Example sentences of "[adv prt] [noun] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Second , most lawyers take on cases on the basis that they will not ask for an upfront fee , but a percentage of the amount of damages won instead — often as much as 40% . |
| 2 | While Graeme Souness 's men take on Middlesbrough in an attempt to recover from their midweek European exit , Barnes will spend his 29th birthday bidding to resurrect his personal fortunes at the club 's training ground . |
| 3 | And fourth-placed Bangor take on Glentoran at the Oval in a dress rehearsal for the Irish Cup game . |
| 4 | Objections to the proposals essentially turn on the terms under which any devolution would take place , and the question of the competence and reliability of the organisations which would be taking on responsibility for the sites . |
| 5 | In the Cabinet changes carried out in August [ see p. 39067 ] Prime Minister Constantine Mitsotakis took on responsibility for the Aegean and Andreas Andrianopoulos ( hitherto Minister of Industry and Commerce ) became Minister of State , alternating as Government Spokesman with Vassilis Magginas . |
| 6 | The grandparents took on responsibility for the house and the children together : ‘ my mother went to work all the week , she never done no cooking . ’ |
| 7 | Hilda Sturge took on responsibility for the adult refugees , while the Committee , with Greta acting as honorary secretary , looked after the children . |
| 8 | Although retiring from office this year , warden Frank Wood will be carrying on responsibility for the general overseeing of the buildings and the Church Centre . |
| 9 | Leicester Crusaders , a touring side based on Leicester and including current players Simon Povoas and Jez Harris , took on Oyonnax at the end of the French club 's most successful ever season . |
| 10 | This liability would only be avoided if careful records of the sources of drugs were kept so as to pass on liability to the manufacturer responsible for any defect . |
| 11 | And finally , while Oxford United 's men take on Sunderland at the Manor tomorrow the club 's newly formed Ladies team makes its debut at the Witney Town Ground on Sunday afternoon … formerly known as the Oxford and County Ladies , United kick off their campaign against the Hassocks from Sussex . |
| 12 | Suffolk County Schools under-19 A side take on Sussex in the semi-finals of the Corinthian Casuals Cup at Diss FC tonight ( ko 7pm ) . |
| 13 | For Electricite de France carried on building throughout the appeals procedure and the first Cruas reactor is due to be coupled to the national grid in two months . |
| 14 | He was finally released from prison two years later on payment of a £500 fine to Edward . |
| 15 | The solution being put forward is that a member of the RICS may only carry on practice as a surveyor through the medium of a company ( limited by shares or unlimited ) provided that he complies with the new conditionally approved regulations . |
| 16 | I do n't want to die because I keep on thinking of the future . |
| 17 | Here are some very brief ideas as to how the Pied Piper suggestions might work in practice : After the story has been read to the class , children might take on roles as the townspeople of Hamelin . |
| 18 | And after Mass , accompanied by great hand shaking I was asked to pass on thanks to the Christians in Salford for their support but mostly great thanks for sharing our priest with them . |
| 19 | And the effect for Locke is this , and again I , I quote the legislative being only a fiduciary power , that is to say a power based on trust a fiduciary power to act for certain ends , there remains still in the people a supreme power to remove or alter the legislative when they find the legislative act contrary to the trust imposed in them and thus the community perpetually retains a supreme power of saving themselves from the attempts and designs of every body even if their legislators whenever they shall be so foolish or so wicked as to lay and carry on designs against the liberties and properties of the subject . |
| 20 | Badger road mortalities , however , are reduced now as badgers have put on weight for the winter and venture out from their setts less and less . |
| 21 | John , Thomas , and Richard , all carried on branches of the business and the designation ‘ Edwards of Halifax ’ is applied to them all . |
| 22 | Later on action from the battlefields of the American Civil War . |
| 23 | This most recent work presents the viewer with images of young girls ( some of Honey 's own daughter , Daisy ) who willingly take on images from the media as their own role models . |
| 24 | It carries on south-west by the water to cross by a bridge over toward Minniwick Moss . |
| 25 | You only have to see some of run down estates for the evidence . |
| 26 | When the final Sunday dawned , John , Nora , and Sarah went to the early service at St. Martin 's Church in Trafalgar Square and walked down Whitehall to the site , arriving just after eleven . |
| 27 | Grasshoppers three a-fiddling went , Alix hummed to herself , as she ran down Whitehall for the bus , swinging her shoulder bag in the cold , bright , showery , uncertain sun of late April . |
| 28 | ‘ Here 's some gentlemen who wo n't , ’ Nora said , pointing at a cab coming down Whitehall like a runaway . |
| 29 | While Greg was living up at the farm she forgot to bring down milk for the cat . |
| 30 | THE clobbering of their portfolios by Tokyo 's tumbling stockmarket ( down 23% on the Nikkei index since January ) has made 1990 a terrible year for those Japanese companies that dabble in stocks as a way of boosting their business profits . |