Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv prt] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The articulatory loop should also be seldom used since it would slow down processing of a message whose speed is beyond the control of the interpreter .
2 Any bias will slow down movement in one or more directions and produce a tell-tale lurch of the shoulders as the body-weight is shifted .
3 The higher interest rates and credit squeeze control used by the Conservatives did , however , slow down growth in the economy overall .
4 In turn , these two characteristics permit hierarchy to meet four of any organization 's fundamental needs : to add real value to work as it moves through the organization , to identify and nail down accountability at each stage of the value-adding process , to place people with the necessary competence at each organizational layer , and to build a general consensus and acceptance of the managerial structure that achieves these ends .
5 However , how many times have you seen your ball deviate off course at the last moment due to someone not repairing their pitch mark ?
6 For the record , too , the Press spokesman said the president only had the haircut because he was assured that doing so would not tie up traffic at the airport .
7 There are three polarisation states for deuterium nuclei , so only a third of the atoms in unpolarised deuterium will line up perpendicular to the magnetic fields .
8 Heat from the projector will dry up ink in the pens more quickly than with preparation on the film beforehand .
9 We can not simply appeal to ‘ reality ’ and ‘ truth , as Miller and Swift do ; we can not root out prejudice by fiat nor make sexism disappear just by exposing it ; we have even less power to control what people say or mean than the prescriptivist defenders of sexist convention .
10 British Rail could win back part of the record damages paid to a widow after her husband died from an asbestos-related disease .
11 Can you win back support in this area .
12 The patient will usually seek out solitude at this time .
13 Before it is through , Pound 's centenary year will bring on indigestion in even the most devoted Poundians .
14 So but the residual element which would carry on south through Harrogate is
15 If his bargain is concluded between quarterly meetings , he must wait until he obtains a transfer at the next quarterly meeting of the licensing board before he may legally carry on business on his own behalf under the licence .
16 This ‘ business ’ characteristic does not require that he should regularly carry on business as an agent but simply that on the occasion in question he was acting as a business proposition .
17 Once a bankruptcy order is made , it is likely that the proceedings commenced by a Government department in the High Court under r 6.9(1) ( o ) will be transferred to the appropriate county court if the debtor does not reside or carry on business within the London insolvency district .
18 However , where a defendant does not reside or carry on business within the district of the court and he desires the action to be transferred to the court for the district in which he resides or carries on business , he may , after delivering a defence , counterclaim , or request for time for payment , apply ex parte in writing for an order to transfer the action to that court .
19 It carries on business in Jersey , and does not carry on business in England and Wales .
20 In Campbell v. Neilson ( 1897 ) 24 R. ( J. ) 28 , where the circumstances were similar , it was said by Lord Justice-General Robertson at p. 30 : " It is the transferee alone who can lawfully carry on business in the premises under the certificate .
21 If in the opinion of the court a summons for recovery of land can not be served in accordance with Ord 7 , rr 4 – 10 , an order may be made on request in N 220 for service on the husband or wife of the defendant , a person living with but not married to the defendant , or upon anyone who is or appears to be authorised by the defendant to reside or carry on business in the premises , to manage them or to safeguard or deal with the premises or contents thereof ( Ord 7 , r 15(1) — ( 3 ) ) .
22 The solution being put forward is that a member of the RICS may only carry on practice as a surveyor through the medium of a company ( limited by shares or unlimited ) provided that he complies with the new conditionally approved regulations .
23 Of course not all of the elderly of the future will be relatively affluent , and , to repeat , we need to be alert to inequalities among the elderly — between age cohorts and within them : the cohorts who will be bringing more occupational pensions and owner-occupied houses into old age will also bring in experience of early retirement and early run-down of resources due to unemployment .
24 The law envisaged the denationalization of 40-50 per cent of state assets by the end of 1992 , rising to 60-70 per cent by 1995 , which would bring in revenue of up to 400,000 million roubles .
25 Then again , it might win the FA Cup and that will bring in megamoney from higher attendances and advertising , so the shares go up .
26 Wife Doña Ximena , said he , these damsels who have served you so well , I will give in marriage to these my vassals , and to every one of them two hundred marks of silver , that it may be known in Castille what they have got by their services .
27 That could bring down thunder on corrupt lands
28 Any attack on him would bring down excommunication on you .
29 When you 're feeding the baby , make sure that the teat is always full of milk , or he 'll suck in air with his feed which could to a bout of indigestion .
30 Olivetti should show off Destiny on its MIPS Computer Systems Inc RISC-based platform .
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