Example sentences of "[noun] in the [adj -er] [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | Among the confused jottings in the larger notebook he found this : |
2 | While small influences in the short term may add up to large influences in the longer term we must conclude that , within an election campaign , television could influence but not dictate the public agenda . |
3 | If there is a party with an absolute majority in the lower house it will form the government . |
4 | There are various other points which should be noted about a reverse takeover offer : ( 1 ) Because it involves a change of control in the smaller company it will be necessary for the transaction to be sanctioned by a vote of the independent shareholders in that company and the " Whitewash " procedure followed ( see para 8.5 below ) . |
5 | It 's helpful in the context of the dollar preference shares we want to issue because one of the factors of this very small , and as you say cheap er , historic issue of preference shares is that , er no preference shares other than those can be repaid prior to that and the dollar shares we wish to issue which are permanent shares , can be er , can be erm repaid at our option and we do want to keep that flexibility in the context of either if interest rates get very high or if the tax treaty between the U S and the U K changes to make them more onerous on the company and in those circumstances we would be inhibited by the existence of this small historic issue of preference shares and therefore it is on balance , although you 're quite right there , a cheap er , source of capital in themselves it is helpful to the company in the wider sense I believe if they are repaid . |
6 | When this is fired into the slot in the lower ball it brings together the critical mass of Plutonium 239 in two millionths of a second . |