Example sentences of "[adv prt] [noun] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | Hilda Sturge took on responsibility for the adult refugees , while the Committee , with Greta acting as honorary secretary , looked after the children . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I do n't want to die because I keep on thinking of the future . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | John , Thomas , and Richard , all carried on branches of the business and the designation ‘ Edwards of Halifax ’ is applied to them all . |
| 13 | It carries on south-west by the water to cross by a bridge over toward Minniwick Moss . |
| 14 | You only have to see some of run down estates for the evidence . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ Here 's some gentlemen who wo n't , ’ Nora said , pointing at a cab coming down Whitehall like a runaway . |
| 18 | While Greg was living up at the farm she forgot to bring down milk for the cat . |
| 19 | It is essentially a melodic instrument and , though holding-notes in music of light calibre are charming in effect ( especially from or thereabouts with the exception — save in the hands of first-class players — of C ) it can not efface itself sufficiently to carry out the menial task of ‘ filling in notes of the harmony ’ in block writing . |
| 20 | Breaking down activities into a number of small wins not only creates a rewarding climate for action but concentrates attention on the possible . |
| 21 | ‘ Another time I asked him about his having turned down Parliament on a point of principle . |
| 22 | Outside the hotel he had fought down misgivings at the idea of allowing an old man to drag him through the streets when he could easily have walked , and he began to wonder if he should dismount . |
| 23 | Specific work on it in secondary schools is often essential in order to break down resistance to the subject . |
| 24 | Sitting on the edge of her bed and sipping her tea , she began jotting down notes of the day 's events , separating them into facts and possible explanations . |
| 25 | If then you have invited the artists of Europe to send in plans for a Plan which we have no intention of executing , two questions will arise — the first is who will pay the Premiums which you propose to offer for these Plans , seeing that we could hardly propose to Parliament to vote Premiums for Plans that are not to be executed , and secondly whether the Artists of Europe will not think that they have been trifled with in being asked to send in Plans for an undertaking which the Govt had on consideration determined not to attempt . |
| 26 | If then you have invited the artists of Europe to send in plans for a Plan which we have no intention of executing , two questions will arise — the first is who will pay the Premiums which you propose to offer for these Plans , seeing that we could hardly propose to Parliament to vote Premiums for Plans that are not to be executed , and secondly whether the Artists of Europe will not think that they have been trifled with in being asked to send in Plans for an undertaking which the Govt had on consideration determined not to attempt . |
| 27 | The deal is not affected by this week 's decision to slow down part of the emergency aid agreed upon by the Twelve in December because of the repression in the Baltic republics . |
| 28 | If the question be ( as , in the actual state of the law , I think it is ) , whether consideration is , or is not , given in a case of this kind , by the debtor who pays down part of the debt presently due from him , for a promise by the creditor to relinquish , after certain further payments on account , the residue of the debt , I can not say that I think consideration is given , in the sense which I have always understood that word as used in our law . |
| 29 | The projectile was imperfectly aimed but exploded in Verdun , smashing down part of the Archbishop 's palace . |
| 30 | Urgent repair work is being carried out at Pickering 's 19th century memorial hall after heavy rain brought down part of the ceiling . |