Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb mod] [vb infin] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Obviously such discussions may extend further than mandatory requirements dictate and indeed , from time to time , emerging issues have merited reference through the appropriate channels to the Accounting Standards Board or to the Urgent Issues Task Force for further consideration . |
| 2 | The words may be recited in more or less regular durational values on one note , or the notes may change now and again . |
| 3 | Norman Fowler ( then Secretary of State for Employment ) was quoted as saying , ‘ We are challenging the whole concept that retirement ages should get earlier and earlier . |
| 4 | These differences are to be explained in terms of those contexts and the socially agreed constructions of how these institutions should operate rather than in terms of any supposed intrinsic qualities of writing . |
| 5 | Currently much effort is being directed at understanding the organizational processes of questioning and debate which such audits should stimulate rather than seeing the problem in terms of administrative techniques alone . |
| 6 | I think the main software houses should get together and agree on an industry standard memory configuration to which programmers should limit themselves . |
| 7 | The European Council " considers it necessary that the governments and parliaments of the member states should act clearly and unambiguously to counter the growth of sentiments and manifestations of racism and xenophobia . " |
| 8 | All the authorities must work properly and openly if we are to avoid such abuse in future . |
| 9 | Ideally , collaborative R & D programmes should continue only if progress is satisfactory from the point of view of both users and suppliers . |
| 10 | Other rape survivors may come forward and the police may quite explicitly make the links : ‘ a second woman has told police at York that she was raped near the city 's university only 200 yards from the spot where a girl student was subjected to a brutal , 90-minute sex attack ’ ( Daily Telegraph ) . |
| 11 | The more prestigious such as Eton , Harrow and Winchester can afford to charge annual fees in excess of £4,000 ( more than $6,000 in 1983 terms ) , whereas some less prestigious day schools may charge less than £1,000 per year . |
| 12 | However , if the Goblins should be slain some or all the Squigs may break away and go wild . |
| 13 | At the same time , other voices may sing conventionally or add various other effects . |
| 14 | First , the stable closed orbits may at some energy become self-intersecting and second , at a given energy these orbits may form more than one sequence . |
| 15 | Aston Martin Lagonda is introducing a service and restoration programme which means its cars should live longer than their owners . |
| 16 | Either dragons should exist completely or fail to exist at all , he felt . |
| 17 | THE COST of comprehensive insurance premiums should drop now that one of the major insurance companies has followed General Accident and withdrawn from the ‘ knock-for-knock ’ agreement . |
| 18 | The Prime Minister said that he had the resignation of his Cabinet in his pocket , but the King replied that he trusted there was no question of the Prime Minister 's resignation : the leaders of the three Parties must get together and come to some arrangement . |
| 19 | Why books should know better than them was puzzling to Bradstonians , but they were anxious to please their visitors so did their best to comply . |
| 20 | Your savings must total less than £6,000 though £1 of ‘ notional income ’ is added in when working out your income level for every £250 ( or part thereof ) of savings over £3,000 . |
| 21 | Your savings must total less than £6,000 though £1 of ‘ notional income ’ is added in when working out your income level for every £250 ( or part thereof ) of savings over £3,000 . |
| 22 | Your savings must total less than £6,000 though £1 of ‘ notional income ’ is added in when working out your income level for every £250 ( or part thereof ) of savings over £3,000 . |
| 23 | The test of contempt requires a risk of serious prejudice and I believe that usually the protection of criminal proceedings against such risks should prevail even if this is difficult to reconcile with our obligations under the European Convention on Human Rights . |
| 24 | Any county council that can not find elbow room within a £600 million-plus budget to look after its old people 's homes should stand aside and let some of my colleagues take over . |
| 25 | At present , many residential homes for adults run by local authorities have over 25 residents , whereas it is felt that no residential homes should have more than twenty-five places and that it would be much better if the average size was much lower . |
| 26 | It is difficult for you to foresee at the beginning of your programme just how you will feel , what things will happen , which goals might prove harder than anticipated . |
| 27 | Schools could work forwards or backwards in time ( though it is expected that at all times there will be reference to time-lines , and time-charts , and that attention will be given to the question " when did this happen in the past ? " ) . |
| 28 | Servers could require more than 16Mb , he added . |
| 29 | Bill Gates has firmed up prices for Microsoft Corp 's Windows NT operating system , but the first ships date has moved off into the future again , and ‘ no later than ’ August 1 is the new target : according to Gates , in comments reported in PC Week , large corporate customers looking to upgrade from Windows 3 to NT will be able to do so for less than $100 per desktop — the upgrade price for Windows users will be $300 , which translates to $180 ‘ on the street ’ and less than ‘ $100 per system ’ after deep volume discounts , Gates told a meeting of the Corporate Association of Microcomputer Professionals in Chicago ; OS/2 users will be offered ‘ extremely low prices ; ’ NT 's suggested retail price for new — desktop — users will be $500 ; more bad news is that memory requirements are continuing to soar — Gates last week recommended that NT users install 16Mb on their desktop machines , even though the documentation may specify 12Mb — and no more than about 10% of 80486 machines have 16Mb ; servers could require more than 16Mb , he added ; initial NT buyers will need to have specific applications in mind for it — ‘ If you do n't know why you want NT , you probably do n't want NT , ’ he said . |
| 30 | The eventual move to an electronic screen system served by satellite would mean traders could live anywhere and ‘ they will locate where it best suits them ’ . |