Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those advocating embalming lose little love for doctors who ask relations for permission to do a post-mortem examination and get it . |
| 2 | Farmers and governments everywhere would like to make more productive use of the vast areas of the world that are arid or semi-arid ; land loosely classed as ‘ desert ’ . |
| 3 | I dress in haste and at ten I sit down to compose until about twelve or half past twelve . |
| 4 | I take my jacket off again and sit down to look through the War files … |
| 5 | Every day of the week , Maureen Timmins and her daughter Amanda sit down to write to their friends in America . |
| 6 | Cash greatly impressed in defeating 25th ranked David Wheaton , and then by taking Lendl to 7–6 in the 3rd set in the final . |
| 7 | Pupils are dissatisfied , and industry and commerce remain somewhat dismayed at the results from our schools . |
| 8 | But maybe this ideal state of inconstancy we advocate only makes for fitter participants in capitalism . |
| 9 | I mean in says in twenty-eight that , that the quality co-ordinator 's responsible for maintaining for example , master lists of procedures , so . |
| 10 | Cash in comes from your deposit book and cash out comes from your cheque book . |
| 11 | We tend naturally to concentrate on effectiveness — everybody does despite the evidence from curriculum development projects in all subjects that take-up is a far greater problem . |
| 12 | That really sort of I mean obviously depending on what you pay I mean the policies can vary from twenty five pounds up to four hundred pounds . |
| 13 | ( i ) where the specified event happens in respect of a member , any share registered in his name may , notwithstanding paragraph ( 1 ) of this Rule , remain so registered for a period of not longer than six months from the date of the specified event ; provided that no voting rights shall be exercised in respect of any such share while it remains so registered ; and |
| 14 | ( i ) where the specified event happens in respect of a member , any share registered in his name may , notwithstanding paragraph ( 1 ) of this Rule , remain so registered for a period of not longer than six months from the date of the specified event ; provided that no voting rights shall be exercised in respect of any such share while it remains so registered ; and |
| 15 | He was rarely home , even Pat only went to his flat three or four times . |
| 16 | That conflict of views has its fierce advocates on both sides , and I am neither well informed nor dispassionate enough to comment on it From the presumed perspective of John Howard , the Ellis-Beto administrations overall emerge with credit , because they did insist on the publication of official rules , and that was a big breakthrough . |
| 17 | Does my right hon. Friend accept that if the major galleries of this country are to go on with their extremely enlightened and successful purchasing programme , it is essential that we bring in charging for entry ? |
| 18 | If you can scrape together a few hits and make enough to retire to a little place in the suburbs , you 've made the most of the opportunity . |
| 19 | The Government remain entirely committed to bringing terrorism to an end through the vigorous and impartial actions of the police and the Army . |
| 20 | Prejudice , ignorance , frustration and fear together lead to hatred . |
| 21 | Industry critics further point out that the EIUG 's worries last year about sharp price increases did n't materialise , and such international price comparisons as there are provide little support for its case . |
| 22 | Studies using those that do exist provide little support for the rational expectations hypothesis . |
| 23 | Yet the surviving scores provide little help to a modern impresario trying to figure out whom to hire . |
| 24 | Many of these enterprises are controlled by external corporations or by a landed élite that comprises only a small proportion of the population , and while they are responsible for a great deal of environmental degradation they provide little benefit to the majority of the indigenous people . |
| 25 | Randalstown also report little change in personnel , having lost the pregnant Carol Burns , but added Ballymoney 's flying winger Sonia Innis . |
| 26 | The lofty official view is that the agitators in favour of an entirely fresh deal — or preferably none at all — with the CFTC command little support among the membership and distract the association from grappling with real issues such as Globex , the Chicago Mercantile Exchange 's putative electronic trading system . |
| 27 | Once you feel confident that you know what to do and why it should be done , you can put your knowledge to the test , choosing the time and place most suited to your own circumstances . |
| 28 | Behaviourists , for example , want only to treat of overt behaviour as the data for psychological research and this is as much a theoretical specification of what , for them , is to count as data as experience and meaning are for non-behaviourists . |
| 29 | It 's laughable , afraid of a storm but brave enough to wait in the dark down by the river and bash your friend over the head . |
| 30 | You need n't be a ‘ saint ’ to face it , just brave enough to leave behind ‘ all our yesterdays ’ . |