Example sentences of "[adv prt] [noun] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a crucial role for partnerships in taking on responsibility for the local co-ordination of education . |
| 2 | Coventry , flying high , take on Spurs in a live TV game tomorrow night at Highfield Road . |
| 3 | There are no steps to get on and off the ‘ Mildred Stocks ’ ; wheelchairs can be wheeled straight on board on a special ramp and people with sticks or walking aids will have no problems . |
| 4 | His belief that his fitness problems may at last be over stems from an unusual remedy — putting on weight as a conscious policy . |
| 5 | A young red deer puts on weight at a considerable rate during its first summer , but its growth is reduced to less than half of this rate during the winter . |
| 6 | He had put on weight in the short time since going to Mrs Gracie 's ; he was plump . |
| 7 | Ugly and irregular in their bodies as in their features , delineated in harsh thick outlines , these creatures are either static , frozenly waiting — as if for blows — or blackly and stiffly at work , or walking down roads with the clumsy , painful gait of arthritis sufferers . |
| 8 | And drags down Mira to the nether World . |
| 9 | The ship 's engines ceased and the crew began throwing down ropes to a white man in a pith helmet who had emerged from one of the quayside offices . |
| 10 | ‘ So you brought in Gerald on the open side . |
| 11 | Prescriptivism is , in essence , the view that it is possible to lay down rules for the correct use of language . |
| 12 | Its objective was to lay down guidelines for a national convention ( comprising local administrators , professionals and elected MPs ) to be held in December 1992 or January 1993 . |
| 13 | Existing agreements lay down guidelines for the maximum credit period and the minimum interest rate . |
| 14 | He struggled to bring in attractions like the popular singer Sandie Shaw but the ballroom was in trouble . |
| 15 | The very short duration of most of the " events " for which they are providing services , and the gaps which occur between these " events " , make it highly appropriate for such organizations to bring in labour on a casual basis . |
| 16 | Behind us the ghostly apparition of Sister Twister is disappearing down south like a lonely wispy drunk . |
| 17 | At last , it 's party time Down South after the never-ending election |
| 18 | Jill Neville was , and is , a novelist , whose arrival in Britain had been part of an earlier 1960s Australian wave , more tied to bohemianism than to the music and the scene that sucked in Australians in the mid 1960s . |
| 19 | As Reinhard Drifte has observed , ‘ Here for the first time , the idea of a Japan-US security treaty emerges along lines of the actual treaty of 1951 . ’ |
| 20 | After such drawings became fashionable ( and thus more expensive ) in recent years , Bean had been concentrating on filling in gaps in the Metropolitan 's collection of nineteenth-century French drawings , purchasing sheets by the academic painters Henri Lehmann , Isadore Pils , Ferdinand Cormon and Hippolyte Flandrin . |
| 21 | I mean if you go down Cornmarket in a normal summer , you can hardly hear anything but erm American voices , so it just shows that there is a vast potential there , but it 's getting them here . |
| 22 | In the nightmare my father , the under-gardener , my brother and I were throwing sticks to bring down walnuts from the great tree halfway between our home and the Court . |
| 23 | Arrese got together a study-group of hard-line Falangists , whose mission was to draft four documents : a new version of the Party Statutes , which had last been revised seventeen years earlier , in August 1939 ; a law of the Fundamental Principles of the State , which was to encapsulate the basic tenets of Francoism ; a law of the Movement , which was to give legal form to the distinction between " the Party " , FET y de las JONS , as a clearly delimited group of political activists , and " the Movement " , which encompassed all those who actively or passively subscribed to the values which inspired Francoism ; and an Organizational Law of the Government , which was to lay down ground-rules for the legislative and executive powers of the government . |
| 24 | Position the plant in the centre of the pot so that its crown is about 2 cm ( 1 in ) below the pot rim ( 1 cm/½ in if the compost is soilless ) , spread the roots out if they do not already form a compact ball with the soil and , holding the plant with one hand , fill in compost with the other all round the roots until the pot is full . |
| 25 | No well more or less the branches had the opportunity to send in resolutions to the national agreement which were dealt with at conference . |
| 26 | He sucked in lungfuls of the cool fresh air and looked around for human habitation . |
| 27 | The festival of Sekaten is marked by a week of playing sacred musical instruments called gamelans , brought in procession to the Grand Mosque — a colourful and tuneful display . |
| 28 | Fill in details about the present state of the room in the first column ; then what you would like or propose to do about it in the second , and finally , in the last column , what it 's going to cost you . |
| 29 | Copy the cashing-up slip on page 76 , and fill in details for the following . |
| 30 | And Davide could almost fancy he could smell again the stale vaporous emanations of the law in the room as he began to take down details of the wrong that had been done . |