Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [adv prt] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus throughout the history of local government , units of local administration were formed to carry out administration in localities . |
| 2 | Oh , do n't really know , they tend to go up sort of two |
| 3 | About 100 people , including a senior French Customs officer , were arrested after the Japanese failed to claim back VAT on high-fashion handbags bought in Paris . |
| 4 | The sand eroded accumulates down wind from the dune , where , being fresh , it is recolonised by marram and stability is thus regained . |
| 5 | The government tried to drive out inflation by announcing that it was prepared to exchange paper money for specie . |
| 6 | His wife has given up work as a secretary to stay at home with their three young children , yet the law does not allow him to take up her full tax allowance . |
| 7 | He tried to grope up back of my thing ! |
| 8 | Sir Leon Brittan , the EC Commissioner responsible for competition policy , had said on Aug. 30 that the Commission would consider opening up membership of the unified financial services market to members of the European Free Trade Association ( EFTA ) ; he stressed , however , the need for reciprocal liberalization in those countries ( Switzerland and most of Scandinavia imposing tight limits on the extent of foreign shareholdings in their domestic companies ) . |
| 9 | Section 4(1) ( d ) of the Act of 1914 also contained various grounds of jurisdiction , including when the debtor , ‘ has carried on business in England , personally or by means of an agent or manager ’ within a year before the presentation of the petition . |
| 10 | If the debtor resided in one district and carried on business in another , the petition must be presented in the latter ( r 6.9(3) ) and if he has carried on business in more than one district , the petition must be presented in the court for the district which was his principal place of business ( r 6.9(4) ) . |
| 11 | Neither the debtor himself nor a creditor can present a petition unless the debtor is domiciled in England and Wales ; is personally present in England and Wales on the day on which the petition is presented ; or at any time in the previous three years has been ordinarily resident , has had a place of residence , or has carried on business in England and Wales ( s 265(1) ) . |
| 12 | Roderick O'Sullivan , who has carried out research for programmes such as Channel Four 's Fragile Earth , said he was concerned that a mystery disease which wiped out half the swan population at the bay last winter had re-emerged . |
| 13 | I 've even considered picking up litter in different parts of London — or even different parts of the country — to include in the archive , as historical specimens of the varied treatment meted out to ephemera : the flyers with the coupons torn out , worth 15 pence off the next purchase in high-street supermarkets ; the junk-food cartons , the ketchup sachets and tiny envelopes of pepper and salt outside the fast-food places , and , by contrast , the pristine copies of Vogue , the printed dress boxes , emblazoned with trademarks and royal coats of arms , tossed into the dustbins of Kensington . |
| 14 | Her younger brother , Basil , in his final year of Modern Greats at Oxford , spoke of going into the City when he graduated , but Robyn considered this was just talk , designed to ward off hubris about this forthcoming examinations , or an Oedipal teasing of his academic father . |
| 15 | Hugh Geach , head of programme support services at Television South , explains : ‘ Everything the Government has done has been designed to open up television to market forces , to encourage new channels and competition for advertising . |
| 16 | Dubbed Lizzie by the Press , this find has stirred up controversy amongst paleontologists . |
| 17 | Amongst the deities who had great general appeal were Hapy , god of the Nile , a fertile figure with a papyrus plant on his head ; Taurt , a hippopotamus goddess , connected with the domestic life as the protector of women in childbirth ; and Bes , an ugly dwarf often wearing a lion 's mane and tail carrying knives , who was guardian and genius against any evil and helped to ward off danger at the birth of a child . |
| 18 | Dr Carl Wieman ( left ) and his team has opened up research into low temperature physics . |
| 19 | In the latter case the offender does appropriate the property because , although the owner has handed over possession by consent ( which was obtained by deception ) , he has not transferred the property ( that is , the ownership ) and the offender , intending to deprive the owner permanently of his property , appropriates it , not by taking possession , but by the unilateral act , adverse to the owner , of treating as his own and taking to himself property of which he was merely given possession . |
| 20 | ‘ That would be the end of me , I 'd be nothing then , ’ he would mumble , and once Nathan tried to tap out code on his hand , so that he would understand messages in the event . |
| 21 | These schools therefore , and inevitably , developed within themselves quite different curricular packages — some of a grammar-school type , some of a technical or vocational variety , some designed to fill in time in the least troublesome way for growing adolescents . |
| 22 | Concern for the environment has focused out attention on the world 's ecological problems . |
| 23 | Indian computer terminal manufacturer VXL Instruments Ltd has set up base in Rugby , Warwickshire in the UK . |
| 24 | Satan has set up camp in their souls . |
| 25 | ONE of India 's leading artist is turning his attention to the Tees and has set up studio in Middlesbrough art gallery . |
| 26 | In the meantime , the insurance industry has set up Pool Re , which began collecting premium income in January . |
| 27 | It does seem unfair that a wheatear or pipit , having survived all the dangers of migration , should arrive home to find a merlin has set up house in its territory ! |
| 28 | The German half point rate cut yesterday has set off speculation on a rate cut in the UK despite Chancellor Kenneth Clarke dampening speculation . |
| 29 | Locating resources for the broad range of anticipated interests has brought about federation with various institutes and libraries in Berlin . |
| 30 | The Economic and Social Research Council has cut back work on the 1991 census and its ‘ positive health ’ centre for health promotion . |