Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [prep] [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It costs £90 or so for investors to get the monthly newsletter , the Inside Track |
| 2 | After a launch failure of any kind above two or three hundred feet , once the speed has been checked , it is best to turn off 90° or so in order to avoid going further from the field . |
| 3 | It is also worth going along to a beauty salon a month or so in advance to have your make-up done . |
| 4 | Drawings can be resized , flipped horizontally or vertically , stretched , compressed or rotated , and a useful feature is the ability to set the cursor to move only horizontally or vertically in order to draw straight lines . |
| 5 | Players now need to know clearly when they are onside or offside in order to follow the ball . |
| 6 | This non-drying adhesive stays very sticky for months and can be squeezed out onto a strip of tape around benches , staging , individual pots , or even across doorways to prevent them walking in the first place . |
| 7 | On the one hand , it has been interpreted as indicating a revival of entrepreneurial vigour with new firms being formed either on the basis of new technologies or else in order to exploit market opportunities which have emerged as a result of the recession . |
| 8 | Their early bargaining patterns and nature of product markets at the time bargaining developed , the willingness or otherwise of employers to form bargaining coalitions in dealing with unions , the form of divisions between unions themselves , together with the role of state policy , have been the major , identifiable forces ( ILO , 1974 ) . |
| 9 | It is now more feasible than ever for organisations to switch from their expensive proprietary machines to lower-cost Unix computers . |
| 10 | When the use of the term ‘ reading readiness ’ in education is examined , it will be seen not to refer to readiness to read , nor even to readiness to learn to read , but to quite a different state of affairs , namely readiness to cope with reading instruction . |
| 11 | What this meant in practical terms was that the hunters were non-reproductive , and presumably in order to become reproductive had to give up their youthful way of life and return to the traditional mode of subsistence . |
| 12 | This year they estimate the whole legal aid bill will be around £100 million and I say : ‘ Well done ’ on spending that money so efficiently and economically in order to let people have justice . ’ |
| 13 | The statutory responsibilities of LEAs and governing bodies in respect of quality control should be exercised with due acknowledgement of teachers ' special knowledge and skills and their freedom and right as professionals to adopt those strategies which build on their personal strengths and reflect the unique circumstances of each school and classroom . |
| 14 | And the same is true of faith , and so for Paul to say , I know whom I have believed , I know the one in whom I have put my trust , then the other side of th the other direction is true also , God had put his trust , had put his faith in Paul . |
| 15 | From the traffic returns , it appears that the mean load per boat ( including empties ) is about 15 tons , and so in order to pass 36,000 tons ( 1906 figure ) 2,400 boats will need to ascend and descend . |
| 16 | Managers are not themselves subject to these processes , and so in order to ensure that they carry out their duties efficiently , it is contended that they should be given the incentive of performance-linked pay . |
| 17 | Thus , so soon after the pronouncement of the intention to restructure industry , through trade unionism , as national co-operatives and so in effect to deny labour to conventionally organised industry , reality compelled the unions to start fashioning themselves as a response to capital rather than as an alternative to it . |
| 18 | Whilst that may work well enough in a small firm ( though even then the theory may need some adjustment , if only for example to permit decisions to be taken while partners are on holiday ) , the complexity which attends the affairs of all solicitors ' practices of any size will make it impossible to give each of the partners such degrees of freedom or power . |
| 19 | If ‘ we hear the key turn each in his prison ’ , it may be a satisfaction to find occasionally that entry rather than closure is being sought ; for while he had a great many acquaintances and , as his fame increased , hundreds who wanted to meet him if only in order to say they had done so , he lacked relationships which were simple , straightforward , and stable . |
| 20 | How religiously , if only in order to obviate neighbourly interference , the Darcian woman would observe contraceptive precautions ! |
| 21 | Even if we agree with his general hypothesis , we have to accept that in some instances people will eat the dead bodies of other people — if only in order to stay alive . |
| 22 | It quickly became apparent after the offer had closed that the take-up rate was just 38% — ‘ a lower level of acceptances than we had anticipated ’ and enough for newspapers to call the issue a flop . |
| 23 | The number of patients intolerant of the diet is disappointingly high and together with inability to sustain a prolonged remission , elemental diet treatment does have its disadvantages . |
| 24 | Liberal Democrats remain steadfastly committed to the original aims of the NHS : to enable everyone to live free of the fear of illness , injury and disability ; to provide health care free at the point of delivery and regardless of ability to pay . |
| 25 | Whether our interest is practical or theoretical , whether we set out to provide the ‘ correct ’ treatment for children of various ages or whether we wish to understand the processes underlying their behaviour , we must describe and experiment systematically and objectively in order to arrive at worthwhile conclusions . |
| 26 | Variables such as the degree of ‘ distance ’ between state enterprises and central state agencies , the internal coherence of management and unions , the ability to inflict costs on government , and conversely of government to bear the political costs of disruption , will affect the way objectives are transmitted ; as will wider relationships between social classes and the state . |
| 27 | Police are appealing for anyone who saw the car used by the Drumkeen bombers , registration number PXI 9434 , between 10pm and 1am on Saturday to contact Strandtown RUC station . |
| 28 | The first two years of operation have been characterised by heavy marketing and promotion both locally and nationally in order to establish the concept with industry and education . |
| 29 | Other places had half shut up , which meant trecking back and forth across bridges to get cups of luke warm coffee . |
| 30 | Some mountain farmers were looking more and more to tourism to provide the extra income necessary to allow them to continue living on their farms . |