Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [verb] [adv] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , socioeconomic preconditions and reasons for giving up smoking have not been investigated to the same extent . |
| 2 | This chapter will begin by considering the reasons for carrying out language assessments and the ways in which information from language assessments is used . |
| 3 | The Select Committee on Employment recently produced a very good report on home workers , which revealed that many earn as little as 20p or 30p an hour for making up Christmas crackers . |
| 4 | If the current GATT proposals for opening up world trade for agriculture were inaugurated , he said , they would force Third World farmers to industrialise their production or be " washed away as if by a catastrophic flood " . |
| 5 | The 5000 desktop model has a memory checking function for picking up memory errors , while the 5900 server can make use of a large-capacity disk array with up to eight disk drives . |
| 6 | Law centres can , of course , earn money through taking on work financed under the statutory legal advice scheme . |
| 7 | Entity modelling can be used as an aid to communication as well as a technique for finding out information . |
| 8 | Where joints in metal gutters leak , try filling the joint with flexible , silicone-rubber or bituminous mastic after clearing away debris and wire-brushing the surface . |
| 9 | Figure 6 shows recordings from one patch in which Ba 2 + inhibited K + channel activity , while channel activity returned almost to the initial level after washing out Ba 2 + . |
| 10 | Hateley was shown the red card for pushing away defender Rudi Cossey , who indulged in some play-acting after tumbling to the ground . |
| 11 | But it can also strike on the potential for tension between bringing out individuality and creating conformity . |
| 12 | The Faulks Committee would have done better to concentrate on methods for speeding up libel hearings . |
| 13 | It is recommended that at the start of a particular project , the project manager should draw up a set of guidelines for filling in module headers . |
| 14 | Humans can be affected by pesticides through breathing in spray , brushing against treated plants and eating contaminated food . |
| 15 | The gift presented should be one of value and usefulness for setting up home ( so that she is not disappointed ) , perhaps with a memento of her bachelor days , such as a cassette by her favourite pop singers , but inside a container gift which is a joke , e.g. a silver cake slice , or selection of kitchen implements , or telephone address book , plus cassettes in the bottom of a pair of large man 's football socks ( the correct size to fit her husband to be ) , or a pair of pillowcases embroidered ‘ his ’ and ‘ hers ’ . |
| 16 | ‘ He set it up I just ran interference for him trying to keep your people looking the wrong way with talk about opening up Winter Garden again . |
| 17 | The optimum histamine concentrations for increasing both proliferation and cAMP accumulation is about 10 - 6 M for MKN45G . |
| 18 | A great album for checking out killer grooves is ‘ Rapture ’ by Anita Baker . |
| 19 | The judgements that have to be made are complex , not least because local government has existed for a long time and the opportunities for building up capital or depleting it have been great . |
| 20 | VOCALIST for starting out rock'n'roll band into Stones , Blues , Rock . |
| 21 | The second job of the day is to light the stove , a monument in itself , taking up a quarter of the thatched hut with its various extensions — a sill ( pod ) with an area for keeping dishes warm ( chestok ) , niches ( pechurki ) for small objects and matches , holes on the side for drying out leg and foot wrappings ( for lack of shoes ) , holes near the summit for reviving chilled hens in winter , and on the triumphal summit worn clothing on which to stretch out and sleep in the delicious warmth — ‘ U hholodnoi pechi ne sogreesh'sia ’ ( ‘ You ca n't heat yourself at a cold stove ’ ) . |
| 22 | Possible methods of speeding up collection include increasing the numbers of bailiffs and contacting non-payers by telephone . |
| 23 | Possible methods of speeding up collection include increasing the numbers of bailiffs in the town and contacting non-payers by telephone . |
| 24 | Even after the RICS rules on the methods of carrying on business are further relaxed , partnership may continue to be the normal form . |
| 25 | These costs comprise not simply membership dues but also such factors as the possibility of employer hostility and retaliation ( in the form of job loss or victimisation ) as a result of taking up membership . |
| 26 | She constantly restrained her eating for fear of putting on weight . |
| 27 | By the time they got back to the Buccaneer , the sun was turning pink and orange to usher in another early Caribbean night , and Virginia felt weary with the emotional tension of avoiding either body or eye contact with her companion , and keeping the conversation on a relentlessly impersonal level . |
| 28 | The practice of taking only shark fins , for soup , while discarding the rest of the carcase is banned , as is catching of sharks by foreign boats . |
| 29 | While the measures taken by Britain in conjunction with our European partners to isolate the Burmese Government are welcome , the military dictators are still in power , they have no intention of handing over power to the democratically elected Government , and the appalling abuse of human rights continues . |
| 30 | Guo 's comments , and other remarks by Chinese officials earlier in the month , were interpreted as reflecting China 's intention of stepping up pressure on Chris Patten , Hong Kong 's Governor-designate , in order to dissuade him from considering any major changes in the colony or attempting to amend clauses in the Basic Law which would determine Hong Kong 's position under Chinese rule from 1997 [ see p. 37248 ] . |