Example sentences of "[subord] [prep] [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A long clearance from one the Leeds defenders found it 's way into the Crewe half where upon rolling out into touch the linesman controlled it neatly with his left and passed it back to the returning Crewe player with a neat right foot pass . |
| 2 | An example was cited where by cutting back on BSB claims and by adjusting his grain acreage slightly downwards , a farmer could gain very substantially by making his farm eligible for extensification premia through having a lower stocking rate . |
| 3 | When this sort of presentation takes place , resist the inclination to bend over your notebook , except for jotting down a few key words . |
| 4 | However , the search for methods of countering the national economic and military ‘ deterioration ’ after the Boer War was dominated by discussion of methods of improving the numbers and environment of the masses rather than of weeding out the unfit . |
| 5 | The Egyptians gather in a line , thinking more of the cats than of putting out the flames , but the cats dart through or leap over the men and spring into the fire . |
| 6 | and take an extra dose at night to try and get you into a sleep so we can get you back into sleeping rather than up prowling about during the night , cos it does no good at all . |
| 7 | Many owned coffee plantations , and not unnaturally were more concerned with the success of their investments than with carrying out government policy . |
| 8 | But if film executives were to be believed , the majority of the audience was less interested in salving their fears about wars and conflicts ahead than in looking back to the time when Britain had a role to play in the world . |
| 9 | Clearly , you need to use the time you have available to consolidate what is going to be in the foreground — what is central to your essay — rather than in mugging up materials which at best can only ever form marginal elements of the final piece of work . |
| 10 | IF BILL CLINTON were to look to Florida for advice on how to pass a health-care bill , the answer might come back in the words of Lyndon Johnson : better to have your enemies inside your tent pissing out , than outside pissing in . |
| 11 | Israel 's safety depends more on winning a stable Middle east peace than on wiping out the Iraqi dictator 's nuclear plants every few years |
| 12 | There are no exact equivalents for li and ch'i among our concepts , and there is no way of approaching them except by breaking out from or awakening to one analogy after another . |
| 13 | Since they are default and not authorised , the user can not regain them , except by logging in again , in which case they are again Captive . |
| 14 | Er and erm it 's difficult for people to maintain er not only as I say , but in their lifestyle over a particular period of time , so you could be more likely to get at the truth by this method , than by sending out questionnaires . |
| 15 | Word meanings are especially liable to change because people learn them by hearing them in context rather than by looking up the ‘ standard ’ definition , and the inferences they draw can vary . |
| 16 | In the long run the West could help Russia and Eastern Europe more by opening its markets to their produce than by handing over cash — and would immediately make itself a lot better off in the process ( see page 50 ) . |
| 17 | So the changes appear to be , from what you are saying , first of all towards integrating children with special needs in the educational system , rather than by separating off perhaps just a very small number , a recognition perhaps that special needs extend on a broader base |
| 18 | Whatever changes may occur , it is for you , the buyer or seller , to protect your interests , and there is no better way than by carrying out your own survey , whether you have a professional/mortgage survey or not . |
| 19 | In the first place , actual possession is evidence of ownership , and , except in cases where ownership is based on a system of public registration , it is hard to see how any ownership can be proved , otherwise than by going back to some prior possession . |
| 20 | For what better way to sever an unwanted tie than by disappearing off on business for a couple of weeks ? |
| 21 | Moreover it was widely and probably correctly felt that good diplomats were formed by experience rather than by study , by mixing in good society and watching negotiations in progress rather than by poring over documents in archives . |
| 22 | Furthermore , where an Act of parliament imposes a statutory duty on the defendant(s) to perform some necessary function , such as the provision of electricity or gas and public sewers , if in carrying out this statutory duty a nuisance arises by way of odours , for example , then in the absence of negligence the nuisance must be borne by the neighbours , however injurious to them or their property . |
| 23 | ‘ The fact of the matter is , several of the teachers on the course you missed because of skiving off on holiday , a number of them have asked me if they can stay on for the autumn term . |
| 24 | Although you may get ridiculously low because of pressing on too hard , when , a few minutes later , you are back in the good conditions several thousand feet up , you must forget the wasted time and concentrate on flying normally . |
| 25 | Like its black pied Breton cousin , the Armorican is now a rare breed , largely because of grading up to Meuse-Rhine-Yssel : there were only 50 purebred animals in 1983 . |
| 26 | We have to be early tomorrow because of going up to London you see . |
| 27 | ‘ It was bad luck on Darryll Holland , who probably would have been riding here but for picking up a four-day suspension . |
| 28 | On the other hand , legal strategies have been employed by the peace movement to challenge the authority of state agencies , whether by setting up Nuclear Free Zones , challenging the sale of National Trust land to the Ministry of Defence , or the siting of a shooting range in Berlin ( Guelen , 1985 ) 1 and suing the President of the United States of America for breaches of International Law.2 In other contexts , law has provided a forum in which the rights of individuals in the peace movement and the demands of the state have been adjudicated , for example in deciding on the validity of withholding tax contributions for military spending . |
| 29 | A friend has described it as worth putting on weight for . |
| 30 | You , sir , what reason do you have for seeing this project as worth following through ? ’ |