Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] [adv] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus throughout the history of local government , units of local administration were formed to carry out administration in localities . |
| 2 | The needle rod is constrained to provide only motion in the vertical direction . |
| 3 | These are designed to encourage even development throughout the Community : for example , by helping to retrain the long-term unemployed , or by channelling aid to poorer member-states and to regions hit by the decline of old industries . |
| 4 | Her younger brother , Basil , in his final year of Modern Greats at Oxford , spoke of going into the City when he graduated , but Robyn considered this was just talk , designed to ward off hubris about this forthcoming examinations , or an Oedipal teasing of his academic father . |
| 5 | Hugh Geach , head of programme support services at Television South , explains : ‘ Everything the Government has done has been designed to open up television to market forces , to encourage new channels and competition for advertising . |
| 6 | Whether these conditions should be expected to alter dramatically south of the Front depends on the tectonic style of Variscan deformation in that area . |
| 7 | You will not be permitted to take up employment in order to help support yourself . |
| 8 | He knew the time had come to head directly north along the western coast and investigate Cape Wrath at last . |
| 9 | The CSG , designed to bring in revenue of F37,500 million per year , took the form of a 1.1 per cent general tax and replaced the current 0.4 per cent levy from income tax . |
| 10 | Many memos are written to find out information from within the organisation . |
| 11 | This lack of knowledge is seen to reflect both unprofessionalism in practice and poor training prior to practice . |
| 12 | Every attempt will be made to open up dialogue with the kidnappers and to stall them long enough to trace where your wife and daughter are being held . |
| 13 | Microphones are built to pick up sound from specific directions . |
| 14 | However , where attempts are made to build up monopoly by merger there has been a heightened awareness of the inherent dangers , and governments have been more willing to take direct action to prohibit them . |
| 15 | A narrow boat and butty took over three-quarters of an hour to negotiate the locks , however , and an inclined plane was eventually built to speed up traffic by lifting boats in movable docks . |
| 16 | The principal method of investigation is a postal inquiry followed by personal visits to selected record offices ; an attempt is also being made to assess how representative of the country as a whole the areas that have been selected are . |
| 17 | Like so many other worthwhile benefits , it seems destined to wither away year by year , even though the benefit that it replaced , the widow 's allowance , would have been uprated annually if it had continued . |
| 18 | She had never so much resented having been made to take over responsibility for the dog from old Adam , who had been used to walk him , than on that day . |
| 19 | In what follows an attempt is made to examine how adoption with contact ( mainly of older children ) affects each of the parties in the so-called ‘ adoption triangle ’ . |
| 20 | IBM Corp has decided to hand over support of its point-of-sale systems in the US to Eastman Kodak Co , Rochester , New York : the two will ‘ develop a dedicated store systems service organisation to provide maintenance service on current and future IBM point of sale products ’ . |
| 21 | In the preceding months the PS had sought to step up pressure on the government ; it had joined with the PCP in tabling a censure motion in parliament in October 1989 attacking the government for its low ethical standards ; although the motion was defeated , attention was again turned to the then Finance Minister , Miguel Ribeiro Cadilhe , following allegations early in the year of his financial misconduct [ see p. 36945 ] . |
| 22 | I 've promised to go up country to a bull ranch a friend of mine called Barbosa runs . |
| 23 | He 's not only had to pick up technique in racing , he 's had to learn how to train — that 's been the secret , he says . |
| 24 | I suppose you 've got to weigh up sot of various . |
| 25 | My right hon. Friend will be aware , when he next visits Lancashire , that the news that the Liberal council has had to give up office in Maidstone has travelled the length and breadth of the land — |
| 26 | The riots were put down by the Yugoslav National Army ( JNA ) , with support from Serbia , in an apparent rebuttal of the Croatian authorities ; observers noted that this was the first time that the JNA , whose officer corps was dominated by ethnic Serbs , had been used to put down violence outside Serbia itself . |
| 27 | In the case of spoken words , context is used to speed up recognition by reducing the number of possible candidates in the cohort . |
| 28 | For example , in 1987 , a Public Accounts Committee report ( 1986–7c , paras 20 , 44 ) claimed that ‘ a major effort ’ was needed to speed up implementation of the FMI . |
| 29 | The snout is used to stir up mud on the river floor , to expose worms , crustaceans and other small organisms on which the fish feeds . |
| 30 | Stories on video tap the interest most of us have in the lives and predicaments of other human beings and can be used to spark off discussion in the classroom . |