Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It should be noted that , despite the historical primacy of arithmetic calculation as the raison d'etre for computers , we ought perhaps to see them instead as symbol-processing devices . |
| 2 | Funded by the European Community , the World Association of Nuclear Operators is co-ordinating an international effort to improve operating procedures at Kozloduy and bring them up to international safety standards . |
| 3 | ‘ Then bring them down to Central Gardens , where we hope to have the biggest can collection ever seen in the region or perhaps the country . ’ |
| 4 | The laity had a pale reflection of this programme in the parish mission , designed to convert the laity or at least bring them back to regular church practices . |
| 5 | A cash book should be maintained for each bank account to record every item of income and expenditure , analyse these into appropriate costs and back them up with supporting documentation . |
| 6 | ‘ I do n't want the feckin' Gardai pullin' me up for drunken drivin' . ’ |
| 7 | But he put up no defence ; he simply raised his hands and laid them lightly on Gentle 's shoulders . |
| 8 | Where the eye often used to be bruised by hectic entrances and exits , Page now keeps his dancers on the stage , shifting them around in complex patterns or gathering them up in long architectural phrases . |
| 9 | There are not enough — but it is absurd that , under present arrangements , they and others with specialisms have almost no chance of using them directly with other teachers or with children . |
| 10 | To generate a biological molecule like haemoglobin , the red pigment in blood , by simple sieving would be equivalent to taking all the amino-acid building blocks of haemoglobin , jumbling them up at random , and hoping that the haemoglobin molecule would reconstitute itself by sheer luck . |
| 11 | They accuse Washington of exploiting regional trends among Third World states , of attempting ‘ to emasculate the positive basis of such processes , to militarise the activity of regional organisations created by the developing countries , transforming them ultimately into pro-Western military blocs ’ . |
| 12 | Under that system an entrepreneur would pay the state to utilize the labour of the prisoners , normally by contracting them out to local farms . |
| 13 | It got me out of clearing tables for a living , but I thought it meant more than that . |
| 14 | To rearticulate them back to working-class interests required considerable ideological work . |
| 15 | They became the refuge of the vagabond and beggars sought them out as natural almshouses . |
| 16 | We need to refer to them because they are a significant element of style , but we shall not in general distinguish them formally from linguistic categories . |
| 17 | Sullivan has grouped the papers under five topics , and has fleshed them out with excellent introductions to each section and helpful editorial notes throughout . |
| 18 | From a subjective viewpoint , these differences do not seem to depend on linguistically-represented concepts , and moreover are of such a general character that it is implausible to ascribe them uniquely to human perceivers . |
| 19 | Taylor ( 1982 ; 1989 ) has recently recast his views on soccer hooliganism , bringing them closer to other approaches described in this section . |
| 20 | Caird specialises in buying small waste management and landfill companies , integrating them and bringing them up to existing and proposed European standards on waste disposal . |
| 21 | Attempts to energise old materials by bringing them together in new ways compete with experiments in new materials , such as electronics and rapid hardening plastics . |
| 22 | Yeah but was he bringing them out for other people as well ? |
| 23 | As it was , it took them two weeks to get back to Kabrit , to a great welcome from their astonished comrades , who had given them up for lost . |
| 24 | ‘ Simon 's filled me in in glorious detail . ’ |
| 25 | They dig for days to get them out of the ground , and hide them jealously from other Yahoos . ’ |
| 26 | But when someone tried to test the security of the spare wheel attached to the side of the body by pulling at it roughly and then , intrigued by the pair of leather driving-gauntlets resting on the front seat , fitted them on and passed them around for general examination he decided it was time to leave . |
| 27 | But even among the backward and traditional , two kinds of country people were the major pillars of the ancient ways — the old and the women , whose ‘ old wives ’ tales ' passed them on to new generations , and occasionally , for the benefit of city men , to collectors of folklore and folksong . |
| 28 | We just passed them out to crazy people and artistes and people who were always on the scene in New York . |
| 29 | Turning now to the views of professional employees on taxation , we confine ourselves again to British studies . |
| 30 | All the big firms have strong international links that cushion them somewhat from domestic troubles . |