Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] [adv prt] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Darren Pearce 's Sapphire 1.8 LX has racked up a remarkable 112,000 miles in four years without missing a beat — and without regular servicing |
| 2 | Mr Wade said : ‘ Quite clearly , the ambulance service needs to carry out a full investigation . ’ |
| 3 | Neal Zaslaw has pointed out a semantic correspondence to this : in German usage , the difference between ‘ old-fashioned church practices ’ and opera/concert practice ( dual-system ) was manifest in the two words tactieren ( literally , ‘ giving the tactus ’ ) and dirigieren . |
| 4 | This situation — where one man , eminent as he is , nevertheless has to carry out a huge amount of work effectively on his own , mirrors the two previous demutualisations — is a situation many believe should not have been repeated . |
| 5 | The Rangers Service has to carry out a fine balancing act — too many visitors could destroy the very habitat the rangers are trying to conserve . |
| 6 | If the ferret has fallen down a vertical hole within the burrow the line ferret , on approaching , may not necessarily do the same thing . |
| 7 | Mirroring Sun Microsystems Inc 's efforts in this area ( UX No 386 ) Hewlett-Packard Co has rolled out a new range of ISDN connectivity enabling standalone workstations to communicate over public or private ISDN networks . |
| 8 | To see this is to recognize the stylistic value of Golding 's choice : that his version of the event is of movements perceived in space and time , from which the reader has to work out a normal understanding of what is happening . |
| 9 | Meanwhile , Tadpole has picked up a second firm , Isometrics , to peddle the Sparcbook to the US government , and says a second strategy to make it easier for US government bodies to buy its technology will be revealed in a couple of weeks ( UX No 381 ) . |
| 10 | Tadpole US has picked up a new president , Kenneth Cannizzaro , previously the firm 's director of business development : he 's responsible for operations and market expansion in the Americas and the Pacific Rim . |
| 11 | The BBC has picked up a similar trend . |
| 12 | Michael Roberts has picked up a two-week ban in South Africa for the second time this winter . |
| 13 | Keith Campbell , from north Belfast , has picked up a top award from computer firm Digital after coming first in the BTEC National Diploma in a computer studies course at Belfast Institute School of Informatics . |
| 14 | He has come back a wiser player and he will add drive to the team . ’ |
| 15 | It has carried out a five-year study which it says shows no significant increase in radiation is reaching the earth 's surface . |
| 16 | The Royal Brompton has carried out a mere four heart-lung transplants this year . |
| 17 | Stemberger ( 1984 ) has carried out a recent study of lexical errors produced by normal adult native speakers of English in natural speech settings . |
| 18 | The Girls and Mathematics Unit has carried out a substantial number of project on girls ' classroom performance in Mathematics , spanning nursery to secondary schools . |
| 19 | Its authors are well qualified : Robin Callander was specialist adviser to the Agriculture Select Committee and is partner in a small estate near Braemar , while Neil MacKenzie has carried out a major preview of Scotland 's native woodlands . |
| 20 | Retired fire officer Terry Cooper has carried out a comprehensive survey of all the war memorials within a ten mile radius of York . |
| 21 | Since then NMW has carried out a heavy rationalisation programme and the return to profits has come despite a fall in turnover from £5.92m to £4.66m . |
| 22 | This group has carried out a large multicentre study on glucose tolerance in normal pregnancy . |
| 23 | FENASTRAS has carried out a huge campaign to try and get her released and produce almost weekly protests against her disappearance in the main newspapers of San Salvador . |
| 24 | Numberless are the ministers who have come to grief at the height of their peroration as a child has let out a deep sigh , articulating the inner feelings of some and distracting into amusement the rest of the congregation who were listening . |
| 25 | British Telecom wants to set up a global framework which can offer a complete telecommunications service package to multinationals by reselling spare capacity on the international private line circuits of other US carriers . |
| 26 | He publicly endorsed the death sentence on Salman Rushdie — an act which oddly failed to get him charged with the crime of incitement to murder — and wants to set up a Muslim parliament . |
| 27 | It wants to set up a local-government commission to review the structure of local government across England . |
| 28 | Wickes Developments wants to set up a 31,000 square foot superstore at Lustrum Avenue , Portrack , but the council turned down the plan saying it would take trade away from the town centre , and create traffic problems . |
| 29 | The WWF and the University of Joensuu wants to set up a dozen seal reservations in the area , organising volunteers to hand-feed seals with protein-rich food to ensure that they reach breeding age . |
| 30 | Since appearing on a BBC Christmas programme from Pebble Mill in 1981 Fine Arts Brass has built up a long and varied list of TV and radio credits , including its own series of light entertainment shows on BBC Radio 4 , now in its third series . |