Example sentences of "[verb] [noun sg] [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You mean if I got kind of aroused right now , I should n't fight it or flounder , or try to control it , but just be it . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ There are some really good women writers around at the moment ; Shawn Colvin 's excellent , and so 's a woman called Ferron , although she got kind of pigeonholed into ‘ women 's music ’ , and I think that 's limited her audience . |
| 3 | Students should be given experience of steering the glider off to one side so that they learn how to use the controls independently instead of co-ordinating them . |
| 4 | 16.33 Pupils should be taught how to handle , and be given experience in using , information and media texts of a variety of kinds . |
| 5 | Law centres can , of course , earn money through taking on work financed under the statutory legal advice scheme . |
| 6 | Other ufologists also make money by writing sensational books which crack the cover-ups or solve the mystery . |
| 7 | Eddie Thorning and I saw a great opportunity to get in on the ground floor , and make money by gaining competitive advantage through an oil-and-parts offer to workshops and petrol stations . ’ |
| 8 | Estate agents make money by selling houses , normally about 1.5–2% of what the seller gets for his house : ( up to £600 pounds on a £30,000 house ) so they do n't mind working for it . |
| 9 | The strength can be variable depending on the source , and it is therefore wise not to risk damage by exceeding a maximum rate of 4 ounces ( 113 g ) per square yard ( square metre ) . |
| 10 | Such situations might include the routine repeat purchase of washing up liquid , sweets or cigarettes . |
| 11 | For this we must rely to a great extent upon Soviet goodwill and if we make difficulty over returning their own nationals it will react adversely upon their willingness to help in restoring to us as soon as possible our own prisoners . " |
| 12 | for more than 6 weeks now entails loss of pension and loss of Housing Benefit ; formerly local authorities had discretion to continue entitlement to Housing Benefit for quite prolonged admissions . |
| 13 | At Potsdam Mountbatten had been given responsibility for accepting the Japanese surrender south of the 16th parallel . |
| 14 | A single Minister will be given responsibility for coordinating London 's transport services . |
| 15 | Additionally , the nurses can be given responsibility for determining how they will allocate the hours between themselves and on which days they will report for duty . |
| 16 | The Commission has also been given responsibility for developing a broad Community recognised vocational training pass , but this will have to be built upon current activity in this area . |
| 17 | Established by Congress on Aug. 2 , it was given responsibility for drawing up a plan within 150 days for the " pacification " of the country . |
| 18 | Specifically , governors should be given responsibility for defining the broad aims of the school ; they in turn should invite the head and staff to devise means of pursuing them , and should themselves monitor the school 's progress towards them . |
| 19 | UNESCO was given responsibility for organizing international sponsored Literacy Year ( 1990 ) and sponsored with UNICEF , the UNDP and the World Bank , the World Conference on Education for All in Jomtien , Thailand , on March 5-9 [ see also p. 37335 ] . |
| 20 | The government 's Technical Commission had been given responsibility for providing the mechanism for an orderly poll for which 130,000,000 lei ( about US$6,500,000 ) was set aside . |
| 21 | The idea of the clinical directorate is that the groupings of service providers can be given responsibility for organising their work including its planning and budgeting control . |
| 22 | Skinner was also given responsibility for liaising closely with the troika at the apex of Bush 's re-election campaign . |
| 23 | In 1919 he was also given responsibility for founding the new signals intelligence ( sigint ) agency , the Government Code and Cipher School ( GC and CS ) . |
| 24 | A specific senior nurse should be given responsibility for updating the establishment profile as a result of planned developments in service which affect staffing requirements anywhere within the Health Authority . |
| 25 | The new administration was given responsibility for preparing for the forthcoming general election and drafting a new constitution . |
| 26 | It was Major Volpi who had been given responsibility for putting up road-blocks and carrying out house-to-house searches . |
| 27 | The person given responsibility for solving the problem is known as a Problem Solver . |
| 28 | A rough rule-of-thumb was that landowners controlled the rural county councils and farmers the rural district councils ( which were given responsibility for housing ) . |
| 29 | The successful candidates will probably be given a very expensive training , and it is fear of wasting money on training unsuitable applicants which is the reason for such a prolonged exercise . |
| 30 | They 'd be better off waiting to see what the law is before wasting money on taking action . |