Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adj] [noun pl] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were not required to wear normal police uniform , or to cut their hair short , both of which were considered demeaning . |
| 2 | Facts : the appellant pleaded guilty before a magistrates ' court in April , 1990 to an offence of receiving and was ordered to perform 180 hours community service . |
| 3 | He says that he thinks they can all work together to promote each others farm attractions . |
| 4 | IBM Corp was scheduled to make an ‘ operational announcement ’ on its Adstar storage business in San Jose just after we closed on Friday , but we have to assume that it was not anything sufficiently dramatic that it would move the share price , otherwise the company would have had to announce it on the New York Stock Exchange before the market opened to prevent a false market operating in the shares ; the announcement was to be made by vice-chairman Jack Kuehler , and was also to include some personnel news ; IBM has been studying ways to separate Adstar from the rest of the company , Dow Jones & Co notes , and earlier this year , it hired Morgan Stanley & Co and the Boston Consulting Group to recommend ways to speed up the process , which could involve outside investors or a new class of IBM share — and those advisors were scheduled to be done with the preliminary work by now ; a first step would likely be the creation of Adstar as a wholly-owned subsidiary — it has kept separate books since last year ; but the IBM spokesman said some observers might be surprised by the announcement , which was to be concerned with Adstar 's ‘ operations as an IBM business unit and its future direction . ’ |
| 5 | Item six to report social services committee Mr |
| 6 | He would like to see another firearms amnesty . |
| 7 | LATER , AS HE IS BEING TAKEN INTO POLICE CUSTODY , HE GETS A CHANCE TO OGLE SOME READERS CORRESPONDENCE . |
| 8 | The two have an agreement under which Computer Associates will provide RS/6000 users with CA-Unicenter for Unix , becoming , so it claims , the only systems software vendor to provide enterprise-wide systems management connecting MVS , VM and VSE-based mainframes with OS/2 , AIX and other Unix systems , enabling data to be managed from any workstation on the network . |
| 9 | The warmth of his reception stemmed in part from a pledge , based on recent spending negotiations with Norman Lamont , the Chief Secretary to the Treasury , to increase uniformed police manpower by a further 1,100 next year . |
| 10 | The decision by Durham County Council to provide 26 places morning and afternoon followed a campaign by Labour county councillors and borough councillors . |
| 11 | SCHEME TO EXCLUDE INCOMPETENT POLICE STATION ADVICE |
| 12 | Cash boost needed to repair Three Peaks Path |
| 13 | There is an increasing tendency for cautious executives to obtain legal expenses insurance so that cost will not prove an obstacle if they ever need to call upon professional help . |
| 14 | In the UK , Barclays Computer Operations , Knutsford , Cheshire , which was set up in January 1991 by Barclays Bank Plc to provide in-house facilities management , is stepping out into the commercial marketplace with its own offerings — OPM ( Operator Presentation Manager ) , and DataPlace . |
| 15 | Ironically , it is with an honorary degree in Law that the University now wishes to recognise him ; b ) actively encouraged military spending in such areas as ‘ Star Wars ’ , chemical weapons and first-strike nuclear weapons systems ; c ) attempted to scupper all arms control agreements and moves towards detente with the Eastern bloc . |
| 16 | The players are certainly going to find regular 50-overs cricket very demanding , coming as it will in the midst of already demanding four-day cricket . |
| 17 | ‘ We either dig up the countryside to meet growing aggregates consumption on roads , buildings and other major civil engineering projects , or take a decisive step towards a more sustainable society ’ . |
| 18 | Erm these states had come together voluntarily in seventeen eighty seven er to secure common aims protection against foreigners , Indians er economic aims , and these aims bound them together , common purposes and so on , but was the United States a permanent union ? |
| 19 | [ That this House is dismayed at the failure of Her Majesty 's Customs and Excise to provide adequate services at Cardiff-Wales Airport ; considers it to be an absolute dereliction of duty to fail to provide continuous customs monitoring of international flights into the airport ; notes that travellers are advised to ring the Customs Office at Barry Maritime Docks in the event of their having anything to declare ; and , given the potential danger of terrorist activity , drug smuggling and other illegal activities , demands the immediate restoration of a full customs service forthwith . ] |
| 20 | During major external excavations Mechanical/Electrical Contractors to provide 48 hrs notice of major delivery requirements . |
| 21 | LAW SOCIETY TO APPEAL STANDARD FEES DECISION |
| 22 | Peter Baxter , producer and cricket-lover who had done much to restore outside sports broadcasting , confessed himself happy . |
| 23 | To some extent , these sectoral preferences are related to ethno-religious lines of demarcation ( Boal and Poole 1976 ) ; certainly it is reasonable to view inner-city communities east and west of the river as each having a higher-status ethnic counterpart . |
| 24 | The pigeon is being allowed to serve 35 days quarantine at Stephen 's home in Middlesbrough , Cleveland . |
| 25 | A.H.Q. expected to detect these transports east of Malta at extreme range and by that time I could spare some Marylands while still meeting the P.R . |
| 26 | THE Princess of Wales 's favourite touring ballet company , The London City Ballet of which she is patron , is to close in July claiming it failed to receive promised Arts Council grants . |
| 27 | It is not inconceivable that a government would wish to render all strikes criminal . |
| 28 | International : Iraq helps to destroy nuclear weapons complex |
| 29 | The Equal Opportunities Commission brought an application for judicial review in December 1990 , claiming that it was against European law to require men to pay NI for longer and to make five more years ' contributions than women in order to receive full pensions entitlement . |
| 30 | Motif-based , the three module programme is meant to simplify day-to-day systems management of user accounts , file systems and systems performance . |