Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] [to-vb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I think he was employed by the park authorities to scare away all but the most committed . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | On this basis we may stress the need to revise language teaching methods to come more in line with second language acquisition . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | But if Mr Clinton allows Congress , the doctors and the drug industry to pick apart his proposals , his public standing will suffer . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Meanwhile the police are warning drug pushers to stay away from future events or face the consequences … |
| 16 | We 've made a determined effort to try to get more er drug addicts to come forward , to accept treatment and so on . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Exploration by the BGS and mining companies has shown tin values to extend beyond and below the open pit . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Blades are in 6mm hex-section alloy steel , sliding past an internal spring ring holder to snuggle deep in the handles . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | DARLINGTON councillors have asked developers planning an office block in a town centre car park to retain as many parking spaces as possible during the work . |
| 24 | Detectives are appealing for the lorry driver and any other witnesses who may have seen the struggle in the supermarket or car park to come forward . |
| 25 | She was looking at him now , wishing he would unbend a little more , maybe sit back and enjoy the evening , and allow his sleeked-back hair to fall more naturally about his face . |
| 26 | Lord Hope also asked the Scottish Legal Aid Board to act urgently to lessen any hardship to the parents . |
| 27 | To see if the installation of metering on a large scale , does influence the er the usage of water , and if it does , and if that shows savings in the amount of water people people need , then maybe the water companies can reduce their reduce their capital investment programmes to provide even more water . |
| 28 | We have three limited edition silk bomber jackets , five sweatshirts and five baseball hats to give away this week . |
| 29 | Before the campaign went on the air , the Bank put in place a research programme to establish just how effective it would be . |
| 30 | The debtor begins the procedure by asking a licensed insolvency practitioner to put together an IVA proposal . |