Example sentences of "[adv] [noun] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To ask the Minister of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food what steps his Department is taking on proposals for new EC legislation or regulations on nutritional supplements ; and if he will make a statement . |
| 2 | Go-ahead for Hide to take on Murray for vacant title |
| 3 | And there is no Redundant Churches Fund to take on responsibility for outstanding churches that need to be preserved intact , complete with their furnishings . |
| 4 | Some lenders have already had their fingers burnt and have had to write off loans and lose their investments , rather than take on responsibility for contaminated land which was part of their security . |
| 5 | the extent to which the family took on responsibility from other institutions for the poor , the sick , the old and the unemployed . |
| 6 | We ourselves are the same it might one subject area , we might have to get down to take on loads of different things . |
| 7 | Mr Kerr said the TEC 's private sector board members fell into two categories : some were senior employees of industrial companies with bases on Teesside , while others were effectively owner-managers with large equity stakes in their companies . |
| 8 | When their typically apocalyptic vision of a new world faded , they retreated for the most part into traditional humility . |
| 9 | The number is easy to divide by 8 as it consists for the most part of successive multiples of 8 . |
| 10 | The theories considered so far deal for the most part with major changes in the form of society , but it is evident that there are more continuous , relatively small-scale changes which affect political life . |
| 11 | Regulatory control , however , is concerned for the most part with organizational deviance , and with many activities in which compliance does not reside simply in refraining from an act , but in positively doing something to remedy a state of affairs . |
| 12 | The kitchen had one small window , the parlour two , one looking out over Brodick Bay , the other inland ; joined to this main building were various outhouses , each having a door , a window , a box-bed , a small deal table , a candlestick , and a wash-basin of its own : these were let for the most part to single gentlemen , though now and again she had also lady lodgers . |
| 13 | Although the Peace Tax Campaign has so far eschewed the use of extra-constitutional forms of dissent , confining itself for the most part to orthodox expressions of protest such as parliamentary lobbying and legal action in the courts , the failure of conventional forms of political protest to influence the prevailing defence strategy/taxation policy could have important implications regarding the future choice of tactics to be used . |
| 14 | This paper is for the most part about medical practice , particularly general medical practice of the British variety , within the context of a more theoretical discussion of some aspects of professional work . |
| 15 | The money to set up these trusts is to be supplied by industry , and the schools are to be founded for the most part in inner cities , and are to be technological in character . |
| 16 | In this research , the investigators shall be examining the process of change under several different headings : the economy ; social relations ; and political institutions , drawing for the most part upon Soviet newspapers and journals , which have become a much better guide to the process of change under current policies of glasnost or openness . |
| 17 | It has been argued that the space time we inhabit is a Riemann space , and that locally space–time in free fall is the space time of special relativity . |
| 18 | those content words which are produced are very rarely words with specific meanings such as knife , hair , dig or spill . |
| 19 | So he made these first three senior commissioning editor appointments , effectively heads of big departments , appointing two women and one man . |
| 20 | For this means that ‘ the community perpetually retains a supreme power of saving themselves from … their legislators , whenever they shall be so foolish , or so wicked , as to lay and carry on designs against the[ir] liberties and properties ’ . |
| 21 | However the vocabulary as a whole could hardly be simpler , largely mono-syllabic , mostly words from Old English or Old Norse , but with an admixture of French words taken into the language many centuries ago , and even one Classical one in ‘ echoed ’ . |
| 22 | Instead of an obsession with Germany 's position , should we not be obsessed with what is happening in Croatia , where one in eight of the population has been displaced , we have provided only £77,000 in humanitarian aid and the people are being pounded into the ground ? |
| 23 | The bill also lays down provision for detailed news coverage by both Channels 3 and 5 . |
| 24 | Only reactions with negative 4G values can take place . |
| 25 | The British Railways Board concludes : ’ Regeneration of the East Thames Corridor may be better promoted by other measures , eg provision of domestic rail services , improved road access , site preparation at public cost . ’ |
| 26 | Protection of Human Health ( directly or indirectly via ecosystems ) — including most pollution of air , water and sea ; contaminated land ; hazardous waste , dangerous substances , GMOs & radiation ; biodiversity to preserve genetic stock for future agriculture and medicine ; and international obligations ( eg reduction of trans-boundary pollution , movement of hazardous waste ) . |
| 27 | The family member will say that these things should help , that they are only part of normal family commitment and civilised behaviour and that , if he or she did not do these things , then the primary sufferer might die . |
| 28 | So kind to poor Dilys ! |
| 29 | That could bring down thunder on corrupt lands |
| 30 | Certainly the galleries where the slate is blasted , which go down 1,500ft in giant steps , have a dramatic quality of their own . |