Example sentences of "[adv] [noun sg] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | But the point is that if , if musicians go to service , they know there 's enough readers and if the musicians decide to take on part of that reading one service , surely it 's only courtesy for the musicians to say to the readers , whose lists are published months in advance , terribly sorry but we 're gon na do this this time , and do you mind stepping down ? |
2 | Oracle Italy is being formed as joint venture with its distributor of ten years , Datamat ; Michael Rocher , managing director of Oracle France takes on responsibility for that unit too . |
3 | And there is no Redundant Churches Fund to take on responsibility for outstanding churches that need to be preserved intact , complete with their furnishings . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | the extent to which the family took on responsibility from other institutions for the poor , the sick , the old and the unemployed . |
6 | Information will be taken on income from all sources : from paid employment , investments , pensions and/or State benefits . |
7 | When their typically apocalyptic vision of a new world faded , they retreated for the most part into traditional humility . |
8 | The number is easy to divide by 8 as it consists for the most part of successive multiples of 8 . |
9 | The theories considered so far deal for the most part with major changes in the form of society , but it is evident that there are more continuous , relatively small-scale changes which affect political life . |
10 | Regulatory control , however , is concerned for the most part with organizational deviance , and with many activities in which compliance does not reside simply in refraining from an act , but in positively doing something to remedy a state of affairs . |
11 | The kitchen had one small window , the parlour two , one looking out over Brodick Bay , the other inland ; joined to this main building were various outhouses , each having a door , a window , a box-bed , a small deal table , a candlestick , and a wash-basin of its own : these were let for the most part to single gentlemen , though now and again she had also lady lodgers . |
12 | Although the Peace Tax Campaign has so far eschewed the use of extra-constitutional forms of dissent , confining itself for the most part to orthodox expressions of protest such as parliamentary lobbying and legal action in the courts , the failure of conventional forms of political protest to influence the prevailing defence strategy/taxation policy could have important implications regarding the future choice of tactics to be used . |
13 | When he gives evidence , sitting for the most part on two cushions , he leans forwards attentively like a headmaster , and with something of the same terrifying effect . |
14 | This paper is for the most part about medical practice , particularly general medical practice of the British variety , within the context of a more theoretical discussion of some aspects of professional work . |
15 | This high mortality risk occurred in patients opened , for the most part within six hours of infarction , and all were opened within 24 hours . |
16 | The money to set up these trusts is to be supplied by industry , and the schools are to be founded for the most part in inner cities , and are to be technological in character . |
17 | But what is for the most part in these stories a quiet desperation , is achieved at the cost of suppressing part of his own awareness , part of his own truth , and how bad that was we begin to see with The Portrait . |
18 | In this research , the investigators shall be examining the process of change under several different headings : the economy ; social relations ; and political institutions , drawing for the most part upon Soviet newspapers and journals , which have become a much better guide to the process of change under current policies of glasnost or openness . |
19 | It has been argued that the space time we inhabit is a Riemann space , and that locally space–time in free fall is the space time of special relativity . |
20 | After all , he is the first rider from the province to take on opposition at this level , although Gary Cowan was heading that way before his accident at Daytona in 1990 . |
21 | The bill also lays down provision for detailed news coverage by both Channels 3 and 5 . |
22 | So , sharp spikes for Harry and arrows for John , and it was only luck in both cases that had saved us . |
23 | We had erm no we we actually had done that we have given questionnaires out as programmes we actually asked people to I mean it 'll be interest to see how many people fill it in this evening but there is a built in resistance by some people to actually fill in any sort of questionnaire er and in the past when we 've actually done that I think the response 's has n't been that that brilliant . |
24 | The British Railways Board concludes : ’ Regeneration of the East Thames Corridor may be better promoted by other measures , eg provision of domestic rail services , improved road access , site preparation at public cost . ’ |
25 | It was only conjecture about that bit of uterus . |
26 | Protection of Human Health ( directly or indirectly via ecosystems ) — including most pollution of air , water and sea ; contaminated land ; hazardous waste , dangerous substances , GMOs & radiation ; biodiversity to preserve genetic stock for future agriculture and medicine ; and international obligations ( eg reduction of trans-boundary pollution , movement of hazardous waste ) . |
27 | The family member will say that these things should help , that they are only part of normal family commitment and civilised behaviour and that , if he or she did not do these things , then the primary sufferer might die . |
28 | Citation of a text under discussion corresponds to direct speech , even if the citation forms only part of another sentence within the critical commentary . |
29 | Yeah , I I will take only part of this debate as my daughter works in . |
30 | So kind to poor Dilys ! |