Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb mod] [verb] [prep] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An atavism is a throwback , a ‘ primitive ’ reaction ( it literally means ‘ great-grandfather 's grandfather ’ ) — something the writer must know about in himself if his work is to resonate in his readers . |
| 2 | This often forms an exception to the normal turn sequence , because the enemy may move to within 8″ during his turn . |
| 3 | It is anticipated that turnover will rise to between £ [ x ] million to £ [ x ] million in 1989 producing profit before tax of £ [ x ] to £ [ x ] million . |
| 4 | The study predicts that the cooling effect will last for between two and four years , by which time the acid will have been dispersed as rain . |
| 5 | The creditors ' committee must consist of at least three and not more than five creditors . |
| 6 | It was he , Clasper , who dictated to management the size of the labour force they would require to produce a given number of products , regardless of any figure which management might arrive at by employing accurately measured work standards . |
| 7 | Even excluding the huge cost of rescuing the savings and loan industry [ see p. 37412 ] by buying the assets of failing institutions ( estimated at more than $50,000 million in 1991 ) , most observers agreed that the automatic cuts imposed by the Gramm-Rudman law would amount to at least $60,000 million , a sum more than sufficient to push the country 's economy from its present slow growth into outright recession . |
| 8 | Occasionally the sun would appear from behind a roof-top , and she would feel its warmth for a few seconds . |
| 9 | And on Friday of last week we had Vice President Pandolfi from the Commission here and he was very impressed with our work and we are therefore very hopeful , very optimistic that our work will continue until at least 1996 . |
| 10 | The VOR flag will change from FROM To at the Abeam position … |
| 11 | The best method the Mafia can think of for distributing its heroin in America is a chain of pizza parlours , where the sons of top mafiosi are frequently offered jobs as a favour to their fathers . |
| 12 | It is widely thought that a turnover tax may range from between 15% and 20% . |
| 13 | That 's probably just what your aching body could do with after 26.2 miles — weightlessness ! |
| 14 | Er do you know what the er what a the input file would look like to the synthesizer phase ? |
| 15 | Had this volume-composition correlation been known in May 1991 , geologists could safely have predicted that the eruption would last for at least another few months , and would erupt at least twice as much magma again . |
| 16 | The 1990 Home Office projections forecast that the average daily prison population would rise to between 61,700 and 62,600 by 1998 ( Home Office 1990c ) . |
| 17 | The company previously estimated the charge would amount to between $5.5 billion and $7.5 billion to comply with new accounting rules . |
| 18 | The locally grown wheat reed is the cheaper medium and a roof constructed , whereas water reed will last for at least 50 years . |
| 19 | That is why I ask where the recovery will come from in housing . |
| 20 | Mr replied that is what Mr was asking the other to do , that is to hold their hand and to enter into negotiations , now I fully appreciate that erm doctor feels strongly that the defendants have not been negotiating in good faith and have been simply dragging matters out for his benefit , now when I say that I 'm simply saying what I understand to be doctor view , I 'm certainly not suggesting that I 'm finding as a fact , but that was the decision , indeed I could n't cos I 've not heard all the evidence on this matter not as Mr to address me on that one , it seems to me with all respect to doctor missions on this matter that if there has been any dragging of feet or other improper conduct of either the defendants in connection with er they remain on in the premises and not paying what doctor would consider to be a full and proper rent or if there has been problem about their not disclosing documents when they should have done , the position is that doctor has er by making an appropriate application to the court , for maybe the appropriate relief arising out of the facts which he can establish , but that is not in general a matter which erm the court should go into on the question of taxation , it 's not , th this particular taxation of costs is a taxation as I understand it that are formally to the debt of the order of Mr Justice and there is thus no question of the court having to consider the question when the those tax those costs have been swollen or increased in any way by reason of spinning out negotiations whether to run up costs or otherwise , that simply does n't arising it seems to me in this case that maybe a matter which may arise possibly at some future date , though I would hope it would not do so , but er