Example sentences of "[vb infin] [prep] [art] [noun] [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The two sides were a world apart and while Northern hope for successive victories in their final two games for survival , Wigan can relax and prepare for the Silk Cut Cup final at Wembley on May 2 against Castleford .
2 If you have the possibility of both services in a kitchen , you could opt for a gas cook top and an electric oven ; or vice versa ; or a mixture of both gas and electric plates to hedge bets should anything go wrong with one or other service , or to take advantage of both sorts of energy for different cooking needs ( slow simmering ; fast boiling etc . )
3 Of course many will still opt for the country cottage look which remains as fresh and comforting as flowers in May .
4 In addition , ‘ well-established ’ auction houses which conduct substantial auctioneering activities in Singapore , and private museums can qualify for the service tax incentive .
5 Employees required by the company to move house to a part of the country where housing is more expensive will qualify for the mortgage allowance scheme .
6 Rather than wait for an employment appeal tribunal , they went on strike .
7 A CUCUMBER is n't a cucumber — and wo n't count towards the EC cucumber crop — unless it 's the correct colour ( green ) and has the right amount of curve , according to European Commission rules .
8 Try not to let the free block count of the LIFESPAN Process fall below 10000 .
9 ‘ Did you approve of the Animal Liberation Front 's Mars Bars hoax ? ’
10 After all , businesses can insure against the exchange rate risk on particular deals — for example , their exports to France — by accepting less sterling today in exchange for the known future quantity of francs .
11 of the criteria and try to allocate those which would fall under the structure plan umbrella , those which would be more applicable at local plan level and added to that , give some form of weighting .
12 Bearing in mind that er we 'd like to try and distinguish those which would fall within a structure plan umbrella and those which would be more applicable possibly at local plan level .
13 When acting as a lead adviser in respect of an acquisition of a private company or business by a listed company there is the normal requirement for due diligence , the coordination of which may fall within the deal management role .
14 He says ’ It could be solved … but in that case it would mean paying twice … the cost would fall on the poll tax payer .
15 Red Mars is one of those ‘ crossover ’ titles , with a great cover and a story that will appeal to the Tom Clancy/techno-thriller market .
16 IF HEAD teachers of opted-out schools were typical voters , the Conservatives could count on a landslide election result .
17 If their hours of work can also be limited to less than 16 hours a week , then these workers will also fall outside the employment protection legislation , which means they can be used even more flexibly and cheaply as they then forgo rights to certain occupational benefits ( which now comprise a further 9 per cent of labour costs ) .
18 Said I must concentrate on the Camden Town case .
19 ‘ Now I can concentrate on the Christmas cake rush .
20 Its partner in the new Unix System Technologies SA is software and services house Steria SA , and the company will concentrate on the Tuxedo transaction processing monitor for Unix .
21 But Vera did not wait on a Home Office ruling .
22 She 'll hang around the Earls Court guest house till then , waiting for me to turn up and whisk her out for a spaghetti .
23 Can you think of a supply side reason ?
24 Aunt Hortense : : What do you think of the South Bank Show ?
25 What do you think of the Max Pack compilation ?
26 Christine felt her stomach lurch as the executive transporter bay gravity generator fluctuated , flinging her and Atrimonides into a spiralling loop , then failed completely , leaving her weightless .
27 How does it make you feel as a person human consequence .
28 These computer-based experiences will consist of the programming language Logo and a spreadsheet environment .
29 When we are studying a multiple-objective problem with a view to calculating efficient points , we will speak of a vector maximisation problem ( VMP ) and display the data with the objective functions above the constraints as in the following example , P1 .
30 For the investor who decides to buy direct rather than invest via a gilt unit trust , which may have a front end charge of 6 p.c. plus an annual management fee , the cheapest buying route is via the Post Office .
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