Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb mod] [vb infin] [adv prt] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Solicitors may set up a corporate practice to practice solely outside England and Wales provided that ( a ) this is permitted by local law , ( b ) all the directors and shareholders are solicitors , lawyers of another jurisdiction or members of the Bar of England and Wales acting in accordance with the Overseas Practice Rules of the Bar and ( c ) the practice complies with the Overseas Practice Rules ; but such a company could not practice in England and Wales . |
| 2 | The cricket authorities should set up a neutral-umpire system , or , failing that , a panel of umpires acceptable to the tour team . |
| 3 | To justify their hold on this island far into East Germany , the West Germans must keep up a good show of a thriving community in West Berlin . |
| 4 | Therefore , although the strength of a bone depends on the area of its cross section , the legs must hold up a body increasing in weight by the cube of its length . |
| 5 | Labour proposes an Education Standards Commission ; both parties would set up a General Teaching Council . |
| 6 | The task " work out how many shaded squares will go round a line of 50 unshaded squares ' , implicitly suggested the use of a generalization strategy for its completion . |
| 7 | Rival candidates will work up a lather over racial tensions , law and order , and the latest agenda of the gay-rights movement for the city 's schools . |
| 8 | ‘ I am sure that as classes get bigger and lectures replace the old tutorial and seminar systems , books will take on a higher perceived value as they become more central to the course . ’ |
| 9 | In the main event the winners will pick up a cheque for £ while the runners-up will receive £250 . |
| 10 | Some bats can send out a stream of two hundred clicks in a single second , each lasting only a thousandth of a second and spaced sufficiently from the other to allow each echo to be heard . |
| 11 | The chefs of Brighton & Hove 's excellent restaurants can whip up a piquant sauce every bit as good as George IV 's French cooks . |
| 12 | In ‘ Shake , Rattle and Roll ’ , even if it is interpreted as totally devoid of the non-formulaic ( far-fetched , once one listens carefully to performance nuances ) , the collectivizing repetitions can take on a positive cultural significance , in the context of use by young working-class dancers . |
| 13 | For very old people , whose security and confidence in these matters may revolve around a relatively small number of tried and tested commodities and services , their withdrawal may be experienced as particularly threatening . |
| 14 | Enterprise intends to make free supplies of Highgate Mild and M&B Mild available so that pubs could try out a new Bass beer for their range . |
| 15 | Positives could pass on a negative gene . |
| 16 | For another , with a large brain the boundaries between areas will take up a smaller proportion of those areas than in small brains . |
| 17 | Added together , the BBC1 and ITV election results specials will take up a mere 12–14 hours , depending on the state of play at 4am . |
| 18 | Temperatures overnight will fall to 7 Celsius , 45 Fahrenheit , so remaining reasonably mild , although the winds will pick up a little later . |
| 19 | Under the title of AMEC Dalmeny , Press and three other AMEC operating companies will carry out a project to increase oil throughput in the Forties oil field . |
| 20 | Visitors can walk along a Roman street and discover remains of turrets , cookhouses , bread-ovens and a latrine . |
| 21 | How companies can set up a group pension scheme for their employees . |
| 22 | How groups of directors can set up a pension scheme for themselves . |
| 23 | But investors who have clung on grimly for the past five years should hang on a while longer . |
| 24 | A firm or college can change its culture quite markedly if the chief executive of either is replaced , and new priorities or new perspectives could kill off a partnership very rapidly . |
| 25 | Those were the days of the Board 's Cruises when , traditionally , a few members of the Board of Customs would carry out a seaborne inspection of a chosen area in the United Kingdom . |
| 26 | Every so often one of the packages would let out a loud squawk . |
| 27 | This is noticeable after a long soak in the bath ; the pads of your fingertips will take on a wrinkled appearance . |
| 28 | It will soon be up-staged by the enormous 5,000 room MGM Grand , which guests will enter along a yellow brick road and which will contain , as the casino , a life-sized version of the Emerald City . |
| 29 | In popular discussions of private education , grandparents emerge as people very likely to pay school fees ( Guardian 27 May 1986 ) and it certainly has been the case for some time that it is advantageous in taxation terms for them to do so , since grandparents can take out a deed of covenant to cover this payment whereas parents can not . |
| 30 | A trip to Brussels to meet the responsible officials can turn up a mine of information . |