Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [adv prt] [noun sg] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anderson was booked in the first half for bringing down Marin on a night when the Germans again showed their propensity for going down theatrically under straightforward challenges . |
| 2 | We and our daily rhythms can respond to bright light and an appropriate use of this may become part of our armoury for speeding up adjustment of the body clock after a time-zone transition . |
| 3 | Twenty-seven people needed treatment after breathing in smoke on the Stena Londoner . |
| 4 | Firemen rescued the two staff who had passed out after breathing in smoke in the staff accommodation block . |
| 5 | More recently , they have been supplemented by the galium arsenide laser instrument with opto-electrical linkage for picking up conversation at a distance from the vibrations in window panes . |
| 6 | Pigs and poultry , sensibly managed , can be a rapid means of building up fertility on a run-down holding . |
| 7 | Cézanne 's method of building up form by a series of parallel hatchings or small overlapping brush-strokes is used by Picasso in a severe and logical way ; indeed , in the gouaches of early 1909 this method of work becomes almost a refinement of the earlier , cruder striations . |
| 8 | They could have followed us the four hours to Dieppe in the hope of picking up trade on the way back ; but that makes for a ten-hour day . |
| 9 | On the other hand , pluralists may accuse the structural Marxist accounts of dressing up pluralism with a rather turgid form of Marxist verbiage . |
| 10 | In line with the Group of Eight 's decision in December 1988 to offer fair treatment to Latin American debtors , Brazil in January 1990 proposed that debtor countries with payments imbalances or shortages of hard currency ( such as Bolivia , Ecuador and Peru ) should convert their debt into local currency to pay for Brazilian imports and to finance cross-border ventures , and also offered them the possibility of buying back debt at a discount . |
| 11 | Effective though it proved , the device of holding down output in the hope of driving up prices brought with it problems not to be found in any economics textbook : the global output ceiling , if set realistically in relation to demand , can easily prove too small to be divided amicably . |
| 12 | Timothy Sainsbury , the Under-Secretary of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office , on March 7 insisted in the British House of Commons that the UK had no intention of giving up sovereignty of the islands and that the issue was not on the political agenda . |
| 13 | An agitated old lady addressed Ramsey severely and asked why he did not go back to his own country and do good there instead of stirring up trouble in the United States . |
| 14 | There 's a theatre marketing which is closing it , well , sort of shutting up shop at the end of the month , maybe |
| 15 | inform about society , thus continuing the induction of pupils which they are already experiencing into the tradition which is theirs by virtue either of birth or of taking up residence in a country . |
| 16 | Despite being Motorola 's only volume outlet for 88000-based CPU systems , the company would n't dream , he says , of taking over fabrication of the part from its owner , in the same way that Silicon Graphics Inc is swallowing its chip supplier . |
| 17 | In the dispute with the Supreme Soviet , each side accused the other of taking over control of the paper in violation of the June 1990 USSR law on press freedom [ see p. 37541 ] . |
| 18 | While the measures taken by Britain in conjunction with our European partners to isolate the Burmese Government are welcome , the military dictators are still in power , they have no intention of handing over power to the democratically elected Government , and the appalling abuse of human rights continues . |
| 19 | The logic of cross-national comparative study suggests the value of carrying out research within a single industry , a strategy long recognized by students of industrial relations . |
| 20 | Party chairman Sir Norman Fowler is also said to be considering renting out part of the building in Westminster . |
| 21 | The programme costs about £50 and with it comes a handbook , that includes etiquette tips like chopping up food into a sensible size before putting into your mouth . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'm content to go into the army , and I 'm definitely against giving up territory to the Arabs . ’ |
| 23 | In them it is concerned with picking up information about the timing and length of daylight . |
| 24 | By the time the traffic ceased , they were far too late to carry out a proper raid on the airfield and had to content themselves with shooting up transport along the road . |
| 25 | In view of the fact that eye testing is important in picking up illness in the elderly and that we are in the business of preventive medicine rather than treating illnesses when they occur , will my hon. Friend keep an open mind ? |
| 26 | Frustrated at this set-back Azhag headed south , where the horde wreaked havoc , destroying the town of Forstich before turning back east through the Great Forest and into Ostermark once more . |
| 27 | Most firms are still organised to exploit the efficiencies to be gained from breaking down work into a sequence of specialised tasks , an approach first described by Adam Smith in his famous account of production in a pin factory . |
| 28 | Early in 1935 Göring assured Ambassador Lipski that , far from stirring up trouble in the border , Danzig was quiet only because the Nazis were in control . |
| 29 | If you are a driver with a full licence giving LGV or PCV entitlement and that licence was issued by another Member State you may continue to use that licence for up to 12 months from taking up residence in the UK . |
| 30 | From travelling around I get the impression that , although they say they want to , most branches have other concerns which prevent them from taking up recruitment in an effective way . |