Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For all its fine engineering and good design , the Audi 90 20v quattro offers rather less than meets the eye . |
| 2 | To identify a new chairperson for the board , or to derive full value from bringing on those trustees , five years is too short . |
| 3 | A strip of electrician 's tape stuck round both sides of the base to make them waterproof and they 're ideal for bringing on any bulbs destined for the windowsill . |
| 4 | Morrow laughed , bringing on another attack of smoker 's cough . |
| 5 | According to the Royal Society of Portrait Painters , which has just celebrated its centenary , of the thousand-odd portraits undertaken professionally each year , hardly any are commissioned by their subjects . |
| 6 | cos they were using right that , no the deal has n't lapsed that 's what we were trying to do |
| 7 | Only industry could absorb locally this surplus the land would not support , and in the early half of the nineteenth century there was none . |
| 8 | Hazel realized wearily that Bigwig was probably going to be troublesome . |
| 9 | If they are not going to fit into school then they must be placed somewhere more suitable . |
| 10 | Thus , though the placid British jurassic sediments have received vastly more than their fare shair of study , it is curious that some of their more spectacular features have been relatively neglected . |
| 11 | Diocesan resources are in part historically determined — the older dioceses like Lincoln , Canterbury and Winchester enjoying rather more riches than their modern counterparts — but all derive a considerable part of their revenue from allocated parochial contributions . |
| 12 | They continued to enjoy rather more autonomy in running their own affairs , but the state officials who dealt with them were scarcely less rapacious than landlords . |
| 13 | As I said to the hon. Member for Falkirk , West ( Mr. Canavan ) , we shall consult widely all the various interests and , no doubt , other European countries will receive representations from manufacturers , from users and from suppliers . |
| 14 | Loretta was aware that she had consumed rather more Rioja than she had intended , certainly enough to make her glad that Bridget was driving . |
| 15 | We suggest that working-class people make rather more of a ‘ thing ’ of the whole business than do middle-class people , irrespective of their religious beliefs . |
| 16 | Has it not possibly occurred to Mr Marshall that , without the audit , one could reduce one 's prices significantly and , if one is efficient , make rather more profit , providing clients with a service that they in fact desire ? |
| 17 | He has also , inquiries revealed , sold rather more than the 40 or 50 paintings suggested by the Saatchi Collection spokeswoman in mid-week , and the pattern of his sales suggests that what we are seeing is rather more radical than a ‘ refinement ’ of the collection . |
| 18 | Women born in 1955–9 with non-manual fathers expected rather more children ( 2.44 to 2.12 ) than women from manual backgrounds , and the new difference is maintained in the most recent cohorts ( General Household Survey ) . |
| 19 | ‘ In publicly announcing the withdrawal of its remaining occupation forces from Korea , the US should make it unmistakably clear that this step in no way constitutes a lessening of US support of the Government of the Republic of Korea , but constitutes rather another step towards the regularisation by the US of its relations with that Government and a fulfilment on the part of the US of the relevant provision of the GA Resolution [ UN General Assembly ] of December 12 , 1948 . ’ |
| 20 | Moreover , although the Party probably enrolled rather more members among workers , intelligentsia , and artisans than either the Mensheviks or the Bolsheviks in this period , the prime constituency towards which it turned — the peasantry — remained very difficult to organize . |
| 21 | Some might joke unkindly that road deaths in the region are not limited to traffic accidents . |
| 22 | Well yes , but in those sorts of terms complementarity becomes a passkey which turns suspiciously many locks . |
| 23 | Botham may find himself having to bowl rather more than his contract anticipated , and with nearly half the team aged 35 or more they will need a fit physio-therapist . |
| 24 | On the other hand , it is just because the fibre tubes can be crushed locally that wood can be nailed and screwed without splitting , provided we do not abuse the wood too much . |
| 25 | KPMG has authorisation from the ICAEW to carry on all investment business except discretionary management . |
| 26 | The European Court further ruled in this case that Arts 48 and 59 of the EC Treaty do not prevent a member state from requiring that the exercise of the profession of auditor in that state by a person qualified to carry on that profession in another member state be subject to conditions which are objectively necessary to guarantee observation of professional rules concerning the permanence of the infrastructure in place for the completion of the work , the effective presence in the member state and assurance of the observation of professional ethics , unless respect for such rules and conditions is already guaranteed by a reviseur d'entreprises , whether a natural person or a firm , established and recognised in the state , and in whose service is placed , for the duration of the work , the person who intends to exercise the profession of auditor . |
| 27 | Would he like to carry on that legacy in cinema ? |
| 28 | This is because s. 81(2) of the Employment Protection ( Consolidation ) Act 1978 states that a dismissal is by reason of redundancy if it is ‘ wholly or mainly attributable to … the fact that his ( i.e. the employee 's ) employer … has ceased or intends to cease , to carry on that business in the place where the employee was so employed … ’ . |
| 29 | And this government wants it to carry on that way . ’ |
| 30 | He is dependent on the permission of others for every step he takes , and if they so wish they can make it impossible for him to carry on any concrete activity . |