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

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1 But I do move today that we transfer the technical post that will become vacant in the pollution section by the end of this year to the food section , and that Matthew together with the chief environmental health officer consider how best to write a job description , and advertise for that post , and that while I do not see us securing a budget of two thousand five hundred pounds as under fifteen b , I do recommend that the health education authority are contacted , that their help-line is used , and that our E H O's use their premises in the coming new year .
2 Has he explained about last night ? ’
3 He sort of pulled backwards and hit that chair , got off that chair .
4 ‘ No-one at all got off that train except me ? ’
5 I honestly think that it 's time the English got off this notion , which after all has nothing to do with the original meaning of the word ‘ amateur ’ , which means having a passion for something , erm got off this notion that the amateur , the gentleman , as Geoffrey said , is necessarily more truly engaged with the activity than somebody else .
6 I honestly think that it 's time the English got off this notion , which after all has nothing to do with the original meaning of the word ‘ amateur ’ , which means having a passion for something , erm got off this notion that the amateur , the gentleman , as Geoffrey said , is necessarily more truly engaged with the activity than somebody else .
7 We 're all going to go off one day and there 's nothing better than planning for it .
8 This chapter pursues our general theme of exploring locales and localities as the context of interaction between people and the understandings people gain through such interaction .
9 The economic and social position of this upper class is determined by their ownership of productive wealth , and the substantial incomes they gain through such ownership .
10 I just come back er ladies and gentlemen to apologize for this morning 's cock up , I mean it was totally inexcusable of me .
11 And I want to apologize for last night , I made an awful ass of myself , I am sorry . ’
12 It was not intended to give this impression , and we take this opportunity to make that clear and to apologize for any embarrassment caused .
13 Passenger demand forecasting for new rail services
14 We have been forecasting for some time that the future of applications development would become the linking of objects , and that the keys to the kingdom would be held by the companies that sold the best objects , and Novell Inc seems to think so too .
15 We have been forecasting for some time that the future of applications development would become the linking of objects , and that the keys to the kingdom would be held by the companies that sold the best objects , and Novell Inc seems to think so too .
16 Another pervasive , and important , influence for this head was technology .
17 It is the second of Billy Roche 's Wexford trilogy plays about small-town life in Wexford , southern Ireland .
18 The best way to go about proper practice is to find yourself a partner of similar standard , who is equally keen to improve , and spend hours sweating and toiling on the practice court .
19 The easiest and most obvious way to go about this self-assessment is to divide a sheet of paper with a line down the middle , head it ‘ Plus ’ and ‘ Minus ’ and write down everything you can think of under each heading .
20 and , and stuff like that so I mean in a sense you 're by now a fairly good judge of the way to go about this sort of thing , you 're a fairly good judge of what sort of things are important , perhaps the way in which people describe stuff and , and , you know , words , concepts , vocabularies erm all that kind of thing which obviously it helps if your questionnaire fits in with
21 Cassock and surplice , a black cassock and white surplice once I told you that my grandmother was once living with us , she used to delight in washing my surplice and ironing it up except me when I was singing in the choir , I did n't take a , the treble solos , that was after the choir used to sister of ours at least oh twenty men , and as many lads and youths the as I say Johnny was in the choir there was er the two brothers and there was Dick was a incense boy and his father was a manager to go in the , he used to have a red cassock and surplice , but he used to Dick 's dad was the incense swinger and they used to go about swinging incense and that , I do n't suppose they do that at all now , but er your first job as a choirboy was to pump the organ it , have you ever been in the church ?
22 And are you now going to take that any further or are you going as far as the government wants you to go as this stage ?
23 These , accumulating during this second period created an almost limitless reservoir of units and it is this reservoir which can be regarded as being identified with the state of the Created God at the time of the dawn of civilisation .
24 he plans to sue for professional negligence .
25 Bearing in mind the words of article 10(2) , in my judgment the right to sue for malicious falsehood gives to a corporate public authority all such rights as are ‘ necessary in a democratic society , ’ i.e. for which there exists a pressing social need , for the protection of its reputation .
26 Since I accept his primary submission I do not find it necessary to consider his other options , but I observe that in every case they would involve the court in a far more creative exercise in framing the law , which I doubt we would be entitled to undertake , than by holding as I would do that a corporate public authority has no right to sue for the tort of defamation and is to be left , if necessary , to such other rights as it may have , in particular the right to sue for malicious falsehood .
27 Nevertheless , my conclusion is that to allow a local government authority to sue for libel would impose an added and substantial restriction upon freedom of expression which , having regard to the ability of individuals within a local authority to sue for libel , and to the ability of a local government authority to sue for malicious falsehood , or to invoke the criminal law of libel , can not be regarded as necessary in our democratic society .
28 She wwent to the High Court in August and won the riught to sue for malicious falsehood , a rare procedure , which she says she has to use because she ca n't afford libel proceedings .
29 The lads at IBJ should also have remembered that the spirits are hard to sue for financial redress .
30 And he says it is becoming more common for people to sue for medical negligence after a delay of ten , twenty , even thiry years -- but such course is fraught with problems .
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