Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv prt] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With this foothold , and after further controversial sackings , he took control , eventually bringing in John Freeman , the eminently respectable journalist and ex-Ambassador to the USA , as chairman . |
| 2 | The civil servant on Plowden 's team in charge of the power station construction programme was F. W. ( ‘ Bomber ’ ) Smith , who had made his name in the War by successfully stepping up aircraft production in Beaverbrook 's celebrated Ministry . |
| 3 | from the paper bank and four hundred pounds worth of grant , two hundred from the county council and two hundred from the district council , so added up car park . |
| 4 | The diatom analysis was sensitive enough to pick up land use changes : lake records detected pollen change , showing variation in vegetation , but it was the coincidence of the onset of acidification with the industrial revolution , its rapid acceleration after the Second World War when the consumption of fossil fuels leapt up , and the appearance of industrial metals , which made the conclusive link . |
| 5 | During the long drawn out hostage crisis the American people had watched impotently , wondering how it was that a nation with the supposed military capability to wipe Russia off the map at the push of a button could do nothing . |
| 6 | And the reindeer fair flew down Artisan View |
| 7 | The best of all the planned towns are those such as New Winchelsea ( 1288 ) and Salisbury ( 1290 ) which were apparently laid out de novo on previously empty sites from the late eleventh century to the fourteenth century . |
| 8 | The highest earning dealers only take back OTC stock if their client needs the funds to pay for another stock ; or if it is a stock that the directors want back , so allowing the dealers to retrieve in their names , and thus to evade a cut in their own commissions . |
| 9 | Just before leaving Doune he had heard from his elder sister Agnes , Countess of Dunbar and March , that her peculiar husband had now entered into a treasonable arrangement with Edward of England , not only to hand over Dunbar Castle to the English but actually to strengthen it first , at the Plantagenet 's expense . |
| 10 | AFRESH row over Channel Tunnel safety is likely to follow yesterday 's confirmation that passengers will not have to leave their cars and coaches when they travel through the tunnel . |
| 11 | Clara had actually heard one constant church attender , caught out donating a small charitable sum to the Vicar , defend herself to Mrs Maugham by saying that she had n't really meant to give it , and that she never would have given it if it had n't been that her little boy had just given up Sunday school . |
| 12 | However , this does not rule out worker participation in Dr Lis ' plans . |
| 13 | In a statement issued on April 9 Akashi warned that he would not rule out UN Security Council action if the Khmers Rouges did not begin co-operating . |
| 14 | Initially , the development programme will hinge on the transfer of frozen AI material but , speaking at the unveiling of the group in Cambridge yesterday , Dr Rex Walters , consultant geneticist , said he would not rule out embryo transfer and even live animal exchange in the future . |
| 15 | I know it 's daft , she said should 've gone Christmas week and I said I 'm not going down Christmas week so I went the week before . |
| 16 | ACROSS 1 Give bad reviews to dumb show — he might be in this ( 9 ) 6 Old-time US lawyer and rocker ( 5 ) 9 Reversing of French vehicle went quickly ( 5 ) 10 Dynamic object contains fungus ( 9 ) 11 Main entrance where he went Up the third time ? ( 3,5 ) 12 Baldwin shortly takes on church position ( 6 ) 14 The man himself ( 7,6 ) 16 New sandpit from E. Europe used to treat shoes ( 4,3,6 ) 21 Gauges placing a thousand rows ( 6 ) 22 Seller hears another way to say in other words ( 8 ) 25 Phone round Esquire readers with article on things observed ( 9 ) 26 One lady posed as the one with tattoos ( 5 ) 27 Equipment in ship for sketches he 's appeared in ( 5 ) 28 One put her away immediately ( 9 ) |
| 17 | Hyperodapedon and other rhynchosaurs had a barrel-shaped body to accommodate a large gut for the slow digestion of plant material ; they could not grind up plant food with their teeth , but may have been able to ‘ ruminate ’ , like a modern cow . |
| 18 | The main points to bring out concern why a professional should not take on ownership-of behaviour problems . |
| 19 | Follow steps 1–5 above to switch on page numbering . |
| 20 | The owners have built a gift shop and a tastefully laid out caravan site on the actual station area . |
| 21 | The Israelis had turned the old Arab buildings south of the serail into a shopping and restaurant precinct , a tastefully laid out tourist attraction in which the best architectural features have been preserved . |
| 22 | D — Process package/product Down ( but do not read out package module ) |
| 23 | When negotiations between employers and unions finally broke down strike action was taken with different groups of workers coming out in different parts of the country . |
| 24 | These people no longer chat up Joe Blow of Idaho : they talk to Wall Street analysts and to serious-money managers across America . |
| 25 | ‘ I only just took out earthquake insurance . ’ |
| 26 | Do NOT switch on immersion heater until you are positive the tanks are full — and see ‘ Water ’ below . |
| 27 | He says he has already ruled out IBM Corp , and what makes the announcement intriguing is that the number of potential partners is so small . |
| 28 | I think one of the problems is not taking out rate card , if you leave out , if you actually say this procedure does not cover full estimates and costs or costing based on rate cards . |
| 29 | At 91 years of age , has just taken up painting water colours and choir singing at a local day centre in his home town of Hull . |
| 30 | ( 1983 ) have found that although different nationalities broadly agree over landscape quality , select national groups produced a greater degree of similarity . |