Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [art] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The columns of our newspapers and weekly journals are filled with book reviews or booksy gossip in which the hacks who write them seem determined before all else to carry on the one continuing tradition of their ignoble trade : ignorance . |
| 2 | The reason for this is that women are forced to carry on the main productive activity by themselves because of their subjection . |
| 3 | Increasingly local Law Societies are either undertaking training or can be persuaded to do so , and bringing down an experienced personal injury practitioner or trainer from London may not seem too horrendous an idea if the local Law Society is funding and arranging it . |
| 4 | The main route goes along a narrow elevated ridge from Gray Crag to Thornthwaite Crag where you 'll find the tallest cairn in the Lake District at around 20ft high . |
| 5 | After these tests the railway engineers laid down a maximum sideways acceleration equivalent to tilting the track by 4½ degrees . |
| 6 | Three hundred and forty years later , in 1918 , the National Education Association and the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools , in the United States , approved the so-called Certain Standards ( named after the chairman of its working party , Carl Caspar Certain ) which laid down the first standard specifications for a secondary school library . |
| 7 | She uncurled her legs , determinedly smoothed down the neat white culottes , and stood up . |
| 8 | While parental choice embodied in the Educational Reform Act has broken down the traditional secondary-feeder primary school catchment areas , for the vast number of secondary schools their associated primaries are unchanged . |
| 9 | Methodism had broken down the old geographical barriers so that now nearly all areas had their Nonconformists . |
| 10 | Get rid of the pensioners : bring in the fit young props reared on body-fat callipers , VO2 max and three Weetabix for breakfast . |
| 11 | because I 've filled in a self-certified sick line , |
| 12 | You seem to have filled in a few blank spaces for me . ’ |
| 13 | It did something about corruption , by bringing in a new civil-service law which makes officials more accountable for their actions while at the same time making them freer of party patronage . |
| 14 | Tabitha found herself being diverted down a long underground tunnel to the civil concourse . |
| 15 | We can see from Labour 's amendment J that Councillor , as I said earlier , intends to go down the same old socialist way of providing the very type of housing that is currently failing tenants . |
| 16 | Nevertheless , the decision was enough to make Labour 's ‘ sister party ’ bring down the last Labour Government and the working class throughout the UK is still paying for the SDLP 's pettiness . |
| 17 | A longer reading list is available from Age Concern England 's Information and Policy Department if you send in a stamped addressed envelope . |
| 18 | Individual photocopies A4 handouts/posters can be run off for you on coloured paper at the office if you send in a clear original ( photographs/cut outs can be gummed on to the page and words either cut out , written , stencilled or typed ) . |
| 19 | While Piłsudski was to accuse the KPP of undoing his own hard work as military leader and of trying to dismember Poland by ‘ Trojan horse methods ’ , Moscow decided to rein in the free-thinking Polish socialists . |
| 20 | An austerity programme begun in September 1988 was beginning to bite , raising fears that Peking would try to rein in the independent-minded southern provinces . |
| 21 | One day , minding my own business as usual , I was walking down a busy main road in the afternoon when I saw a helmeted security guard standing outside a doorway . |
| 22 | Behind the beautifully restored façades of the buildings with their smart paint and gabled roofs there was evidence of a rich and varied culture , Gina observed , walking down the crowded cobbled pathway where restaurants and cafés spilled out towards the water 's edge . |
| 23 | I am driving along a narrow main road , used by fast-moving traffic , with my children in the back seat . |
| 24 | Depression had descended on her , hemmed in by all these people , driving along a straight dreary road . |
| 25 | Caro dreamed she was driving along a straight empty road . |
| 26 | It was like driving along an endless concrete canal . |
| 27 | Those lips , which had so recently roved over Jaq 's body , now sucked in the slithery tough stuff of the hydra with the same seeming hunger . |
| 28 | A cabin cruiser was chugging down the wide brown river towards that little harbour I 'd seen , and over the other side the bank was so steep that the rows of terraced houses were leaning over each other to get a view . |
| 29 | He and I may be strange companions in the same lobby but I am certain he has put his finger on an error which condemns many modern Church leaders to disappear down a theological black hole . |
| 30 | Barnett sucked in a damp lung-full of air and pumped his arms in an effort to increase his speed . |