Example sentences of "[det] [noun] [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only after knowing what our target is can we go on and set a transfer price that encourages each division to operate at the required volume . |
| 2 | Last year 's Welsh Office waiting list initiative offering particular operations at certain centres was not a great success in Clwyd when patients showed little enthusiasm to travel to South Wales or Bangor for hip , knee and eye operations . |
| 3 | They do n't ask your permission , if you wish that money to go into Tory funds . |
| 4 | I would have had to pay tax unless I 'd set up trusts , er by setting up trusts I could then effectively delay paying the tax er use that money to invest in new companies . |
| 5 | It means that money to pay for your current fuel consumption , and towards the arrears you owe , is taken from your benefit each week and paid direct to your fuel account . |
| 6 | Member states could however veto any proposal which they thought was detrimental to their economies , therefore very little progress to harmonise to common European standards took place . |
| 7 | A picture , probably ; she had always admired his work , perhaps a little money to go with it ; that would be welcome . |
| 8 | She hopes ( ‘ in a money sense ’ ) that he will ‘ get the Civil Service post : Nice to have a little money to spare above the necessaries of life . ’ |
| 9 | Charities have little money to spend on fees , so nobody wants to be seen looking after them . |
| 10 | The gentlemen in Virginia were in no position to do this ; they had very little money to spend in a gentlemanly way and no particular experience of colonization to give them any other claims to respect and obedience , as nothing got done and about 60 of the 100 initial settlers died in 1607 . |
| 11 | 14 You have a little money to give to an animal conservation project . |
| 12 | So on there you 've got er oh I would n't know what that adverts to do with |
| 13 | Such a duty of confidence is subject to , and overridden by , the duty of any party to that contract to comply with the law of the land . |
| 14 | Special task forces have been at work in each board to deal with the longest waiting lists and I have set aside an extra £1 million this year and in each of the next two years to support their work . |
| 15 | The women there will tell you how all those jobs are defined by low pay in many cases , by low status , by very little opportunity to move into the high grades . |
| 16 | Strata subcultures tend to be particularly distinctive when there is little opportunity to move from one stratum to another . |
| 17 | The latter , fully engaged in this process , has little opportunity to go in pursuit of relevant insights from the informing disciplines . |
| 18 | Without prior purchase there was little opportunity to invest in land , except for those " professionals " tapping its rising value indirectly through offering mortgages . |
| 19 | The imbalance between service commitments and training is such that doctors have little opportunity to learn from their experiences , and little or no teaching takes place in protected time , when they would be free from service commitments . |
| 20 | Younger workers living in company dormitories have little opportunity to escape from the affairs of their firm and from an early age their leisure time is dominated by work colleagues . |
| 21 | The wife may be unable to get a job and may have little opportunity to work in the house especially if it is customary for servants to do all cooking and housework . |
| 22 | I took that part to mean about trust between him and the board , ie he trusted them to let him have the final say etc etc . |
| 23 | Mr Takeshita wants that election to come after the Paris economic summit in mid-July , hoping that the voters will be impressed with his statesmanlike performance in dealing with the Latin debt crisis . |
| 24 | The implications for us are that we shall have to find it very hard to ensure that we get a share of that grant to spend on implementation of the Food Safety Act . |
| 25 | We welcome people from every party , it does n't really matter which party , or even if they belong to no party , who are just committed to seeing a representative representation , seeing more women in there , because women in this country , just as a matter of fact , have a rather different experience from most men , and if you 're making a decision then you want there the people who have had a wide range of experience , who can bring that experience to bear on making the decision . |
| 26 | what weight of importance to attach to each criterion to arrive at an overall assessment for each axis . |
| 27 | Leave five minutes before each interview to look at the candidate 's application form/letter , and any particular questions noted down while first reading it . |
| 28 | The process is becoming laborious and a lot of energy is being expended with little result to show for it , progress is very slow . |
| 29 | It gives me little pleasure to agree with him , but I do so . |
| 30 | The money each club generates is held for that club to use for improvements , alterations and safety measures . |