Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A strip of electrician 's tape stuck round both sides of the base to make them waterproof and they 're ideal for bringing on any bulbs destined for the windowsill . |
| 2 | The reason for bringing forward this policy was because it , as Mr Williamson said , is the District Councils felt there was a need to fill a strategic er a gap in strategic guidance . |
| 3 | Er and and on all counts the necessity for bringing forward this policy , given the existing controls that exists , given the controls that will exist in the normal operation of the development plan system , development plan lead system should I say , erm mean that that this policy is totally unnecessary . |
| 4 | Yet he alone has been responsible for bringing about some of the seminal works of this century , Bartok 's Music for Strings , Percussion and Celesta among them . |
| 5 | The government notes with some satisfaction that Namibia 's practitioners of the media have initiated a process for bringing about some accountability by voluntary adoption of a journalistic code of ethics and the establishment of a Media Council , which is a self-regulating body . |
| 6 | The government notes with some satisfaction that Namibia 's practitioners of the media have initiated a process for bringing about some accountability by voluntary adoption of a journalistic code of ethics and the establishment of a Media Council , which is a self-regulating body . |
| 7 | I accept the argument which er Noble Viscount put so clearly that there may be a case for bringing in some outside people , but if this is to be done , it seems to me that the police authority itself is the authority best able to judge what particular gaps need to be filled and the one of the amendments to which I am speaking erm does contemplate giving power to the authority to co-opt members with experience which might not other ways be available , for example from among the ethnic minorities . |
| 8 | There 's a case for bringing back those old style Tory values . |
| 9 | Both organisations had as their chief promoter Rabbi Solomon Schonfeld , a brave and dedicated man who could take personal credit for bringing out some 250 children from Vienna and Berlin . |
| 10 | Jansher has been rebuffed in the past by the president of the Players ' Association , Chris Dittmar , for demanding too much of tournament organisers . |
| 11 | Obviously their chance at the draw bag is now four to one instead of one hundred to one , and even allowing for the fact that they will undoubtedly be called lucky so and so 's for drawing well all the time , with odds of four to one it is not so surprising . |
| 12 | It 's worth gathering as many prizes as possible for a raffle or draw . |
| 13 | The police force for sniffing out these theological criminals was the notorious Inquisition . |
| 14 | Your review of two books on crime ( April 3rd ) makes the brazen statement that Italy ‘ can perhaps be forgiven for producing so many American gangsters . ’ |
| 15 | To sum up : in a time of unprecedented expansion of world trade Britain , the nation of shopkeepers , paid itself higher wages for producing very little more , while putting up its prices much faster than its competitors . |
| 16 | The centrepiece of the Corporation Tax project is a computerised model which uses published accounting information as a basis for simulating how much tax individual companies are liable to pay , under the present ( and alternative ) tax systems . |
| 17 | And you 've got ta count how many you got each . |
| 18 | ‘ Now , sit in this chair next to me , ’ he said , and with a sudden change of tone and manner , said , ‘ You must not blame us for keeping up such high standards of public behaviour . |
| 19 | Willie is not one for keeping too many records , but one thing he 'll always remember is the remarkable coincidence of his three Open Championship victories . |
| 20 | yeah because ten to fifteen years earlier there was n't this amount of class consciousness and now you 're saying that bond 's completely broken down which I may agree with you on but , but they 're now organizing themselves purely on this hey we 're all friends now or s and we 've got ta gang together all seventy percent of us against the landlords which was n't |
| 21 | Yes I do erm Peter , it 's a smashing book erm very smart indeed and erm it 's it 'll be a really nice thing to have , it 'll be very useful this season for checking up some of the two year olds who are now three year olds , coming up in the next few months . |
| 22 | Yeah but I 've got ta know how many threes in them . |
| 23 | Our technical facility at Kitsuregawa , Japan is on budget and on time for opening later this year . |
| 24 | For has n't this war been of immense gain to Bush and Major ? |
| 25 | To structure the discussion , I shall focus on the idea of a golden age of family responsibilities in the past as the starting-point for understanding how these have changed over time . |
| 26 | Miguel came in on Friday evening , after seeing very little of the medical centre that week . |
| 27 | Headteacher David Darlington said he had decided to ask the elderly to lunch after seeing how many lived by themselves when he was delivering harvest food parcels in the autumn . |
| 28 | After seeing so many beatifically smiling faces of Mao , Chou , and Hua , as well as many jolly workers engaged in various agricultural and industrial pursuits , it was quite a relief to enter a large room the walls of which were absolutely covered with vitriolic cartoons against the gang of four . |
| 29 | It was n't even the sight of Alf Roberts in Coronation Street collapsing with a suspected heart attack after eating too much Christmas pudding . |
| 30 | And seeing Lady Wyndham viciously slapping poor Sophie around the face when the little girl — after eating too much ice-cream — had been sick all over the priceless Aubusson carpet in the drawing-room had finally decided the matter , as far as Laura was concerned . |