Example sentences of "[noun pl] [to-vb] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The development of NVQs and SVQs is underpinned by the assumption that in order for Britain to maintain and enhance its economic position in an increasingly competitive market it requires a more qualified , skilled , flexible and adaptable workforce capable of acquiring the competences to cope with changing technology and methods of work . |
| 2 | But the big record companies say they need elaborate long term contracts to invest in new talent . |
| 3 | A rise in wage levels , Barton argued , encouraged employers to invest in labour-saving technology . |
| 4 | Perrier 's competitors have had to put their plants on 24-hour shifts to cope with added demand from the unaccustomed absence of the once ubiquitous green bottles . |
| 5 | the principle of interpreting ambiguous words against the person who used them , so as not to encourage employers to mislead by deliberate vagueness . |
| 6 | In the Anglo-Italian Cup group A , Notts County two , Pisa one , on eight , Paul on twenty , getting a goal back for Pisa on thirty er approaching half time , six minutes to go before half time , across there with Colin for that half time report as soon as the whistle goes . |
| 7 | Then I was promoted to assistant cashier at the Wandsworth branch where I had to deal with the toll accounts to go to head office as well as the share accounts and the dividends . |
| 8 | It may be advantageous to both groups to liaise with each other over the monitoring of Little Mill and Fishers Brae corner . |
| 9 | There were still two hours to go before high water springs on the sand bank . |
| 10 | Decided on 300 as optimum print run for notes to go in Green Box . |
| 11 | ‘ I have absolutely no plans to retire at any time . ’ |
| 12 | It is particularly concerned with investigating how a manager 's self concept , or self perception will affect his/her work motivation and reactions to work in this environment . |
| 13 | The bill to reform the legal profession and abolish barristers ' monopoly rights in the higher courts will pave the way for solicitors to appear in any court , up to the House of Lords . |
| 14 | The bill to reform the legal profession and abolish barristers ' monopoly rights in the higher courts will pave the way for solicitors to appear in any court , up to the House of Lords . |
| 15 | THE BILL to reform the legal profession and abolish barristers ' monopoly rights in the higher courts will pave the way for solicitors to appear in any court , up to the House of Lords . |
| 16 | THE BILL to reform the legal profession and abolish barristers ' monopoly rights in the higher courts will pave the way for solicitors to appear in any court , up to the House of Lords . |
| 17 | This survey differs from previous ones in that the department brought in private surveyors to work with environmental health officers . |
| 18 | Essentially , what the communications course does is to bring to the fore issues which had hitherto been considered marginal ; it brings the perspectives of a variety of disciplines to bear on one subject . |
| 19 | Investors demand high returns to compensate for possible failure , making share issues an expensive way to raise cash . |
| 20 | The flow of funds from the personal sector to the financial institutions does not only represent workers providing for their retirement , but also represents the accumulation of wealth whereby socially privileged strata transmit their cultural patrimony ( e.g. saving through endowment policies to provide for private education ) . |
| 21 | They could distinguish the four orderly schiltrons of solidly-grouped infantry , ready and able to bring their pikes to bear in any direction . |
| 22 | Telexes can be prepared during the day and sent out of office hours to benefit from cheaper call rates . |
| 23 | If the tax-transfer system creates a budget constraint that is nonlinear and non-convex , then it is possible for more than one tangency with an indifference curve to arise , and indeed for the same indifference curve to have two tangency points , and small changes in the budget constraint can cause the chosen number of hours to jump from one segment of the constraint to another ( e.g.points 6 and 7 in Fig. 12–2(c) ) . |
| 24 | But Mr Clarke told ministers : ‘ I am against any question of raising taxes to compensate for proper control of public spending . |
| 25 | To help the less developed member states to adjust to this process the study recommends greater use of the structural Funds . |
| 26 | However Steve decided it would be unfair for the winners to go without some kind of reward , and so he intends to pop round to show you his collection of ‘ Bunty ’ comics — expect him within the next 28 days . |
| 27 | I tcalls on manufacturers to agree on standard packet sizes toaid re-use . |
| 28 | When he announced he would retire from the game at the end of Biarritz 's run in the Championship it was the signal for scores of journalists to gather at each match to report on his ‘ funeral ’ … but we kept postponing it ’ . |
| 29 | John , as a child , loved dressing up ; he and his friends played with old clothes kept in a big trunk , and his cousin Petrie writes that the costumes of his father 's club gave him opportunities to indulge in this game . |
| 30 | At the moment , you can get adaptors for computers to cope with some form of speech or at least a limited range of verbal instructions erm and in fact Apple computers and others have little packages which allow about thirty well-defined verbal instructions to , to go in . |