Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [adv prt] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh , do n't really know , they tend to go up sort of two |
| 2 | He tried to grope up back of my thing ! |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | The Foreign Secretary , Douglas Hurd , has ruled out devaluation of the pound . |
| 5 | Increased nuclear power production has taken up part of the electricity generation market lost by oil but the expansion of nuclear power has been far less significant than was planned for and predicted throughout the 1970s . |
| 6 | If you want to take out part of your investment , you can withdraw a minimum of £500 , provided you keep at least £500 in the PEP if you want the Plan to remain in force . |
| 7 | The CSG , designed to bring in revenue of F37,500 million per year , took the form of a 1.1 per cent general tax and replaced the current 0.4 per cent levy from income tax . |
| 8 | He thrust his hands deep into his pockets , hunching his shoulders as he continued , ‘ I met her at the party I threw to celebrate taking over control of the company . |
| 9 | There were some cottage industries which came to take up part of the " space " left by factory spinning , such as straw-hat making and lace making , but they were more localised and tended even by the standards of hand spinning to be low-paid . |
| 10 | In the strict or dictionary sense The Lord of the Rings evades that concept totally , for according to the OED ‘ defeatism ’ is a straight borrowing from French défaitisme , recorded in English for the first time in 1918 and meaning ‘ Conduct tending to bring about acceptance of defeat , esp . |
| 11 | IBM Corp has decided to hand over support of its point-of-sale systems in the US to Eastman Kodak Co , Rochester , New York : the two will ‘ develop a dedicated store systems service organisation to provide maintenance service on current and future IBM point of sale products ’ . |
| 12 | I suppose you 've got to weigh up sot of various . |
| 13 | For example , in 1987 , a Public Accounts Committee report ( 1986–7c , paras 20 , 44 ) claimed that ‘ a major effort ’ was needed to speed up implementation of the FMI . |
| 14 | However effective the departmental ordering , some central control is needed to balance up inequality of treatment between subjects , order interdisciplinary material , and fill in titles which for one reason or another have been missed . |
| 15 | WHY WE 'D LIKE TO TAKE OVER PART OF YOUR COMPANY |
| 16 | The Guidance states : no decision to initiate proceedings should be taken without clear evidence that provision of services for the child and his family ( which may include an accommodation placement voluntarily arranged under s20 ) has failed or would be likely to fail to meet the child 's needs adequately and that there is no suitable person prepared to apply to take over care of the child under a residence order ( para 3.10 ) . |
| 17 | The tax on all registrations was eventually repealed in the October of 1794 , but in the meantime Charles the Cheesemonger had had to hand over ninepence of his hard-earned money to have his little brood 's details entered in the Anglican parish register , having already spent sixpence in the same way for Mary and Sarah in the October of 1784 . |
| 18 | We 've tried to keep our our support group also you know to go back sort of as loose as possible that we have n't great great format of a chair and a secretary and a treasurer although we do have that frame work because we 've discovered we also needed some sort of structure . |
| 19 | Having given up hope of a career , they have doubts about the future and support themselves by working in ‘ low pay , low prestige , low benefit jobs in the service industry ’ or ‘ McJobs ’ . |
| 20 | The newspaper said Reagan officials , and to a lesser extent officials from the administrations of Jimmy Carter and George Bush , may have covered up evidence of abuses to win approval from Congress of $6 billion ( £4 billion ) in aid . |
| 21 | But the point is that if , if musicians go to service , they know there 's enough readers and if the musicians decide to take on part of that reading one service , surely it 's only courtesy for the musicians to say to the readers , whose lists are published months in advance , terribly sorry but we 're gon na do this this time , and do you mind stepping down ? |
| 22 | At their recent meeting Nether Wyresdale Parish Council decided to take out membership of CPRE as a local organisation . |
| 23 | Meanwhile the BBC have refused to hand over film of alleged rioting at an acid house party without a court order . |
| 24 | THE TRANSPORT Secretary was attacked yesterday for failing to bring in screening of passenger baggage to be stored in aircraft holds , and for putting commercial interests ahead of tighter security . |
| 25 | US agrees to speed up protection of species |
| 26 | In what was interpreted by the CIA and the Department of State as a post-missile crisis concession , the Soviet Union agreed to turn over control of all weapons systems within Cuba ( including surface-to-air installations which could be used to shoot down US overflights ) . |
| 27 | Tan accelerators claim to speed up production of melanin — the pigment produced by your skin in the sun — but there 's no evidence that they work . |
| 28 | ‘ If we had really wanted to take over control of local government we could have done it years ago , ’ he said . |
| 29 | But , er , other people start bringing up sort of problems with the French tax situation on such and such a structure of company or whatever , which is not anything we want to get involved with . |
| 30 | After two years of marriage , they appear to have given up hope of having a child of their own and have filed adoption papers in Palm Beach , Florida . |