Example sentences of "[adj] [vb base] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Er to reach our target objectives we ha we need a very strong sell to the trade .
2 Speaking on the day of the ruling , David Lange , the New Zealand Prime Minister at the time of the bombing , described the 1986 accord as an agreement forced upon him by French threats from " the highest level " .
3 Note that the sheet and the fields in the upper inset of Figure 9.2 correspond to one-half of a sidereal axial period of Jupiter different from the situation in the main body of the Figure .
4 If possible eat on the same day that you buy them .
5 The 70 men , employees of the Penrod Drilling Company , were safely transferred from the Penrod 92 rig to the nearby Britoil Loggs platform by helicopter , Conoco said .
6 The total amount of vegetables we each eat per year since 1982 has gone from 221lb to 204lb .
7 A 17.2 gain in the FT-SE 100 index turned into a 28.4 fall to 2,218.8 by the close .
8 The most prestigious tend to be the oldest : Oxford , Cambridge , and , in Scotland , St. Andrew 's .
9 However , as a result of my 23 years in teaching , I know that people like that remain in post and nothing is done about it .
10 Nor did Labour suffer to the slightest extent in popular esteem from its link with the trade unions .
11 If I have , I can arrange the pattern so that I 've a complete repeat at the edge of the knitting .
12 ‘ Our task is to help our customers in the short term use them more efficiently , and as quickly as possible bring to the market new products which will not have any interaction with the ozone layer .
13 One final reason why Gothic 's victory was never complete lay in the new Settlements and Central Halls which Nonconformity erected in town centres .
14 The only thing that occurs to me er er and now yo your veteran day from last year a a does any of that , how does you know , cos he does it , how does any of that sit with Rob or do we just say right well we do cos
15 It is really the Plan Five and Plan Six that that tend to be the bulk of our business , which , as I say , gives up to a thousand pound parts and labour , which is obviously a lot better than two hundred pounds .
16 Surely , however , the women who do make the transition from the grant-aided sector to the mainstream bring with them a history of political and creative experience which must make itself felt in the long run ?
17 Scotch , Canadian and American whiskies combined account for about one-half of the distilled spirits sold in the United States .
18 Darts is one of the few sports I 've got the right build for .
19 Party Change Total seats Socialist Party ( PS ) +4 70 Rally for the Republic ( RPR ) -1 90 Communist party ( PCF ) -1 15 Democratic and European Rally ( RDE ) -1 22 Centrist Union ( UC ) -2 66 Independents and Republicans ( RI ) * -4 47 Independents +4 10
20 The Chicken Plucker is a starting point because everybody loved Letter To Brezhnev , and some of the favourite lines from that appear in the show . ’
21 If he ended up with a taste for feudalism and aristocracy it was because he believed that the old paternalism was better than the inhuman gulf between ‘ classes ’ — ‘ One would wish to see the rich mingle with the poor as much as may be upon a footing of fraternal equality . ’
22 Fine creases where the colour had flaked off the shoes were painted in with a rich reunite of permanent rose and white , whilst permanent rose was used alone for some minor details like the punchmarks on the orange strap loops and the stitching around the edges of the straps themselves .
23 We took the 09:30 ferry to Dunkirk and met a driver from Perth .
24 " But I 'm not sure that we ought to leave Maurice , though , " she said , licking each linger in turn .
25 Five of the eight appear on the royal books for 1661 as members of the ensemble known as the Hautbois et musettes de Poitou .
26 The contents of motion one seven eight appear to be sound , conference , we have been tried and we have been tried by some regions in a very limited way with some success .
27 ‘ Sovereignty , rather , is in today 's world a severely practical concept … the ability to have the maximum possible say in determining one 's own future , in circumstances that actually exist . ’
28 hundred and fifty forget about that nought and just think about the fifteen .
29 ‘ When we can , we give out sheets of paper and break each pencil in two so they can carry on .
30 ‘ We have to raise money ourselves to do any outings , we 're given a very small budget so we have fund raising events , and the clients have total say about how we use that . ’
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