Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Secondly , investors from outside the Community , from places such as Japan , the United States and many others , look at the European Community and decide that the United Kingdom is by far the best place in which to invest due to the stability , skills and reliability of our work force .
2 He is improving generally and his memory and concentration became normal during the 0/2 dosage .
3 In the long run , such images become coins of exchange along with pickets , football riots , and urban disturbances ; they populate our consciousness and can be recalled intact by the sheer mention of a single word or by a brief news clip from the past .
4 However I am pursuing that with the Property Services Department , who act for both the Council and the Board , and they have given authority for us to enter the land for the purpose of drilling bore-holes etc .
5 When the band became profitable on the road , it went back up .
6 For example , the placing of the head : a dynamic , powerful man should be made to fill the canvas , whereas children 's heads are better placed low on the canvas .
7 Well I do n't think that with the Romanies there is a problem , because they 're
8 Group B is tight with Crusaders and Distillery level on four points each at the top ; Crues are away to Coleraine while the Whites visit Omagh knowing defeat will let in the Tyrone men .
9 Scott had heard little of the Judge 's summing up or , indeed , of his comments after the life sentence had been passed .
10 So he and Mr Skinner started pointing at Tory MPs , appearing to be arguing about precisely how many of them had fallen asleep during the Health Secretary 's speech .
11 He must have fallen asleep during the Jane Russell film .
12 The superintendent had fallen asleep during the journey , her head gently rolling from side to side against the car seat , her front teeth prominent in her open mouth as she breathed through her nose .
13 Possibly his mother had fallen asleep at the wheel .
14 AN RAF man told a court yesterday how he had fallen asleep at the wheel of a Land-Rover before his friend died in a head-on crash with a lorry on the A1 .
15 ‘ I think so , ’ she said , straightening in her seat and looking around like someone who 'd fallen asleep on a long journey and awoken in an unfamiliar place .
16 He was shocked to think he had fallen asleep over the table .
17 Kurt , 25 , says : ‘ I 've fallen asleep in a live show quite a few times .
18 Mr Levy claimed Andy Linighan was drunk and had fallen asleep in the back of the taxi .
19 The dogs have been kennelled , and the bodyguards have either gone back to bed or have fallen asleep in the hall .
20 The man had fallen asleep in the lounge when he woke to find a fire at the front door of his terraced home .
21 One moment she was sobbing her heart out , then , lulled by the bearlike warmth of his chest and the comforting shelter of his great arms and shoulders , she had fallen asleep like a child .
22 Finally , a dense catalogue section itemises each of the sculptures , complete with technical and bibliographical data , and includes the texts of crucial documents relating to the discovery and reproduction of the wax originals .
23 Xerox Corp , figures , page five , says it expects the European economy to remain weak for the rest of the year , but Xerox forecasts ‘ some encouraging signs of recovery ’ in Japan for the remainder of 1993 ; the plan to leave the financial services business remains on track but it might take several years .
24 times six X because normally bring that to the front .
25 So I resolved to remain alive in an unofficial capacity , which of course annoys them all immensely .
26 This is fully tax relievable in the employer 's hands so the liability nets down to £3,393 for the employer .
27 As early as 1950 Norbert Weiner had predicted that automation would result , within twenty-five years , in a depression that would make that of the 1930s seem like a pleasant joke , and in 1965 an Oxford University professor was quoted as saying at one of the OECD conferences :
28 Do you we could make that into a whole pizza ?
29 bring a little line coming there into it and I 'll make that into a little square .
30 In 1983 , in an effort to get the ball rolling on realistic cuts , the Scandinavian countries proposed a 30 per cent reduction in sulphur emissions by 1993 , using 1980 as the baseline year .
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