Example sentences of "[noun pl] [to-vb] [prep] [art] [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No fewer than three railway stations offer a fast service to Paris ; and at night it takes only twenty minutes to drive from the town 's centre to the Etoile . |
| 2 | There were far more profitable houses to burgle within a stone 's throw of her own modest establishment . |
| 3 | Sir Patrick apparently has no plans to comment on the election 's outcome until next week , when he meets the Republic 's Foreign Affairs Minister , Dick Spring , in Dublin to discuss future steps towards dialogue . |
| 4 | television are obviously having trouble rousing experts to appear at ungodly hours to comment on the morning 's news . |
| 5 | Children do not get enough opportunities to talk without the teacher 's presence . |
| 6 | But here he confuses the issue , for while print may well have initially encouraged authors to focus on an individual 's perception and cognition of the world , this does not mean that this technique is necessarily bound to be dominant in printed texts , for as the novel evolved , so did the concept of point of view . |
| 7 | Hopes that the rebels might put their party 's interests first and hold their peace until after polling day faded when they urged supporters to campaign for the leadership 's overthrow . |
| 8 | The official added : ‘ There 's another 12 months to run on the ITV 's domestic deal and then it 's up for grabs . |
| 9 | That is why most newspapers , including , it has to be said , the much-maligned tabloids , have lent their weight to the Press Complaints Commission 's code of practice , and instructed their journalists to abide by the code 's provisions . |
| 10 | The inspector may have a few unkind words to say about the CEGB 's case , especially its economics , but it will , in all probability , be pretty tame stuff . |
| 11 | when you have a man … in a managerial capacity , there is a greater obligation on the employer to take preliminary steps to bring to the manager 's notice that he , the employer , is contemplating a possible dismissal . |
| 12 | The alternative regime in ss219 to 229 applies if : ( a ) Target is an unquoted trading company or the holding company of a trading group ( an unquoted company will include one whose shares are traded on the Unlisted Securities Market ) ; ( b ) the purchase of own shares is wholly or mainly for the benefit of Target 's trade or any of its 75% subsidiaries ; ( c ) the purchase does not form part of a scheme or arrangement the main purpose of which is to avoid tax or enable shareholders to participate in the company 's profits without being taxed on dividends ( there is a clearance procedure under s225 ) ; ( d ) the vendor shareholders are resident and ordinarily resident in the UK in the tax year in which the buy-in occurs ; any nominee shareholder must also be so resident , so if the distribution treatment is desirable it can be achieved by interposing non-UK-resident nominees ; ( e ) the shareholder has held his shares for at least five years ; ( f ) the shareholder 's shareholding immediately after the buy-in has been substantially reduced ( ie , by 25% or more , and his entitlement to profits must be similarly reduced ) ; for these purposes the shareholder must include the shareholdings of his " associates " as determined in accordance with s227 ; ( g ) the shareholder must not be connected with the company following the buy-in , and for these purposes he will be connected if he is entitled to acquire more than 30% of the share capital or voting rights in the company or assets on a winding up . |
| 13 | Their attempts to rule in the king 's name were a failure and by the end of September , if not earlier , Edward had reasserted his freedom of action . |
| 14 | Their attempts to rule in the king 's name were a failure and by the end of September , if not earlier , Edward had reasserted his freedom of action . |
| 15 | The hunger strikers ' demands were : ( i ) equal treatment of all Algerians before the law ( they were ordered to be tried by military courts , whilst other detainees involved in the FIS strike of May-June were not ) ; ( ii ) the creation of a commission to investigate the events of the army crackdown of June ; ( iii ) freedom for the FIS prisoners to consult with the organization 's executive bodies ; and ( iv ) political prisoner status . |
| 16 | They become prospectively entitled , through the mechanism of liquidation , to displace the power of the shareholders and directors to deal with the company 's assets . |
| 17 | We 'd have to jazz it up a little , get a few prominent vocalists to sing over the coolant 's bubble , a few name producers to chip the chilly vibration down to its component cubes and then restack it into a great wall of freezing sound . |
| 18 | She was calm and did not rail in spite , that night , as they waited for the island 's noises to change to the night 's flutings and clicks and sighs . |
| 19 | Radiators can be transformed into colourful features painted in bold primaries to co-ordinate with a room 's scheme . |
| 20 | The commission hopes that peer-group pressure would persuade member states to comply with the council 's rulings on their budgetary plans , which would be taken on a majority vote . |
| 21 | Water comes through the roof seams through the windscreen frame and can even come around the rear vents and down the roof side rails to fall on the driver 's knee when braking . |
| 22 | Oracle UK has developed a front end customer service system for Telecom Securicor Cellular Radio Ltd 's Cellnet mobile phone users : it runs on Hewlett-Packard Co Unix systems but will take two years to implement across the firm 's sites . |
| 23 | There are no tunnels and no low bridges to encounter on the train 's journey to Latimer Road . |
| 24 | Where arts projects follow this model ( the Art and the Built Environment Project show some features of this approach ) there seem to be difficulties in persuading participants to respond to the evaluator 's findings ( Pring , 1984 ) . |
| 25 | If you can get some coverage , that may encourage the dealers to respond to the media 's interest in you . |
| 26 | then add together the calculations to arrive at the employee 's contribution . |
| 27 | She returned to the kitchens to assist with the evening 's celebration banquet . |
| 28 | This , then is the state of affairs which Rigoberta Menchu has been trying for the past 11 years to bring to the world 's attention — an almost impossible task , given the fact that for most of that time the international press found Nicaragua and El Salvador much more diverting . |
| 29 | He labours scornfully for this Simon Giles , faintly comforted by a corner in Classical studies which has been granted him for reasons to do with the firm 's image . |
| 30 | RENTOKIL was quick off the mark yesterday when it decided to increase its dividend by more than earnings to compensate for the Chancellor 's decision to cut the tax credit on dividends from 25 per cent to 20 per cent . |