Example sentences of "[adv prt] [noun sg] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The grandparents took on responsibility for the house and the children together : ‘ my mother went to work all the week , she never done no cooking . ’ |
| 2 | There is a crucial role for partnerships in taking on responsibility for the local co-ordination of education . |
| 3 | Hilda Sturge took on responsibility for the adult refugees , while the Committee , with Greta acting as honorary secretary , looked after the children . |
| 4 | Although retiring from office this year , warden Frank Wood will be carrying on responsibility for the general overseeing of the buildings and the Church Centre . |
| 5 | Objections to the proposals essentially turn on the terms under which any devolution would take place , and the question of the competence and reliability of the organisations which would be taking on responsibility for the sites . |
| 6 | In the Cabinet changes carried out in August [ see p. 39067 ] Prime Minister Constantine Mitsotakis took on responsibility for the Aegean and Andreas Andrianopoulos ( hitherto Minister of Industry and Commerce ) became Minister of State , alternating as Government Spokesman with Vassilis Magginas . |
| 7 | Leicester Crusaders , a touring side based on Leicester and including current players Simon Povoas and Jez Harris , took on Oyonnax at the end of the French club 's most successful ever season . |
| 8 | There are no steps to get on and off the ‘ Mildred Stocks ’ ; wheelchairs can be wheeled straight on board on a special ramp and people with sticks or walking aids will have no problems . |
| 9 | This liability would only be avoided if careful records of the sources of drugs were kept so as to pass on liability to the manufacturer responsible for any defect . |
| 10 | For Electricite de France carried on building throughout the appeals procedure and the first Cruas reactor is due to be coupled to the national grid in two months . |
| 11 | He was finally released from prison two years later on payment of a £500 fine to Edward . |
| 12 | The solution being put forward is that a member of the RICS may only carry on practice as a surveyor through the medium of a company ( limited by shares or unlimited ) provided that he complies with the new conditionally approved regulations . |
| 13 | I do n't want to die because I keep on thinking of the future . |
| 14 | Badger road mortalities , however , are reduced now as badgers have put on weight for the winter and venture out from their setts less and less . |
| 15 | His belief that his fitness problems may at last be over stems from an unusual remedy — putting on weight as a conscious policy . |
| 16 | A young red deer puts on weight at a considerable rate during its first summer , but its growth is reduced to less than half of this rate during the winter . |
| 17 | He had put on weight in the short time since going to Mrs Gracie 's ; he was plump . |
| 18 | Later on action from the battlefields of the American Civil War . |
| 19 | It carries on south-west by the water to cross by a bridge over toward Minniwick Moss . |
| 20 | While Greg was living up at the farm she forgot to bring down milk for the cat . |
| 21 | ‘ Another time I asked him about his having turned down Parliament on a point of principle . |
| 22 | This meant that the District Officers ' opposition to the proposals of wildlife conservationists who wanted Masai land was just as uncompromising as their opposition to settlers ; and , then as now , the appearance of indifference to the interests of picturesque and harmless animals brought down odium on the heads of those presumed guilty of it . |
| 23 | Specific work on it in secondary schools is often essential in order to break down resistance to the subject . |
| 24 | Travelling in a clockwise direction the route proceeds from Cat Nab , Saltburn along part of the Cleveland Way and along the cliff edge down to the beach at Cattersty Sands . |
| 25 | On June 25 the Court ruled by five to four ( with O'Connor voting with the liberals ) to strike down part of a Minnesota law which required pregnant minors to notify both parents prior to obtaining an abortion . |
| 26 | In striking down part of a 1983 law designed to shield rape victims from intrusive questioning about their past , the court ruled by seven to two that the law had rendered inadmissible evidence which could be essential to the constitutional right to the accused to receive a fair trial . |
| 27 | The physical act of training breaks down part of the muscle exercised , and it is during the next 24–72 hours that the muscles recover and begin to grow . |
| 28 | The deal is not affected by this week 's decision to slow down part of the emergency aid agreed upon by the Twelve in December because of the repression in the Baltic republics . |
| 29 | The projectile was imperfectly aimed but exploded in Verdun , smashing down part of the Archbishop 's palace . |
| 30 | Or tearing down part of the prison ? |