Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Expecting to see only derision in those clear , light eyes , she was surprised to find they held a flicker of unwilling respect , even admiration , but all he said was , ‘ Would you like another brandy ? ’ |
| 2 | The needle rod is constrained to provide only motion in the vertical direction . |
| 3 | Why anyone should want to hide away money in Kabul is quite beyond me . |
| 4 | He collected cheque books for the account and used them to obtain nearly £7,000 in cash and property . |
| 5 | He then collected cheque books for that account and used them to obtain over £7,000 in cash and property . |
| 6 | This lack of knowledge is seen to reflect both unprofessionalism in practice and poor training prior to practice . |
| 7 | He also pledged to unfreeze nearly $60,000,000 in assets belonging to the three countries which had been seized by the USA in June 1940 . |
| 8 | WITTON-LE-WEAR wonder Pond Tornado has been backed to win nearly £100,000 in the Greyhound Derby . |
| 9 | Few of the exhibits , which are expected to fetch around £100,000 in total , come with a guarantee of having been used in any particular film or show . |
| 10 | I Spare time as a school boy , I used to play either football in the winter or cricket in the summer . |
| 11 | The idea of videoconferencing is to draw together people in widely separated locations for ‘ meetings ’ without having to spend time and money travelling large distances . |
| 12 | The first war artist in Ulster was Ken Howard , who was twice commissioned by the Imperial War Museum to record day-today life in Northern Ireland : of the forces and the civilians in 1973 and 1978 . |
| 13 | Edmonton , Alberta-based Telus Corp has entered a partnership with CUC Broadcasting Ltd to develop UK cable television and telephone operations at half a dozen franchises in the London area : Telus says that it plans to invest about $100m in the effort in the next five years . |
| 14 | The Greek Telecommunications Organisation , OTE , is expected to show a record $700m pre-tax profit this year compared to $400m in 1992 , Reuter reports from Athens : ‘ It will be a record profit allowing us to invest heavily in the modernisation of Greek telecommunications , ’ a government official said , adding that things would improve even more with OTE 's partial privatisation — the government has said it will sell 49% of OTE this year with 35% going to a foreign phone company ; it plans to invest about $1,000m in 1993 which will include 350,000 new digital lines , the transfer of 220,000 existing lines , many new digital centres and digging up 2,800 miles of trenches for cables . |
| 15 | BCE Inc says it is ready to invest about $1,600m in telecommunications activities over the next five years in Asia , Latin America and Eastern Europe , and is interested in wireline privatisations , investment in wireless cellular licenses and joint ventures in both in different countries in those regions ; it has active negotiations with Mexico , India and Moscow for cellular licence investments , and is Cable & Wireless Plc 's partner in Mercury Communications Ltd ; BCE president L R Wilson also criticised Canada 's ‘ uncertain and confused ’ telecommunications regulatory framework , describing it as BCE 's biggest challenge , and calling for change ; at the annual meeting , he hit out at the policies of the Canadian Radio television & Telecommunications Commission , saying it is too slow in considering new products , services and rates — ‘ To be truly competitive , we need government policy and a regulatory framework which is clear , responsive and internationally relevant , ’ he said . |
| 16 | ‘ I feel , Mr Multhrop , ’ Auguste interjected in the effort to convert unspeakably thoughts in concrete action , ‘ we should stop work in the kitchen . ’ |
| 17 | According to Electronic News , Hewlett-Packard Co 's Sterling or PA10 project to do a single chip implementation of the processor and all the support circuitry of a low-end Precision Architecture RISC workstation is now being fabricated by Hitachi Ltd for use as an embedded processor — and the part is said to cost under $10 in large quantities . |
| 18 | I used to ride both horses in the early days to take them to be shod over to Lowson 's Smithy at Romaldkirk . |
| 19 | At the Conservative Party Conference in 1986 , Norman Fowler , then Secretary of State for Health , produced a computer printout of 380 new ‘ large hospital schemes ’ : the list was so long because he had counted every programme over £1m , whereas schemes had previously had to cost over £5m in order to qualify . |
| 20 | Theologians have generally found it possible to hold together belief in the fulness of God in Christ and belief in the unchangeable perfection of the divine nature . |
| 21 | If you absolutely love butter and hate polyunsaturated margarine , you would be foolish to make a rule to eat only margarine in future . |
| 22 | On the mantelpiece a Victorian whirligig soldier stands to attention — originally he would have been used to scare away birds in the garden . |
| 23 | Ultra Network Technologies Inc , the pioneer of 800Mbps and up local area networking , has signed a letter of intent to sell out to Maple Grove , Minnesota-based Computer Network Technology Corp , which has agreed to pay about $1.88m in shares for the privately held firm . |
| 24 | Their original function was to represent the welfare needs of children and young people separately from the general poverty alleviation system ( Armenfürsorge ) , but they tended to develop mainly programmes in preventative medicine ( Sachsse and Tennstedt , 1988 ) . |
| 25 | Grade4-unable to swallow even liquids in adequate amounts . |
| 26 | A car worker was yesterday ordered to pay almost £10,000 in fines and costs for having the world 's largest known illegal collection of birds ' eggs . |
| 27 | Earlier this year , a Texas court ordered Coopers , along with a former Miniscribe chairman and the company 's investment bank , to pay almost $600m in compensation and punitive damages to Miniscribe 's bondholders ( see ACCOUNTANCY , March , p 16 ) . |
| 28 | Barrow was a White Knight — headhunted to fight off a corporate raider — for whom Kennecott had to pay over $1m. in order to match a clause in Barrow 's contract with Exxon which allowed him bonuses in line with the rising price of the company 's stock . |
| 29 | Two Taiwanese companies have been ordered to pay over $24m in damages for selling counterfeit Nintendo Co Ltd cartridges , Nintendo said . |
| 30 | She accepted the Swimsafe challenge and covered 45 lengths of the Blackpool Lido swimming baths to raise over £80 in sponsorship . |