Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] [art] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Booz , Allen & Hamilton was forced to close down its executive search division in 1980 , when serious problems surfaced as a result of trying to carry on a recruiting business whilst at the same time having 3000 management consultancy clients on their books , who were more or less off-limits from the point of view of providing candidates for headhunting . |
| 2 | Once authorisation to carry on a banking business has been granted by the home member state to a bank in accordance with the Community 's essential requirements , the Community legislative approach is to require the host country in which the bank may wish to provide cross-border services or establish a branch to recognise the validity of that authorisation , and to allow it to do so without making additional ‘ authorisation ’ requirements to the bank . |
| 3 | " After some discussion it was arranged to carry on the Winter Meetings fortnightly as last year . |
| 4 | In Maymyo I was at first rather at a loose end , for most of the civilian families had left , and the Establishment chaplain was there to carry on the church services and to look after the few people left . |
| 5 | There would be no one to carry on the Drennan name , no one to inherit his land . |
| 6 | Born in Venice in 1751 , Tim 's paternal ancestor Zaccaria died in London at the age of 76 , leaving his eldest son Joseph to carry on the family name . |
| 7 | ‘ And needed someone to carry on the family name and the title , to stop any distant relative from — ’ |
| 8 | To carry on the family tradition and blackmail Corosini . ’ |
| 9 | None of their three sons Roy , Robert and Clive have decided to carry on the family tradition . |
| 10 | He seems to have been trained , along with his three brothers , to carry on the family business , which also included bookselling . |
| 11 | Before making an order the SIB must ensure , inter alia , that the members of the SRO are ‘ fit and proper persons ’ to carry on an investment business , in particular , that they meet the standards of ‘ honesty , competence and solvency ’ , and that they operate fair and reasonable admission , expulsion , and disciplinary procedures . |
| 12 | His best friend did not go to the funeral because he had already decided to go on a day trip to France ! |
| 13 | ARSENAL manager George Graham has been given the green light to go on a Christmas spending spree . |
| 14 | But it is a heavily biased reading of Dame Sirith to see only the antifeminist direction and to ignore the unfavourable reflections upon Wilekin 's base attitude and desires . |
| 15 | They left Kabrit on 20 November and for the first stage of the journey were able to bowl down the coast road as far as Agedabia , by then firmly in British hands . |
| 16 | PREVIOUS whisky industry wisdom had it that Whyte & Mackay , largest minority shareholder of Invergordon Distillers since it made its hostile bid , was going to wait for yesterday 's results and , if they were sufficiently poor to drive down the share price , would then pounce for the remaining 8.8 per cent of shares to give it control . |
| 17 | Grégoire 's ability to take a clock to pieces and put it together again , to strip down a car engine , to harness a horse and ride it well , to know and to cherish the names and characteristics of plants and of animals — all these abilities meant nothing to Hugo at all . |
| 18 | The passage and the cavern were formed where a stream of water used to flow along a bedding plane between layers of limestone . |
| 19 | Some had children that are at an age where there might be a tendency towards vandalism , one of whom had been speedily dealt with by her when he attempted to slide down the oak bannister , kicking her as he went down . |
| 20 | Er you ca n't imagine this I do n't suppose , but nevertheless it 's true and in a time , the men in the shop they was mass-production , you know what I mean and they wanted this or that or the other , well I had the authority to go down the machine shop and tell them , look here , so and so wants this you do that . |
| 21 | The mortar men were not trained as Heavy Weapons Troops would be later in the war , but this did not prevent Sergeant Ramsey from getting off a bomb that appeared to go down the hotel chimney , reportedly causing a dozen or more casualties . |
| 22 | They had to go down the rope side-ladder , Richard first . |
| 23 | And if the faculty chose to go down the specialist qualification route , he added , it would go some way towards restoring credibility in the auditing profession by ensuring that standards are raised . |
| 24 | It 's probably a similar situation at er , the last company I worked for , used to have me , me lunch hour , I used to go down the swimming baths and do two and half hours there . |
| 25 | She could not bring herself to fall down the house stairs . |
| 26 | The government saw it as essential to slim down the coal industry [ see p. 38781 ] in preparation for the eventual privatization of British Coal itself . |
| 27 | He said Munn drove his car during the robbery , provided one of the robbers with a sledge hammer , used to smash down the bank counter screens , and he also knew the other had an imitation gun . |
| 28 | This is consistent with the view that their struggle to stay awake is not necessarily punctuated with periods of somnolence , or microsleeps , but shows a compelling tendency to slip down the arousal continuum . |
| 29 | In the hour before dawn , when the islanders ' forces knew that the raid on the Rebecca had started , they rose and advanced against the Belmont stockade , thinking to find only the skeleton watch Kit posted nightly and everyone else in their beds . |
| 30 | Wayne said nothing for a while , and Pete allowed his attention to wander down the inventory list ; his eyebrows raised at the mention of a waterbed , a hi-fi system and a video hookup in the after stateroom . |