Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] [to-vb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The array did not fall completely into disuse , and the crown still relied on the sheriffs to call the posse comitatus to deal with local disturbances . |
| 2 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | THE hard luck story to emerge from this year 's Martell Grand National surely can not come from David Stoddart , the man who sold Party Politics 48 hours before the big race and now looks forward to an agreed bonus of £15,000 on top of the original £80,000 price tag . |
| 4 | Unless the Government are prepared to provide a forum for funds and expertise to assist the defence industry to diversify into other products , the job losses and the decline in Britain 's economic performance will continue — but , then , the Secretary of State does not care . |
| 5 | Program the sensor pods to search for any sign of ancient habitations within a twelve thousand mile radius of the pole . ’ |
| 6 | But the big record companies say they need elaborate long term contracts to invest in new talent . |
| 7 | Hum. , 1908–13 ) for the purpose of giving graduates of the College opportunity to travel at such time in their careers as might be of most value to them either by enabling them to broaden their experience of other countries and their peoples or to carry out research . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | This diffuseness was paralleled by a marked degree of confusion over the appropriate research methods to use in empirical studies . |
| 10 | Grain prices during the 1880s and 1890s , in Russia as elsewhere , were severely depressed , making it even more difficult for landowners accustomed to rely on serf labour to adapt to commercial farming . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's indicative of a seething hatred and the proximity of loyalist and nationalist areas which enables the killer gangs to drive into one another 's area in a minute and get back whether they are scouting or going in to murder . ’ |
| 12 | 193 , that a member state might make the right of its fishing vessels to fish against national quotas subject to those vessels ' having a real economic link with that state , it took care expressly to stipulate that the link had to concern only the relations between that vessel 's fishing operations and the populations dependent on fisheries and related industries : see p. 222 , para. 27 . |
| 13 | Next in line is a tri-function rocker switch to switch between high power , low power or standby modes . |
| 14 | This information is increasingly becoming of local nature , C C T and L M S make it difficult for our national research department to deal with local issues . |
| 15 | Such a one-bit register holding information as to the status of a transput unit is called a flag ; more generally , we use the term flag to refer to any one-bit field holding status information ( whether in a special register or in a portion of a store location ) . |
| 16 | Discussing this later at one of the Observations planning meetings , the idea of sharing ‘ inspirational works ’ appealed to all those present as complementing a tendency in review columns to focus on new titles and ‘ how to do it ’ guides . |
| 17 | Difference-of-squares circuit uses feedback attenuation to compensate for lost output |
| 18 | If we are talking about hypocrisy , let me say that it would be hypocrisy to suggest that we have the powers unilaterally to introduce a labelling directive to discriminate against foreign veal . |
| 19 | The ARR did not require the reporting accountant to report on controlled trust accounts , although Part II of the SAR contained rules determining how a solicitor should deal with the movement of controlled trust money , ie the circumstances in which money could be paid in or withdrawn from a controlled trust account , and the records that had to be kept . |
| 20 | In America , once managers make an offer for their company , the independent directors hire investment banks to look for other potential buyers . |
| 21 | The government has cut its grants to two leading AIDS charities to focus on high risk groups . |
| 22 | An attempt by Francis Pym and some thirty dissatisfied MPs in 1985 to form a Centre Forward group to press for such changes was short-lived . |
| 23 | Is it expected that that will be the embryo for a carbon tax to pay for more investment in renewable energies ? |
| 24 | If you overdraw your account without telling us , or if you exceed your CheckOver limit , there will be a £10 administration fee to pay for that quarter , for the additional work involved . |
| 25 | Two hot summers in succession have helped Britain 's hare population to increase by 20 per cent during the period 1989-90 , according to the annual survey of the Game Conservancy . |
| 26 | Problems often exist in persuading dictionary owners to part with these typesetting tapes for understandable reasons ( the production of a pirate copy from a typesetting tape is a trivial matter and can have serious repercussions for dictionary publishers ) . |
| 27 | She is a shrimper and was the last all sail fishing vessel to operate from Great Grimsby fish docks . |
| 28 | Wilkins himself consistently uses the term notion to refer to both kinds of category he talks about , semantic and pragmatic : the term notion incorporates functions . |
| 29 | It 's the usual transportation policy to have in general as |
| 30 | was elected by HCIMA 's Executive Committee to the role of Student Liaison Councillor to act as focal point for student activity and comment . |