Example sentences of "[to-vb] [noun pl] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This leads record companies to treat musicians not as wage-labourers but as contracted ‘ artists ’ who are paid not a fixed sum for their labour-time but in royalties , in proportion to their success ( ibid : 130 ) . |
| 2 | She had the cheek to say he ought to cancel meetings only because of ill-health or for work opportunities , not because he 'd decided to go out with someone else . |
| 3 | A global perspective allows firms both to spot opportunities faster than others and to build networks of supply that combine the strengths of various locations and so further reduce total supply costs . |
| 4 | Difficulties with navigation and equipment tend to affect walkers more than climbers , largely because there are so many more weekend ‘ Munro-baggers ’ . |
| 5 | These men were taste-makers , whose judgements were important ; but the time available to them for writing was limited by the demands of negotiation and administration , so that they tended to write essays more than books , catalogue entries rather than articles . |
| 6 | The Lord Chief Justice , Lord Lane , admitted that it did a bench of magistrates no ‘ credit if their clerk continues to affix standard conditions to bail forms even while applications are being made for unconditional bail ’ . |
| 7 | However , excitement can quickly turn to anxiety when the time it takes to conceive takes longer than originally expected . |
| 8 | The aim of the new welfare authorities was to provide homes rather than institutions and so private houses were acquired and converted and then modern purpose-built homes were constructed . |
| 9 | However , individual members could be faced with a deterioration in their balance of trade if the trade creation effect were to increase imports more than exports . |
| 10 | The study of UFOs has tended to attract cranks rather than scientists , for good reasons . |
| 11 | The CML accepted the force of this objection , and proposed instead that any rule , if introduced , should require solicitors simply to inform lenders immediately if it were evident that completion would be delayed by more than 3 days — a view which appeared to be supported by a considerable number of other respondents . |
| 12 | Would he agree to support a review of the Reserve Forces Safeguard of Employment Act 1985 so that we shall not have in the future the rash of litigation that has been needed against employers who have declined to accept reservists back since the Gulf war ? |
| 13 | It is introduced as a hypothesis which can bring coherence and understanding into this area — a piece of speculation which has continued to worry empiricists ever since it was first developed since it does not seem to be based on facts . |
| 14 | Go in and tell the assistant you just need to try things on before you start buying anything , and enjoy the experiment . |
| 15 | Both sections 12 and 14 allow the senior police officer to impose conditions only if he ‘ reasonably believes ’ that the stipulated events will occur , and the Government White Paper expressed the view that the new law would ‘ ensure that demonstrators have an effective means of challenging any decision by the police to impose conditions which is not justified by a real risk of serious disorder , disruption or coercion . ’ |
| 16 | I 'd like you to write things down because I think you 're gon na remember them , he says , hopefully ! |
| 17 | At the outset it may prove useful , if only to discover differences rather than similarities , to contrast Great-Russian nationalism with French . |
| 18 | Cuts in subsidy forced the nationalized industries to increase prices more than the going rate of inflation and pressure was put on them to restrain borrowing . |
| 19 | Fretter and Graham ( 1962 ) , on the other hand , thought the sole function of the hypobranchial gland was to produce a glairy slime to cement particles together as they are swept out of the mantle cavity-despite their recognition of urocyanylcholine in the secretion . |
| 20 | ‘ He 'll probably want to shake hands rather than kiss . ’ |
| 21 | We have to understand what seems often to attract women more than men to soap operas , or to a passionate interest in the doings of the Royal Family . |
| 22 | Instead of providing a service when it was most needed , the bus companies and British Rail were persuaded to provide services only when the road network made it less attractive for people to use public transport if private transport was available . |
| 23 | Enabling service users and supporters — Staff noted that users tended to trust services more because of their relationship with their key worker and that service users generally had a greater say in what they required . |
| 24 | Cold climates are said to affect blacks adversely because of their body fat deficiencies , weak ankles would account for the lack of black hockey players , etc . |
| 25 | willingness to pay by the public to conserve sites even though no recreational or other use is planned . |
| 26 | However , it 's not easy to drive nails exactly where you want them , especially into walls , and it 's difficult to get them out again once they 're in . |
| 27 | For example , reflecting the needs of many TEI users to treat texts both as documents and as input to databases , a sub-class of phrase called ‘ data ’ is defined to include ‘ data-like ’ features such as names of persons , places or organizations , numbers and dates , abbreviations and measures . |
| 28 | you 're starting to talk projects rather than |
| 29 | Third , when the market is reluctant to sell bills outright because of interest rate expectations . |
| 30 | A privately-agreed separation should give both parties what they want and allow them to lead lives apart while remaining Prince and Princess of Wales . |