Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [adj] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | The military strategy devised to implement successive governments ' Defence policies reflects both long-term national grand strategy and the directions given by the government of the day , and is largely the responsibility of the Chiefs of Staff . |
| 2 | Despite its own financial woes , IBM is expected to provide 60 days ' redundancy pay for each of the employees . |
| 3 | If any reporters were to be poached from other papers , they would mostly need to give three months ' notice . |
| 4 | Matthew Wauchope , sales director at Imago Systems , which supplies integrated human resource management applications for use on mainframes , minis and multi-user PCs to medium to large-size companies , also stresses the need for very functional systems that can be tailored to meet different users ' requirements . |
| 5 | To facilitate international links between the public networks , efforts are being made to standardise different countries ' ISDNs . |
| 6 | He was fined £3,500 and told to do 140 hours ' community service . |
| 7 | In some SSDs , relations with the police are dire , joint training is in tatters , and little is being done to build social workers ' confidence and skills are growing , and successful prosecutions have been achieved using the memorandum . |
| 8 | In his 1955–56 Annual Report , for example , Jacques wrote that if only this level of grant could be achieved , something could be done to raise part-time tutors ' fees and so reduce the glaring disparity between the minima of £1 110. 0d. for teaching a WEA Terminal class and £3 10s. 0d. for taking a University Sessional class . |
| 9 | Coniston Partners , the New York-based investment firm seeking to oust United Airlines ' board , is due to meet the engineers union today to discuss its plans for the big US carrier . |
| 10 | Unlike IBM 's SAA , he says , DCM is open and flexible enough to be customised for each particular site ; it allows for customers wanting to integrate other vendors ' hardware , which Bull will try to supply if necessary . |
| 11 | Both central and local government have their own contracts , including some individually tailored to suit particular authorities ' needs or views . |
| 12 | A gang of three armed raiders threatened to cut two babies ' throats if a family did n't hand over jewellery . |
| 13 | It also intends to monitor local authorities ' progress in fostering provision by private companies and voluntary agencies . |
| 14 | Some editors decide whether the first set of comments have been met and send for fresh reports only for major revisions , whereas others seem to obtain fresh referees ' reports routinely . |
| 15 | Incentives and fees for service will be needed to reduce private doctors ' autonomy and increase their accountability to the state . |
| 16 | Marilyn L. Harrell , one of the key figures in the HUD scandal , was sentenced on June 22 to three years and 10 months in prison , and ordered to serve three years ' probation and to pay $600,000 in restitution . |
| 17 | And the gap will become wider if no extra staff are employed to cover junior doctors ' annual leave . |
| 18 | He was blamed for causing the death of his friend Gian-Carlo , son of director Francis Ford Coppola , in a boating accident in 1986 , and ordered to do 400 hours ' community service . |
| 19 | But I read in an article this morning ( 'Students set to pay full fees ' , 29 September ) that if I were applying in a few years ' time , I would have to ask my parents to pay the full cost of my tuition . |
| 20 | The first step which should be taken by employers wishing to improve individual employees ' attitudes towards relocation is to provide counselling . |
| 21 | Great care should be taken in using real output per capita figures to compare different countries ' standards of living . |
| 22 | That meant that as well as the cheque she had just written for her first month 's rent on her new accommodation , she would have to find three months ' mortgage from somewhere . |
| 23 | When the local authority lost the resulting planning appeal , they decided to answer prospective tenants ' solicitors ' inquiries in such a slow and equivocal fashion that the development of the property was substantially prejudiced , until suitable action was taken . |
| 24 | The programme also aims to broaden Christian communicators ' understanding of ‘ development ’ , which embraces not only food , clothing , shelter and employment , but also culture , ethnicity and religion . |
| 25 | But environmentalists have criticized them for failing to address Southern countries ' real needs . |
| 26 | An instrument which American parents favoured to warm naughty girls ' and boys ' posteriors . |
| 27 | I shall try to allay hon. Members ' understandable anxieties about the subject of victimisation . |
| 28 | THE Ministry of Defence is threatening to abolish all commoners ' centuries-old grazing rights on the Greenham Common nuclear cruise missile base , unless restrictions on the rights are agreed within the next few days . |
| 29 | The political character of much of the union movement on the European continent also provoked a counter-response by the non-socialist forces in society , particularly the Catholic Church , which proceeded to establish rival workers ' organisations . |
| 30 | The Joneses have just been asked to find 15 years ' back rent along with the residents of the other 17 flats at Shire Court in Swindon . |