Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [verb] [adv prt] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Manchester-based Riverside International is now looking for franchisees to take on Cozydry , which is British Standard approved . |
| 2 | In France , for instance , where there are no incentives for employers to take on part-timers ( in the form of our lower National Insurance contributions and lack of rights and benefits for part-timers ) and far more extensive subsidised childcare facilities and parental leave , far fewer mothers work part time and more are in higher status occupations , according to the Department of Employment 's French And British Women 's Employment Comparisons . |
| 3 | In a fine speech that preceded the president 's , Colin Powell , the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff , said in essence that it was wrong for servicemen to hold back respect for their commander-in-chief simply because of what he did long ago . |
| 4 | The group is an ideal setting for clients to test out assumptions they might have about themselves . |
| 5 | for heads to take on tasks themselves |
| 6 | There is a dilemma about schools taking on fund raising responsibilities . |
| 7 | This period saw the beginning of attempts by conferences of representatives of states to draw up treaties or conventions on different aspects of the law of armed conflict , what is referred to as the jus in bello , that is , the rules of how war should be waged if it should break out . |
| 8 | The small ones show mythological scenes , but from the temples are several groups of lions pulling down bulls : terror-symbols analogous to the Gorgons and leopards at Corfu . |
| 9 | The pediment showed a rather stilted composition : a frontal chariot , probably an epiphany of the god , flanked by kouroi and korai , groups of lions pulling down stags in the corners . |
| 10 | As long ago now as 1974 , Michael Maguire argued a need for a semantic ethnography of police systems and the criminals they pursue ; and there has been a subsequent trickle of attempts to carry out participant observation inside the world of ‘ cops and robbers ’ . |
| 11 | A hydraulic ram was used to open these gates by means of chains passing over pulleys on the lintel of the frame , giving a velocity ration of 3 to 1 . |
| 12 | This degree of modification comes about partly because of the greater degree of digestion in mammalian carnivores compared with the regurgitated remains from avian predators , and partly because of their use of teeth to break up prey before digestion . |
| 13 | More directly relevant to our case is the fact that , through the acceptance of rules setting up authorities , people can entrust judgment as to what is to be done to another person or institution which will then be bound , in accordance with the dependence thesis , to exercise its best judgment primarily on the basis of the dependent reasons appropriate to the case . |
| 14 | Longer-term economic reforms to boost foreign investment included the loosening of environmental and Aboriginal heritage controls in planning procedures for mining projects , the completion of deregulation of the aviation market , and further relaxation of rules to open up banking to foreign competition . |
| 15 | Does my hon. Friend agree that the ability of employers to take out injunctions to prevent unofficial strike action and the ability of the courts to sequester the funds of unions that ignore such injunctions can act as a very firm and much-needed last line of defence against industrial anarchy ? |
| 16 | Sons of vipers spat out poison into |
| 17 | The time of Snakes Wriggling Down Wimbledon High Street presumably . |
| 18 | The police use a range of methods to cover up rape , torture and deaths in custody , including the writing of false arrest reports , organising phoney post mortems and rapid cremations and threatening those who try to expose them . |
| 19 | Once it has been acknowledged that linguistic differentiation is a particularly salient manifestation of the tendency of communities to mark out gender distinctions by a variety of means , it is difficult , given the general orientation of current sociolinguistics , to progress further in finding a convincing explanation of linguistic sex-marking . |
| 20 | A number of communities drew up counter-addresses in opposition to the High Church ones . |
| 21 | FOUR people were killed and 17 injured when a gang of blacks set off hand grenades and sprayed a South African golf club with bullets . |
| 22 | He told some gory stories of eagles carrying off dogs and lambs , of their being shot and maimed . |
| 23 | The Texas-based airline warned two weeks ago that it might pull out of Stansted due to mounting losses and delays in the granting of licences to open up routes from Stansted to other U.S. cities . |
| 24 | Ahmed : I think that the Union should support developments towards workers organizing around issues of oppression as long as it is within a progressive ideology . |
| 25 | It is here that the ability of banks to pull off mergers successfully is most at question . |
| 26 | At high deposition , nitrate is found leaching away because the soil processes and capacity of plants to take up nitrogen are exceeded . |
| 27 | This Keynesian process of governments pumping up demand for commodities has disadvantages : government interest payments grow and attempts to finance them by taxation tend eventually to threaten profits . |
| 28 | It wrote to a number of firms pointing out Derry 's potential for industrial development . |
| 29 | There were also several incidents in the same state of booth-capturing : gangs of thugs taking over polling stations and stuffing the ballot box with votes for their favoured candidates . |
| 30 | Much of Australia 's farmlands are threatened with salination , caused in part by the consequences of farmers cutting down trees to clear land for wheat and other crops . |