Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [noun pl] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If there are doubts about the search firm 's ability to work at a senior level , say to find a chief executive , the client may well invite two or three firms in to pitch competitively and see who has the best overall track record and appears most attractive and experienced to the Board . |
| 2 | I could n't help contrasting it with Antrim , Edinburgh , Gateshead , even Crystal Palace where you needed two or three tracksuits just to keep warm . |
| 3 | A Soviet legal specialist wrote in 1958 , for example , that the neutralisation of a certain territory was formed by an agreement between two or more states not to transform the territory concerned , which was generally of strategic significance , into a theatre of military operations or a base for such operations . |
| 4 | Some may be seen 20 or more years later to have been seminal but were ignored because they did not fit into the theories current at the time . |
| 5 | Sumitomo , which quietly started getting JLE-compatible Opus products four or five months ago to seed its large accounts , will be handling both the Opus Sparc workstations and add-in Sparc cards . |
| 6 | If stars could shrink to as small as ten or twenty miles across to become neutron stars , one might expect that other stars could shrink even further to become black holes . |
| 7 | But , what with today 's theatre seat prices , the difficulty of parking the car , and the limitations of radio and television , who would not pay the £5 subscription 10 or 20 times over to bring back the stay-at-home multiple choice facilities that our grandparents enjoyed . |
| 8 | ‘ Career breaks would enable women to choose to take five , six or seven years out to have their families but in that time they would be kept in touch , ’ said Miss Armstrong . |
| 9 | The Home Office took more than six weeks even to respond to the points made , by which time the situation in my constituency had already exploded out of control . |
| 10 | Chaired by Michael Julien , it meets not less than three times annually to review the adequacy of the Group 's systems of internal control including those concerning the Group 's pension arrangements , the scope and findings of the external and internal auditors ' work , the half and full year financial statements prior to their submission to the Board , and the application of the Group 's accounting policies and any changes to financial reporting requirements . |
| 11 | A LEGACY bequeathed more than 50 years ago to help Birkenhead is at last giving benefit to its elderly folk . |
| 12 | Later in the day it will take less than five minutes simultaneously to drop the Whole group , with their stores , into Safra from fifteen C-130 Hercules aircraft . |
| 13 | They also utilize low-valued , passive , social , and subjective methods disproportionately to study subjects of low social status . |
| 14 | First , fold the napkin in half diagonally , then bring the left and right-hand corners up to meet at the apex ( pic 1 ) . |
| 15 | Local authorities did buy in places in voluntary and private Homes occasionally to meet the needs of clients referred to them , but this declined by 1980 . |
| 16 | To test this technique , engineers first drilled boreholes 2 kilometres deep and 300 metres apart to form an underground reservoir of water heated by the hot dry rocks . |
| 17 | It is acknowledged , however , that in its efforts to support the capitalist system , politically and economically , the capitalist state creates and expands public and social services only to find that it does not have the required resources to meet the growing cost of the public sector . |
| 18 | On the other hand you have some of the fastest moving and hardest-hitting warriors ever to grace the battlefields of the Known World : Silver Helms , Dragon Princes of Caledor and the Tiranoc Charioteers . |
| 19 | STEVE ELKINGTON kept cool in wet and windy conditions yesterday to shoot a two-over-par 74 for a two-shot victory in the Australian Open golf championship in Sydney . |
| 20 | Both inflation and unemployment were expected to rise in 1991 , and real wages possibly to reverse their rise of recent years , as sanctions continued against Iraq , the labour force continued its rapid growth rate , and government investment and public consumption slowed in response to budget consolidation measures . |
| 21 | Built in Hellenistic times this market place was greatly enlarged in the first and second centuries A.D. to become one of the largest in the Roman world . |
| 22 | The aim of the pub is to give the residents of the homes and the villagers of Tarrington and surrounding hamlets somewhere to meet and enjoy themselves . |
| 23 | Langer has done a good deal of research into the evaluation of this approach to schema activation , and she is convinced that is helps poor readers and good readers alike to learn more from difficult textbooks . |
| 24 | The windpipe and vocal cords close to trap the air . |
| 25 | Leslie Godwin was on a routine drive , taking a prisoner and 3 officers back to jail near Bicester , after a routine court appearance . |
| 26 | With reasonable flexibility , it is for heads of primary and secondary schools jointly to ensure that children at primary school do not waste their time , and that they continue to advance when they change schools . |
| 27 | It required fewer people who could pass the port in the right way , and more people who would have the drive , energy , initiative and sheer guts actually to make money for the shareholders and themselves in a recessionary environment . |
| 28 | Mr Hatton 's counsel , Rodney Klevan QC , told the jury of seven women and five men not to allow a ‘ political witch-hunt ’ . |
| 29 | It was to drive another nail into the coffin , into the public service 's coffin , to go alongside compulsory competitive tendering , erosion of working conditions and compulsory redundancies just to satisfy their own political dogma not caring about the citizens of this country , whose quality of life depends on them the services provided by the public sector . |
| 30 | Orders were sent out to rearm them , to neutralise the demolition mines , and infantry garrisons were despatched complete with fourteen days ' rations and solemn instructions never to capitulate . |