Example sentences of "[vb base] [be] [verb] [prep] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A currency hoard is a sum of money put together by drawing all its coins from circulation on a single occasion , whereas a savings hoard is formed by gradually adding coins to a hoard over a period of several years ; the difference in the way the coins were collected will affect the internal composition of the hoard . |
| 2 | The kind of structure the authors mostly discuss is to do with how to move from one dramatic experience into another in a way that tightens the pupils ' grip on the central issue . |
| 3 | Advise was given on how to colour the legs with substances such as cold tea , coffee , gravy browning , cocoa powder etcetera with the seams drawn in with pencil , crayon or burnt wood or cork . |
| 4 | ‘ I 've been thinking about how to maximise your display at the business fair . |
| 5 | We 're particularly proud of him in South Cambridgeshire , as we 're also proud that so many of our environmental health officers like Alan Hobson do sterling work for us , and we are looking to them in the in the future with this semi-autonomy that they 've been given to really take on board the opportunities which have been given to them under the 1990 Act to really go to town on environmental health . |
| 6 | They 've been coming from afar to pay homage to the king of Carradock Court Stables . |
| 7 | Thérèse said : you 've been put in here to spy on me . |
| 8 | I think I can say that during my career most of the things I 've decided ought to be done , I 've got done , but I 've done them in very different ways to other people and sometimes I 've been criticised for not going out and grabbing the headlines . |
| 9 | Six people have been prosecuted for persistently ignoring ‘ residents only ’ parking schemes in Middlesbrough and ordered to pay fines and costs totalling £710 . |
| 10 | Subtle shades of beige from the Crown Expressions range have been ragged to cleverly break up the colour which is picked up in the marble fireplace , pale loose cotton covers and unbleached cotton curtains . |
| 11 | Even so , the larger features in Figure 9.3 are visible from the Earth and many have been observed to hardly change over the 100 or so years for which Jupiter has been subject to extensive and continuous observation with powerful telescopes . |
| 12 | Separate Audit and Remuneration Committees under the Chairmanship of have been constituted to formally replace the Committee of Non-Executive Directors which for many years has provided the Executive Chairman with independent advice on matters concerning the appointment and remuneration of Executive Directors and senior executives and on audit . |
| 13 | For decades , labour relations within Ford have been regulated by annually negotiated company-wide agreements and tight shopfloor supervision . |
| 14 | I will quote from it , because it is important to do so in the context of the reasons that have been given for not giving the WEU control of defence . |
| 15 | Some of these O 3 datasets have been analysed without completely eliminating the dynamical variations related to the quasi-biennial oscillation . |
| 16 | Accidents have been caused by improperly fitted guards . |
| 17 | They have been hit by sharply rising expenses without corresponding rises in income . |
| 18 | Most signals have been discovered by simply watching the behaviour of interacting animals . |
| 19 | Where very large units have been created by either purchase or amalgamation the ‘ personal touch ’ , to which many farmers ascribe the absence of industrial relations problems in British agriculture , may in any case be inoperable . |
| 20 | Volumes have been written on how to divide work into departments or sections ; allocate responsibility and authority between different levels in the inevitable hierarchy ; control and co-ordinate the diverse contributions of different types of expertise and labour ; communicate within the structure so created , and plan the performance of organizational tasks . |
| 21 | These techniques have been relied on increasingly to evaluate vomiting infants . |
| 22 | At this point the whole argument not only takes us back to the eighteenth-century speculations about poetry versus reason , but begins to tie in with recent neurological discoveries concerning the workings of the two halves of the human brain which have been derived from experimentally induced conditions of aphasia . |
| 23 | Successive legislative steps have been taken since then to tighten the restrictions on access to tobacco by young children . |
| 24 | The 1970 Act , for example , gave local authorities power to install telephones and television sets in the homes of the disabled , but the social services departments have been bewildered by how to decide on priorities between services and between individuals needing services . |
| 25 | Vitamins A , E , and C are potent antioxidants and the serum concentrations of these antioxidants have been shown to inversely correlate with the risk of developing colorectal cancer . |
| 26 | The bones that porcupines carry to their lairs have been shown to accurately reflect the medium to large mammal fauna present in the region ( Brain , 1981 ) , but small mammal bone is not represented . |
| 27 | Mushroom polyps have been reported to severely damage other soft corals , such as leather corals , which are not usually aggressive species , and to engage in territorial fighting with hard corals , by discharging toxic secretions from their body cavities . |
| 28 | Reductions in both of these measures have been reported in patients following infarction and subgroups at increased risk of sudden death have been reported by both Kleiger and Schwartz . |
| 29 | Statistical methods have been used to automatically deduce the linguistic categories of words from raw data ( Atwell , 1987 ) ( Atwell & Drakos , 1987 ) ( Atwell & Elliot , 1987 ) ( Finch & Carter , 1992 ) . |
| 30 | It will be the first time bosses have been allowed to officially join in the celebrations and it marks a victory for Lawrie McMenemy , who has conducted a 15-year campaign on behalf of fellow managers . |