Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ It 's about building up a character till you know everything . |
2 | Furthermore , British Rail has its eyes on the Bankside site for bringing up the spoil from the tunnel for Channel traffic which it is , so absurdly , driving under the middle of London at astronomical cost . |
3 | The same can probably be claimed for those who for reasons which had little to do with humanitarian concern — fearing Jewish revenge in the event of a lost war , or blaming Hitler for bringing on the war through attacking the Jews , attitudes which of course themselves betrayed the influence of Nazi ‘ Jewish conspiracy ’ propaganda — were voicing criticism of Nazi anti Jewish policy . |
4 | Today , everyone in the House will join in thanking those responsible for bringing about the peace conference that opened in Madrid yesterday . |
5 | Other European countries said that the new British Government would be positive and co-operative and would put forward proposals for bringing about the completion of the European Community , for which they had been working for the past 40 years . |
6 | After making a political volte-face he went on , without even a glimmer of embarrassment , to be responsible for bringing in the council tax . |
7 | So this is their justification for bringing in the childhood . |
8 | These ambiguous examples are particularly useful for bringing out the difference between the two types of interpretation . |
9 | It 's well worth the trouble , though , firstly because it 's obviously ideal for bringing out the bass in small guitars , secondly because it looks just fabulous , and thirdly because it makes the inside of the guitar smell like an explosion in a spice market . |
10 | The use of cables , if available , is excellent for bringing out the definition at the centre of the chest ( origin ) due to the fact that they allow movement over the body 's centre-line without loss of tension . |
11 | On this basis , no parents would consider abortion for ‘ Reason four ’ ( see Chapter five ) ; everything possible would be done to help the survival of the severely handicapped ; parents would in almost all cases wish to keep their child , and there would be no actual difference between bringing up a child who was mentally handicapped and one who was not , or one who was disabled or one who was not , unless the necessary support services were lacking . |
12 | Two of these scholars , Edward Foxe and Thomas Cranmer , who were both members of Anne Boleyn 's faction at court , were responsible for drawing up a document called the Collectanea satis copiosa , in which they advanced a claim of imperial sovereignty for the English monarchy . |
13 | Matthieu was also responsible for drawing up a plan of the New Town ( see p. 138 ) but he died in 1352 before completing more than four chapels in the cathedral choir . |
14 | Established by Congress on Aug. 2 , it was given responsibility for drawing up a plan within 150 days for the " pacification " of the country . |
15 | The enlightened bureaucrats who were primarily responsible for drawing up the legislation of 1861 may not have achieved everything for which they were striving , but they were undoubtedly trying to achieve more than the modernization of the gentry 's sources of income or the revivification of the state machine . |
16 | When establishing the Editing Commissions responsible for drawing up the Statute of 1861 , the Tsar had recognized the need to appoint men who not only could cope with the intricacies of the legislation involved but who positively favoured Emancipation , who were convinced in their hearts as well as their heads of its desirability . |
17 | This system provides a mechanism for drawing together a cast of informal innovation players around ideas which are often not part of one 's assigned work ( Rosenfeld and Servo , 1988 ) . |
18 | The Bulgarian Telecommunications Co , which last week gave contracts to Siemens AG , L M Ericsson Telefon AB , Alcatel NV and Northern Telecom Ltd under its $300m modernisation programme , says it will announce two more foreign investors shortly : ‘ We will announce soon our partners for building up a surface satellite station and for introduction of a new digital overlay network , ’ Antoni Slavinski , deputy chairman told Reuter ; and a joint venture between Bulgarian Telecommunications Co and US Sprint International Inc will start operating on April 15 ; Sprint Business Telecommunications Co will enable customers in Bulgaria to link host and personal computers with others around the world , and says it already has some 50 applications , mostly from foreign companies operating in Bulgaria . |
19 | The most common rates for building up a pension are 1/80th of earnings for each year you have been in the scheme , or l/60th . |
20 | It was a good time for building up the faculty . |
21 | We have seen how McClellan 's system provides a framework for building up the bookstock at each service point . |
22 | A number of principles for ascertaining where an employee ‘ ordinarily ’ works were suggested . |
23 | Situated in the foothills of the Pennines and near to the centre of Huddersfield , Wellfield House is ideally located for enjoying both the history and beauty of Yorkshire . |
24 | The main problem about drawing up a will is that it means accepting the inevitability of death . |
25 | Delegated legislation , decisions of the courts , and changing administrative practice , amounted to a sluggish dynamic for speeding up the ability of the criminal justice system to respond . |
26 | A volcano has even been blamed for speeding up the onset of the last Ice Age . |
27 | The tour operator , Sir Henry Lunn , founded the Public Schools Alpine Sports Club in 1902 and began the British passion for speeding down the piste . |
28 | There are today houses with the remains of ingenious devices for channelling away the water . |
29 | Egypt and Syria have a smaller stake in the war , but they also have sound pragmatic reasons for seeing off a rival . |
30 | I think some people do think that is selfish and that marriage is about bringing up a family and looking after the house . ’ |