Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] [to-vb] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 That 's highlighting , I guess , one of the points Sue made , that it 's very important when you answer the telephone in the O U P to say exactly who you are , or which department you work in , or something to do with your identity on the phone , because in the system , you could see that if Anthea now diverted her phone to 3434 , you want to call 3485 and you 'll get 3434 .
2 The company announced they had secured a Ministry of Defence contract to deliver nearly 2,000 diesel engined Luton built Novas and almost 800 Ellesmere Port-built diesel 1.7 Astra Estates over the next three years .
3 Use the boot of both Rob Andrew and Jon Webb to get behind and turn the Boks .
4 There are a number of reasons for expecting the prices of index futures to adjust faster than the spot price , i.e. the market index .
5 The general secretary of the Scottish Trades Union Congress will need all his negotiating skills to bring together a Board ripped apart , following the sacking of three directors by major shareholders George and Hamish Deans last week .
6 The government on Sept. 24 granted foreign institutions permission to invest directly in all stock market operations .
7 The male red-winged blackbird attempts to attract as many females like this one , as possible to nest in his territory and , although the female would prefer his sole attention , she will share him with several other females if the territory is good enough .
8 Nine minutes later the score was 3–0 as John Brown broke into the penalty box and set up Ian Ferguson to fire home .
9 An increasing number of journals , monographs , and reference materials will only be available in machine-readable form as high speed computer networks enable hard-pressed university institutions to curtail drastically the escalating cost of their paper library provision .
10 This implies that the Estate Agents ' dictionary does not cover a large enough subset of the language used in the Banking text to provide significantly representative collocations .
11 I think he was employed by the park authorities to scare away all but the most committed .
12 Particularly as we , we 've had a major issue in our budget proposals to do specifically on this , this , but I think if we have good practice in Shropshire , we should be sort of er , shouting it from the rooftops really , as this is very good practice .
13 Rory had been down home in the country all day long , working on some bad debt accounts with Tom Holdfast , so he and Mallachy had taken a couple in the Wellington Park to wash away the nasty taste of commerce .
14 The court heard he set up a bank account with the Royal Bank of Scotland in Darlington in the name of Momen Garawand and then used cheque books to spend almost £6,500 .
15 On this basis we may stress the need to revise language teaching methods to come more in line with second language acquisition .
16 Nor was it properly explained to the modern British public , any more than it was in 1925 , why the ‘ discipline ’ could not be imposed direct on the economy without it being necessary to cling to another country 's shirt tails to do so .
17 But if Mr Clinton allows Congress , the doctors and the drug industry to pick apart his proposals , his public standing will suffer .
18 Analysis of police culture is therefore particularly suited to the anthropological method , for it requires an extended field study to reveal much about the unspoken agenda which determines many aspects of police practice .
19 The AP1000 uses the Sparc chip from Sun Microsystems Inc , in configurations of from 16 to 1,024 processors , and features three types of communication networks within the processor complex to reduce overhead in communication between the processors .
20 The Leeds victory was partly based on David Rocastle 's holding role in midfield that allowed Gary Speed to get forward so effectively .
21 For a start , it enabled Personnel Department to answer rapidly simple enquiries such as have we got a man named Bloggs working for us ?
22 Meanwhile the police are warning drug pushers to stay away from future events or face the consequences …
23 We 've made a determined effort to try to get more er drug addicts to come forward , to accept treatment and so on .
24 Krill eggs , 5–6 mm in diameter , are laid near the surface and sink to depths of over 1500 m ; the first few larval stages ( nauplii and metanauplii ) develop at even greater depths before the young krill rise to feed close to the surface .
25 They had provoked Rebecca West to make more than one violent intervention .
26 Exploration by the BGS and mining companies has shown tin values to extend beyond and below the open pit .
27 The planet p' is so small that even the biggest available telescopes can not possibly observe it ; the experimental astronomer applies for a research grant to build yet a bigger one .
28 Blades are in 6mm hex-section alloy steel , sliding past an internal spring ring holder to snuggle deep in the handles .
29 While this Canadian experiment attempts to provide as many performance measures as possible , it is admitted that it is not practical to provide measures for all programmes .
30 Surrounded by potential weapons , an inmate has to be given the all-clear by the prison 's hard labour board to ensure potentially dangerous prisoners do not work in the kitchen .
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