Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They can cash in on good ideas from staff and benefit from many small improvements and occasional large leaps forward . |
| 2 | There are always gon na be a a set of of people in any area who erm who will latch on to racist attitudes and racist acts if if someone comes in waving that as an you know , as an organized activity . |
| 3 | The wilfulness of human nature can be deceitful , and we can hang on to old ways like cherished thoughts or possessions . |
| 4 | ‘ I see it as culminating in an annual event , perhaps a convention and a festival which would tie in with other events like Africa Oye . |
| 5 | Why did cells gang up in many-celled bodies ? |
| 6 | Before we 'd fall out over stupid things and not speak to each other for a day . |
| 7 | It can moreover lead to endless trouble : there are always children who will opt out on parental instructions or with parental permission , or who may be thought to need alternative provision . |
| 8 | You are going to reach your weight and inch target , and when you do , unless you have another goal to aim for , you may well let your fitness campaign relax and fall back into old habits . |
| 9 | Then gradually the person 's level of anxiety will fall back to normal levels from point B in Figure 4.8 . |
| 10 | The USA had no system of social security against the ravages of sickness or unemployment — no " dole " as in Britain , on which people could fall back in bad times . |
| 11 | Ideally it should be laid in a fine carpet and not in higgledy-piggledy lumps that bream can break down to easy mouthfuls . |
| 12 | Until recently , it was considered safe and environmentally acceptable to dump household waste in the ground where , left to decay , it would break down into harmless by-products and cause no problems . |
| 13 | the mental processes involved in object recognition ; 2 how object recognition and naming develops in children ; and 3. how it can break down in certain cases of brain damage . |
| 14 | they 'll sort of give in to other temptations . |
| 15 | However , a Kuwaiti official told reporters that the talks had collapsed " because Kuwait did not give in to Iraqi demands to write off debts and to relinquish some of its territory " . |
| 16 | Bombs and poison gas would rain down on undefended cities . |
| 17 | Eventually the committee agreed to defer a decision to see if the school could team up with neighbouring villages to boost numbers . |
| 18 | Lynda Moss , editor of the RSC 's journal Methods in Organic Synthesis , said that it does not often crop up in published syntheses , though it is sometimes used as a source of in reactions as well as being a solvent . |
| 19 | ‘ I already wear a lot of Joe Bloggs ’ stuff because I do n't dress up for special occasions . |
| 20 | Mr Chairman , if decent people find it necessary er to kill animals they believe be vermin they do n't dress up in red coats and call them pink and er charge er , er , er , about er drinking st stirrup cups and tooting horns , er they go out and kill the vermin , it 's a necessary job that has to be done and of course , er there are many ways in which foxes could be killed without cruelty if it is necessary to kill them . |
| 21 | He and his wife were badly shaken and decided to move out of Ulster so that their children could grow up under normal conditions . |
| 22 | is n't there a risk that if we do n't keep a reasonable balance between employment and employment demand and employment supply in North Yorkshire , we shall finish up for different reasons with a need to regenerate the economy of Yorkshire , North Yorkshire ? |
| 23 | we 'll finish up with right angles first . |
| 24 | Britain may stock up on strategic metals |
| 25 | The ends of the chaplets ( metal pins used to hold a clay core in position inside the mould of a hollow statue or vessel during casting ) may show up as small patches of a different alloy on the surface of the finished piece . |
| 26 | Secondly , disused flues must be ventilated at top and bottom ; if they are not , condensation can occur within the flue and this may show up as damp patches on chimney breasts . |
| 27 | While we have separate currencies a poor economic performance will show up as a balance of payments deficit — but with a single currency that warning signal would disappear , and a poor performance would show up by whole regions or countries becoming depressed and blighted areas afflicted with mass unemployment . |
| 28 | Does the hon. Gentleman agree that the success of the Government 's policy is also to do with the banning of secondary picketing , which the Labour party would bring back with open arms ? |
| 29 | This system is laborious , and if the fencing equipment is not carefully maintained , stock can break out with disastrous results . |
| 30 | Unless your cholesterol level is off the scale ( by which I mean approaching double figures when measured in millimoles per litre ) , the degree of change in absolute coronary risk that you can bring about by dietary measures is spitting in the wind . |