Example sentences of "[vb pp] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apart from toys , walking-sticks , postcards and other such tourist necessities , he was also hoping to sell antiquités and the old things he had gathered lay about in an indescribable miscellany . |
| 2 | At first , the British intended to carry on regardless with that year 's dump , but were forced to back down after a concerted blacking of the cargo by trade unions . |
| 3 | It had not originally been intended to carry on the research after that date , but it was so successful that finding was obtained to set up a panel study . |
| 4 | ‘ It is a principle of construction of United Kingdom statutes , now too well established to call for citation of authority , that the words of a statute passed after the Treaty has been signed and dealing with the subject matter of the international obligation of the United Kingdom , are to be construed , if they are reasonably capable of bearing such a meaning , as intended to carry out the obligation , and not to be inconsistent with it . |
| 5 | It is also intended to carry out a number of modifications to the current listings , and to introduce new features which will broaden the usefulness of the Directory . |
| 6 | The three old miners considered that it was intended to carry out this operation a little before the smelt houses " left off " and of course they left off by persuasion of the Parliamentary forces , violent or otherwise . |
| 7 | Finally , it is intended to carry out some observational work at a selected site in the system , possibly courts , and interview key participants . |
| 8 | A procedure on the other hand , is specifically intended to carry out a number of actions , some of which may affect program variables , but it does not directly return a result . |
| 9 | The article to which I have referred points out that , because of the new technology , Asfordby , unlike any other pit , seems almost empty of people . |
| 10 | Because analogue videophones have to squash video and audio down telephone lines developed to carry just the latter , compression techniques are used to reduce the amount of information needed to create a video picture . |
| 11 | Furthermore even in a fused profession , the barristers in chambers in the Inns of Court and elsewhere would undoubtedly enter into partnership as specialist trial advocates and do agency work for other solicitors , whose own staff were unable to act as advocates in every case or where the complexity of the case justified bringing in a specialist advocate . |
| 12 | If the South is redefined to include only the four regions of the South East , South West , East Anglia and the East Midlands , then the net movement of people from North to South can be seen to have risen from a low point of only around 10,000–20,000 a year in the early 1970s to a peak of nearly 70,000 by 1985–86 ( Figure 4.2 ) . |
| 13 | In return for the group 's agreement to purchase and write off $4 million worth of Mexican debt from foreign creditors , the government has undertaken to carry out a $2.6 million programme of support for forest conservation efforts , with a particular focus on the Selva Lacandona , which is the largest remaining tropical rainforest in North America . |
| 14 | Bentham 's proposals were intended to promote both discipline and economic production . |
| 15 | She had n't intended to sound quite so vehement , but what she needed most right at this moment was to put as much distance as was humanly possible between herself and Adam . |
| 16 | Nurses are admirably placed to carry out clinical research . |
| 17 | The directory will then be made available to students , trainees , and researchers who are better placed to carry out the studies . |
| 18 | Sometimes they can be heard bellowing far away on the shoreline in very great numbers . |
| 19 | In 1967 the Brooklands Society was formed to preserve as much of the area as possible . |
| 20 | The park was formed to preserve forever the spectacular countryside , lakes and river systems created in the wake of the glacier . |
| 21 | And she had stopped eating altogether . |
| 22 | In turn , Woodie , Willis , Nenna , Maurice and even his visitors could be heard coughing uncontrollably . |
| 23 | For many of these theories computational systems have been developed using very small lexicons that have been sanitised of ambiguity and dealing with a conveniently simple set of grammatical constructions . |
| 24 | He had at first intended to drive straight to Jack 's house in Chelsea . |
| 25 | " After some discussion it was arranged to carry on the Winter Meetings fortnightly as last year . |
| 26 | Vehicles are loaded on to special platforms and dropped out of aircraft specifically designated to carry out this task on to adjacent or parallel drop zones . |
| 27 | This option requires the name of the package , the name of the LIFESPAN user to be designated to carry out the approval , and the date by which the approval decision is required . |
| 28 | Beyond the door , Mother Bombie 's feet in soft felt slippers could be heard slapping angrily down the stairs . |
| 29 | Exhibition space was not needed the library eschews blockbusters , and its permanent collection of books , manuscripts and works on paper can not be exposed to light too often . |
| 30 | Since delivery only required one of us , I 'd undertaken to go down to Fraxilly while Mala stayed with the ship . |