Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] [prep] [noun] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Responding to Mrs Thatcher 's initiative is one way in which radicals build up over time an alternative election programme . |
| 2 | Needless to say , these mega-rich popsters just swan around in wellies every other weekend for the benefit of the colour supplements ‘ Day In The Life ’ features and leave all the actual farming to peasants who get up at dawn and get paid in potatoes . |
| 3 | However , as the now-famous story purports , the evening after Nation had instructed his agent to say no to the Doctor Who offer , he and Tony Hancock had a serious disagreement , resulting in the writer catching the first train back to London the following morning , with no work , and a central heating system in his flat to pay for . |
| 4 | What he had done , he had done because he wanted to make some contribution , pay back to society the great debt he felt by being born to such privilege . |
| 5 | ‘ I usually take no notice and just turn up for work the following day . |
| 6 | This year our resorts offer something for everyone and the only problem is deciding where to go , but wherever you end up on Corfu a great time is guaranteed . |
| 7 | When they go out on patrol the other men will point out that such-and-such happened here , soand-so lives there , that 's a bad area , and so on . |
| 8 | The views expressed by Julie White and Hilary Patrick leave out of consideration the unfortunate fact that some kinds of serious mental illness may be associated with lack of insight . |
| 9 | However , such strategies have perhaps become less important for the very high income earners who , in recent years , have enjoyed a large reduction in the taxes they have had to pay following the reduction in the high rates of income tax since 1979 : for example , in real terms , those earning over £400 per week take home on average an extra £55 more in 1986 then they did in 1979 . |
| 10 | This they can not do , mainly because they take out of context the parental characteristics they are studying and then average out all fluctuations over time and situation . |
| 11 | For cheaper up-and-coming areas , she advises buyers to look around the Bastille and Le Valois Perret , where prices work out at £20-£40 a square metre — about £100,000 for a typical two-bedroom flat . |