Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [noun pl] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | X/Open Co Ltd is about to embark on the largest Xtra process ever : it expects to invite 50 to 75 user groups worldwide to participate , get 35 to 50 of them actually involved and circulate 10,000 multiple-choice questionnaires in six languages : English , French , German , Spanish , Chinese and Japanese ; it is now trying to figure out how to get feedback from the non-industrial nations ; results will probably appear in Rome in early December . |
| 2 | And , because parliament alone can change the constitution , it has become a weapon that parliament exploits cynically to block reform . |
| 3 | Hence an important tool of management whose common usefulness could be judged by the essential partners to collaboration failed to provide what had appeared to be promised — and one says " appeared " because it may have been the wish of some college managers not to allow information by which their efficiency might be judged to become available to other parties . |
| 4 | Strongly coloured ones in particular were employed from Old Kingdom times onwards to infill the cells of gold cloisonné work . |
| 5 | Now , being left-handed I 'm well used to the pitfalls : reading reviews of great-looking and top quality guitars only to find at the end of the review , ‘ No left-handers available ’ or , more niggling , ‘ 10% extra ’ . |
| 6 | Lungs initially develop from an outgrowth of the sheet that lines the gut near the mouth and then this outgrowth branches repeatedly to give the millions of microscopic lobes in the lung . |
| 7 | Determined to out-eat his challenger , Grom consumed a plate of raw Troll steaks only to discover the meat regenerating inside his stomach . |
| 8 | In addition , all regional buyers inspect and approve all raw material stores personally to ensure they achieve our laid down standards . |
| 9 | A lot of people with high reflector scores like to think before they act . |
| 10 | We will bring private sector skills in to enhance efficiency and increase value for money . |
| 11 | Professional clubs formed themselves into limited liability companies not to speculate in the entertainment business but to make legally secure the cost of providing facilities . |
| 12 | Darwinism destroys the presumption that a separate organism functions primarily to preserve itself ( as do simpler homeostatic systems which do not reproduce ) ; it shows me that even at the biological level my spontaneity only secondarily and partially serves myself , and invites the reflection that behaving consistently to my own advantage became conceivable only with the clarification of my viewpoint in contrast with others , which in turn implies that I have been assuming other viewpoints from the beginning of self-consciousness . |
| 13 | The minimum load is 4Ω ( ohms ) , which the outputs run at anyway , giving the B-1R 's full 150 watts , and so care must be exercised if hooking up additional speaker cabs not to drop the total load below this figure — one cab can be run at 4Ω , but if two are used in parallel then they must both be 8Ω , and so on . |
| 14 | It is consequently difficult to describe in a brief space , and the following account attempts only to indicate some basic features of government finance between 1471 and about 1534 . |
| 15 | WHAT a cheek of Labour and Liberal Democrat MPs even to consider voting against a freeze on their pay in the face of restraints on other public sector workers . |
| 16 | This footbridge was however at the other end of the platform , and most passengers got into the habit of going to the station exit across the tracks despite the standard railway warnings not to do so . |
| 17 | Built by the North Eastern Railway No 2392 will probably be the first locomotive from the LNER constituent companies ever to run on the EX GWR line at Llangollen . |
| 18 | Well no not really because erm it , it was a private company as you can understand er , I can I ca n't really explain it everyone seemed to be pulling together you know that was the last thing you thought of , fifth columnists , things like that although it was they used to er , every now and again they used to send government national service officers round to look at the personnel and the structure of the working and if they thought anybody was superfluous to requirements they 'd get the papers soon after to go into the army or the services yeah , yeah , that is true and that happened , used to happen in factories all round the area , it was called the Essential Works Order . |
| 19 | A similar switch-over type of story can be written by doing what I have counselled writers of full-length detective stories not to do : by slipping in a tiny clue in the hope that readers will miss it . |
| 20 | We shall also have to look at the electricity industry , where the Government produced two large generation companies solely to try to privatise nuclear power . |
| 21 | We had bought Rudge Biframe folding mountain bikes specifically to go in the back of the 172 , and trips to the Norfolk Broads , Dartmoor and west Ireland had allowed Anne and I to refine our planning so that not only the flying but — just as importantly for our holiday — the non-flying sections of the trip would be practical and highly enjoyable . |
| 22 | One of the highest-ranking Mafia figures ever to testify for the authorities , Gravano claimed to having participated in 19 murders , and insisted that those committed during the last 10 years had been on the orders of Gotti . |
| 23 | There are innumerable instances of bands signing large deals to major record companies only to find that the aim of the record company is to try and push the band in a totally unsuitable direction . |
| 24 | The Chief Cabinet Secretary , Mayumi Moriyama , ordered all cabinet members yesterday to search campaign fund records for any contributions from an industry notorious for tax evasion and links with organised crime . |
| 25 | The new Army Commander , Gen. Vimol Wongwanich , promised to unify the Army and on Aug. 7 ordered commanders of all army units not to intervene in politics or do anything to help or hinder any political party . |
| 26 | The Prime Minister 's formulation is that it is for the other 11 member states now to demonstrate to us in watertight treaty terms that the right of all member states to determine their own foreign policies is not being abandoned or abdicated . |
| 27 | ‘ There are many driving skills still to learn as you gain experience , ’ agrees Keith Cameron , Chief Driving Examiner , ‘ but passing your test is the end of the beginning ’ . |
| 28 | To her annoyance the bottle was empty — belatedly she recalled making a mental note weeks ago to buy new supplies . |
| 29 | Oct. 14 Israeli Cabinet votes not to co-operate with the UN mission [ ibid . ] . |
| 30 | The family took advantage of the non-curfew daylight hours yesterday to travel to Anaheim , in the Disneyland area , where they intended to stay overnight with other relatives . |