Example sentences of "[adv prt] [art] [noun sg] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seemed that everything in the championship really hung on the reliability of each driver 's car . |
| 2 | His face had taken on the expression of imbecile beatitude the religious sometimes adopt . |
| 3 | While Oman 's Muscat took on the mantle of regional champions , Queensland provided a masterly performance against Bahrain Warblers . |
| 4 | The respect afforded him in England had partly to do with the manner in which he had taken on the mantle of English culture ; in the absence of any figure with equivalent influence , he was eventually to be invested with an almost shamanistic authority . |
| 5 | Recording had proved to be useless , because if a skater fell or was late on an entrance the sound of his or her voice carrying on the dialogue with unaware insouciance was pretty bizarre . |
| 6 | The foundations of modern archaeology were laid down in the 17th century , and throughout the 17th and 18th centuries emphasis was put on the recording of archaeological monuments , initially as part of general topographical works , but eventually as part of a study of the monuments themselves . |
| 7 | ‘ We shall carry on the fight for individual airlines in this complaint to the EC , ’ he said . |
| 8 | Like many doctors still , scientists find it almost impossible to take on the notion of psychic energy . |
| 9 | By this time his fantasies took on the air of medieval barons ' wars . |
| 10 | Torturers were either trained policemen or soldiers , or they were special commando units , or they were trained in USA or Panama , or they simply carried on the tradition of civilian torture . |
| 11 | The formation of a government can literally hang on the defection of one of these religious leaders to one party or the other . |
| 12 | In the year 1990–91 , Innovation 's Franklin business was worth £1.2 million out of their total turnover of £4 million and since taking on the distributorship in 1987 they claim to have sold close to 300,000 units of Franklin product . |
| 13 | and she put on the back of this one she was thankful that at least I 'd managed this time to get the mark in the area where it should have been in the first |
| 14 | I have also been asked to pass on the request of one of the nearby residents for the latch to be replaced on the playing field gates . |
| 15 | Even punk , once the rhetoric about dole queues , anarchy and Sten guns in Knightsbridge had been exhausted , had become just one more uniform to be hung on the clothesrail of British pop culture , to be dusted down nostalgically on anniversaries . |
| 16 | The supreme body was the Council of Heads of State , which would take on the responsibility of legal succession from the dissolution of the Soviet Union . |
| 17 | Alone in my cabin , then I got comfortable , put all troublesome thoughts out of my mind , and switched on the vid to one of the best of what the vid expressively calls it Everlasting Serials . |
| 18 | I remember during the rehearsals for Die Zauberflöte he criticized the Sarastro for putting on the kind of unctuous tone that , according to Gründgens , was best left to indoctrination meetings for the Party faithful . |
| 19 | Success in this field is going to become even more important as we move into the 1990s and beyond and I hope that in this book I 've been able to give you the benefit of my experience , to pass on the kind of backstage know-how that can make that vital difference between winning and losing . |
| 20 | After a rural upbringing and Sheffield University , he turned down many freelance jobs to run the minuscule Gate pub theatre , putting on the kind of rare European plays that critics adore . |
| 21 | Other typical signs indicating a problem with sharp teeth are , as already mentioned , the evasion of the bit and the horse quidding while eating ( food drops out of the mouth ) ; nodding while being ridden , hanging on the bit to one side , ie pulling on one rein and , in more extreme cases , rearing and bolting. teeth should be left until they are mature . |
| 22 | For those tha who are not to familiar with , the initials P P G , it stands for planning policy guidance , and there are a whole series of these guidance notes produced by the Department of the Environment for the er advice guidance of , well not only the local planning authorities but anyone else who is interested in the development business , and they are expressions of , I suppose government policy , er and their attitudes towards various aspects , whether it 's countryside , housing , trans or transport , and they do pro provide a useful backcloth , in fact an extremely valuable backcloth to the way in which er this matter should be considered , erm I know from the submission which North Yorkshire County Council have used they would say that the fact they have n't had regard to all this er , but I would like to carry on the discussion against that background , and could you direct your thinking at this stage about the need for a new settlement in the light of the principles spelt out in P P G three and particularly paragraph thirty three . |
| 23 | A throat culture taken on the day of microbiological diagnosis was negative . |
| 24 | The proposal would not prevent unofficial action taken on the day without any notice . |
| 25 | Of course , months earlier , I had dully taken on the likelihood of major upheaval , on account of what was happening to John 's skin . |
| 26 | His face was grotesquely puffed and had taken on the colour of dark purple . |
| 27 | The trees grew closely round it , and willow-like fronds drooped upon it ; it was made partly of bronze , and the bronze bad taken on the colour of green bark . |
| 28 | I did that at Selby 's , I had the decoder , the new cabinet , everything , I had the decoder there hanging on the floor like that , I wired it up and I pressed extension sixteen and away it went , it said four there and the display decoder was there about ten extensions |
| 29 | ‘ At first I could not believe it , but when I saw it hanging on the wall of this house , I was flabbergasted , ’ he said . |
| 30 | For me the transcendent landscape has taken on the aspect of patterned fields , or small patches of flower beds . |