Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] [adv prt] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus throughout the history of local government , units of local administration were formed to carry out administration in localities . |
| 2 | They will be expected to carry out tasks during the residential with limited support from the tutor and to monitor their own progress in terms of personal and social development . |
| 3 | At present , trade in African ivory worth millions of dollars is allowed by CITES , under a system of quotas , with tusk markings and shipment papers designed to catch out sales of poached tusks . |
| 4 | questions designed to find out reasons for views held |
| 5 | Her younger brother , Basil , in his final year of Modern Greats at Oxford , spoke of going into the City when he graduated , but Robyn considered this was just talk , designed to ward off hubris about this forthcoming examinations , or an Oedipal teasing of his academic father . |
| 6 | Hugh Geach , head of programme support services at Television South , explains : ‘ Everything the Government has done has been designed to open up television to market forces , to encourage new channels and competition for advertising . |
| 7 | Chairman Sir John Hall , however , has stressed that the struggling Second Division club still have to put into operation the so-called rescue package designed to soak up debts of around £5m . |
| 8 | Chairman Sir John Hall , however , has stressed that the struggling Second Division club still have to put into operation the so-called rescue package designed to soak up debts of around £5m . |
| 9 | This monumental image was designed to stir up emotions of awe and respect , but could scarcely evoke feelings of warmth and affection . |
| 10 | ONE scratchcard in six is designed to pay out prizes of between £1 and £100 . |
| 11 | You will not be permitted to take up employment in order to help support yourself . |
| 12 | The decision was crucial to those Britons who had now resolved to take up arms against Rome if necessary , but for the Druids it was now simply a matter of life or death . |
| 13 | For this work she received two shillings and sixpence per week , quite a nice sum for the 1880's when farm workers were expected to bring up families on twelve shillings a week . |
| 14 | It will argue to delegates in Kyoto that , while a Bryde 's whale is worth about ¥33.4m ( $100,000 ) in a fish market , the 16 resident Bryde 's whales at Ogata are expected to bring in ¥675m to the boatmen over the next 15 years and nearly eight times as much in hotel accommodation and assorted knick-knacks . |
| 15 | The tour set for twelve to eighteen months starting in summer 1993 and sales of a catalogue with colour reproductions of Barnes works , are expected to bring in funds for renovating the foundation 's gallery building and bringing its operations up to modern standards . |
| 16 | The CSG , designed to bring in revenue of F37,500 million per year , took the form of a 1.1 per cent general tax and replaced the current 0.4 per cent levy from income tax . |
| 17 | Many memos are written to find out information from within the organisation . |
| 18 | The law , framed to ward off takeovers from Nazi Germany , allows companies to refuse share registration , and so voting rights , to anyone they do not like — aggressive foreigners , for example . |
| 19 | It is here that efforts have been made to open up resources to working-class communities and/or to provide access into educational institutions . |
| 20 | Every attempt will be made to open up dialogue with the kidnappers and to stall them long enough to trace where your wife and daughter are being held . |
| 21 | Microphones are built to pick up sound from specific directions . |
| 22 | However , a report in The Times of April 25 stated that the three main Panthic committees , whose member organizations led the separatist struggle in the state , had decided to put up candidates in the elections . |
| 23 | Trainees at Harvard Securities were not in practice made to send out details on stocks to clients they were pitching who had n't dealt three times , as all dealers were supposed to . |
| 24 | However , where attempts are made to build up monopoly by merger there has been a heightened awareness of the inherent dangers , and governments have been more willing to take direct action to prohibit them . |
| 25 | A narrow boat and butty took over three-quarters of an hour to negotiate the locks , however , and an inclined plane was eventually built to speed up traffic by lifting boats in movable docks . |
| 26 | The USA first threatened to call off talks with the PLO in the immediate aftermath of the May 30 seaborne attack on the Israeli coast by guerrillas of the Palestine Liberation Front ( PLF ) [ see pp. 37443-44 ] . |
| 27 | She had never so much resented having been made to take over responsibility for the dog from old Adam , who had been used to walk him , than on that day . |
| 28 | And with the cold-eyed realism that not a lot has been achieved by feminism , many younger women have sought to take on men on their own ground , accepting extant values and the handicaps of modern commerce and industry . |
| 29 | In disadvantaged areas where efforts are being made to bring about improvements in employment opportunities and in family incomes , the advisory services have a very special educational function . |
| 30 | The result , confirmed by the Jockey Club 24 hours after it had sought to head off rumours of a doping scandal , heightens speculation that horses are being ‘ got at ’ . |