Example sentences of "[vb pp] and [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Opportunities are to be maximised and threats either avoided or turned into opportunities ( see Sharplin , 1985 , pp. 54 6 , 190–4. where it is referred to as WOTS-UP analysis ) . |
| 2 | In Lebanon , soldiers bring children to be vaccinated and hand out leaflets about immunisation . |
| 3 | be a bit of sunshine expected and temperatures back up to near normal at sixty eight degrees fahrenheit . |
| 4 | Duplication will be minimized and resources more cost-effectively utilized . |
| 5 | They and the neighbours were but mildly impressed and Maria clearly disbelieving . |
| 6 | Mr Roger Calvert , an orthopaedic consultant , described the scene of devastation , with severed limbs scattered and passengers still trapped : ‘ Dispassionate is not the word one would use . |
| 7 | It was all a spoof , but taken for real by many viewers , particularly when cameramen collapsed and scratches mysteriously appeared on a girl 's face which became covered in blood and distorted . |
| 8 | Everywhere mascara was being rolled and lipstick carefully drawn . |
| 9 | He looked devastated and Maggie instinctively touched his hard face , wanting to comfort him . |
| 10 | Police had attended and Maddison immediately had told them : ‘ It was me . |
| 11 | just do what the , what the industry outside has done and spiral down into producing lower and lower quality of services |
| 12 | That was done and completion actually took place is pleaded as the twenty second of November , the er defendants admit completion took place on or about the twenty fifth of November . |
| 13 | There are , however , sub-littoral populations that are not imbricated and imbricata certainly occurs on the shore-notably in Essex and North Kent , England ( Largen , 1971 ) and Kingsport , Nova Scotia , Canada . |
| 14 | Generally darkness , or weak lighting , was necessary ; then tables rocked , objects moved , lights were seen and things sometimes felt , and messages were rapped out . |
| 15 | After this it was , for Bolsheviks , a moot point whether revolution in Europe would mean independence for the colonies , as Trotsky believed ; or whether , as Marx had originally argued and Stalin now suggested , colonial revolution , particularly in Asia , could hasten the overthrow of European capitalism . |
| 16 | With the backing of the BBC , the guarded co-operation of the couple and the collaboration of a fine screenwriter , Andrew Davies , a full-length film drama was prepared and Gerard even secured permission to film in Cape Town . |
| 17 | The unheard-of losses and strains of the war years greatly strengthened , at least in Britain , the pressures for a new order in foreign policy and diplomacy , for policies more democratically decided and diplomacy more openly conducted by men more representative of society in general . |
| 18 | The men embraced and Jane suddenly felt very foreign . |
| 19 | Here again there is a question of balance : if society has democratically determined that taxes shall be collected and revenues so received spent in certain ways , non-payment of taxes is punishable even if the defaulter is objecting on conscientious grounds to aspects of staff spending — on arms , for example . |
| 20 | Sometimes the patient will talk , pouring out problems and anxieties , but more often nothing is said and tears slowly subside into relaxation . |
| 21 | On 19 June 1991 Mervyn Davies J. [ 1992 ] Ch. 160 set aside the registrar 's order on the ground that section 238 of the Act of 1986 did not have extraterritorial effect so as to apply to a foreign bank incorporated and resident abroad having no place of business in the United Kingdom , with the consequence that the court had no jurisdiction to make an order under the section against the bank . |
| 22 | The definition in the Code includes companies wherever incorporated and individuals wherever resident . |
| 23 | I 've received very few replies so the signs can be erected and B either a deputy co-ordinator or the deputies that should come in , now some some oblige a lot of them do n't |
| 24 | As there are often only half a dozen wash-basins , turns must be arranged and children soon realise that there are too many or not enough children for the basins available . |
| 25 | These courses tended , on the whole , to be externally examined and students only received a certificate if they successfully completed the whole course . |
| 26 | Terry Hamer , Production Director , together with his team are undertaking several projects , some almost completed and others well on their way . |
| 27 | Resources are scarce , medical treatment limited and abortions not always available . |
| 28 | Where moisture is limited and productivity low the moss covering remains thin . |
| 29 | Since the event was well publicised and sponsorships clearly identified , there was nothing secret to be brought out in the open , he told the committee . |
| 30 | The importance of this association is most evident when it is broken , when careers are truncated or ‘ spoilt ’ , status is withdrawn and recognition seemingly denied . |