Example sentences of "[verb] [adj -er] [noun] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Of course we would like to see lower interest rates , ’ he said , acknowledging the burden on people paying mortagages . |
| 2 | Advantage Lighting systems , a system installed by Fosse Contracts , also offers lower height columns at 6 metres . |
| 3 | Lexandro 's father was Calculator Maximus to Lord Spinoza , whose clan owned lower hab factories that built Mammoth class land-trains to traverse the ash wastes on great cleated tracks , stoutly armoured to resist assault by nomads . |
| 4 | An increase in the deficit to £1.4bn is expected , reflecting lower export volumes last month . |
| 5 | In line with other insurance companies , the group announced lower bonus rates for its life assurance and pensions schemes in response to poorer investment returns over the last few years . |
| 6 | I set off again , maintaining for some reason — perhaps because I expected further farm creatures to wander across my path — my slow speed of before . |
| 7 | The company is now hoping to be able to conduct further field trials in the US and Israel , both of which currently use pesticide sprays to control their pest problems . |
| 8 | Astra refuses to conduct further rat studies with lower doses of ranitidine , saying that this is Glaxo 's job . |
| 9 | The government on Dec. 22 announced further emergency measures to deal with the deepening energy crisis [ see also p. 38431 ] . |
| 10 | The original concept of separate kitchen/restaurants and buffets for HSTs was too ambitious given shorter journey times and changing eating habits . |
| 11 | In England there are cases where degree holders can not get jobs and are therefore forced to attend further education courses to try to improve their qualifications . |
| 12 | Limitations on the output of the most efficient will prevent them from taking advantage of technology and size , thereby inhibiting further productivity gains . |
| 13 | Excavation in 1973 1 km ( 0.6 miles ) to the south revealed further stone buildings fronting Ermine Street , though whether occupation was continuous between the two areas remains uncertain . |
| 14 | Now these troublemakers have given the management the excuse they need to harass the genuine pickets by pursuing further court orders , ’ he said . |
| 15 | So successful have these videos been that a partially self-supporting unit , NACAB Vision , has been formed which produces further training videos on a wider range of topics . |
| 16 | EC imposes tougher pollution laws on EC heavy vehicles |
| 17 | There is a trap for the unwary where Newco is a close company and lends money to the trustees of an employee trust which holds shares in Newco , for example where funding is required to enable the trust to acquire further Newco shares . |
| 18 | It was this , plus echoes of the Arsenal-Norwich affair , that prompted the FA to follow its own precedent by bringing further disrepute charges against clubs rather than individual players . |
| 19 | These included lower interest rates on farm loans and emergency funds to enable dairies to pay off debts to farmers for unpaid milk . |
| 20 | The inspector found lower ability classes were two years ahead of similar groups in other schools and observed teachers achieving what other schools had told him was impossible . |
| 21 | Business men who are borrowers naturally want lower interest rates , but I am afraid that the Government have to take a rather broader view of what is in the interests of the economy . |
| 22 | The moving from fixed-term to redeemable stock was necessary to secure lower interest rates , and such stock predominated in iss-ues after 1714 . |
| 23 | In a thinly disguised attack on the Prime Minister and her former adviser Professor Sir Alan Walters , Sir Leon said the countries which had become full members of the exchange rate mechanism had enjoyed lower interest rates and lower inflation . |
| 24 | At a news conference held to launch the report , its editor , the ILO economist Wouter van Ginneken , said yesterday that he believed workers in the richer countries might have to accept lower salary levels as international companies looked more to poorer states for their work force . |
| 25 | This may have played some role in the big decline in the profitability of Japanese industry over the same period as Japanese exporters were forced to accept lower profit margins , but there will have been some compensating improvement in the profitability of import-competing industries in the United States and Europe as Japanese exporters found themselves obliged to raise their prices to recoup some of the cost increases . |
| 26 | While it may be bad news for the top two auctioneers it seems to many that Phillips and Bonhams will both benefit , for they appear much more prepared to accept lower value items for their sales . |
| 27 | But local producers have lesser reputations and command lower export prices . |
| 28 | Another one bites the dust : Zeos International Ltd reports that a US district court dismissed a class action shareholder suit against it because the plaintiffs failed to provide specific facts that were material to the trial : the suit was filed last September , alleging that the company failed to disclose the formation of its new subsidiary , Occidental Corp , to manufacture and market lower cost computers under a new brand name , a development revealed by the Wall Street Journal . |
| 29 | The Confederation of British Industry wants lower interest rates . |
| 30 | On July 17 President Saddam Hussein denounced the UN as " an advertising agency " of the USA and indicated his government 's determination to obstruct further weapons inspections . |