Example sentences of "[noun pl] [to-vb] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Announcing the decision in Islamabad , the head of the local USAID office , James Norris , said that the agency would honour its commitment to allocate the remaining US$464,000,000 of a US$4,000 million aid package agreed in 1987 , to allow projects to continue until 1994 . |
| 2 | In the Littlewoods Cup , Scarborough , two goals down to Chelsea , score three times in seven minutes to go through 4-3 on aggregate . |
| 3 | Naylor did not keep her waiting , but rang her doorbell with a few minutes to go before eleven . |
| 4 | Four minutes to stand before 7,000 of her peers , to say nothing of the thousands of invalids , shift-workers and bored housewives who might well be tuned in to BBC2 . |
| 5 | It also placed greater emphasis on what it termed ‘ interdependence ’ rather than autonomy — the need for public sector institutions to relate to one another — perhaps through regional groupings — within the system . |
| 6 | Essentially , what the communications course does is to bring to the fore issues which had hitherto been considered marginal ; it brings the perspectives of a variety of disciplines to bear on one subject . |
| 7 | If the tax-transfer system creates a budget constraint that is nonlinear and non-convex , then it is possible for more than one tangency with an indifference curve to arise , and indeed for the same indifference curve to have two tangency points , and small changes in the budget constraint can cause the chosen number of hours to jump from one segment of the constraint to another ( e.g.points 6 and 7 in Fig. 12–2(c) ) . |
| 8 | We are not allowed to know just yet , for the London Underground rule book tells drivers to wait for 30 minutes before making an announcement , unless they 've received a message to the contrary from their controllers or there is some ‘ immediate threat to safety . ’ |
| 9 | On April 9 a bill on territorial administration ( continuing the process of administrative decentralization begun in 1982 — see pp. 37327-28 ) was adopted in the National Assembly by 287 to 286 , thanks to support from 11 independents and one UDC member , with three crucial abstentions and with the PCF as well as the RPR , the UDF and the majority of the UDC voting against . |
| 10 | ‘ It 's indicative of a seething hatred and the proximity of loyalist and nationalist areas which enables the killer gangs to drive into one another 's area in a minute and get back whether they are scouting or going in to murder . ’ |
| 11 | John Fowles , in his turn , invites readers to choose between three different endings to The French Lieutenant 's Woman . |
| 12 | Their trigger fingers are obviously becoming more itchy ; last year they took nine months to fire off 313,000 rounds at demonstrators with a total bill to the Korean taxpayer of $6.7 million . |
| 13 | Langton could also play snooker despite his disability , and negotiated 35 steps to play at one club , Preston Crown Court heard . |
| 14 | It is not unusual for Arabic paragraphs to consist of one sentence . |
| 15 | It is a metallic work-horse , miraculous , but laboured , straining at the shoulders to land in one piece . |
| 16 | These new agreements obliged both countries ' navies and air forces ( i ) to give 14 days ' advance warning , instead of the previous 25 days , of large military manoeuvres within 80 miles of the coasts of Argentina or of the Falklands Islands and other UK possessions in the south Atlantic ; and ( ii ) to give 42 hours ' notice for permission for combat vessels to approach within 15 miles of either coast , to be arranged by mutual agreement , instead of the previous 48 hours ' notice to approach within 50 miles . |
| 17 | The suburbs were strongholds of the Hezbollah movement , which , unlike other Lebanese militias , had refused government demands to disarm in 1990 . |
| 18 | Tokyo : Fuelled by the dollar 's decline against the yen , the Nikkei average recovered 167 points of Friday 's heavy losses to close at 35,376.35 . |
| 19 | Without access to property , the freedom of the parties to associate with one another and to make agreements would be of little practical significance in this context . |
| 20 | The prediction would be for the ownership of cars to rise by 52,000 in 2 years , and so total market demand for cars in Panaragua in this period would be about 52,000 ( or slightly more , allowing for old cars being scrapped ) . |
| 21 | It took about ten minutes to chew through one slice and only two very heavy loaves lasted us back to Newlyn . |
| 22 | Use a variety and put it in more than one spot , if you have space , to allow more birds to feed at one time . |
| 23 | Mr Maxwell , with 15 per cent of GPG , the old Guiness Peat Group , and Lord Kissin , with a five per cent stake , strongly opposed plans to sell off three of GPG 's operating companies . |
| 24 | Married to a sickly wife , then having to cope as a widower with a daughter who suffered fits frequently , finding work difficult to obtain , Thomas Titford must have felt he had enough crosses to bear for one lifetime . |
| 25 | Individual molecules are the fundamental decision-making elements in the brain … the function of the neuron 's to allow the elements to communicate with one another . |
| 26 | In mainland Europe the spacing between tracks and reversible signalling enables engineers to work on one track in complete safety while traffic continues to pass on the other . |
| 27 | The apparent ability of these receptors to substitute for one another is strange in view of their strong evolutionary conservation ; perhaps , mused Chambon , their absence results in a phenotype that can not easily be measured in the laboratory . |
| 28 | This takes note of the widespread area staff wish for the larger piece of time in a Region ( but also gives the shorter period too ) : it reduces a lot of sorting out of requests by the Overseas Groups and simplifies for them a pretty complicated and demanding piece of work : it means we do n't expect visitors to fly from one end of the UK & Ireland every 2 or 3 days as has sometimes happened in trying to meet a lot of requests . |
| 29 | He was wise enough in his broadcasts to refrain from one tactic , the inspiration of that chill fear which some of his political ranting achieved in the 193()s . |
| 30 | In most cases conversion meant little more than adjusting the overhead wires to allow for two conductors instead of one . |