Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv prt] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The proposals include : setting up a system of area judicial debt recovery tribunals by upgrading the debt recovery function of County Courts to the level of District Registries of the High Court ; putting County Court bailiffs on to a results-based salary similar to that of High Court bailiffs ; and putting a £500 ceiling on County Court bad debt claims , with larger claims going to the High Court where better results can be achieved . |
| 2 | At each stage of the dilution Hahnemann subjected his solutions to a succession of powerful shocks by bringing the vials in which they were contained down hard several times on to a firm surface . |
| 3 | Also , the libraries and record offices contain plans of these houses along with a vast amount of pictures of Edinburgh . |
| 4 | The reasons for this decentralising movement towards the growth of workplace bargaining activity in Western European countries have been in part economic , as a result of generally high employment and continuous economic growth in the post-war years to the mid-1970s along with a varying capacity to pay of separate employers . |
| 5 | Write all your metaphors and similes down on a separate sheet of paper . |
| 6 | The boxcar , one of ten , had been parked in the marshalling-yards at Tobolsk for nearly twenty-four hours when the railway workers had come along to feed the sheep and hitch the cars on to a new engine . |
| 7 | The Joint Security Group takes intelligence about possible forthcoming terrorist attacks — usually provided by MI5 or BfV — and puts Army and RAF units on to a higher state of alert . |
| 8 | Other than irritating wooo-wooo , the predominant noise was a ceaseless 140-beats-per-minute boom-chi-boom-chi-boom-chi-boom-chi which seems to drive the skaters on to a higher and wilder plateaux of whirling and circling . |
| 9 | ‘ This is our little guest cottage , ’ she announced as they mounted some steps on to a wide , spacious veranda which ran the length of the property . |
| 10 | I liked the way the usherette threaded the torn half-tickets on to a long string so they made a branch of monkey-puzzle tree . |
| 11 | The atmosphere was tense and all realised it was heads down for a full house . |
| 12 | He frequently gives interviews , and has got television performances down to a fine art . |
| 13 | And Doherty , the best Irish player at present on the professional circuit , did n't let his fans down with a comfortable 5–2 win over an out of touch Neal Foulds of England . |
| 14 | Just inside the door were two steps down to a small living room about ten feet square , behind this was a tiny scullery and the houses had two small bedrooms upstairs . |
| 15 | To reach the sea below guests can take the lift , footpath and flight of 177 steps down to a small private beach . |
| 16 | Here no conversion had been done to the wretched little room , once a scullery , with two steps down to a small yard stacked high with rubbish . |
| 17 | There is limited parking at Belle Vue ( SE343197 ) beside the Calder & Hebble Navigation ( April 84 guide ) which ends at Fall Ing Lock , below which are a flight of steps down to a convenient platform . |
| 18 | Eyes down for a full house and a long run . |
| 19 | Eyes down for a full house . |
| 20 | He had a high-rolling joint on the SS Nocturne , a ship anchored outside the limits , and some nasty rumours had floated back on the tides along with a well-dressed corpse or two . |
| 21 | They stretch from aero-engines and power stations to the NBC national-television network to electric lighting to plastics to medical-diagnostic gadgets through to a huge near-bank , General Electric Financial Services . |
| 22 | On the other hand , poorer residents , in spite of their organisation and activity , could often do very little to press their demands through to a successful policy outcome . |
| 23 | " They 're always like that , gassing their heads off in a public shop . |
| 24 | The eastern bank between Chepstow and Monmouth gets Offa 's Dyke walkers off to a flying start — there 's superb walking high above the river with sensational views . |
| 25 | The range starts at 47ft ( 14.3m ) and steps up to a staggering 110ft ( 33.5m ) . |
| 26 | WordPerfect for Windows Power Macros is one of those weighty ( 500+ pages ) books/manuals and although designed for the ‘ couple of steps up from a basic knowledge ’ reader , I did n't find it got me into the harder bits gently . |
| 27 | But it put premiums up by a third — and that cut losses from £88 million to £39 million in the six months to June . |
| 28 | It 's just the things you poke your hairs up on a sharp stick |
| 29 | In consideration of your agreeing to make an offer , on behalf of our customer , [ client name ] for the whole of the issued share capital of a company known to both of us under the code name [ ] ' , we , [ name of Bank ] London Branch , [ address of Bank ] , hereby guarantee that our customer , [ client name ] have available to them funds up to a total amount of £ [ ] . |
| 30 | ‘ An ’ then he prosecutes us for cuttin' animals up in a public place , ’ Jake went on . |