Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [noun] [to-vb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | CACI used computer techniques to build up shopping centre analyses from raw data which covered a representative sample of all retail activity . |
| 2 | No satisfactory answer to this problem was forthcoming meantime , but at least the situation gave them time for the main Scots foot army to come up . |
| 3 | With MainWin , the Windows applications will reportedly run in native mode with no intervening emulation level to bog down performance . |
| 4 | The heavily indebted Koor conglomerate , the country 's largest industrial corporation and part of the Histadrut 's business empire [ see p. 36950 ] , reported new unforseen losses on Nov. 17 , 1989 , and asked Israeli and foreign creditor banks to write off US$125,000,000 in debt . |
| 5 | Pitty the French git hand to score off his shin to equalize . |
| 6 | Small wonder the chemists are working so hard to get British Yew trees to yield up their medical secrets . |
| 7 | A further letter dated 9th July 1991 says that orders have been placed with your Direct Labour Organisation to carry out this work . |
| 8 | Under managed floating , the domestic monetary authorities intervene in the foreign exchange markets to smooth out excessive short-term fluctuations in the exchange rate . |
| 9 | At about the same time , Shaughnessy also commissioned a former German intelligence agent to carry out an investigation for him in Europe . |
| 10 | ‘ It tells me nothing about my children , and I should n't have to keep contacting the Social Work Department to find out how they are . |
| 11 | Even before the foods which are rich in dietary fibre start to pass down your throat , they perform a multiplicity of functions which help to reduce the quantity of food you want to eat and they start to send helpful satiety signals to the brain . |
| 12 | Primarily , it will be for the British Transport police to carry out the tests . |
| 13 | The Government expects the new ‘ actively seeking work ’ provisions of the Social Security Act to remove up to 50,000 people from the unemployment register , saving £100m a year . |
| 14 | I went to see them about this but they told me it was up to the social security people to make up the difference . |
| 15 | In fact if you concentrate attention on a habit it often causes the habitual behaviour pattern to break down . |
| 16 | Cardiff saw its hideously burnt and decomposed head turn to look up the stairwell at them , just as Jimmy and Rohmer heaved the filing cabinet over . |
| 17 | Many visitors to Luanda leave with the image of a dead city , where large glass windows in state-run shops reveal mostly empty shelves , where sewage too often runs through the streets — there 's a cholera epidemic now — where the state has had to hire a private firm which imported Filipino lorry drivers to clean up a decade 's worth of rubbish . |
| 18 | I decided that I should ask a friend for a loan of his electronic pH meter to find out the exact difference between the two tanks . |
| 19 | Before the start of harvest , the ewes had been returned to the high moorland pastures to fatten up and build up their strength before coming down for tupping . |
| 20 | It 's given me five clear working days to set up my appointments for next week . |
| 21 | You will need to attach three Daily Mirror tokens to take up the special offer . |
| 22 | However , Mar delayed in an attempt to raise more men , which allowed the British government time to build up concentrations of its own troops and collect reinforcements from its foreign allies . |
| 23 | Saddam also called for the creation of 11 new divisions , and on Aug. 4 , for the expansion of the Popular Army militia to serve in both Iraq and Kuwait . |
| 24 | However Darlington was one of the first towns to apply to the Public Health Board to clean up its area . |
| 25 | Without close-ups and action replays , I 'm afraid it seemed an awfully slow game and I started counting the number of people in the crowd wearing red , and longing for the little athletic wagtail who kept hopping onto the electronic line bleeper to hop back again . |
| 26 | In Britain the idea of openly partisan broadcasting was pioneered by the Scottish Nationalists ' clandestine and illegal Radio Free Scotland in the 1960s and more recently by Southern Sound , who used a discarded former commercial radio band to set up their entirely open and legal Conference Radio FM to cover the 1990 Conservative Party Conference from an unashamedly pro-Conservative viewpoint . |
| 27 | Were residential care facilities to evolve along these lines , life would be more fulfilling for mentally handicapped people and for the people who care for them . |
| 28 | Control Data Corp is the latest struggling hardware manufacturer to sign up as a reseller for IBM 's RS/6000 — but so far it is restricting the agreement to Denmark , Norway and Sweden . |
| 29 | The staff development day which is to follow shortly afterwards is to be used by the different year teams to work out a programme of study . |
| 30 | On my right there is a sudden and implausible terrace of little bow-fronted villas from the early thirties , still waiting for this left-over country lane to grow up and get itself surfaced and turned into a bypass . |