Example sentences of "[noun pl] [modal v] [adv] [verb] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The shops would also give people the chance to use a consumer complaint system . |
| 2 | In formal situations roles can clearly give people special rights , but even in conversation — where according to our definition unequal power is suspended — it is unlikely that knowledge of participants ' social office or status will be wholly forgotten . |
| 3 | Miners may now keep 20% of their output to sell at free-market prices . |
| 4 | ( b ) Economic and social pressures impeded the efficient working of the system-part-time workers , poorer rural areas could not afford educ. , illness of public health , cost of full provision . |
| 5 | Vehicle licences will now cost £85 , rather than £80.50 , while driver 's licences rise from £64.50 to £68 . |
| 6 | Companies will often provide staff to come and talk to children , bring samples of their company 's products and arrange accompanied visits to their premises . |
| 7 | Seventy years later , the magic mix of high rewards , low outlay and supposed skill in judging football results , continues unchanged ; except , of course , that punters can now win £1.5 million instead of the modest £2 12s that comprised the first ever dividend . |
| 8 | But the industry consensus yesterday was that the outlook remained gloomy amid worries that a Labour government 's economic policies could further depress sales . |
| 9 | As we made clear in the previous chapter , its definition of temporary workers might well include people whose jobs are available on other than a temporary basis , but who only intend to stay in these jobs for a limited period of time . |
| 10 | Banks will thus acquire £1 billion of extra call notes and bills , but their cash or balances at the Bank of England will be reduced by £1 billion . |
| 11 | ‘ The terrorists wo n't stop people here getting on with their lives . ’ |
| 12 | But other customers would only pay £17 for dinner and £8 for breakfast , a total of £25 . |
| 13 | Letter post items must not exceed 610mm in length by 460mm in width . |
| 14 | The Department of Health 's rules for Community Health Council Membership state that ‘ appointing bodies should not appoint people over the age of 70 unless there is a special reason : for example , an appointment by an organisation concerned mainly with elderly people . ’ |
| 15 | So you think that as a general rule , museums should not sell works of art ? |
| 16 | In Germany , where mortgage interest payments are not tax-deductible and mortgage loans can not exceed 60% of the value of a house ( compared with 100% in Britain ) , home prices fell in real terms in the past decade . |
| 17 | Medium security levels can enter and delete data and low security levels can only view data . |
| 18 | One might say that the ‘ candid camera ’ technique used for some television programmes , where people have tricks played on them for the benefit of the viewers , is rather in this mode of observation , though it is to be hoped that social researchers would not encourage people to make fools of themselves in the way television producers do . |
| 19 | The Collor administration wants to start fresh debt talks next month , while insisting that annual interest payments must not exceed $5 billion , half of what normally comes due . |
| 20 | The steady erosion from astronomical to merely high has at least been good for morale : a further cut after the holidays might just jolly people into voting Tory if there were to be an autumn election . |
| 21 | Mr Logsdon reckons Warner and Disney 's filmed-entertainment operations will probably produce $440m in operating cash flow this year ( before paying interest ) . |
| 22 | Doctors ' certificates cost £55 and clergymen will normally charge £25 for a service . |
| 23 | The researchers will therefore examine people 's own notions of the relationship between food and health . |
| 24 | The chairman of the Colchester and District Licensed Victuallers ' Association , Malcolm Freund , said the increases would further encourage people to go to the continent to buy alcohol . |
| 25 | Free markets can not induce people to take account of these indirect effects on other people if there is no market in these indirect effects . |
| 26 | With the likes of Martin Amis ( still the leader of the pack — a fine first of The Rachel Papers could now fetch £500 ) , Julian Barnes , Dick Francis , Wendy Cope , John Mortimer , Kazuo Ishiguro , Tom Stoppard and quite a few more , one has to be fairly quick off the mark ; with others , a more leisurely approach is adopted , either because the first edition tends to hang about , or — in such cases as le Carré and Forsyth — when the initial print runs are so huge as to discourage panic buying . |
| 27 | The tightest tight shoppers are in Wales , where nine out of 10 women would only spend £5 on a pair , even for a special event such as a wedding . |
| 28 | The closures will also allow £483,000 extra to be spent on the region 's remaining ten centres . |
| 29 | New records are expected to be set at next year 's Olympics , where speed skiers will possibly exceed 150mph . |
| 30 | Since the first publication in 1977 of his book on collecting modern first editions , Joseph Connolly has detected collectors becoming more enthusiastic in their pursuit of contemporary writers — to such an extent that a fine first of The Rachel Papers can now fetch £500 |