Example sentences of "with [adj] [noun pl] [adv] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Accountancy software supplier Systems Union Ltd , has turned in a record result for its 1992 fiscal year , with pre-tax profits up 280% to £1.5m , on turnover that increased 47.6% to £12.1m : the privately-owned London-based company has operations in Europe , the US and the Asia-Pacific region , and opened a new office in Hong Kong in November , with the aim of addressing the expanding South East Asian market and supporting the existing network of local distributors and agents ; it now boasts more than 100 agents , value-added resellers and distributors worldwide ; chairman John Pemberton aims to expand this network further during 1993 ; the group also launched version 4.0 of its SunSystems product line at the end of last year ; SunSystems comprises two main elements — SunAccount , a fully-integrated ledger accounting package , and SunBusiness , or sales purchase order entry , invoicing and inventory and control software . |
| 2 | Britain 's biggest clothing retailer , Marks and Spencer , became the country 's most profitable retailer once more when it knocked J Sainsbury into second place with pre-tax profits up 25% to a record £736.5m ( $1.2 billion ) in the year to end-March . |
| 3 | New crime figures for England and Wales confirmed 1990 as the worst year on record , with recorded crimes up 17% to more than 4m . |
| 4 | Diplock LJ said " A contract in restraint of trade is one in which a party ( the covenantor ) agrees with any other party ( the covenantee ) to restrict his liberty in the future to carry on trade with other persons not parties to the contract in such manner as he chooses " . |
| 5 | Conglomerate Hanson , strongly dependent on recovery in the US market , is unlikely to impress with year-end figures down 17% to £1.09bn. , with the dividend rise for the year put at 1% to 11.1p . |