Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [adv] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Yow can throw that down the sink !
2 Mind you , there wo n't be too much muttering about top-roping from other Scottish climbers given that almost every ascent of Fated Path ( on the same crag ) has been top-roped prior to leading , despite that route having fixed protection all the way up !
3 Clarify a definite beginning and end for the task , and make clear how the effectiveness of the decision will be assessed .
4 Erm as the scale of the problem became clear however the Party was forced to react and in a series of directives between February and May nineteen forty eight the leadership established more moderate ground rules for land reform .
5 As it stands , this organisation does not make clear how the parts relate to each other , what the development is , or even what the point is of some of the parts ( why should there be a special section devoted to her final novel but not the others , for example ? ) .
6 I 've heard this quite a lot , it 's a , it 's a common
7 That 's what it 's all about , I 'd like perhaps to see whether we can tie that up a bit .
8 nervous now , you 're gon na be checking that quite a bit .
9 So they say , oh okay we 've sorted this out a bit now each group just has five pound to share out between fifteen of them .
10 Policy discussions at ministerial level appeared to focus mainly on the hoary old issues of which agency should take lead responsibility , ’ but finally , in 1989 , the government took a decision which was considered unthinkable only a year earlier , that is , that local authority social services departments should be given lead responsibility for community care and for all services including mental health , but with some additional controls added in the latter case , the single most controversial of Griffiths ' proposals .
11 But what you 're doing here I think it is er , er an example of the partnership , a partnership that goes back for many years , certainly during World War Two and I think er it is still strong and er holds firm today the partnership between the United States and Great Britain .
12 But I do not regard these factors as justifying sweeping away the law which for so long has regulated the conduct of charitable corporations .
13 Therefore let us consider next not the myth , but the reality of the eating habits of slim people .
14 Now unfortunately , that 's how it should of worked but the message got lost down the line somewhere .
15 In complete figures the head generally sits straight on the lion-neck , but the long , sinuous bird 's neck is a constant feature of the cauldron-heads .
16 ‘ If you ca n't do that then the JMU 's got good reason to query it . ’
17 In other words we have to be able to demonstrate that we can do better by some sort of synergy in the group ; if we ca n't do that then the group is better broken up and the individual parts allowed to fly free and attract their own shareholding .
18 Well I think I might be able to sort that out a lot of it will be underneath your
19 By mid-afternoon , with DeFreitas absent nursing a sore groin , and after Botham and Lawrence had shared a fruitless new-ball partnership , Gooch 's men were looking right down the barrel .
20 There was a commitment to the maintenance of full employment , with the Keynesian doctrine that budgetary management could achieve this now a matter of economic orthodoxy .
21 He ate these twice a year or so
22 Can you pat those back a bit .
23 A marriage begun without financial security looks hazardous to the poet , let alone where the man seems cunning and manipulative .
24 In this chapter we show first how the age structure of Britain 's population has changed during the twentieth century , and how it is likely to change in the century 's final years and beyond .
25 Turned blue once a year .
26 Bouquets of flowers mark the spot where Mr Reynolds was shot dead exactly a week ago .
27 In 1985 builder Tom Barnes became suspicious about a £4,000 interest charge for a three-month period .
28 If the value of the whole expression , , is to remain constant then the value of the numerator must also fall .
29 If the price were to remain constant then the gain received on redemption would be constant .
30 Teacher : I have not come across such blatant attitudes amongst other members of staff but I would get that feeling and if I can , being white , feel an atmosphere like that then the children can too , especially if their skins are black .
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