Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ I do n't want the feckin' Gardai pullin' me up for drunken drivin' . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Under that system an entrepreneur would pay the state to utilize the labour of the prisoners , normally by contracting them out to local farms . |
| 9 | It got me out of clearing tables for a living , but I thought it meant more than that . |
| 10 | To rearticulate them back to working-class interests required considerable ideological work . |
| 11 | They became the refuge of the vagabond and beggars sought them out as natural almshouses . |
| 12 | Sullivan has grouped the papers under five topics , and has fleshed them out with excellent introductions to each section and helpful editorial notes throughout . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Yeah but was he bringing them out for other people as well ? |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ Simon 's filled me in in glorious detail . ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | We just passed them out to crazy people and artistes and people who were always on the scene in New York . |
| 20 | To borrow an analogy from an eminent astronomer , if you take the parts of an airliner and jumble them up at random , the likelihood that you would happen to assemble a working Boeing is vanishingly small . |
| 21 | In addition most clubs organise a full programme of races over the season which , once you 've mastered the basics of sailing , can improve your skills very quickly by matching them up with other boats in the fleet . |
| 22 | The bus would catch me up about halfway . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ You 're the fourteenth person who 's worked out I 'm staying with Lucy and phoned me up with crazy stories about Liam . |
| 24 | I am in the process of compiling a book on old fashioned remedies for horse ailments and am writing to ask if any of your readers have experience of any , and would they be kind enough to pass them on for possible publication . |
| 25 | Supposing she let them down after dear Franz Busacher had connived and wheedled to make her acceptable to Gesner ? |
| 26 | We have been starved of second-hand cars because nobody was trading them in for new ones , but this should change that . ’ |
| 27 | The revised constitutional package focused on ( i ) fiscal adjustment measures including , critically , a new simplified tax system to broaden the tax base in order to raise an extra US$10,000 million per annum ; ( ii ) the lifting of banking secrecy in cases of proven tax evasion ; ( iii ) new mechanisms for dealing with state debts to the central government ; ( iii ) the ending of government monopolies in such areas as oil and telecommunications , opening them up to private domestic and ( more controversially ) foreign capital investment . |
| 28 | He caught himself up in horrified confusion . |
| 29 | In a radio broadcast earlier this week , Mr Shevardnadze echoed the public mood in most areas of the country expressing optimism that Georgia was now starting to pull itself out of political and economic crisis . |
| 30 | I 'm actually , I 'm quite high on as theorist as well and I like to write everything out in full and I clear structures and if I go to training sessions and they 're all over the place , it 's such a in about five minutes and I have to say hang on a minute it might not be structured in the way that you like it but you can actually learn from it . |