Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [verb] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Manchester-based Riverside International is now looking for franchisees to take on Cozydry , which is British Standard approved . |
| 2 | In France , for instance , where there are no incentives for employers to take on part-timers ( in the form of our lower National Insurance contributions and lack of rights and benefits for part-timers ) and far more extensive subsidised childcare facilities and parental leave , far fewer mothers work part time and more are in higher status occupations , according to the Department of Employment 's French And British Women 's Employment Comparisons . |
| 3 | In 1925 , the LNER added to its stock the most powerful steam loco for service in this country , specially for banking trains up Worsborough . |
| 4 | On March 15 , Israeli aircraft attacked a Palestine Popular Struggle Front ( PSF ) base in the village of Qoub Elias in the Bekaa valley on the Beirut-Damascus road , allegedly used as base to carry out attacks against Israel . |
| 5 | After all , most people live on the coast and there are large areas inland for sheep farming so wool must be cheap . |
| 6 | In a fine speech that preceded the president 's , Colin Powell , the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff , said in essence that it was wrong for servicemen to hold back respect for their commander-in-chief simply because of what he did long ago . |
| 7 | The work was less skilled than it had been formerly since no women made up a whole garment , but rather worked on one fragment of the process , for instance sewing up side-seams all day , every day . |
| 8 | This makes Britain in autumn a very special place as a staging post for birds flying further south to the Mediterranean and Africa and as a winter home for many others . |
| 9 | The group is an ideal setting for clients to test out assumptions they might have about themselves . |
| 10 | Marxists , however , would lay more stress on factors such as the development of a well-unionized workforce and the frequent need for industry to hold down wages . |
| 11 | Demands for action to clean up sulphur dioxide emissions from power stations , widely believed to be responsible for the ‘ acid rain ’ that was killing forests , lakes and rivers — not just in Scotland , but as far afield as Germany and Scandinavia — were brushed aside on the grounds of inconclusive evidence ; a similar attitude was taken towards the radioactive discharges from the nuclear reprocessing plant at Sellafield . |
| 12 | It is good for horse to exercise up hills . |
| 13 | With such an election , Newco 's expenditure on know-how should be eligible for 25% writing down allowances under s530 , and the proceeds of sale will usually be chargeable to tax in the hands of the vendor under Schedule D Case VI , though with a deduction under s31(5) for expenditure incurred in the acquisition or disposal of the know-how . |
| 14 | Expenditure incurred by Newco on " patent rights " is eligible for 25% writing down allowances under s520 TA 1988 . |
| 15 | for heads to take on tasks themselves |
| 16 | The proposal was for Taiwan to bail out Costa Rica 's relatively small debt of US$1,500 million . |
| 17 | There is a dilemma about schools taking on fund raising responsibilities . |
| 18 | The use of cane makes this float ideal for fishing sag out shot or styles , and also aids casting when using 7 meters plus to hand . |
| 19 | And because people knew he was going to do so , they came back night after night to see how things were changed . |
| 20 | One can by no means lay down rules , and every composer must find his own solution . |
| 21 | 1991–92 community charge after £140 taken off £260 each |
| 22 | Halifax are pulling out all the stops to try to strengthen their squad and want a sponsor to help fund a deal for Aussie Test forward Bob Lindner . |
| 23 | And Leeds hope to wrap up a short-term deal for Aussie Test forward Bob Lindner in the next three or four days . |
| 24 | LEEDS have wrapped up a two-year deal for Aussie Test forward Bob Lindner . |
| 25 | For countries seeking less PR , the considerations , curiously , are much the same , since not even the angry Italians want the pure milk of FPTP . |
| 26 | That it was unfairly biased towards the incumbent vendor and therefore chose not to participate , it is very costly for companies to put together proposals to bid for an online game . |
| 27 | For instance , Peter Schmeichel 's rainbow-like shirt which he wears for Denmark costs around £35 , and the slightly less garish one he models for Manchester United the same amount . |
| 28 | Looked at on a year-by-year basis , the sum of money we must set aside to pay for decommissioning represents only 4% of our annual turnover . |
| 29 | In the early hours of this morning RUC officers swarmed the streets of Bangor handing out leaflets to motorists and passers-by regarding the bombing . |
| 30 | This period saw the beginning of attempts by conferences of representatives of states to draw up treaties or conventions on different aspects of the law of armed conflict , what is referred to as the jus in bello , that is , the rules of how war should be waged if it should break out . |