Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] [noun pl] of [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This may limit the ability of these hospitals to meet their pledges of maximum inpatient waiting times of two years . |
| 2 | ‘ Well , ’ he continued , ‘ I know we all call this place the summer-house , and it is only used to keep salmon nets and baskets in nowadays , but it is really a gazebo , where the local gentry used to meet their ladies of ill repute in the old days . ’ |
| 3 | Digital Biometrics Inc , Minnetonka , Minnesota maker of electronic fingerprint systems says it has filed an amended registration statement with the US Securities & Exchange Commission to increase its shares of common stock to 2m — the public currently holds 1.0m and another 1.0m shares are held by the its principal shareholder ; proceeds from the latest offering will be used to buy back and cancel the principal shareholder 's shares . |
| 4 | In ages past the Khan-queens of the Gospodars learned how to draw upon the icy magic to weave their spells of frozen destruction . |
| 5 | I beg to move , That this House , noting that the ten million people today living on or below the income support level of less than £40 a week for an adult represent the greatest numbers in poverty in Britain since the war , and that the Government has as a deliberate policy over twelve years further impoverished the poorest one third of the nation to make the rich richer , calls on the Government to reverse its policies of increasing poverty and unemployment and to give priority to the growing millions excluded from the rights and opportunities of real citizenship by increasing pensions by £5 per week for a single pensioner and by £8 a week for a married couple , by re-instituting the pension link with earnings which the Government broke twelve years ago , and by restoring to families the losses in child benefit from three years of government freeze . |
| 6 | And it comes complete with a stereo radio/cassette player to give you years of happy motoring … |
| 7 | At the end of the day , a camcorder with sound , basic design is going to give you years of creative pleasure , even if it does n't have all the latest sales gimmicks ! |
| 8 | The trend in the UK has been for the pyramid to become flattened as many organisations have striven to reduce their layers of middle management to take account of new technology and cut costs . |
| 9 | A study into the rate of methane production from China 's rice fields may lead climatologists to revise their models of global warming . |
| 10 | They helped maintain concern , but ultimately also divisive debate , over suppression of the transatlantic slave trade and whether or not the encouragement of free-labour staples , combined with consumer boycotts of slave-grown produce , could convert slaveholders into emancipators by forcing them to revise their calculations of economic interest . |
| 11 | In addition to the Snellen test for distance vision , all school-aged children should be screened to assess their levels of near vision . |
| 12 | The idea of ‘ care ’ has been carefully nurtured until it has become the hallmark of solid acceptability , the key to political creditworthiness , and the disability industry 's SDI designed to shield their programmes of social control from criticism . |
| 13 | Is it fair for young pupils in an area controlled by a Labour council to have their prospects of good examination results considerably reduced ? |
| 14 | And it will take years to rebuild our Reserves of foreign currency which were frittered away propping up the pound . |
| 15 | Finance Ministers of the Group of 24 ( G-24 ) developing countries met on Sept. 19 , urging the West " to provide adequate financial flows … to improve their prospects of sustainable growth " , and reportedly expressing concern that the preoccupation of the richer nations with the currency crisis would affect future aid flows . |
| 16 | The case study data will be supplemented by a survey of senior managers in Scottish organisations , to examine their experiences of technical change since 1980 and the implications for the Scottish economy . |
| 17 | At a time when national collections such as the National Gallery , London , are seeking to enlarge their holdings of Danish art from its golden age ( the early nineteenth century ) , a new gallery opened earlier this year in Weybridge , devoted exclusively to the art of Danish and other important Scandinavian artists of the nineteenth and twentieth century . |