Example sentences of "[conj] [noun prp] [verb] [adv] [to-vb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A further meeting in April , at which the London Club steering committee rejected a Nigerian proposal to convert outstanding loans into 30-year bonds with a 3 per cent interest rate , was followed by the announcement that Nigeria intended unilaterally to cut interest payments on some of its debt to that level , from the agreed level of 9.5 per cent , with effect from May 1 . |
| 2 | It is no surprise that Tanzania is the first country in Africa to introduce a less centralised and examination-oriented system of selection for secondary schools and that Zambia intends soon to follow suit , nor that Kenya and Ghana are much concerned with giving primary leavers the skill and the incentive to set themselves up as entrepreneurs when they leave school . |
| 3 | Columbia and Venezuela have yet to achieve maturity though they may in due course . |
| 4 | Picking up the dog , he carried him , still whimpering , to the house , while Theda ran ahead to find basilicum powder and linen for a bandage . |
| 5 | While Miller seemed chiefly to glean knowledge on the cultivation of flowers and vegetables from Holland , he turned to Italy for information on fruit culture and here again he had many correspondents . |
| 6 | When Katherine returns unexpectedly to do battle for Jack as well as the Deal , Tess needs more than power dressing to win . |