Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] [adj] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Your food stamps will be stopped March 1992 because we received notice that you had passed away . |
| 2 | To make oneself a ‘ victim of God 's justice ’ , to perform penances greater than one 's own sins had ‘ earned ’ , was to set that additional penance ‘ free ’ for someone else to ‘ use ’ for their salvation . |
| 3 | At one point Nicholas Ridley tried to protect arms exports to Saddam just six weeks before he invaded Kuwait , saying Britain stood to lose £1 billion if they were stopped . |
| 4 | Since , because of the right hon. Gentleman 's policies , the building societies stand to lose £1 billion because of mortgage repossessions and since local authorities are having to spend £500 million on bed-and-breakfast and temporary accommodation , does not the Prime Minister think that the rescue mortgage scheme that we have promoted would be the effective way to ensure not only the relief of misery for scores of thousands of families , but that at least he did the honourable thing by his victims ? |
| 5 | Better by far to tackle equity withdrawal on big loans , where better-off house-buyers borrow £20,000 more than they need for a house-purchase , to buy that flashy car they have always wanted . |
| 6 | Sharon could earn £16 million if her next film , Sliver , matches the success of Basic Instinct , which shot her to stardom . |
| 7 | Since Pro-File is a data logger it can log parameters other than those required for it to function as a dive computer ( depth , temperature and air data as functions of time ) . |
| 8 | Their dealings for clients at premium prices realised £1,378,892 more than would have been obtained if the shares had been sold later . |
| 9 | It refers first to the widening of the scope of collective bargaining to include subjects other than pay and conditions , citing as examples : the provision of time and office services for lay trade-union representatives ; man-power planning ; job and income security ; and disclosure of information . |
| 10 | His idea was to find works in these unlikely locations which incorporate photographic strategies and techniques to find artists other than pure photographers who use the medium in making paintings , sculpture , drawings , prints , books , installations and videos . |
| 11 | Loss of weight has meanings other than slimness . |
| 12 | The space below the hole will tend to contain objects smaller than the hole , and the space above will tend to contain objects larger than the hole . |
| 13 | The space below the hole will tend to contain objects smaller than the hole , and the space above will tend to contain objects larger than the hole . |
| 14 | Sensation rang up the curtain on July when Sir Derek Rayner revealed that government-reared rats for research cost £28 each when the going price for a rat in civvy street was £2 . |
| 15 | Computer People Group Plc saw lower profits for the year ending December 31 than were expected at the interim stage due to a drop in recruitment revenues in the UK and lower volume sales of consultancy services in the US . |
| 16 | Histamine has effects other than the stimulation of acid and pepsin secretion , such as marked vasoactivity . |
| 17 | The assumption was that their wages only supplemented the family income and , anyway , they did not need to find work interesting because they had families to look after , which was their real job . |
| 18 | Gloucester beat Sale 17-11 while Bristol thumped Rugby 35-13 . |
| 19 | The finance director , Roger Wood , said savings over the next two years were likely to total £13 million as the company took advantage of the new low-interest-rate environment . |
| 20 | Tailored for length , the jacket complemented trousers narrower than the art-deco drainpipes on either side of the ‘ Gartocher ’ across the road . |
| 21 | A co-operation agreement or joint venture infringes Article 85 if it may appreciably affect inter-state trade and its object or effect is to prevent , restrict or distort competition . |
| 22 | Already the fund has broken the £100,000 mark but it needs £200,000 more before it can add the pledges from the national organisations . |
| 23 | The departmental budget ( which covers costs other than those of buildings ( including rent and external maintenance ) and the salaries of academic staff which are met centrally ) for the School of Geography for 1992–3 is of the order of 408K , of which 304K relates to the cost of departmental salaries and 104K to non-staff costs . |
| 24 | One-to-one tests may include topics other than simple arithmetic , so in this sense " oral " is equivalent to the APU type of " practical " test . |
| 25 | ( 3 ) The third consideration supposedly favouring preference utilitarianism was that we may desire things other than experiences for ourselves . |
| 26 | It once being realized that one can desire things other than pleasure , there is no reason to fudge the fact that people evidently have , to some extent , a desire for the happiness of others , whether of people in general or of particular people . |
| 27 | By three weeks , resection rats weighed 15% less than controls , but there was no difference in body weight between the resection and transection animals receiving CR-1409 . |
| 28 | ‘ protecting persons other than persons at work against risks to health or safety arising out of or in connection with the activities of persons at work ’ ; |
| 29 | However , ex hypothesi , the firm can not contravene s 57 because , as a member of SFA , it is an authorised person ( and so the restrictions do not apply ) . |
| 30 | In the present chapter we shall consider terms other than exemption clauses . |