Example sentences of "[verb] [noun pl] [verb] [adv prt] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his keynote speech in Aberdeen , Mr Lang announced plans to bring in non-educationists in every school inspection team within two years . |
| 2 | A LAW allowing courts to lock up child criminals as young as 12 has been given the go-ahead by Mr Clarke . |
| 3 | And now the Forestry Commission is using shirehorses to thin out part of the ancient woodland at Westonbirt Arboretum in Gloucestershire . |
| 4 | Chris Stocks was set up by a friend when The Sun newspaper asked readers to send in photographs of Chris Evans lookalikes . |
| 5 | The two boys then spent the rest of the day helping beaters send up birds for the guns . |
| 6 | For example , if there were a sudden selling of sterling ( due , say , to bad trade figures and a resulting fear that the pound would depreciate ) , the Bank of England could help to prevent the pound from falling by using reserves to buy up pounds on the foreign exchange market . |
| 7 | We used sticks to dig up roots , and gourds to carry water , and vines around our shoulders to help carry babies . |
| 8 | The US Congress has dreamed up the Mary Whitehouse chip , a circuit that the television industry would be required to build into television sets , enabling parents to block out programmes coded for violent content : according to Associated Press , the chip was thought up by Representative Edward Markey , a Democrat from Massachusetts and chairman of the House Energy & Commerce subcommittee on telecommunications — the parent could just push the v-block button on the remote control and keep violent programming out of the home , ’ he said reckoning that if only 10% or 15% of all homes started blocking programmes , broadcasters and advertisers would soon get the message . |
| 9 | OSF FIRMS SHOW OFF DCE SPURS |
| 10 | The government has introduced several schemes to encourage farmers to plant up land . |
| 11 | It also has powers to carry out investigations and impose very large fines of up to 10% of turnover . |
| 12 | In the last resort the council has powers to send in workmen to carry out emergency repairs with or without the owner 's agreement , preventing further decay and making the building wind- and water-tight . |
| 13 | They say girls go off horses when they get to a certain age . ’ |
| 14 | • German scientists ( reports the Daily Telegraph ) have found a way of utilising enzymes to break down nitrates to nitrogen gas . |
| 15 | A group of villagers say measures to slow down traffic on their main street have actually made things worse . |
| 16 | John Aiken , who wrote in 1797 , was also a doctor and he described apprentices brought in batches from distant workhouses to toil in " injurious " air by day and night . |
| 17 | You know that he is , you know what they say cameras pick up things . |
| 18 | Peter showed his reliance on the body of Christ by enabling others to take on leadership as early as possible . |
| 19 | Test blasts shake up residents |
| 20 | The prosecutor may direct policemen to carry out inquiries and interview witnesses , but he can not deputise them to interrogate the suspect , a task which he must perform himself . |
| 21 | The uranium industry in South Africa , the world 's biggest exporter , was reported to be on the ‘ brink of collapse ’ as electricity generating companies ran down stocks and cut purchases . |
| 22 | Also , since union officials concentrated their attention upon winning arbitration cases it was left to shop stewards to take up problems such as plant-level dismissals , work assignments and transfers ( Levine , 1980 ) . |
| 23 | Support plans to open up Wilts & Berks Canal ( 14a ) |
| 24 | Cider makers are so short of apples they 're urging growers to pick up windfall fruit off the ground . |
| 25 | One local says helicopters brought in reinforcements to the isolated rural area an hour before the shooting began . |
| 26 | Most of the cash went on redesigning logic devices , For instance , engineers installed circuits to filter out noise from mains supplies ; twist-wire cables are specified for data highways . |
| 27 | Police and Scottish National Farmers Union officials in Dumfries and Galloway are urging farmers to set up farm watch schemes in an attempt to combat the attacks . |
| 28 | The association of ideas made fondness for Gentle sound like another disease , but he did n't comment on it , merely made arrangements to pick up Klein the following evening and put down the phone , plunged into a deeper trough than ever . |
| 29 | In other words , if you have spent a long time writing programs to carry out tasks , you will have to start again from scratch . |
| 30 | The body uses proteinases to break down food but the trials have shown they are unaffected by the drug . |