Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [to-vb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has not taken IBM Corp long to admit informally that its target of 25,000 job cuts this year is on the low side , and the company now says that it expects at least 6,000 jobs to be cut at its three main operations in the Hudson Valley in upstate New York , where previously it had forecast between 3,000 and 3,500 : IBM told Reuters that the job cuts , which will likely include layoffs , will come from the company 's mainframe business in Poughkeepsie and Kingston , where at least 2,000 jobs will be cut , up from the company 's previous expectations of between 600 to 800 , and it also sees bigger staff cuts at the East Fishkill chip facility , which now expects to lose about 4,000 workers , up from about 3,000 — IBM is phasing out semiconductor operations in East Fishkill , moving some of the work to Burlington , Vermont , some to Essonnes , France ; advanced semiconductor research and packaging remains in East Fishkill ; the company says that despite the increased cuts , it believes that the charges it took in the fourth quarter will still be sufficient . |
| 2 | This is vintage Biffen on 19 December 1990 in a speech in which he was kind enough to comment favourably on some remarks I had made in Parliament the previous week on the same subject : |
| 3 | Marcus has been kind enough to come here . |
| 4 | He always wore a plain white shirt with the sleeves rolled back off his splendid forearms , and he had eyes dark enough to look truly black in the lighting of The Bar . |
| 5 | The group also has evidence , from the Azores , of volcanoes rising above the waves only to sink again and again beneath the weight of accumulating lava . |
| 6 | KERRY Matthew ran the race of her life on Saturday only to finish agonisingly outside the English Schools Championships qualifying time . |
| 7 | Wolf identified himself with the existing élite of Anglo-Jewry in regarding Jewish emancipation in England as a success story , and expecting that the growth of tolerance would enable Jews elsewhere to live both within their ancestral religion and culture , and as full citizens of their respective countries . |
| 8 | Come over here and spent his silver wedding just to come here and his golden wedding ! |
| 9 | Bill Clinton had come to their shrine on Memorial Day , the first president ever to do so . |
| 10 | THE Salvation Army began a High Court action yesterday to recover more than £6 million it believes was stolen from its accounts in a huge fraud . |
| 11 | The veteran of 11 wars , including Vietnam , was seen by millions of television viewers when he was hit but returned months later to file more moving reports from the war zone . |
| 12 | Nevertheless , it is clearly important that pupils should have opportunities both to read silently and to listen to well-written books read aloud throughout their school years . |
| 13 | Sitting DUP councillor Gardiner Kane boosted his vote dramatically to romp home at the head of the poll in the Ballycastle ward . |
| 14 | Langer has done a good deal of research into the evaluation of this approach to schema activation , and she is convinced that is helps poor readers and good readers alike to learn more from difficult textbooks . |
| 15 | Planes ca n't take off without the rigger there to pull away the chocks . |
| 16 | The left margin only : tap Enter ; then tap a cursor ( direction ) key to cancel the highlight Both margins : tap the Right key twice to select right indent : |
| 17 | It has been suggested that the Soviet political process produces tendencies for problems to be faced too late and for decision-makers then to push too fast and too far paying little heed to the impact of their decisions in other realms . |
| 18 | He found our monastic rule hard to bear so spent every second he could in the library . ’ |
| 19 | It is so frustrating to consider a sample to be exactly what you are looking for and then need to set up the card again to discover just how you arrived at it , while labelling as you go is only the work of a moment . |
| 20 | But if Herrnstein believes that there is a conspiracy afoot to discount totally the influences of inheritance on intelligence , this is nonsense . |
| 21 | As a precaution , it is wise to ask a neighbour or friend to have a look at the pond occasionally to check there are no severe problems ( e.g. dead fish , pump not working ) . |
| 22 | The city 's many chimney pots offer themselves in silhouette against the mildly energised off-black glow , but they neither smoke nor steam while God , lit with 25 watts , claws desperately to glance even faintly out of an over-high stained glass church windowledge . |
| 23 | He 's a very bright man , Michael Howard , but it 's quite clear that he 's much more concerned with grabbing the headlines and finding scapegoats , than with taking action through law that will actually improve the chance , both of preventing crime and of detecting crime , and then even more so , deterring people from re-offending , and it 's most distressing to see that when research showed that a particular non-custodial method of punishment is effective in perhaps fifty or seventy or eighty percent of cases , whereas prison is not , he goes for prison , he goes for picking on squatters , he goes for picking on the defendants right to silence so that we can see more people like er , jailed when they were innocent . |
| 24 | A woman would quite likely have ten or twelve children , several miscarriages and still-births only to see about half her children die from common childhood ailments . |
| 25 | Hence a 50W class-A amp would need to dissipate 100W continuously to operate properly . |
| 26 | Can I ask the convenor then to reply please . |
| 27 | Many students choose a college some way from home precisely to get away from such domestic restrictions . |
| 28 | But in the 1810s their studied simplicity must have made the post-Adam school of design then current in Edinburgh seem fussy and dated to a degree hard to appreciate now . |
| 29 | Madeleine , Aubrey thought — although he was far too loyal to his sister ever to say so to anyone — was vain , egotistical and spoilt . |
| 30 | On the other hand , the limitations of the supranational institutions and the unwillingness of member states totally to set aside their own national interests were starkly exposed in 1959 . |