Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [verb] [adv prt] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Berg 's case was that the unqualified report by the auditors gave the company an opportunity to continue to carry on business and to borrow money from third parties .
2 The main stumbling block was a demand by Kuwait to be given freedom to continue building up production to cover a $50 billion bill for the Gulf war and subsequent reconstruction costs .
3 According to US reports , Oracle Corp has sent out beta copies of 14 next-generation application development tools to developers .
4 Nor should this be an excuse to try to carve up Genesis to fit a theory — about the evolution of religion or anything else .
5 Omnibus 's simplistic script favoured show-and-tell over analysis but that dangerous moral — that these years were a triumph of popular taste in art , not a suppression of it — could be glimpsed now and then .
6 Kev Knowles has signed from local Jehovah 's Witness side Armageddon Wanderers and at his own expense has taken over match programme production , re-naming it the ‘ Whaddon Watchtower ’ .
7 In the meantime , the insurance industry has set up Pool Re , which began collecting premium income in January .
8 The need to finance the cost of unity and damp down its inflationary effect has pushed up German — and therefore European — interest rates and exacerbated recession .
9 Tough action has cut down football hooliganism .
10 Banbury West End Club has signed up world ranked players , including Neil Borwick from Australia , who 's 123rd .
11 This means that if you are a male diabetic smoker with a high cholesterol level , your blood tends to churn out atheroma like a Jersey cow makes cream .
12 The car began to pick up speed , and Jessamy glanced out of the window .
13 I had imagined that friendship meant giving up privacy , and closeness meant complete submersion in the other person .
14 Although the countries of the European Free Trade Association had worked out trade arrangements with the Community , recent decisions of the European Court ruled them to be incompatible with the treaty of Rome .
15 As it was , however , the administration had taken over responsibility for this war ; and it had to work with what it had , making a just cause as best it could .
16 They are a side trying to build up confidence at the moment .
17 In addition , the Council agreed to put up cycle/ pedestrian direction signs at suitable locations nearby , so that people , local or not , are aware of the path 's existence .
18 The sand eroded accumulates down wind from the dune , where , being fresh , it is recolonised by marram and stability is thus regained .
19 The shoal has taken up residence in one particular area of the canal and are congregating in a 6ft deep hole a yard from the far bank reed bed at Plex Lane .
20 The Economic and Social Research Council has cut back work on the 1991 census and its ‘ positive health ’ centre for health promotion .
21 Nakane 's work has a more voluntaristic approach , but even she writes about the assertive techniques that management uses to build up company identification of workers .
22 At their recent meeting Nether Wyresdale Parish Council decided to take out membership of CPRE as a local organisation .
23 In fact he had telegraphed the Informer for some expenses ‘ to entertaining priest ’ , and , bewildered by this unusual demand , the editor had wired back money .
24 In the last government scandal — the Muldergate affair in the late 70s — Mr Botha , was forced to fire a judicial inquiry because the judge refused to cover up corruption .
25 Two American companies with an eye on available and inexpensive manpower have set up software export units in the southern hill city of Bangalore , India 's own Silicon Valley .
26 Even when I 'm on days I have n't the cash to go gallivanting up West every night . ’
27 Dr Carl Wieman ( left ) and his team has opened up research into low temperature physics .
28 Now he has a training programme for the week-end to try to build up stamina . ’
29 His doctor should arrange physiotherapy to teach him and his carers the right exercises to build up strength and co-ordination .
30 Owen : When George , or you Robert … or you Carol walks out and slams the door that means the teacher has to give up time they could be giving to the others in the class , the ones who need the help .
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