Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [noun pl] [subord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , any decision by an authority to spend more or less on services than the government 's assumed level will be reflected directly in the level of charge it has to set . |
| 2 | The big AGs ( PLCs ) have plenty of ‘ hidden reserves ’ because they are obliged to only reveal ‘ partial ’ operating profits publicly , so there is in fact much more money stashed away for takeovers than a glimpse at corporate balance sheets would suggest . |
| 3 | POLICE appealed yesterday for witnesses after a woman was kidnapped at gunpoint and sexually assaulted . |
| 4 | POLICE appealed yesterday for witnesses after a woman was kidnapped at gunpoint and sexually assaulted . |
| 5 | The government says schools like Pate 's are better-off out of local authority control … but admit that the school has had it 's hands tied by the rules that say they ca n't spend more on teachers than the county council will allow.The governments proposing a review of the regulations system in 1994 but for teachers at Pate 's who 're facing redundancy and pupils a drop in educational standards this could be too long a wait . |
| 6 | It dipped further on occasions when an end to the war seemed in prospect , notably on Feb. 15 and again on Feb. 19 , when it went briefly below $16 for the first time since July 1990 . |
| 7 | If , to return to our widget maker , these devices could be made more cheaply by robots unless the wage rate was , for example , half the level of unemployment benefit , the company , in the absence of any government ‘ interference ’ would almost certainly use robots . |
| 8 | Check carefully for leaks as the cistern is filled and adjust the float arm so the water level is 50mm below the overflow level . |
| 9 | In other cases involving schools but where there was no report of any request by the judge , coverage split fairly evenly between occasions when the school was named and those where it was not . |
| 10 | Even with delays while the Office of Fair Trading considered whether to refer these takeovers to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission ( it did not in the end ) the whole process had taken only until the spring of 1991 . |
| 11 | Sometimes as adults if a child for instance asks the question ‘ what is death ’ it is very easy to go into quite a long diatribe about life and death and get really profound , whereas in fact all a child may be wanting to know is how do you know if somebody 's dead , how can you tell the difference between somebody being dead and somebody being asleep ? |
| 12 | These become almost like rituals as the cat grows older — little routines that reward the animal because they involve it in a social interaction with its owners or their guests . |
| 13 | The company is able to dispose freely of assets until a default crystallizes the floating charge , at which time the charge fixes on the assets of the company that are not secured by a fixed charge . |
| 14 | The plan is officially under wraps until the product 's launch next month , but what is known is that the GIGAswitch will have a switching capacity of 3.6Gbps , 6.25m dynamic connections per second and full duplex Fibre Distributed Data Interchange transmission at 200Mbps . |
| 15 | The antes were at the $10,000-$20,000 level , and Dastmalchi was well ahead in chips when the crunch hand came . |