Example sentences of "[to-vb] [noun pl] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pearson J. was considering a contract where the seller had agreed to despatch goods f.o.b. ( free on board ) a ship , i.e. the seller undertook to convey the goods to the ship and to load them . |
| 2 | Mr Sandy recalls that the biggest challenge was just to get the name known in the major markets in Europe : ‘ Whether the message coming back was ‘ Unbekannt ’ or ‘ Pas Connu ’ the gist of it was that we were unknown and if you 're trying to sell whiskies people have n't heard of , then you have n't got much to go on . ’ |
| 3 | After five years , Bessa Blue Chip has the option to require Barclays Bank to repurchase the properties at a high enough price to give shareholders 120p per share . |
| 4 | The project intends to use WIRS data to examine the inter-relationship between recognition ( coverage ) , union density and wage determination , building on theoretical models of this interaction , and extending to the econometric testing of alternative hypotheses . |
| 5 | To recoup advances 1.6m albums and 1.3m singles |
| 6 | Her promotion , following last week 's appointment of Ms Margaret Beckett as shadow Treasury Chief Secretary , underlines Mr Kinnock 's willingness to put women MPs into subject areas traditionally regarded as male preserves . |
| 7 | In the same 1990 issue of the Birmingham Evening Mail , another Finance broker offered to send readers £500 to £100,000 over two to twenty-five years with interest rates fixed until 1992 and ‘ nothing to repay until 7 months ’ . |
| 8 | Legal squabbling is preventing a hundred and fifty million pounds being shared out between former employees of Robert Maxwell whose pensions were stolen by the publishing tycoon.The allegation is contained in a report by a powerful committee of MPs , which wants a mediator appointed to knock heads together.Chris Moore reports . |
| 9 | NetWare SunLink will allow PC users to share applications data , file and print services across based Unix networks — with no changes required in the client software — but most importantly , it provides a Novell NetWare gateway to NFS , Sun 's Network File System which is used widely in the industry . |
| 10 | The US Federal Trade Commission is still trying to put together a case against Microsoft Corp that will win support from its commissioners , US PC Week reports , and will be collecting final depositions this week : the complaint is now expected to be drastically simplified in an effort to make it acceptable to at least three of the four voting commissioners , and the latest depositions are primarily focused on allegations that Microsoft intentionally built incompatibilities into its software so it would n't work well with offerings from competitors — a complaint set off by Novell Inc , which alleged DR DOS would n't work with Windows 3.1 because Microsoft deliberately added incompatible code ; Microsoft said it had ‘ never developed a product to be intentionally incompatible with some other product ’ ; the Commission is also expected to address the manner in which Microsoft disseminates technical information to developers , and the manner in which it has capitalised on operating system monopoly to build applications sales ; if at least three of the four commissioners agree with the complaint , the case will go to administrative court and Microsoft will be sued by the federal government for anti-trust violations , but the company is not expected to be asked to do anything so drastic as sell units . |
| 11 | All Sun units have reportedly been told to trim expenses 9% to 11% with the sales force getting hit the hardest . |
| 12 | The Prime Minister had tried to staunch the crisis by calling a full judicial inquiry into whether government ministers allowed businessmen to breach arms sales guidelines . |
| 13 | On May 29 Bush called for an end to the proliferation of chemical , biological and nuclear weapons in the Middle East and urged the world 's leading arms suppliers , notably the five permanent members of the UN Security Council , to convene an international conference to devise guidelines to curb arms sales to the region . |
| 14 | During his impromptu press conference at Kennebunkport on July 12 , Bush also referred to the " October Surprise " scandal , the allegation that members of the Reagan-Bush 1980 presidential election campaign met with Iranian representatives in Paris in order to promise arms sales to Iran in return for the Iranian government 's agreement not to free 52 US hostages held in Teheran until after the November 1980 presidential election . |
| 15 | The technology , which is intended to enable users tp link , transfer and share objects between documents created by different Unix desktop applications and between Unix and Microsoft Corp Windows applications , is intended to become a standard feature of Unix desktop applications by the first half of 1994 . |
| 16 | The Franks Report suggested that : ‘ British Government policies which may have served to cast doubts on British commitment to the Islands and their defence [ include ] the Government 's preparedness , subject to certain restrictions , to continue arms sales to Argentina ( and to provide training facilities in the United Kingdom for Argentine military personnel ) . ’ |
| 17 | Because of the limitations of the package currently available for us to analyse WIRS data , we were restricted to cross-tabulations and the use of elementary confidence tests to examine the significance of the differences these revealed . |
| 18 | Of course , if conventionalism were just the semantic theory that the phrase " legal rights " should not be used to describe rights people have in virtue of consistency in principle , then a conventionalist judge could indeed take a lively interest in that form of consistency under a different description . |
| 19 | We will place a total embargo on arms sales to regimes which violate human rights , and work for further global agreements among suppliers to control arms sales and technology transfer . |
| 20 | This is a traditional Grand National trial and Party Politics was always going well to beat Fiddlers Pike . |
| 21 | The state has agreed to pay farmers $250 an acre ( $614 a hectare ) not to plant their land , but farm groups are demanding $1300 an acre . |
| 22 | To investigate ways ln which certain improvements can be made for storage space and blackout . |
| 23 | Battens are plugged and screwed to the wall at 400mm ( 16in ) centres to take boards 1220mm ( 4ft ) wide , but of course other sizes of boards can be used if necessary . |
| 24 | Communist Party just to say things people are n't really going to erm change |
| 25 | It will be reluctant to propose a law to make banks £500m richer at the expense of local taxpayers . |