Example sentences of "[adv prt] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or , it could be behaviour which is seen as eccentric or bizarre , such as not wearing shoes and socks in conventional situations or carrying on prolonged conversations with the plants in one 's garden . |
| 2 | Our more natural inclination was to hide in the dim recesses of the games shed and carry on enthralling discussions about boyfriends and the origins of the universe . |
| 3 | He gradually took on full-time work in the same company , and gained three promotions within a year . |
| 4 | Although the LEA remains the employer of the staff in the school , the governors take on extensive powers over staffing and responsibilities under employment law . |
| 5 | Or again as Jevons says ‘ Originally a market was a public place in a town where provisions and other objects were exposed for sale ; but the word has been generalized , so as to mean any body of persons who are in intimate business relations and carry on extensive transactions in any commodity . |
| 6 | When the German army followed them , they kept on the move , taking on odd jobs along the way , until they ended up in Warsaw . |
| 7 | But as we know that MI5 taps telephones and keeps files on people simply to pass on political information to the government , one can assume that Kinnock 's call to Turnbull is not the only piece of politicised telephone tapping that goes on . |
| 8 | Get set : Marathon runners will take on four-legged competition in a long distance run at Llanwyrtyd Wells , Powys . |
| 9 | At the meeting-place of roads on the Plateau d'Iraty there are four things you can do : go unadventurously back the way you came , to Esterençuby ; carry on due east over the Col Bagargui along a tolerable but not always reassuring road into Larrau and the valley of Mauléon ; turn sharp left along a somewhat hazardous stretch of track rather than road towards the village of Men dive ( I funk Ed this route myself , after a short trial run , but bad roads do get mended or improved in the Pyrenees , so one year 's experience may be different from the next ) ; or turn to the right along the very scenic road into the Forêt d'Iraty itself . |
| 10 | Pioneering NHS industrial units in large hospitals thus took on subcontracted work from local factories . |
| 11 | There are many plants that give off scent during the day but which seem to take on fresh strength in the evenings . |
| 12 | Desperate for cash following the Swedish debacle , he was one of the first to take on commercial sponsorship by negotiating a less than lucrative deal with Lovetts Panty Hose Ltd , and solely responsible for the bankrupting record fiasco when , at crippling expense , the team took on the guise of the Whaddon Promotion All Stars , and released a record , Go Go Athletic-O . |
| 13 | I do not see how the Asian and West Indian pupils that I am responsible for can take on English behaviour for half a day when they are at school and change to their culture when they are at home . |
| 14 | Rovers take on lowly Southend at Prenton Park ( 7.30pm ) , and King explained : ‘ Southend are a physical side full of six-footers and we have to get behind them . |
| 15 | Irrespective of the style of the piece , all music creates tension and release ( dissonance and consonance ) which brings on different emotions in its audience . |
| 16 | As this agenda spreads to other sections of the press , to radio and to television , it produces a ‘ self-enforcing conformity ’ whose importance ‘ lies not in the nuances of attitude taken on different items on the political agenda , but rather in the common agreement on that agenda itself … ’ . |
| 17 | People keep meeting each other as they take on different roles in relationship to each other . |
| 18 | Individuals will take on different roles within the group . |
| 19 | , … or to strike south to the Waste , recapture the girl — remember , they may know nothing about her — and then ride back either by the track on the other side of the Swamp or carry on direct south towards Leicester . |
| 20 | Indeed there may be strong opposition to taking on delegated tasks for fear , perhaps justified , that failure will prove personally very damaging . |
| 21 | In the case of general practitioners it may be necessary for family health services authorities to take on delegated authority from the Medical Practices Committee for recruiting general practitioners and approving average list sizes . |
| 22 | Every spell of cold , wet weather brings on coarse rattlings in the chest , a great accumulation of mucus in the air passages , or constant colds one after another . |
| 23 | The government laid down extensive amendments at both the Committee and Third Reading stages of the Bill , such that one MP considered that there had been a ‘ complete rewriting of the whole Bill ’ and another that it ‘ has become virtually a Government Bill ’ |
| 24 | ‘ However we have had our best year in cutting down agricultural pollution to date , ’ he said . |
| 25 | Laying down broad belts of asphalt might , by developing thermal convention , lead to increased precipitation . |
| 26 | As approved by the conference , the 27-page Declaration laid down broad principles of environmentally-sound development , but was generally viewed as a somewhat unsatisfactory compromise between the widely differing wishes of various states . |
| 27 | The summit approved a 27-page declaration laying down broad principles of sustainable development . |
| 28 | Action is being demanded to track down possible visitors from outer space and this is serious . |
| 29 | This analysis , which acquired a great vogue in the Civil War of 1936 , hid the presence of a middle sector of society that was to divide along classic lines into a grand and petty bourgeoisie , the Moderates and Progressives of the mid-century . |
| 30 | Second , because of the asymmetrical nature of the economies of Europe , a Single Currency would slow down economic growth in Europe . |