Example sentences of "[adv prt] [conj] [noun] [noun pl] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 As the bankruptcies roll in and loan write-offs grow , it will change even more .
2 I like it when when wh it floods in town and you can go down and watch foreigners standing looking at the roofs of their cars floating down the Ouse and you think Yeah ! .
3 First , the dog registration scheme was turned down and dog problems continue to increase .
4 The school is closing down and pupil numbers have fallen from 700 to 300 over ten years .
5 Fire stations at Woburn Sands and Wolverton could be shut down if county councillors agree to make cuts in the fire service.But the county says it is trying hard to avoid cuts in that part of the budget .
6 Now you hear it said that we are going to live with stable currencies or even with a single currency for Europe ; that recovery will be slow ; that inflation will stay down while interest rates stay up — poison for precious metals .
7 The new rules came in after Treasury solicitors agreed to settle the case of a German law student who was granted a judicial review of the Government 's refusal to reimburse EC students ' tuition fees .
8 The players only calmed down after airport police boarded the plane at Edmonton .
9 This means that your monthly payments are the same for 12 months at a time , unlike the standard variable rate , which goes up and down as base rates change .
10 He strolled over to the window , lit his cigar , stared down as plain-clothes policemen hurried across the courtyard one storey below .
11 Shares and sterling went down as interest rates went up .
12 Some are rushed in as emergency cases leaving bills unpaid , rent in arrears and families in financial hardship .
13 On the night of Friday , 8th September , the barrier was broken through and rescue workers wearing breathing apparatus were able to take hot food and drinks through to the trapped men .
14 With the Gulf war over and interest rates drifting down , he may feel that a further half per cent interest rate cut coinciding with the budget will put the motor industry and its customers in a more confident mood .
15 Dr Alirio Parra , a senior Venezuelan technocrat , described the atmosphere as one in which ‘ the free play of market forces took over as OPEC producers adopted a short-term strategy to regain market share ’ .
16 This never happens , of course , so poor decisions do surface as the day wears on and fatigue levels increase .
17 And lurking behind the smoke screen of public utterances justifying their case , there remained that most potent of sanctions , the strike threat , and with it the knowledge that employers would not defy the union by taking on and training outsiders to fill the boots of striking insiders .
18 Homes were flooded and blacked out , rivers burst their banks , villages got cut off and rail services ground to a halt as fierce storms lashed the country .
19 The area has been sealed off and police marksmen have surrounded a local shop .
20 In the house where he lived radios switched themselves on and off and piano keys started playing when the lid was down .
21 The other man ran off but police officers caught him .
22 We wo n't be able to nod off as news presenters drone on about the world 's woes and mother-in-laws ring with the latest family crisis .
23 FURTHER signs emerged today that the property market is set to take off as fund managers prepare to increase their stakes in UK property companies .
24 In 1940 , so many men had joined up that women conductors had to be employed again .
25 Living history approaches , allowing children to dress up and experience activities carried on in the past can be extremely successful in the primary school .
26 Then , when the system tightened up and interest rates rose , the debtor nations wound up paying back vast sums over the odds they had borrowed at .
27 Only in the third set did Partners find any form and at one stage , they were 13–11 up until service errors handed the hosts the points .
28 This will also explain why transfer values will go up if interest rates go down , as more has to be invested now to produce the same sum at retirement date .
29 Labour and Liberal Democrats said the Northern Ireland Secretary had to make a Commons statement to clear up whether Government Ministers knew the Iraqi arms embargo was being broken .
30 Also , it is difficult to know how well Rank 's negotiating position would have held up after cinema admissions had started their precipitate decline in the mid-1950s .
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