Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [adv] [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Topics in the talk included alternative training methods , particularly for building up leg strength . |
| 2 | 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 " . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . |
| 4 | If this scenario sounds familiar , it might be worth checking out Schedule Express . |
| 5 | Oxford Crown Court has jailed two men after hearing how drug squad detectives tracked them down during a trip to London . |
| 6 | The change takes place only with cold water , a point worth remembering when preparing English mustard from powder . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Staff at the pilot project provide counselling , help with depression problems and everyday tasks facing clients , such as filling in poll tax forms . |
| 9 | The tape is said to run in a continuous loop , a method of speeding up access time to data . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | German technologists have developed a system of filtering out sulphur dioxide and oxides of nitrogen from the flue gases of coal-fired power stations . |
| 12 | Then is sometimes claimed to be necessarily anaphoric in nature , and to have no gestural deictic usage , but rather complex usages show this is not so — consider , for example , the following said pointing at a 1962 model Chevrolet ( Nunberg , 1978 : 33 ) ) : ( 55 ) I was just a kid then As an initial step towards seeing how time deixis interacts with cultural measurements of time in an absolute or non-deictic way , consider words like today , tomorrow , yesterday . |
| 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 perpetuation of the old sources of strife goes a long way towards explaining why party conflict continued after the Glorious Revolution , which will be the theme of the following chapter . |
| 15 | Nevertheless the problem remains of explaining why sex differential rules arise and are followed in a language at all . |
| 16 | It is in this general climate that community policing has been reintroduced in recent years in many forces in Great Britain with the expressed intention of improving both crime prevention and relations between the police and the community ( cf. Gordon 1987 ) . |
| 17 | The archetype of these harridans is the Glasgow clippie of c'm on gerraff fame . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The orderly shrugged as he went about his task of switching off Company Shock Trooper ( Third Class ) Jason Curtis Dommer 's life support machine . |
| 20 | The preferred spot is in the lee of a tall hedge ; it does a marvellous job of breaking up gale force winds . |
| 21 | The aggregate of called up share capital and all reserves , excluding minority interests . |
| 22 | The aggregate of called up share capital and all reserves , excluding minority interests . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | And we 've tried to get something for everyone , we 've got 2 classical music concerts , for instance , the Johannis Piano Trio , and then a specially sort of brought together rainforest orchestra , where professional musicians all over the county can come together to create a programme . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 ) . |
| 30 | 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 ) . |