Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [conj] [adj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All have joined together and all have had to become familiar with serving a different type of customer . |
| 2 | The flues can be erected inside or outside to house , but indoors there is a lot of extra work necessary — trimming floor joists and providing fire resistance , for instance . |
| 3 | Since 1980 , the Home Office has collected its own crime figures through the British crime survey , which attempts to gauge the total number of crimes committed rather than those notified to the police . |
| 4 | Now the reason why we 've come together and this has been a recent change and it 's been this year , erm is because there are overlaps without going into deep detail , there are overlaps in our work and we were working together as officer 's anyway , but not as well as we should , so what we decided to do was formally integrate the three teams under the same unit , and we do have regular er internal meetings , management team meetings consisting of John , Pete me and Carol and we so we more co-ordinate the work for all the teams much more systema systematically , that we know what everybody 's doing and that way we believe we can use best use of resources we 've got most effectively . |
| 5 | The stones of the wall did not seem to be held together with mortar , but instead they were keyed so that each lay on the other with hardly a sign of a join . |
| 6 | With ‘ soft knee ’ the compression ratio increases progressively , so that signals exceeding the threshold by a small amount are compressed less than those exceeding it by a larger margin . |
| 7 | I am told that there has been an agreement that some of the contact orders should be varied now but that does not form part of the appeal . |
| 8 | he 's come closer than many do , okay , |
| 9 | It can be wound clockwise or anti-clockwise to give a left or right hand . |
| 10 | The common European toad , when it meets a snake , inflates its body and stands on tip-toe , a procedure that makes it appear to have grown suddenly and that seems to baffle most of the snakes that encounter it . |
| 11 | They are generally operated on a fixed cycle , so that , when a known volume of water has passed through the plant , a valve is turned so as first to backwash the bed to cleanse the zeolite , and then to pass in brine for a fixed time to regenerate the material . |
| 12 | We have seen above that this involves a shift from the concrete perceptual meaning of " following a phenomenon with the senses " to viewing perception merely as the basis for asserting that the infinitive 's event really took place . |
| 13 | Mr Guerin was to have been sentenced yesterday but this has now been delayed by up to two months . |
| 14 | ‘ While we are not directly involved in the small end of the leasing market , we believe lessors operating in that field have suffered more than those concentrating on big ticket transactions . |
| 15 | ROBERT JONES has done more than enough to eclipse the new Moon that is rising in Welsh rugby . |
| 16 | As is turned out , Gold Award winner Fairbrother 43 at the time had already done more than enough to guide his side towards a commanding score on a pitch where stroke play was never easy . |
| 17 | ‘ A lot of people down south were suggesting before our matches against Leeds that we were not up to it , but I think we 've done more than enough to show that we are . |
| 18 | He has done more than most to stimulate thought on matters of faith among ordinary people . |
| 19 | The irony is that Dr Oliver has done more than most to document the real reasons why conductive education is attractive to parents from Britain and many other Western countries . |
| 20 | But that estimate has risen sharply because most rely on importing components , and the rouble has since halved in value . |
| 21 | The pilotari or players took to wearing more elaborate gloves or other prosthetic aids in propelling the ball , and what had once been a lo wish wall at the end of the playing area was built higher and higher to contain the far greater velocities , while the courts themselves became longer , until some of them are said to have reached 100 metres . |
| 22 | He sat motionless , swathed in a greatcoat despite the day 's oppressive heat , and with his face concealed by the peak of his hat that he had turned fore and aft to shadow his eyes . |
| 23 | ‘ One-hundred percentism ’ refers to horizontal equity , whereby quality and level of work effort alone should determine income , and discrimination on the basis of sex , race , social background should be avoided so that all have access to the better posts . |
| 24 | Humiliated enough and ready to dig in her heels , Flavia said , ‘ What 's bad about it ? |
| 25 | But I like to be independent as much as I can , and they 've got more than enough to do with the people that ca n't help themselves . |
| 26 | I 've got more than enough to do . |
| 27 | There have been frequent demands for a single system and investigations of its possibility ; for after the introduction and spread of comprehensive schools it was clearly both inconvenient and divisive that pupils within the same school should be classified either as fit to take the GCE or fit only for the CSE . |
| 28 | This distance is important since it relates to the size of the ferret 's head ; it can be adjusted slightly if necessary to fit the head of the particular ferret to be used . |
| 29 | Highlighted by his 333 at Lord 's , his Test average shot up from 36.90 to more than 40 — no mean achievement as he had already played more than 130 Test innings . |
| 30 | None provides easy answers to the problems raised here but all relate to the difficulties of tying together policy , theory and practice in the contemporary city . |