Example sentences of "[verb] [noun sg] [verb] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1979 Mrs Thatcher made election pledges to increase old age pensions in line with inflation and to ‘ protect ’ the National Health Service , although she made no commitments about other areas . |
| 2 | Ameritech Corp has reported first quarter net profit of $300m against losses of $1,409.4m last time , after $37m restructuring charges this time and $1,746.4m charges due to the cumulative effect of an accounting change last time , on turnover up 3.9% to $2,796.5m . |
| 3 | Strategic planning and problem solving teams meet regularly to identify problems and solutions , and develop action plans to achieve long-term goals . |
| 4 | Measurex Corp has reported first quarter net profit down 52.1% at $1.7m , after $2.4m non-recurring pre-tax gains last time , on turnover down 0.4% to $61.8m . |
| 5 | Interphase Corp has reported first quarter net profit up 255.8% at $306,000 , on turnover up 20% to $11.1m . |
| 6 | Torchmark Corp has reported fourth quarter net profits up 5.5% at $66.9m ; net profit for the year to December 31 was up 7.7% at $265.5m . |
| 7 | In the Epilogue to his great biography of Adolf Hitler , Alan Bullock comments : ‘ The Germans , however , were not the only people who preferred in the 1930s not to know what was happening ad refused to call evil things by their true names . ’ |
| 8 | I wanted to present another Lagerfeld , a man of devouring intelligence driven to try new things all the time , to push his talent in unexpected directions . ’ |
| 9 | Come to think of it , has daddy 's got any sugar in it ? |
| 10 | It will be recalled that the Attorney-General always has standing to sue to vindicate public rights ( which includes a right that the criminal law be complied with ) . |
| 11 | At the height of the season at least 6,500 jobs probably depend on it and people realise tourism has created more shops , more restaurants and more facilities for locals . |
| 12 | All claims are being met and the company has Government blessing to accept new customers . |
| 13 | On the traffic management front , the county say that the consideration of local traffic needs will have to cover two situations . |
| 14 | ( 2 ) The Director may by notice in writing require the person whose affairs are to be investigated ( ‘ the person under investigation ’ ) or any other person whom he has reason to believe has relevant information to answer questions or otherwise furnish information with respect to any matter relevant to the investigation at a specified place and either at a specified time or forthwith . |
| 15 | In the anticipation of reduced demand , it is very easy to adjust production to avoid holding excessive stocks . |
| 16 | Their collapse from top to near bottom has given grim satisfaction their army of ill-wishers in the rest of Welsh rugby , but really the seeds of the Welsh All Blacks ' failure were seen when they were becoming champions . |
| 17 | Crash girl set to win long battle |
| 18 | In 1977 , the University Grants Committee decided to fund enhanced engineering courses at eight institutions in the UK . |
| 19 | Bush had supported the nominee despite the criticism , during confirmation hearings , of his role in the Iran-contra scandal , and the allegations that he had manipulated intelligence reports to support hard-line anticommunist policies in the 1980s [ see pp. 38510-11 ] . |
| 20 | Moscom Corp has reported fourth quarter net profits down 64.7% at $294,110 , on turnover down 38.2% at $3.8m ; net profit for the year to December 31 was down 96.5% at $70,992 , on turnover that fell 20.2% to $12.6m . |
| 21 | Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp has reported net profit for the year to March 31 down 12.2% at the equivalent of $1,516m on turnover that rose 1.6% at $58,823m . |
| 22 | Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp has had second thoughts about its planned workforce cuts and realises that as it intends to hire 10,000 new graduates over the period to 1997 , it will have to get rid of 43,000 people rather than the 33,000 it announced earlier to meet its target of 200,000 by 1997 . |
| 23 | The money will be used to purchase hawthorn whips to replenish damaged stock . |
| 24 | Peoples Telephone Co has reported fourth quarter net profits up 48.7% at $944,000 , after $450,000 charges from the settlement of a dispute , on turnover up 55.7% at $22.8m ; net profit for the year to December 31 was up 72.9% at $3.3m , on turnover that rose 34% to $74.9m . |
| 25 | If it is used unimaginatively , the microcomputer can be nothing more than a child-minding device aimed to drill certain concepts and skills into pupils with the minimum of teacher intervention . |
| 26 | And here , ICMS goes even further than prevention ; it encourages growers to take positive action to enhance the environment by , for example , establishing wildlife strips to harbour natural predators or creating wildlife ponds to encourage wildlife diversity . |
| 27 | Pencom Software has written three objects to go on NeXtstep-for-Intel . |
| 28 | The tree structure illustrated in the drawing is a communication and support system designed to nourish each operating unit providing that unit stays in its place . |
| 29 | In 1967 ‘ eight steel makers sought approval to begin building new furnaces , but according to MITI 's projections only two were needed . |
| 30 | Mr Major 's advisers share a broad preference for fiscal neutrality — ie , not using tax breaks to favour certain kinds of economic activity and to penalise others . |