Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The " cooling-off " period in the case where the debtor makes an offer , allows the debtor the opportunity to cancel up to five days from receipt of the second copy of the agreement which must be sent to him ( s68(a) ) . |
| 2 | Under the contract , a copy of which was leaked to the media , Nur Elmy Osman , describing himself as " minister of state for health , Republic of Somalia " , granted Acher a 20-year concession to treat up to 550,000 tons a year of industrial and hospital waste , including " solid and liquid waste of the toxic type " , at a disposal facility in Somalia and to store the treated waste in a landfill . |
| 3 | The idea is that when an instruction that is meant for a coprocessor is encountered , the coprocessor handles it leaving the main processor to carry on with other jobs . |
| 4 | If the essential qualities needed for reinventing health care under Mr Clinton are three — willingness to go back to first principles , faith in political action , and above all , a superhuman command of detail — then Mr Magaziner has spent his whole life in training for his current job . |
| 5 | You skirt Godinton Park to go on to Great Chart . |
| 6 | And literacy is not the end of the road : there is the added incentive that those adults who can read and write now have the opportunity to go on to higher education through a special rural matriculation scheme . |
| 7 | If we could be certain ( as we ought ) that every person of 16 had the opportunity to go on to further education or practical , examinable work , then we could drop the 16+ examination without loss , and with a possible simplification of the school curriculum up to that point . |
| 8 | Erm on the basis that er we were , when we were setting the , the targets , the time was set by the work study personnel erm and then the operator was able to obtain a trial run on the time given er and if at the end of the work , he was satisfied that he had made the target bonus , or near enough , or if he was satisfied that , given a little extra opportunity to go back onto that job should it come back again in the near future , then he would , he would see clearly that he could make at least fifty percent er which was the target bonus , and probably more . |
| 9 | ‘ And you have no plans to go back into general nursing ? ’ |
| 10 | My staff and I welcome the opportunity to sit down with local exporters and importers to offer not only our own expertise but to provide the link to the truly international help that is available . |
| 11 | you , if there 's any money to come back on that |
| 12 | Today is an Edinburgh holiday and so I have a day off — a good opportunity to catch up with various things , and the plumber is arriving shortly to re-seal my bath . |
| 13 | Over 40 former staff took the opportunity to catch up with old friends and discuss their pension queries with Beryl Aldridge from Pensions Department , Hammersmith . |
| 14 | It took her two hours to come up with that . ’ |
| 15 | We expect the authorities to come up with imaginative schemes , designed to tackle specific local crime problems , such as kerb crawling , mugging and burglary . |
| 16 | BRITAIN 'S athletics selectors were slammed yesterday after persuading Kriss Akabusi to come out of international retirement for one final fling . |
| 17 | My feet were sore , I was roasted like Sunday pork , and I did n't even have the money to leap on to one of the buses that flashed past me . |
| 18 | Now the company want permission to work up to 20 Sundays in any year from 7.30am until 4.30pm . |
| 19 | At the start of the year , several firms were steeling themselves for the tough , face-losing decision to pull out of some markets — or out of the securities business altogether . |
| 20 | From McIntosh 's point of view it was not an easy decision to pull out of institutional sector research as he was involved in setting it up in the mid '70s . |
| 21 | The ANC 's decision to pull out of constitutional talks was supported by several other CODESA participants who also withdrew . |
| 22 | For a drainage level to come in at this depth would have required some 600 ft. of tunnelling and of course , since the art of blasting was not yet introduced , it would have been a protracted and costly operation . |
| 23 | The horse that forgot about the tiger that lived in its lair at the bottom of the hill , or at any time disregarded the danger , would very soon become the tiger 's dinner , and so lack the opportunity to pass on to future generations its genes for a poor memory and a low threshold of fear . |
| 24 | But Joseph was now resigned to moving to the reservation , saying : ‘ It required a strong heart to stand up against such talk , but I urged my people to be quiet , and not to begin a war . ’ |
| 25 | This is always a very popular event , one where you have the opportunity to meet up with old friends and we hope make new ones ; so please obtain your tickets early to avoid disappointment . |
| 26 | And so there they , they claim that his childhood was relevant , because of this character defect in , in Wilson , his inability to stand up to strong men . |
| 27 | Before they met , Marshall announced the absurd news that enquiries in the rag trade had revealed that Trilyn , notorious for its inability to stand up to heavy wear , was most frequently used for trouser pockets . |
| 28 | More striking is evidence of reluctance by local groups to launch out into direct engagement with the public in open meetings . |
| 29 | IF you have ever wondered whether or not you would enjoy a canal holiday , a Cheshire boat operator is offering the opportunity to find out on short cut-price ‘ taster ’ breaks . |
| 30 | I know I do have the confidence of the backbenchers to carry on with this particular job as well as the confidence of the leader and the shadow Chancellor . |