Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In such fields a double need arises : to harmonise licensing requirements for companies intending to carry on the activities in question , and to establish essential standards for the prudential supervision of companies providing financial services . |
| 2 | Protesters have vowed to carry on the demonstrations despite the fact the tour has been given tacit approval by the African National Congress . |
| 3 | parents should always arrange if possible for their children to see old people of marked interest in their lives , so as to carry on the links of tradition … |
| 4 | Squeeze your fist … study the feelings of tension this creates … learn what it is like now to have this experience of tension in the fist … [ after approximately five seconds ] … and now relax … let go of all the tension just allow your fingers to fall with gravity … you may experience a slight tingling effect as the muscles relax … feel the fingers and hand becoming heavier and heavier … feeling as though someone has just placed a glove made of lead on your hand … causing the whole hand to feel heavy , heavy as lead … the muscles sinking down dead weight hanging on the bones of the hand … |
| 5 | Hanging on the hours like heliotropes |
| 6 | Beautiful women , dressed in anything from the flamboyantly obvious to the understatedly elegant , weaved in and out of the crowds , some of them hanging on the arms of men old enough to be their grandfathers . |
| 7 | She sees her wig and familiar clothing , dry now , still hanging on the backs of chairs to one side of a dead fire . |
| 8 | Bring on the men in white coats ! |
| 9 | But for the interested amateur the travel companies offer trips which include opportunities to follow the grey whales of the San Ignacio Lagoon , view tigers in India , search for orchids and birds of paradise in Papua New Guinea , or track down the gorillas in the Mountains of the Moon . |
| 10 | Then I took some smaller bombs and planted them inside some of the rabbit holes , stamping down the roofs of the tunnel entrances so that they caved in and left only the straw fuses sticking out . |
| 11 | Apply cuticle remover all round the nail and gently push down the cuticles with a rubber-tipped hoof stick , a cotton bud , or cotton wool wrapped round an orange stick . |
| 12 | ‘ Even bringing down the charges to £4 means the council will be incurring a £40,000 loss . |
| 13 | They are strays , having been carried here by the glacier that once occupied Crummackdale as it retreated at the end of the Ice Age , scouring the ground as it departed and bringing down the boulders from their place of origin higher in the valley . |
| 14 | Now I promise to devote myself to bringing down the costs of your mortgages because I believe that people should be able to own their own homes and to own them cheaply . ’ |
| 15 | By the late 1980s , Ceauşescu 's suspicions and caprices had whittled down the numbers of his long-term favourites . |
| 16 | AIDS patients are being given a new vaccine which could slow down the effects of the disease . |
| 17 | Glowing out at night — by bike with luminous tyres which allow more safety when speeding down the roads at night . |
| 18 | For a wood glue-to be effective it has to penetrate down the tubes for some distance so as to get hold of the undamaged wood . |
| 19 | With the final umbrella of the Charter , which theoretically laid down the principles of the paper and what it stood for , the last bricks were put into the edifice . |
| 20 | Bills seeking to exclude various categories of placemen from Parliament were introduced on average once every session between 1692 and 1714 , and a general measure banning all placemen from the Commons found its way into the Act of Settlement of 1701 ( which laid down the conditions on which the Hanoverians would succeed to the throne ) , although this provision was subsequently modified before the Act came into effect . |
| 21 | But Lombroso laid down the foundations of most of what was to follow in genetic theories of crime . |
| 22 | Similarly , the Act of Six Articles of 1539 laid down the penalties for disobedience to the prescribed articles of faith , and left it to him as supreme head to pronounce upon their doctrinal content . |
| 23 | The Bank also laid down the requirements for its own operations in the market : |
| 24 | Lord Diplock laid down the essentials for a passing-off action : 1 ) a misrepresentation 2 ) made by a trader in the course of trade 3 ) to prospective customers of his or ultimate consumers of goods or services supplied by him 4 ) which is calculated to injure the business or goodwill of another trader and 5 ) which causes actual damage to a business or goodwill of the trader by whom the action is brought . |
| 25 | A Hungarian-French treaty of friendship and concord signed on Sept. 11 laid down the terms of co-operation between the two countries on minority issues and on Hungary 's desire for full membership of the European Communities ( EC ) . |
| 26 | Once spinning , they are difficult to stop , and they flash down the slopes in a series of great leaps and bounds , making a loud whirring noise , and travel sometimes for hundreds of metres . |
| 27 | ( Artist 's heart now sinks at thought of fifteen-hour day on account of two ideas leading to twenty permutations of two-line scene : ‘ But Richard — ’ ‘ Yes , I know , but the thing is — er — let me put this another way ’ ( so far he has n't put it anyway ) — ‘ Look — ’ ( He freezes mid-pace , cocks his head as though listening to an external sound — which indeed he is — draws a deep breath through his nose , rolls up his eyes , turns down the corners of his mouth , then , forgetting to expel air because a new thought has struck him , he gasps : ) ‘ I 'll tell you what , right ? |
| 28 | A system of transitional payments is in operation , which slows down the effects of these changes on current claimants . |
| 29 | The wind has varied for them between 20 and 40 knots and it has , in the main , blown from the west , allowing them sleigh rides down the faces of the big waves . |
| 30 | Most experts agree that restoring the balance would entail a massive engineering project drawing down the levels of the reservoirs to below that of the dams to enable young fish to reach the sea quicker . |