Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [to-vb] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | French plastic manufacturers and bottle suppliers have joined together to set up a recycling company , " Valorplast " , which intends to recycle around 1 billion plastic bottles by the year 1996 . |
| 2 | Berti Vogts is acutely aware of how close that match was in Sweden and he knows his side has not come here to take on the equivalent of a San Marino . ’ |
| 3 | Six months of painstaking work goes into preparing plants for showing … the plants have to be tied up to keep the stems straight … aphids must be brushed gently off the leaves … and the orchids have to be misted regularly to keep up the humidity . |
| 4 | A pinch of salt is taken for granted in many cake recipes and is added simply to bring out the flavour of the other ingredients . |
| 5 | In New York , meanwhile , the UN Security Council was expected today to pass unanimously a resolution establishing the first war crimes tribunal since 1945-49 . |
| 6 | The EEC structure was designed therefore to bring about a closer collaboration between the Commission and Council . |
| 7 | As this process continues , the scope for further squeezing of the wealth of households through inflation is being reduced , and , so long as the authorities rely on inflation as a method of financing government expenditure , they will be obliged constantly to speed up the rate of inflation in order to achieve the same real effect . |
| 8 | But the warnings of Lord Brightman seem to have been made more to discourage even the modest number of applications than to respond to excessive use . |
| 9 | Between that date and 11 February 1987 the plaintiffs succeeded in raising a sum sufficient to meet the liabilities , the maximum amount of which had been quantified in the course of proceedings by Mr. Shamji who had sought unsuccessfully to set aside the appointment of the receivers . |
| 10 | The days were long since gone when governments were prepared simply to ride out the turbulence of periodic recessions . |
| 11 | The rally was attended by over 3,000 deputies to soviets at all levels ( from rural soviets to the USSR Supreme Soviet ) , and these met subsequently to adopt overwhelmingly a declaration calling on the USSR Supreme Soviet to enter into negotiations " on the restoration of Estonian state independence " . |
| 12 | To this it might be retorted that no-one linguistically advanced enough to look up a word in a dictionary could possibly require a definition of the word home . |
| 13 | This f is used only to detect when the algorithm has reached a summit or plateau . |
| 14 | ‘ There was a time when photographs were used merely to break up a page of type , but it 's now developed into a fully-fledged art form of its own , ’ he observes . |
| 15 | Sure Style spokesman Andrew Lincoln said : ‘ We have acted quickly to carry out an initial investigation into the activities of personnel at our Middlesbrough branch one of 15 remote locations in the UK . ’ |
| 16 | Not only that , but once the wharf had been modernized for the construction of Hinkley C , it was highly likely that it would be used again to take out the radioactive debris from the dismantling of Hinkley A. This had never been mentioned before . |
| 17 | And the remaining cash is to be set aside to clear up the old Blacketts brickworks off Alexander Street , Darlington , where residents have complained of fly tipping . |
| 18 | They had been brought here to round up the escaped prisoners but fortunately no one was giving them any information . |
| 19 | It was proposed initially to carry out the project in the London Borough of Southwark since part of the borough was served by Guy 's Hospital and also in the London Borough of Barnet ( since it had a consultant psychogeriatrician who had recently moved there from Guy 's Hospital ) . |
| 20 | Each eye has only a narrow field of view , but it can be swivelled independently to scan over a hemisphere . |
| 21 | Andrea Doyle , who became the tour 's new executive director last August , has worked furiously to build up the circuit . |
| 22 | If they 're becoming as disabled as you think they are , they wo n't be allowed just to go down the way to the shops will they if the nearest shops are twenty miles down the road ! |
| 23 | Mr Arnold questioned why he had not tried harder to set up a system for receiving such information more swiftly . |
| 24 | Les Holliday , with some intelligent distribution and accurate touch finding , established a measure of early control for the home side , who took the lead through Wilf George , after David Holmes had worked diligently to set up the chance . |
| 25 | The subject known , broadly , as Science , was at first her favourite , because she liked playing with Bunsen burners : at home she was not allowed even to switch on the gas fire . |
| 26 | Napoleon III 's ministers had worked hard to bring about the visit — not merely because it was in support of the Emperor 's policy but also , it was hoped , to distract him from his privately announced intention of himself going to the Crimea . |
| 27 | But he has been the Labour Party 's chosen candidate for almost two years and in that time he has worked hard to build up a high profile , assiduously interpreting official figures on unemployment , training and hospital waiting lists as well as taking on directors of newly-privatised monopolies . |
| 28 | Alongside the race equality unit , Southwark SSD has worked hard to build up a representative mailing list of funded and unfunded bodies , says Wright . |
| 29 | Over the years two streams have perpetually flowed together to make up the story of this congregation . |
| 30 | ‘ We shall break the historic habit because we shall not just get elected tomorrow to clear up the mess , we are going to get re-elected at the next general election as well , ’ he said . |