Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] [noun pl] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The keys cover eleven types of payment and eight miscellaneous keys cover the major credit cards , all with programmable limitations to alert the operator when management authorisation must be given to accept vouchers over a certain limit . |
| 2 | Tonal series are designed to contain note-groups of a triadic nature , or to have a whole group of notes in the same key . |
| 3 | That is expected to entail payments on a sliding scale ranging from £7 to £86 . |
| 4 | Mr Beregovoy is expected to approve proposals for a Gallic form of personal equity plans in the next few weeks which would allow French investors up to £60,000 worth of shares each , free of dividend and capital gains tax . |
| 5 | Schrader 's film — darkly humorous , intensely claustrophobic — is n't anti-woman in the way On The Waterfront was , but it is a pessimistic and probably prophetic parable about men destined to remain cogs in a remorseless , unfeeling machine . |
| 6 | All this alarms the non-Kurdish Iraqi opposition ( although the Kurdish package is said to include promises on a free multi-party system ) . |
| 7 | On the other hand , unlike their predecessors , they were not advocates of single causes , such as temperance or even religious instruction , but instead sought to attract members with a varied programme which consciously mixed recreation with education , welfare , and sometimes church attendance , for a variety of reasons all of which rested on the specificity of youth in relation to age and to class . |
| 8 | Studies by Le Page and Tabouret-Keller have provided a further critique on the continuum hypothesis , again denying the scalability of phonological and grammatical variables which is said to lead speakers on a unidirectional , one-step-at-a-time path from the basilect to the acrolect . |
| 9 | Until the opening of the Marlborough galleries had tended to treat artists in a patronising way , as underlings . |
| 10 | ‘ I have got to see things from a parochial view , not from the county-wide perspective . |
| 11 | For predicting the amount of resource contributions of taxpayers , grantors , and service recipients needed to support activities of a given time period . |
| 12 | They can be used to inform others of a wide variety of matters . |
| 13 | Methods used to attract visitors to a particular stand include : |
| 14 | Dealers are sometimes told to sell stocks as a medium-term hold ( i.e. wait six months for something to happen ) . |
| 15 | In the UK methane gas from a London rubbish dump , which has almost half the calorific value of natural gas , is being used to fire bricks at a nearby factory . |
| 16 | Until now surgeons have done the drilling manually and usually needed to fill gaps with a cement-like substance . |
| 17 | Election poster campaigns by the main political parties customarily occupy sites previously booked by others — by clients of the party 's agency who can be persuaded to postpone campaigns for a few weeks , by the Central Office of Information ( whose government advertising goes on hold once an election is called ) or reputedly ( in the case of the Tories ) by the big brewers and tobacco companies . |
| 18 | In early March 1989 it was reported that the UK , Italy , Netherlands and Spain had agreed to study costings for a joint army Light Attack Helicopter ( LAH ) project ; a Franco-German joint project had been under way since late 1987 ( see p. 35665 ) . |
| 19 | Analysis of variance and an unpaired t test were used to assess variables with a normal distribution , while χ 2 analysis was used for non-parametric dichotomous variables . |
| 20 | The Iraqi government meanwhile offered to re-open talks on a new agreement to enable UN relief workers to supply essential food and medicines to northern Iraq ( having refused in August to renew the existing memorandum governing UN humanitarian supplies — see p. 39069 ) . |
| 21 | List servers may be used to raise issues for a particular discipline or to air thoughts and to stimulate discussion between a whole range of people who will never meet . |
| 22 | Our society has tended to place women in a subservient relationship to men and some women find themselves drawn towards dominant or dependent partners and thus fail to assert their own needs as individuals . |
| 23 | Jacquie , who can be contacted on 0483 301831 for information — or for a fundraising pack that could be used by clubs , pubs and organisations — told the Herald : ‘ Politics and now the general election have tended to dominate newspapers for a long time , squeezing out reports on stories about Africa — good as well as bad . |
| 24 | Provisional agreement has also been reached to open terminals at a further six Sainsbury sites and future negotiations could lead to the service becoming available at several other stores . |
| 25 | The press reporting of rape can be seen as part of the sexual titillation increasingly being employed to sell newspapers in a tight market . |
| 26 | While there are substantial objections to this argument which we put forward below , this approach offers a robust corrective to the popular myth that new technology per se is bound to destroy jobs on a grand scale . |
| 27 | It has refused to support proposals for a new draft directive , which would specify that waste be treated as any other commodity , and thereby allowed unrestricted movement . |
| 28 | The few who have attempted to query appointments at a local level have been met by shocked indignation and comments like : ‘ The fact of the matter is that the applications that we receive from doctors from the subcontinent leave much to be desired . ’ |
| 29 | CABBIES are to be asked to sell condoms in a one-year trial in north-east Derbyshire after neighbouring Chesterfield council rejected the idea . |
| 30 | Regional finalists will be asked to answer questions about a selected number of wines at the tasting . |