Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The F T Associates which is er includes the Economist in Spain was up a lot and Westminster Press was er was down , but of course Westminster Press took a major redundancy charge , they were also bringing on a new plant at Brighton and therefore running two plants simultaneously which is very costly er and they launched on Sunday . |
| 2 | For surely someone as gifted as that deserved all that could be done for him : and ‘ the gift ’ put it above any gossip about an overkeen schoolmaster bringing on a bright pupil and overrode any chatter about the besotted nature of his devotion . |
| 3 | Paul went on his way in rising anger , fearful of bringing on a bad head by it . |
| 4 | As well as bringing on the new foal , Margaret has taken on another exciting challenge . |
| 5 | And let me quote Locke er here we are are we he says but submitting to the laws of any country , living quietly and enjoying privileges and protection under them , makes not a man a member of that society then he goes on a little bit further down nothing can make any man so but is actually entering into it by positive engagement and express promise and compact . |
| 6 | No conscious effort is required , and it is sometimes possible to carry on a non-relevant activity , e.g. holding a conversation , whilst performing the activity . |
| 7 | In addition to those covenants mentioned by Scott LJ above examples of those which have been deemed to touch and concern the land include : a covenant for quiet enjoyment ; a covenant by the landlord agreeing to supply a housekeeper to clean a block of flats ; a covenant in which a landlord agreed not to open a public house within half a mile of the tenanted premises ; a covenant placing an obligation on the tenant to repair ; and a covenant in which the tenant agreed not to carry on a particular trade at the premises . |
| 8 | Institutions authorised by the Bank of England to carry on a deposit-taking business in this country are required to make contributions to the Deposit Protection Fund as levied from time to time by the Deposit Protection Board . |
| 9 | She did not want to carry on a lengthy conversation with this garrulous dumb woman ; she wanted to go to bed and hug Edward Bear . |
| 10 | The tenant will not wish to restrict himself to too narrow a use , for while this might be satisfactory in the short term , if the lease is for 25 years much can happen to the tenant 's business , eg expansion or contraction resulting in the necessity for the tenant to assign or sublet the premises , in which case the assignee or subtenant may wish to carry on a different use . |
| 11 | I buy a harmonium — nearly an organ — and spend the rest of my life playing it , thickened with doleful dirges , vainly trying to lay the trauma , my only satisfaction the ashen faced , staring eyed audiences staggering out at the end of performances , primed , and ready to carry on the good work . |
| 12 | Elijah heard a divine message sending him back to troubled Israel , with intuition as to definite things to do , one of which was to find a successor to carry on the prophetic ministry . |
| 13 | Plans to build hospitals in particular places , or schools , appeared on the agenda because committee chairmen had canvassed opinion and had advised the secretariats in Tripoli : they went through smoothly enough , suggesting that the occasional displeasing reverse was more the result of failure to plan and to prepare the ground in advance , to carry on the ordinary business of politics , than a result of failure in some mystical process , such as interpreting the general will by introspection . |
| 14 | Always bleating and moaning because he has n't got a son — no one to carry on the Great Name of Graham — She gave a short guffaw . |
| 15 | ‘ I wanted to carry on the great work that Nick had done and I wanted to broaden the paper 's scope . |
| 16 | We held it was the duty of revolutionary Socialists to denounce both imperialist peace and imperialist war as the inevitable consequences of Capitalism and , whichever came , to carry on the independent class struggle of the workers , directing it towards the conquest of Worker 's Power … . |
| 17 | Through the side window he could see his grey garments and underwear hanging on a small washing line outside . |
| 18 | The three of them looked at the dark-dressed figure of their brother , his head back , as he stared at the huge oil painting of highland cattle hanging on the broad stone wall of the fireplace , and he answered , ‘ I do n't know , Reggie . |
| 19 | The tide had risen a foot above the usual high water mark , and when they came to cut him free in the morning , they found him hanging on the outer wall — drowned . |
| 20 | The officer 's optional dark blue cape , with a black velvet collar , and a black cord fastening , seen here hanging on the left breast . |
| 21 | The two pictures hanging on the wooden beam in the left of the photograph perhaps show a more popular way of displaying miniatures , which is nonetheless very attractive . |
| 22 | Although his wife 's chintz chaircovers bring on a certain nausea whenever I am obliged to call . " |
| 23 | Friday nights are hot at Apples and Snakes — every week they bring on a new lineup of outstanding poets and performers . |
| 24 | They were in a windowless hole of a dressing room , backstage of the El Paradiso — another charity , bring on the bloody drag ! |
| 25 | They bring on the young ponies and in return he teaches them . |
| 26 | Track down the following books through the index . |
| 27 | I feel somewhat like a Saint Bernard as I track down the American conductor John Nelson by telephone across the Alps . |
| 28 | From where she stood it shimmered in silver under a glancing sun , though upstream at the inn , where she had seen it close to , it rolled darkly brown and turgid , and laden with the debris of bushes , for the spring thaw had come late and violently , bringing down an immense weight of snow-water from the mountains of Wales . |
| 29 | The sheer fury of Southend 's running kept Spurs under pressure and in the 41st minute Gary Mabbutt , newly cautioned for bringing down the impressive David Crown , gave the ball to him . |
| 30 | He was responding to Monday 's claim in the Belfast Irish News that at least three dozen officers were members of a secret ‘ inner circle ’ which had the objects of ‘ removing ’ republican suspects and bringing down the Anglo-Irish agreement . |