Example sentences of "save [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The savings we make by supplying direct are passed on to you … up to 50% can be saved off high street prices . |
| 2 | In fact Robert estimates that in 1992/1993 some £10M was saved through good purchasing practice . |
| 3 | Most of the private members ' old age pension bills that had been submitted to Parliament prior to 1908 had contained income-limit clauses ; but by the early 1920s , stimulated partly by the 1919 Ryland Adkins Committee 's publicizing of the problem , increasing concern was being voiced over whether means-testing would discourage saving for old age . |
| 4 | In contrast , if saving is seen as the outcome of lifetime utility maximization , with workers saving for old age and passing on no bequests , then the results may be quite different . |
| 5 | She is saving for another trip , probably in an informal group of friends . |
| 6 | Your tank has certainly reached its limits now , and some of the fish have yet to reach their full potential , so start saving for another tank ! |
| 7 | Start saving for another tank ! |
| 8 | A small amount of the resultant PCR product may be saved for long term storage . |
| 9 | This saving does not have the character of savings ‘ in general ’ , that of being saved for future consumption , but is saved by capitalists . |
| 10 | The excess yeast is saved for future use . |
| 11 | The original version of the letter is still saved for future retrieval and completion |
| 12 | After the game it will be taken out and saved for next year in a natural setting . ’ |
| 13 | As is traditional , the trophies which were won throughout the year had been saved for this occasion and presented to their recipients after dinner . |
| 14 | His smooth speech was saved for English society and the Court of St James . |
| 15 | A further advantage of COMMUNlTEL is that pages of information can be downloaded from Prestel and saved for further use with , for example , business studies or economics classes or the Prestel pages can be edited for school use . |
| 16 | Profits were flattered by comparison with a poor 1991 first half and by interest saved after last year 's £22 million rights issue . |
| 17 | It made a number of recommendations for a more disciplined and concerted pre-trial regime , suggesting that a defendant should be given credit for a guilty plea , particularly where there is saving of public expenditure and time , and that there should be a more vigorous policy on credit for pleas of guilty either by way of reduction of length of custodial sentence or the passing of some alternative to custody . |
| 18 | In their understandable anxiety to save what could be saved of Greek life by cooperating with the Romans , Polybius and , we must add , Posidonius , had left unexplored the most solid substructures of the Roman-Italian complex . |
| 19 | For what it is worth , I have been saving in this way for years myself . |
| 20 | The War Artists Advisory Committee was set up , not only to stimulate and artistic record of war and related activities , but also to help ensure that at least some of the artists would be saved from First World War carnage . |
| 21 | Certainly Ambassador Bruce 's reporting from Paris appears to have been impartial ; while the Far Eastern memorandum took for granted first that those in command of the so-called Vietnamese Democratic Republic were men trained in the methods and doctrines of international communism ; secondly , that should they succeed , a pattern of foreign totalitarianism would be clamped upon Vietnam under which all liberties , national and personal , would be lost and thirdly , that the paramount question in Indo-China was whether the country was to be saved from communist control : all other issues were irrelevant . |
| 22 | A prayer was said for Iraqi soldiers , that they might die with the name of Jesus on their lips and be saved from eternal damnation . |
| 23 | The NRA said Weardale had been saved from immediate flooding because rain turned to snow . |
| 24 | SOOTY has been saved from early retirement after his old bosses at Thames TV lost their franchise . |
| 25 | THOUSANDS of animals may be saved from agonising drug tests by scientists at Glasgow University who are studying ways to freeze liver cells which can be used instead . |
| 26 | In her short experience of travelling with the Doctor , she had found that being saved from certain death entailed the likelihood of suffering a fate that was even worse . |
| 27 | Benjamin 's mother was lying paralysed in Shoreditch Workhouse even as the portrait was being executed , and he himself had only been saved from abject poverty after his father 's premature death by the generous good offices of his uncle , Samuel Hasted . |
| 28 | British children saved from religious sex cult |
| 29 | With his good hand he shoved a trolley loaded with two rotting suitcases , which were saved from instant disintegration only by thin string and fraying pyjama cord . |
| 30 | The home side then indulged themselves in exhibition play and duly came unstuck when Frensham equalised from a rebound after Dunn had saved from close range . |