Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] [noun] [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It costs less than £2 to press a CD-Rom . |
| 2 | No indication has yet been given of the price of the G40 , but it will need to retail for less than £11,000 to keep the GTi in touch . |
| 3 | The changes included the introduction of the pre-trial review ( see above ) with the object , in part , of assisting the litigant in person , the encouragement of the use of arbitration rather than trial to resolve the dispute at the request of one of the parties , and the introduction of a rule that solicitor 's costs would not be awarded to the successful party where the claim was for less than £100 . |
| 4 | The words ‘ I ask you , son , to care for the lands which will come to you with your usual diligence and look after them so that they may come to your sons ’ , although they do not sufficiently express a trust but advice rather than obligation to leave the lands , are none the less regarded as having the force of a trust in favour of the grandsons after the death of their father . |
| 5 | The programme itself becomes the focus of treatment , rather than therapy to resolve the underlying psychological problems . |
| 6 | Pearson 's new science of biometry used calculus rather than arithmetic to conceptualize the population as a bounded space , with individual variation following predictable laws . |
| 7 | A basic difference in the architectural construction was the use in Pskov of corbelled arches rather than pendentives to support the domes . |
| 8 | First , use nail clippers rather than scissors to cut the mails . |
| 9 | National economic sovereignty is already sharply qualified : Britain took a mere ten minutes longer than Denmark to follow the Bundesbank in raising interest rates earlier this year . |
| 10 | Forest of Dean council say the ramps were too steep , it 'll cost more than £3,000 to build a better ramp across the Palmers garden and regulations insist the Palmers must make a contribution . |
| 11 | It is also alleged under the name Garawand he applied for a loan of more than £40,000 to buy the house in Southfield Crescent , Stockton , where he was living . |
| 12 | Graham and Mark have been asked to find more than £500 to repair the hallway or risk being evicted . |
| 13 | COUNCIL chiefs are to spend more than £200,000 to find a new logo … after their current red , white and blue emblem was branded aggressive , sexist and racist . |
| 14 | Vulcanian eruptions sometimes form the first phases of a longer eruption , when the volcano is ‘ clearing its throat ’ for the real business , and as such , there may be no new magmatic material involved , and all the material that is showered up as ash to form the ‘ cauliflower cloud ’ may be merely old , cold , solid lava which was previously blocking up the throat ; if this is the case , the eruptions are sometimes called ultra-vulcanian . |
| 15 | He walked out as far as Scheveningen to draw the fisherwomen there . |
| 16 | The school was divided into Upper and Lower boys , and the Lower boys in each house fagged for members of the Library : they cooked their tea , ran errands for them , being sent perhaps as far as Windsor to fetch a cake from Fuller 's teashop , and they had to come at once when someone in the Library shouted " Boy ! " , the last arrival being given the job . |
| 17 | It gives a new and cruel twist to community care that people may have to be shipped perhaps as far as Birkenhead to find a community home . |
| 18 | If , like many of us , you ca n't lay hand son the exact title and date of publication DO NOT be deterred but add contextualising detail of the kind which will help librarians as well as researchers to locate the item eg , size ( in a great fat book ) ; colour ( bluey-green cover with photos … ) ; age ( quite old now I suppose , have n't seen it in bookshops for ages … ) . |
| 19 | Optical ( OCR ) characters enable people as well as machines to read the information on the tag . |
| 20 | According to Lotus , it will be a ‘ highly object-oriented ’ implementation , which will include greater networking capabilities — allowing users to contribute data to a single spreadsheet across local and wide area networks — as well as functions to make the changing of macro-languages easier . |
| 21 | To achieve ISO 9000 you must operate a number of general management processes like contract review , purchasing , internal audit , corrective action [ including customer complaints ] , training and statistical review , as well as procedures to control the particular process you operate . |
| 22 | The Temiar transplant young petai ( Parkia speciosa , Leguminosae — grown for their edible seeds ) seedlings into their gardens after the rice harvest and are reliant on bamboo for many purposes : house building , blowpipes and cooking pots for example , as well as knives to cut the umbilical cord in childbirth . |
| 23 | In the event of armed conflicts between different nationalities , the national army " can act independently as mediator to ease the dispute even without being asked to do so by the administrations concerned " . |
| 24 | The number of cars produced fell from a peak of 800 in 1990 to 650 this year , although production will increase considerably if legislation to allow the company to produce fully-built cars is passed later this year . |