Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [to-vb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | DEC 's announcement that it would concentrate on OSF/1 only for the Alpha range made enough customers angry for DEC to go back to its business plan and think again . |
| 2 | More than a year ago , the Barnes board had failed in a bid for permission to sell up to fifteen works from the legendary collection of early modern materpieces in order to fund building repairs . |
| 3 | It finally erupted when Mozart asked for permission to stay on for a few days in Vienna to collect some outstanding fees . |
| 4 | And even then er you had to ask for permission to stay out till ten . |
| 5 | When she went into the rest room she sat down for a minute while waiting for Peggy to come out of the lavatory . |
| 6 | Over time she has retained her ideological commitment , and the shortcomings as well as the successes of her government record are invoked by her as reasons to press on with the original strategy . |
| 7 | The not inconsiderable amount of time clients spend in hospital and campus services without supervision in part reflects the option for clients to wander off into the dormitories unnoticed . |
| 8 | Graham Bowstead , Bob Hodgson and Ray Cargill , all Englishmen , had been working for William Lee in London but were on the look out for opportunities to branch out on their own . |
| 9 | In education , although legislation promises increased power to parents and the opportunity for schools to opt out of local education authorities , it also promises a greater power for head teachers and , in the case of City Technology Colleges , a greater direct input from industry . |
| 10 | This apparently low level of active parental involvement has important implications for other aspects of current policy — especially the arrangements for schools to opt out of local authority control . |
| 11 | Dr Cunningham said : ‘ The important thing is for Neil to stay on as leader of the party and build on the gains we have made in this election . ’ |
| 12 | The start of a new year is a time for pundits to come up with predictions they may well regret |
| 13 | Apart from the 4-SUBS , traffic levels meant there was little chance for stock to fall out of the bottom of the cascade . |
| 14 | Of air too thick for aircraft to fall out of . |
| 15 | The present ski development is unsafe for walkers to walk through towards the carriers as the skiers do not give way to each other let alone walkers . |
| 16 | ‘ If I did wait for Garry to come back into the fold , what would you be doing ? ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Will I do ? ’ she asked Matey , in her charming , half-joking manner , for Matey to reply in like vein , |
| 18 | They thought it normal for tea to come out of the fridge or the oven in a tinfoil box with a peel-back lid , although they did remember for weeks afterwards Lucy 's occasional cordon-bleu phases , when the house had been filled with heart-warming smells , and different kinds of food had appeared out of saucepans on top of the oven , and other dishes inside it . |
| 19 | However , there is an increased tendency for disputes to drag on over weeks and months . |
| 20 | However , there is an increased tendency for disputes to drag on over weeks and months . |
| 21 | Anyway it was not always easy for Nellie to get up to Rosstrevor as often as she 'd like to catch up on any news . |
| 22 | She drew comparisons between the present crisis concerning Iraq 's invasion of Kuwait and the experience of 1938 , declaring that " Czechoslovakia of all countries needs no reminding of the need for nations to stand up to bullies and do so at once " . |
| 23 | He had n't expected a trip down to his daughter 's for lunch to end up in the middle of Exmoor . |
| 24 | If on the other hand it was the morning fire of the returning verderers it would be possible for Hugh to stumble back to them pretending he had failed to recapture his prisoner . |
| 25 | It will take years for Albania to catch up with the standards of medicine in other European countries but not all the news is negative . |
| 26 | Er I would , I would echo that , that we feel that they money has been paid in for work or services done by the employer and by the er fund members themselves have contributed and I do n't think it belongs to either of those parties in any more , it 's held by the trustees to pay pensions , if for nothing it 's been put there just to pay pensions , it 's not a piggy bank for er for companies to draw out with the with their tame er trustees allowing it , it it 's money the trustees hold in in trust and I believe that 's the law at the moment and er I I think we would like to see that confirmed in any new law . |
| 27 | Having a highly fragmented retail distribution system , it was normal for companies to operate through about one thousand drug wholesalers . |
| 28 | It 's okay for Australians to bang on about the risks they get a summer . |
| 29 | Then they went into the lead , only for Peterborough to come back with a late equaliser . |
| 30 | THE case must be made again for judges to stand down at 70 years of age . |