Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This eventually became institutionalized as the UN Centre on Transnational Corporations , which now has the difficult task of trying to reconcile the interests of the TNCs and the communities eager for their investments ( see Caplan , 1989 ) . |
| 2 | The upmarket London furniture store Heals , fashion chain Richard Shops and finally British Home Stores were absorbed into the group , which eventually became known as the Storehouse group . |
| 3 | Car 68 was withdrawn and replaced in the following year by a modernistic design , which eventually became known as the Bandwagon . |
| 4 | She banged against the crate heavily and the one on top of it which had been badly placed fell onto the ground so that some of the bananas spilled out around her feet . |
| 5 | ‘ Well , they do rather want to take in a show , but we 'll have to see what 's open . |
| 6 | Yes , I , I was in er , I 'm not sure , I , I think I was in the top class in the junior school and er , without boasting , I was a good scholar and I eventually passed to go to the Q M and me dad could n't afford to let me go . |
| 7 | Mulhern does n't sell horses but he was partly influenced this time by Jeremy Maxwell who used to train On the Other Hand and he eventually agreed to part with the gelding to Robert Ogden with a view to running in the Grand Military Gold Cup at Sandown . |
| 8 | Dr Schumacher has since joined TRANSAID as a London-based director . |
| 9 | We were playing for a long time before we ever had a deal , and when we eventually got signed by a big company , they pretty much took us for what we were . |
| 10 | The aquarium is a prime example of an out-of-date building which badly needs bringing into the 1990's . |
| 11 | These are very substantial changes which are widely expected to continue in the 1990s . |
| 12 | One common solution to this problem , which avoids the politically undesirable alternative of imposing or reimposing fees , is to rely on parents to provide equipment , just as they are very widely expected to help in the construction and sometimes the furnishing of schools . |
| 13 | The sea is widely expected to break through the narrowest point of the peninsula any year now . |
| 14 | Mr North , whose conviction in the Iran-Contra scandal was dismissed by a federal appeals court , is widely expected to run for the Senate as a Republican from Virginia . |
| 15 | As New South Wales was the only state without an ALP government , the Liberal-National coalition was widely expected to benefit from the current unpopularity of the Hawke government , an expectation apparently supported by opinion polls published during the campaign which gave the coalition a lead of up to 16 percentage points over Labor . |
| 16 | Six hundred people in the business coughed up £2 10s 0d each , thereby becoming known as the Noble Six Hundred ; subsequent donations and the proceeds of Royal Variety performances meant that a nursing wing was added two years ago , and today there are 36 residents with a staff of 60 to look after them . |
| 17 | The company claims that unlike other safety kits , the Dixon Home Care has been stylishly designed to fit into the most modern fitted kitchens . |
| 18 | Torrance , who has played in the last six Ryder Cup matches and badly wants to figure in the next at the Belfry in September , shot his 69 despite having a nose bleed for the first time in his life early in the morning , then again on the course . |
| 19 | The Haldane Report ( 1918 ) on the machinery of central government , which has since dominated thinking on the design of central government , examined a number of these criteria and recommended the distribution of government work on the basis of functions performed . |
| 20 | women are not sexy skinny women are not sexy , really skinny women we have to be like the Madonna type woman and I think that the , the , its about money and its about co , its about the consumer and about money and about making money from an image that somebody somewhere has seen as the normal perfect woman and the norm can be any thing it could be whatever you want it to be . |
| 21 | And he would probably rather enjoy looking after a woman , even one he had as little time for as her . |
| 22 | Some bastard cheated , they say there was not enough binding put around the joins , again the pipe leaks . |
| 23 | ‘ There were experienced rescuers at the resort but doctors from the hospital were probably better placed to deal with the victims . ’ |
| 24 | Ms McKeown said : ‘ No-one is better placed to look after the health of their workers than NHS employers , yet they are almost wholly negligent in this area . |
| 25 | Of total foreign investment in Czechoslovakia over the previous 2 years only 11 per cent had gone to Slovakia , and the common perception was that the industries of the Czech Lands were in general better placed to benefit from the programme of rapid privatization emphasised by Klaus . |
| 26 | There are times when prejudice only contributes to conflict in the narrow band of outlook and experience where that prejudice exists . |
| 27 | The blades , twisted like tentacles , were then dumped in the corner of the field , near a hangar , which of course swiftly became known as the Octopus Den . |
| 28 | For these people , the last word in radical chic is Brut Soap-on-a-Rope ; they dress as though they have stepped straight from the pages of a Seventies mail-order catalogue ; they consider a good night out to be crowding into the only working public telephone box , and , hyperventilating in their over-excitement , taking it in turns to listen to the talking clock . |
| 29 | Arrangements were also made for two firemen to take it in turns to sleep on the premises and instructions were given to these men to go all round the shops after the Works are closed and ‘ inspect every hole and corner to see if there is any sign of fire and afterwards to sleep on the premises so as to be ready in case of accident ’ . |
| 30 | We had to take it in turns to sleep on the floor . |