Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv prt] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The Governor has effectively given up control of the Bermudian police to the local government , though he still retains the right to be consulted .
2 It will be important for marketers to assess the experience of customers with their particular products in case it possesses some unsatisfactory performance or operating characteristic to which customers will eventually build up resistance .
3 This was particularly the case after the first oil crisis when the Euro-currency market may have responded too easily to the financing needs of some countries , effectively building up problems for the future .
4 I could see that Aunt Louise did not altogether rule out nuns .
5 With this foothold , and after further controversial sackings , he took control , eventually bringing in John Freeman , the eminently respectable journalist and ex-Ambassador to the USA , as chairman .
6 And you can work locally pick up jobs locally .
7 The civil servant on Plowden 's team in charge of the power station construction programme was F. W. ( ‘ Bomber ’ ) Smith , who had made his name in the War by successfully stepping up aircraft production in Beaverbrook 's celebrated Ministry .
8 It crept forward , slowly building up speed , and when it was twenty yards behind them the driver pressed the accelerator to the floor .
9 He accused ‘ powers which are situated many thousands of kilometres from this region ’ of having ‘ concentrated a naval armada ’ in the Persian Gulf and Indian Ocean and of ‘ intensively building up armaments , expanding the network of their military bases and pressuring and threatening small countries that do not follow their lead ’ .
10 This is not to deny , of course , that individuals are causal subjects ; they fill various social roles , engage in the work of production , and thereby bring about changes in the social world .
11 But commercial printing and typesetting , which , admittedly , comprise only about 2 per cent of turnover , were described as reflecting the weakness of the UK 's printing industry and the overcapacity which continued relentlessly to drive down prices , often below break-even point .
12 Beyond that , tight local monitoring should eventually throw up patterns where inappropriate services are being disproportionately delivered .
13 The scene of scrabbling around at the top of the stairwell and the subsequent scene of ED 209 's lashing about furiously at the foot of the stairs , unable to regain its footing , were then animated , the latter mostly using back projection and maximum blurs — almost literally hands-on , with the animator waggling the legs with wires during the one- or two-frame takes .
14 In summary , we have successfully carried out TIPSS in 18 patients with control of bleeding from gastric or esophageal varices and portal hypertensive gastropathy .
15 Most animals will instinctively seek out salt when they need it , while people will choose to eat a packet of crisps or salty snacks .
16 The Institute says that an undientified virus is to blame , thereby ruling out bacteria , mycoplasmas and other agents such as the ones which cause scrapie .
17 A scientific law or theory should ideally give us some information about how the world does in fact behave , thereby ruling out ways in which it could ( logically ) possibly behave but in fact does not .
18 The Senate Budget Committee duly reported out reconciliation instructions on 23 March 1981 requiring fourteen Senate authorizing committees to alter programmes so as to cut $36 billion from the fiscal year 1982 budget .
19 Foster fully supports the International Agreement signed in Montreal to eventually phase out society 's dependence on these products which have important uses in refrigeration , air-conditining and foam-blowing .
20 A Labour Chancellor will hope that by publically ruling out devaluation this would pre-empt a run on sterling and would limit any base rate rise to ½ per cent at most — thus avoiding a mortgage rate rise .
21 You 're a right mixed up fucker .
22 Decisions were made at the top , by monarch , Council , or minister , not , as in a modern bureaucracy , by officials in the lower and middle echelons , who then mostly carried out routine tasks .
23 He reduces it to this petty party political level and then he makes excuses for all the lowest-performing local authorities , which are Labour-controlled , and resists any idea that we should address the teaching methods that have so badly let down children in Newham , Bradford and all the other areas in the bottom 20 , almost all of which are Labour controlled .
24 Somebody must be locked away somewhere totting up figures , or how would they make all that money ?
25 In 1991 results of serum tests and ultrasonography before 28 weeks ' gestation together made up 38% of the indications leading to a prenatal karyotypic confirmation of fetal trisomy 21 .
26 And strategies designed to bring out these problems do not cause distress themselves but merely bring out distress which is already present within the individual .
27 In the aggregate , however , the community can not reduce its bond holdings and the attempt to do so only drives down bond prices and , therefore , leads to an increase in interest rates .
28 Power does not only exist around individuals or within functions .
29 So bringing back Bamber Gascoigne might involve a sweetener in a TV contract for a new series .
30 So bringing back Bamber Gascoigne might involve a sweetener in a TV contract for a new series .
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