Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is pretty difficult to carry on a conversation like that , let alone write a scientific paper . |
| 2 | The benefit of planning permission to carry on a business from premises is normally lost by a subsequent change of use of those premises . |
| 3 | I CAN IMAGINE THE INDIGNANT HOWLS OF protest as collectors all over the country now run to their shelves to gather together a clutch of beloved performances . |
| 4 | Use your pistol to dispense with individual guards or your machine gun to mow down a line of enemies . |
| 5 | BOSNIA 'S UN commander General Philippe Morillon hoped to nail down a cease-fire between Serb , Moslem and Croat military chiefs today . |
| 6 | Most users would then have to wait only a couple of hours for a new telephone . |
| 7 | If someone could wave a magic wand , and I could change something , I think I 'd like to go down a couple of cup sizes . |
| 8 | Some , through failing health or eyesight , were obliged to go down a couple of rungs on the ladder however , and there are an increasing number of cases in the 1940s of former compositors working as copy-holders for lower pay . |
| 9 | Democracy is not always taken to signify only a form of government , or of choosing a government : it may be a term applied to a whole society . |
| 10 | ‘ He wanted me to pass on a message to the police . |
| 11 | ‘ Because I 'm hoping you 'll agree to pass on a message for me to Minter . |
| 12 | On this occasion the most difficult decision was to pass on a share of the savings target to the English and Welsh Regions . |
| 13 | I would like to pass on a theory concerning the behaviour of the Long Spined Porcupine Puffer , Diodon holocanthus . |
| 14 | Whether you 're looking for bowls of bulbs to brighten the home or the best miniatures for a rock garden , now 's the time to start work and Daphne Ledward and Anne Swithinbank are here to pass on a host of colourful ideas . |
| 15 | We used to work down a row of bricks or tiles . |
| 16 | In the meantime , the Government have attempted to pull together a solution to the dilemma that arises as a result of the different views that are held by various groups . |
| 17 | Other voices , too , are now being raised in support of a national body to pull together a multitude of organisations , currently pursuing , often blindly , their selfish individual goals . |
| 18 | 88open is trying to pull together a meeting of consortia chiefs this month to mull over the kinds of business , customer and anti-trust issues they all share . |
| 19 | Where a possession order is made in respect of a " regulated tenancy " of residential property in a mandatory case ( Cases 11 – 20 ) , the court is empowered to grant only a maximum of fourteen days and has no other discretion : Rent Act 1977 , Sched 15 , Pt II and s 89 of the Housing Act 1980 . |
| 20 | In such conditions , with clays deep and clinging enough to bog down a regiment of horses , the real issue was not one of scraping versus watering but of radical improvement in methods of building and repair . |
| 21 | They kept slipping away , as her father had already slipped away , with no more than a mumbled excuse , to jot down a line of verse that had presented itself while he stood in some abstraction . |
| 22 | But in 1934 , the District managed to obtain only a promise of a mere £70 in grant-aid from the LEA for those courses provided by Whiteley — a wholly inadequate offer . |
| 23 | Erm , but you wo n't remember all the things to test , as you forget very quickly , so as you 're building the spreadsheet , you ought to write down a list of things you 're going to go back and test . |
| 24 | Now it is possible to write down a sequence of matrices unc Mr ( r is usually n or n + 1 , depending on the variant employed ) which when used as a chain to premultiply A , condense it to the unit matrix , so that unc which evidently implies unc The numerical procedure is to operate successively on 91 ) ; given A we can write down M1 and we evaluate unc so that ( 1 ) becomes unc Knowing B we can now write down unc and form unc and so on , until R is obtained . |
| 25 | The final stage before the body leaves the body shop for the paint shop is normally for the completed welded body to pass down a line of welders and grinders . |
| 26 | However , while it was comparatively easy to cobble together a story around a popular star , the British industry was not yet well organized when it came to finding a steady output of ideas for dramatic features and developing them into workable scripts . |
| 27 | Then he stepped towards her to stand just a couple of feet away . |
| 28 | Jacques Devraux and his son were waiting beside a baggage truck that was already loaded with the rest of their hunting equipment , and leaving their sons to stand watch , the two men disappeared into the shadowy interior of the market to haggle over a purchase of several hundred pounds of salt and arsenical soap that would be used for drying and preserving the hides of animals they hoped to shoot . |
| 29 | In 1880 , this had already been discerned , but most men gave a growing acceptance to democratic institutions because they seemed to provide not a threat to , but a guarantee of , liberal standards . |
| 30 | Normally , it can take forever — well , even months at times — to extract just a nugget of information from the Pentagon , but this time minutes only . |