Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv prt] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They may argue as a point of fact that , to carry on a taxable ‘ business ’ ( or ‘ economic activity ’ — the terminology in the EC 's Sixth Directive , Art 4(1) and ( 2 ) ) and so use the partial exemption rules , the person must do more than just sell a mere , say , £5 worth of food , drink , tobacco , matches , magazines , books , postcards , camera films , audio or video tapes , cassettes , compact discs , records , sunglasses or combs each year . |
| 2 | No conscious effort is required , and it is sometimes possible to carry on a non-relevant activity , e.g. holding a conversation , whilst performing the activity . |
| 3 | In addition to those covenants mentioned by Scott LJ above examples of those which have been deemed to touch and concern the land include : a covenant for quiet enjoyment ; a covenant by the landlord agreeing to supply a housekeeper to clean a block of flats ; a covenant in which a landlord agreed not to open a public house within half a mile of the tenanted premises ; a covenant placing an obligation on the tenant to repair ; and a covenant in which the tenant agreed not to carry on a particular trade at the premises . |
| 4 | Institutions authorised by the Bank of England to carry on a deposit-taking business in this country are required to make contributions to the Deposit Protection Fund as levied from time to time by the Deposit Protection Board . |
| 5 | She did not want to carry on a lengthy conversation with this garrulous dumb woman ; she wanted to go to bed and hug Edward Bear . |
| 6 | The tenant will not wish to restrict himself to too narrow a use , for while this might be satisfactory in the short term , if the lease is for 25 years much can happen to the tenant 's business , eg expansion or contraction resulting in the necessity for the tenant to assign or sublet the premises , in which case the assignee or subtenant may wish to carry on a different use . |
| 7 | She had to carry along a spare one which belongs to her mum yesterday , in case the one she has had since 1984 became damaged . |
| 8 | Gone are the days when you had to slide down a muddy bank and hold an old mercury one at arms length . |
| 9 | Because of the Government 's apparent lack of enthusiasm for all things European , and their determination to go along a slow track , will not Scotland lose out again without any chance of the central bank being cited in Glasgow or Edinburgh ? |
| 10 | Erm , and therefore it feels it would be disingenuous of it to support the principle at this stage , it may well lead to a situation where were encouraging the County to go down a particular route , but only to get to the very end of it for us to pull the rug from beneath the County 's feet . |
| 11 | This may not seem too controversial , but when one of the team leaders is an ex-alcoholic it requires tremendous openness to God to go down a risky and unexpected route ! |
| 12 | With inflation the cost of stocking a small farm , quite apart from the value of the land itself , is so high that the tax imposition will make it virtually impossible for a farmer to pass on a flourishing farm to his son . |
| 13 | It had been a very long night to pass on a tiny piece of sandwich . |
| 14 | This is the second time you 've failed to pass on a vital message . |
| 15 | It helps to ask the client 's permission to jot down a few facts . |
| 16 | It is useful to jot down a few examples under each point as this aids understanding and memory . |
| 17 | He and I may be strange companions in the same lobby but I am certain he has put his finger on an error which condemns many modern Church leaders to disappear down a theological black hole . |
| 18 | I suppose , poor woman , she had been repeating this phrase for days on end to hundreds of us on our way out , and she would obviously have preferred us all to disappear down a big hole and relieve her of the tedium of wearing out her voice . |
| 19 | I remember once when she was climbing into bed in her Waaf-issue blue striped pyjamas , a cheeky little field mouse popped up from between her sheets where it had evidently been nesting , and streaked across the hut to disappear down a convenient crack in the wooden wall . |
| 20 | The child is probably trying to write down a suitable looking word , and has n't said to himself the actual word he has written down . |
| 21 | It is simpler to make the note " Jones p. 253 " than to write down a long dissertation which is already in print . |
| 22 | It is difficult to write down a Jimi Hendrix guitar solo and still harder to play it from such a notated version . |
| 23 | It can be quite illuminating to write down a few vague goals , and then to discover just how deepseated your real feelings about nursing can be . |
| 24 | His plane seemed to swoop down a straight slope until an abrupt crackle signalled the moment to pull out . |
| 25 | Now I 'm going to pull down a whole pile of these things and make a nest out of them so we 'll be warm and cosy until we 're rescued from each other . ’ |
| 26 | Loudon himself , though anxious to ‘ discard those fanciful comfortless dwellings which are often erected as ornamental cottages ’ , admits that he would ‘ scarcely have courage to pull down a fine old specimen of a picturesque cottage , unless in a case of extreme necessity ’ . |
| 27 | West European nations met in the US to haggle over a new joint programme of research at the LOFT ( loss of fluid-test ) reactor in Idaho . |
| 28 | A girl came in and tried to haggle over a nineteenth-century vase , but Rachaela told her Mrs Mantini fixed the prices fairly and never reduced items . |
| 29 | Next it was Nixon 's turn in the Tranmere goal to pull off a spectacular save from Mitchell . |
| 30 | The two counties met in last year 's Ulster final at Armagh and in one of the best games seen in the province all year Tyrone came from behind in the second half to pull off a memorable victory after having been reduced to fourteen players . |