Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [adv] [art] [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And despite his hectic intercontinental schedule — commuting from his home in Paris to his musical duties in Chicago and Berlin ( where he has recently been appointed head of the Berlin Staatsoper ) — he always tries to set aside an hour or so every afternoon to sit in a cafe , nursing a coffee ( while , of course , veiling himself in a cloud of cigar smoke ) . |
| 2 | In determining whether the offer of alternative work is suitable , the tribunal takes into account factors such as status , skills required , pay , hours of work and whether it involves additional travelling time and/or expense or perhaps a need to move house . |
| 3 | The co-option of an industrialist or businessman may be a statement about school being a place for training the future work force or just an attempt to involve someone with business acumen to sort out the LMS accounts . |
| 4 | There are many medical treatments for incontinence , which include medicines , exercises , ‘ retraining ’ the bladder and occasionally an operation to repair the bladder . |
| 5 | Those who would buy more than unc logically opt for the two-part tariff and thereby the right to buy extra units at |
| 6 | He used to export half his rice crop , but for four years there has been no export and so no incentive to grow more than he needs . |
| 7 | If the latter applies , there is no thing in action and so no property to steal . |
| 8 | With difficulty she rolled his dead weight first to one side and then the other to search his pockets . |
| 9 | This means you have two choices to make — not only a suitable colour for the mounting card but also the background to go with it . |
| 10 | ‘ A dour man , ’ Buckingham observed , ‘ with bounding ambition but not the talent to match . ’ |
| 11 | In its view , there is not the time , the manpower or even the need to spy in the conventional sense . |
| 12 | Despite the tears , Athelstan still wondered if her adultery made her an assassin or perhaps an accomplice to murder . |
| 13 | In other words the branch is part of the parent and therefore the requirement to hold two lots of reserves is really contrary to the spirit of the directive . |
| 14 | It is more likely that in many situations there is a conflict of interest between capital and labour over this issue and thus a need to negotiate the outcome . |
| 15 | The decision was attacked the following day by Drazen Budisa , chairman of the opposition Croatian Social Liberal Party ( HSLS ) , who complained that " several thousands of inhabitants of Vukovar imprisoned in Serbian camps " and " tens of thousands of Croats from Central Bosnia about whom we have no information " would be unable to obtain their Croatian nationality and thus the right to vote . |
| 16 | The trouble is that the public backs the law but not the means to make it work . |
| 17 | IBM Corp 's IBM Personal Computer Co has added two members in the IBM Speech Recognition Family , VoiceType Control for Windows and VoiceType 2 : VoiceType Control for Windows offers customers with an 80386SX processor and up the ability to manipulate the Windows 3.1 environment and existing Windows 3.1 applications with spoken commands such as File Save , Font Bold and Next Window ; VoiceType Control for Windows costs $130 , works with Sound Blaster audio boards , and is speaker-independent ; VoiceType 2 is designed for general dictation and input to MS-DOS applications , and enables users to continue to control their existing applications , such as word processing , databases or spreadsheet , simply by talking ; it comes ready to use with ‘ many popular software products such as Quicken , WordPerfect 5.1 , dBase and more ’ , and users can add their own commands ; VoiceType 2 , with the IBM M-Audio Capture and Playback Adaptor , runs on 80386SX and above personal computers and automatically adapts to a speaker 's unique voice pattern and allows for accents and other individual speech characteristics ; it costs $2,200 and will be available in late May . |
| 18 | I settled in pretty quickly , though suffering a bit from culture shock and more from the realisation that I was semi-illiterate in the Thai language : I had the ability to communicate verbally but at a child 's level and almost no ability to read . |
| 19 | However , it is important to remember that the tenant has a right and not a duty to remove tenant 's fixtures , unless the fixtures were affixed in breach of covenant ( Never-Stop Railway ( Wembley ) Ltd v British Empire Exhibition ( 1924 ) Inc [ 1926 ] 1 Ch 877 ) . |
| 20 | Often , indeed , he has not only the right but also the duty to make the disclosure , as of a felony , to the competent authorities . |
| 21 | One suggested reason is to protect public bodies from vexatious litigants with no real interest in the outcome of the case but just a desire to make things difficult for the government . |
| 22 | In retrospect the decline of the tram in Britain was not so much a response to technological change but more a decision to cut capital investment in public transport . |
| 23 | One of the most poignant losses any human being faces is having to leave one 's home and sometimes even one 's country because of war , racism , famine or simply the drive to get decent economic opportunities . |
| 24 | It is all good fun and just the thing to encourage not-especially-musical people to discover that real singers make everything sound great . |
| 25 | He needed somewhere to store the various artefacts he 'd collected on his travelsand decided to build a gothic tower complete with mullioned arched and trefoil windows … crenellated battlements at the top and even a gargoyle to complete the effect . |
| 26 | The reason why there is no increase in output is that the typical supplier has correctly realized that the price on his island is rising at the same rate as the average level of prices , and there has therefore been no change in his relative price and so no incentive to raise output above its natural level . |
| 27 | This will involve not only matters of professional competence and etiquette but also the need to ensure compliance with regulations regarding replacement of practising certificates , the annual delivery of certificates to the Solicitors Indemnity Fund and obtaining all other licences and authorisations relevant to the work of the firm . |
| 28 | If you do , would not the same argument be applied to a host of other examples of training expenditure ; for example , costs related to acquisition of BS 5750 ( a cost which is not directly a cost of trading but merely a requirement to put companies in a position to carry on their trade , ie where customers seek BS 5750 approval ) ? |
| 29 | The latest boardgame to hit the market , Articulate , requires not only general knowledge but also an ability to verbalise . |
| 30 | The second order prohibited the mother from having verbal , personal contact or contact by correspondence with the father and similarly the father to have no contact with the mother . |