10 | At the meeting it was decided to carry out a detailed analysis of the needs of each church 128 in all , of which fifty or so are of prime artistic interest and to calculate precisely the costs involved . |
| 11 | In addition to the methods mentioned above , which were used specifically to evaluate the undergraduate information retrieval course , an attempt was made to carry out a long-term study on the use of the library with regard to reasons for use , materials used , success in carrying out literature searches etc . |
| 12 | Debriefed in fine detail by Donleavy and DIA agent Neal Miller , largely to see what could be done to patch up a new link with the Asmar network , Coleman was told to keep the video gear pending a resolution of ‘ this goddamn DEA fuck-up ’ and to take charge of Syrian George , who , as it happened , had arrived two days earlier on his J-1 visa and was staying at the International House on the University of Alabama campus . |
| 13 | A proposal by the BAPU parliamentary group to repeal Paragraph 1 , defining Bulgaria as a " People 's Republic " and as " a socialist state of the working people from town and country , headed by a working class " , was rejected on procedural grounds after a heated debate , but it was decided to set up a working group of government and opposition representatives to examine this and other possible constitutional amendments , with a view to submitting proposals to a forthcoming National Assembly session . |
| 14 | The Transport Secretary has decided to set up a new rail pension scheme to safeguard their interests . |
| 15 | ( B ) The conference had decided to set up a national assembly composed of 123 members based on the number of constituencies existing before 1969 with a speaker and two deputy speakers . |
| 16 | It was therefore decided to set up a Royal Commission to review the whole problem of criminal behaviour and of the means of dealing with it . |
| 17 | It was also decided to draw up a new party programme along social democratic lines in advance of multiparty elections in Slovenia in April . |
| 18 | In terms of the analogies we have used so far , the Indian traditions are said to orbit around a different sun , or to be climbing a different mountain — or to identify with a family of monsters in the loch quite different from the one followed by the Near Eastern religions . |
| 19 | Since two different groups of headlines appear in E [ the last sheet but three ] it is obvious that an interruption occurred while E was printing ; and it appears probable that it came about because the printer abruptly decided to run off a small number of complete copies of the book for sale while the opera was being presented and then to finish the entire edition at leisure . |
| 20 | What worries me , said one Vice-Chancellor , is that the policy of the government is to leave the universities autonomous , as they are , with the implication that they are irresponsible , to stew in their own juice , while an attempt is made to build up a rival system , via the CNAA . |
| 21 | It was decided to throw out a friendly challenge to other parish councils . |
| 22 | Fewer digits were repeated when the right rather than the left hand was used to carry out a tracking task . |
| 23 | The feedback from college staff , subject assessors and Field Officers will be used to carry out a detailed evaluation of the model . |
| 24 | The ministers also agreed to carry out a joint study of the rights of Mercosur countries , under national and international law , vis-à-vis those of foreign companies and investors , with a view to harmonising legislation in the run-up to the creation of the planned trading bloc . |
| 25 | Ministers have agreed to carry out a fundamental review of the way dentists are paid in order to avoid a repeat of the crisis . |
| 26 | Sometimes this may come from a reduction in the number of people needed to carry out a particular task . |
| 27 | Drivers of the test cars were told to drive around a small town and tap a pedal each time they spotted a ‘ problem ’ signal . |
| 28 | As the lines were alternately pulled so the pulley actuated a semi-circular rudder hinged across the diagonal of the rearmost box.One does not need to have much imagination to see how the rudder deflection might send the Box kite into limited stunts , given a strong wind ; but we doubt if the rigid stability of a Box kite could be persuaded to perform over a wide range of movement . |
| 29 | " Got to stand around a fair bit in this job , lass . |
| 30 | Plateless bolt-on necks are the order of the day , and the Koreans have had to work out a strange method of extending the neck an extra step past the end of the fingerboard to try to keep the Rickenbacker look ( you might be able to spot this feature on the black one , between the neck and middle pickups ) . |