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

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1 Topics in the talk included alternative training methods , particularly for building up leg strength .
2 ICI has chosen not to invest in new HCFCs which have a small ozone depletion potential even though these represent a useful interim measure for speeding up CFC phase-out , preferring to concentrate on more lasting solutions .
3 If the current GATT proposals for opening up world trade for agriculture were inaugurated , he said , they would force Third World farmers to industrialise their production or be " washed away as if by a catastrophic flood " .
4 ‘ He set it up I just ran interference for him trying to keep your people looking the wrong way with talk about opening up Winter Garden again .
5 If this scenario sounds familiar , it might be worth checking out Schedule Express .
6 Mike Galloway joined them later after pulling back Dundee skipper Dodds .
7 Rudimentary Mafiosi , such as Franco Ambrosio , who was shortly to be a founding member of Jackie Oliver 's and Alan Rees 's Arrows team , an egregious former self-styled gun-runner and mercenary later gaoled for escaping up Holland Park Avenue throwing bags of cocaine out the windows of his car , floated around on the edge of those early South American season-openers , the former offering fantastic deals ( on which he rarely delivered ) and the latter procuring the kind of girls that racing drivers can relax with .
8 The focus of this is about fourteen inches from the centre and if you put a microphone here when this this thing is outside it 's ideal for picking up bird song .
9 Staff at the pilot project provide counselling , help with depression problems and everyday tasks facing clients , such as filling in poll tax forms .
10 The tape is said to run in a continuous loop , a method of speeding up access time to data .
11 With appropriate allocation of profits from year to year the company partner could be used as a means of building up partnership capital at the more favourable tax rate .
12 German technologists have developed a system of filtering out sulphur dioxide and oxides of nitrogen from the flue gases of coal-fired power stations .
13 The value of subcontracting out translation work raises questions of quality control , continuity , and speed of reaction ( especially where no in-house monitoring team exists , as in C2 ) .
14 The archetype of these harridans is the Glasgow clippie of c'm on gerraff fame .
15 Shortly afterwards he identified inflation as , ‘ Public Enemy Number One ’ and urged a tax increase upon congress as a way of damping down consumer spending .
16 He describes how in the midst of turning around Ebury Press to a £5 million enterprise , she would still wake up early enough to devote the early morning hours and after work to their children , Georgia , four , and Grace , one .
17 The orderly shrugged as he went about his task of switching off Company Shock Trooper ( Third Class ) Jason Curtis Dommer 's life support machine .
18 The preferred spot is in the lee of a tall hedge ; it does a marvellous job of breaking up gale force winds .
19 From this it is clear that the idea of breaking up L Detachment had been floated at headquarters , using the excuse of a shortage of manpower .
20 The aggregate of called up share capital and all reserves , excluding minority interests .
21 The aggregate of called up share capital and all reserves , excluding minority interests .
22 STANDARD LEVEL OF SERVICE : These amounts are the Government 's view , for the purpose of sharing out Government Standard Spending Grant ( see next note ) , of the appropriate level of spending for the authorities in your area to enable them to provide broadly a standard level of service , taking into account the particular circumstances of the area .
23 there were dishes of chopped up spring onion and all like that and you put your own mixture int middle and then rolled it up .
24 Private customers are typically individuals and small companies who are not acting in the course of carrying on investment business ; non-private customers are , typically , " ordinary business investors " but also include expert private customers who agree to be treated as non-private customers .
25 Unless they agree to be treated as experts ( see page 37 below ) , individuals will always be private customers if they are not acting in the course of carrying on investment business .
26 The typical individual who is not a private customer because he is carrying on investment business is a " local " on a futures exchange ; ( 2 ) Small business investors , if they are not acting in the course of carrying on investment business .
27 The main categories of non-private customer are : ( 1 ) Ordinary business investors ( see page 36 below ) ; ( 2 ) Individuals who are acting in the course of carrying on investment business ; ( 3 ) Expert private customers ( whether individuals or small business investors ) who have agreed to be treated as non-private customers ( see page 37 below ) ; ( 4 ) Small business investors who : ( a ) are acting in the course of carrying on investment business , or ( b ) the firm reasonably believes are ordinary business investors ; or ( c ) are trade customers ( see page 38 below ) in relation to the transaction concerned ( who are technically treated as ordinary business investors ) .
28 The main categories of non-private customer are : ( 1 ) Ordinary business investors ( see page 36 below ) ; ( 2 ) Individuals who are acting in the course of carrying on investment business ; ( 3 ) Expert private customers ( whether individuals or small business investors ) who have agreed to be treated as non-private customers ( see page 37 below ) ; ( 4 ) Small business investors who : ( a ) are acting in the course of carrying on investment business , or ( b ) the firm reasonably believes are ordinary business investors ; or ( c ) are trade customers ( see page 38 below ) in relation to the transaction concerned ( who are technically treated as ordinary business investors ) .
29 ( 4 ) Where the portfolio or account is not specifically established for the purpose of carrying on derivatives business , a statement , if relevant , that the firm may enter into transactions which may result in the customer having a short position .
30 WEAR AND TEAR — These risks are considered uninsurable and relate to the cost of carrying out maintenance work generally .
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