Example sentences of "[adv prt] [noun sg] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And there is no Redundant Churches Fund to take on responsibility for outstanding churches that need to be preserved intact , complete with their furnishings . |
| 2 | Some lenders have already had their fingers burnt and have had to write off loans and lose their investments , rather than take on responsibility for contaminated land which was part of their security . |
| 3 | the extent to which the family took on responsibility from other institutions for the poor , the sick , the old and the unemployed . |
| 4 | The bill also lays down provision for detailed news coverage by both Channels 3 and 5 . |
| 5 | That could bring down thunder on corrupt lands |
| 6 | Of course not all of the elderly of the future will be relatively affluent , and , to repeat , we need to be alert to inequalities among the elderly — between age cohorts and within them : the cohorts who will be bringing more occupational pensions and owner-occupied houses into old age will also bring in experience of early retirement and early run-down of resources due to unemployment . |
| 7 | Even the Sioux Indians immortalised in Dances With Wolves are angry because it will divert money from their bingo halls which bring in revenue to poor reservations . |
| 8 | Last night Lord Hanson played down talk of economic recovery in the UK , though he was hopeful that lower UK interest rates ‘ should certainly spark increasing economic activity over time ’ . |
| 9 | But if you start putting down investment in new plant and equipment when interest is at 8% , and you find in a year 's time that you 're paying 15% — and so are your customers , and they 're not buying — it screws the numbers up . |
| 10 | Labour turns down move towards electoral reform |
| 11 | In the 1920s the owners of large private cellars did not , with the possible exception of vintage port , lay down wine for future consumption as they do now . |
| 12 | The first was an attempt to break down demarcation between skilled trades doing maintenance work — the moving towards so-called ‘ two-trades maintenance ’ . |
| 13 | But whereas caricature depends on paring down character to exaggerated essentials , acting conveys shades , nuances and inconsistencies . |
| 14 | Sir John , dismounting , ( sound-effect of six galvanised buckets rolling down flight of concrete steps ) makes his pronouncement . |
| 15 | Many cancers rely on collagenase to break down collagen in connective tissues . |
| 16 | The ANC favours the much watered down form of regional government . |
| 17 | Indeed , while with one hand trying to hold down expenditure by local authorities , the Government found itself by the late 1980s involved with the other hand in massive ear-marked spending on inner urban areas . |
| 18 | Lions , dogs , and wolves hunt down prey by co-operative group mechanisms . |
| 19 | It was only a short spell of relief , most of it spent down Channel in atrocious summer weather as I remember , but it was enough to whet my appetite for more , and the start of a long love affair with Venturous . |
| 20 | The company made a disastrous start in February 1983 and found profitability only when it went down market under new management and ownership ( partly Australian ) . |
| 21 | The story centres on the world of Cameron Colley , a hack from the P J O'Rourke school of journalism , who fills in time between big stories with a sniff of this , a swig of that , a bit of the other … |
| 22 | During this operation the housing joints were filled in flush with soft wood blocks to make an uninterrupted inside curve . |
| 23 | Social services departments take over responsibility for private care next week . |
| 24 | In the mid-1980s the French government did act to try to redress these trend , taking over responsibility for extra hospital services from the local departments . |
| 25 | Shreeves was sacked and Doug Livermore and Ray Clemence took over responsibility for first-team affairs . |
| 26 | Ricardo Alarcón de Quesada and José Ramón Balaguer Cabrera , who had respectively taken over responsibility for foreign affairs and ideology [ not solely Balaguer as given on p. 39089 ] were elected to fill the central committee vacancies . |
| 27 | These were investigated in a placebo controlled , double blind , randomised , three fold , cross over study with complete block design experiments . |
| 28 | Gently remove sprigs of rosemary from the stalk and sprinkle over chicken with chopped parsley . |
| 29 | This manoeuvre , followed by the resignations of the representatives of Vojvodina and Montenegro , and the dismissal of the Kosovo representative , appeared to be a ploy by which to force the Yugoslav People 's Army ( JNA , with its Serb-dominated officer corps ) to intervene and take over authority at federal level . |
| 30 | Only after the dissolution of the Malaysian Federation , did the Malaysian government take over control of monetary policy and reserve management from the old colonial currency board ( Strange , 1971 ) . |