Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] a [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The F T Associates which is er includes the Economist in Spain was up a lot and Westminster Press was er was down , but of course Westminster Press took a major redundancy charge , they were also bringing on a new plant at Brighton and therefore running two plants simultaneously which is very costly er and they launched on Sunday . |
| 2 | Paul went on his way in rising anger , fearful of bringing on a bad head by it . |
| 3 | ‘ Well , ’ Fritz went red , which , Erika thought , made rather a nice change from her own blushing , and looked at his shoes . |
| 4 | In addition to those covenants mentioned by Scott LJ above examples of those which have been deemed to touch and concern the land include : a covenant for quiet enjoyment ; a covenant by the landlord agreeing to supply a housekeeper to clean a block of flats ; a covenant in which a landlord agreed not to open a public house within half a mile of the tenanted premises ; a covenant placing an obligation on the tenant to repair ; and a covenant in which the tenant agreed not to carry on a particular trade at the premises . |
| 5 | Institutions authorised by the Bank of England to carry on a deposit-taking business in this country are required to make contributions to the Deposit Protection Fund as levied from time to time by the Deposit Protection Board . |
| 6 | She did not want to carry on a lengthy conversation with this garrulous dumb woman ; she wanted to go to bed and hug Edward Bear . |
| 7 | I think we have given rather a gloomy vision of what being a parent is |
| 8 | ‘ Though you did make rather a big dent in my dignity . |
| 9 | It was not itself a centre of manufacturing , but it outstripped all other ports as a point of transit for English exports and became thereby a major entrepot of international trade . |
| 10 | Friday nights are hot at Apples and Snakes — every week they bring on a new lineup of outstanding poets and performers . |
| 11 | In particular , we need to know far more about those numerous families which moved from the countryside but which experienced only a hum-drum life in the towns or at best only a modest prosperity . |
| 12 | Yet mercenaries seem still to have formed only a small part of the German army ; the fief-rente was almost exclusively used to supply garrisons for castles and fortified towns ; and as the Church and its ministeriales became a less reliable source of troops , the twelfth-century emperors resorted to the practice of strengthening feudal bonds and building up the resources of their own domains . |
| 13 | Therefore , I would see from a public point of view a substantial expenditure on this subject and I do n't think necessarily a level cuts from county planners . |
| 14 | Equally , a significantly higher concentration of plasminogen activator inhibitor-2 in malignant ascites confirms previous work , but as it is a weaker inhibitor of tissue plasminogen activator and is present in much lower concentrations than plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 , it probably plays only a small part in the overall inhibition of fibrinolytic activity . |
| 15 | Mike Roberts and colleagues at the CEGB 's research laboratories now think that air pollution plays only a minor role after all ( Forestry , vol 62 , pp 179-222 ) . |
| 16 | It moves slowly , wearily and as if to ensure that you understand that it is tired ; it goes only a few degrees above the horizon , making a long , low arc . |
| 17 | BSL therefore stores story information and re-tells it in a way which would occur for all languages , but spoken language surface structure ( reflecting only a specific point in time and context ) would tend to hide this in its effort for reconstruction of meaning . |
| 18 | Initially , most contracts are likely to include only a broad specification of the service being purchased . |
| 19 | An individual GP probably gets to see only a few cases of Meningitis in his career . |
| 20 | THE 101st anniversary of the birth of Ho Chi Minh on May 19th got only a muted celebration in Hanoi . |
| 21 | The analysis so far constitutes only a partial account of science . |
| 22 | Since , women 's break in labour-market experience constitutes only a small part of their life-spans , other factors must help account for their disadvantaged position . |
| 23 | And Jung 's phrase ‘ something in us ’ implies that the wish constitutes only a small element in the psyche — one that is not difficult for a sensible , mature person to reject , once she/he has recognised how unrealistic it is . |
| 24 | Frequently , the analytical courses are cut out in joint schemes , and the students gain only a superficial introduction to both subjects . |
| 25 | CROSS A FAST TYPIST WITH A WINDOWS WORD PROCESSOR AND THE CHANCES ARE YOU 'LL SEE SOME WAILING AND GNASHING OF TEETH AS THE PROGRAM CHUGS ALONG A FEW PACES BEHIND THE USER . |
| 26 | Sam Baker QC ( almost ) from number 113a had suggested that he ‘ bring along a few bottles of my Australian Chardonnay ’ but no one could face the prospect of being talked through another glass of uniquely flinty , resonantly expressive Murray River Chardonnay by Sam Baker QC ( almost ) . |
| 27 | This laid down a future programme in which , among the many proposals , they called for Burma 's recognition within the family of nations and admission to the UN , and finally ‘ the establishment of a sovereign state in the very near future ’ . |
| 28 | 4.17 In Roberts v Johnstone [ 1988 ] 3 WLR 1247 the Court of Appeal laid down a general rule for assessing damages where a plaintiff has to purchase special accommodation . |
| 29 | In a far-reaching judgment , the Court of Appeals laid down a new test for the determination of the question of non-literal copyright infringement , that is , whether there has been an infringement of copyright in non-literal elements such as program structure . |
| 30 | It was the legacy of the previous form of uneven development based in the sectoral spatial division of labour ( high levels of unemployment from previously dominant sectors which had overwhelmingly employed men ) which provided the conditions ( regional policy grants , a ‘ green ’ , female labour force anxious for paid employment ) which attracted in this new form of economic activity and laid down a new form of uneven development . |