so far as the costs down to the end of the trial of the twentieth of March nineteen ninety one are concerned , it seems to me the fact that the parties maybe negotiating subsequently to deter to rece to resolve the outstanding issue , it 's not a matter which really goes to the question of erm what is the proper amount to allow for taxation of costs which have already been incurred , before these negotiations erm we do n't the figure of the costs appears to have been effectively agreed between the solicitors at forty two thousand pounds , the plaintiff solicitors made it quite clear that they were seeking interest , this was clear in apparently of nineteen ninety two , but this held their hand , er it seems to me the reason they held their hand rather than indicate it was because the defendant through his solicitor was asking them to do so and it seems to me that Mr was acting very sensibly in the defendants interest , because if in fact they had gone ahead and taxed their costs there and then the position would simply be that there would of been an award for taxation , in order , there would be a taxation resulting in an order for payment of of some cost probably in the region of forty two thousand pounds and er that order would itself carry interest under the judgements act , it does n't seem to me it can be sensibly said that erm any interest has to be in any way increased by reason of this delay and it seems to me that erm if one looks at order sixty two and twenty eight er certainly under paragraph B two erm there 's a reference there to any additional interest payable under section seventeen because of the failure on the May , erm , it does n't seem to me that the effect of what has in fact incurred , in this case has been , caused any additional interest to be paid and er it seems to me the only best that I can see in the evidence before me to , which would enable the court to erm , conclude that there should be a disallowance of interest would be as I say because the plaintiffs appear not to have perfected the order for the payment of perfectively two years , just over two years , erm it seems to me however that , that on balance probably it simply a matter of oversight and even if it had been perfected it would n't of made as I guess the least bit of difference to the way the negotiations er proceeded and accordingly I take the view that erm there are no grounds for disallowing interest from either the plaintiffs bill of costs or the defendants bill of costs , accordingly erm to allow the defendants appeal in preparation to the disallowance of costs er interest and to dismiss the defendants appeal for application in relation to an additional period , P sixty of course disallowed , I also propose to dismiss the sum of , the appeal by the plaintiffs from the refusal of taxing master to disallow the interest on the defendants bill of costs . |
| 21 | And then finally , we 'll talk about activity and we 'll be looking at what your diary should look like as a sales associate . |
| 22 | As the intention is to promote cross-border co-operation , members of an EEIG must come from at least two member states . |
| 23 | Another dialogue box appears into which you type the program name , the DOS command which starts the program and the Startup Directory ( optional ) which DOS will change to before starting the program . |
| 24 | An unopened pod taken from the tree will keep for at least three weeks , and when opened back at the nursery it is usual to obtain 100 per cent germination of the seed . |
| 25 | Having accepted the fact that good lighting , unworn carpeting ( fitted if possible ) or non-slip vinyl floor-covering and an absence of rugs and odd mats is essential , a check should be made on the positioning and stability of the handrail the elderly person will depend upon for going up and down stairs . |
| 26 | He suggests that management is synonymous with organisations but that leadership can exist outside of the organisation . |
| 27 | That part of Parma , around Borgo delle Colonne , was apparently well known for its brothels , and I often used to see heavily made-up women in tight skirts and high-heeled shoes decorated with silver stars parading up and down ; I assume now that they were what the Parmigiani used to refer to as putane , whores . |
| 28 | With no inherent mechanism to correct this disequilibrium outcome , the economy can stay on the lower curve of the J with considerable unemployment ; i.e. with the real wage W1/PO the economy might stick at on in part ( d ) with unemployed in part ( a ) . |
| 29 | All she wanted was not to know again , so that she could stay a little child and never have to grow up and face the world without her mother to wake her in the mornings and teach her things and tell her stories and pass on all her wisdom about the world and men and how babies came and why the best any woman could hope for in this life was to be able to make one man happy . |
| 30 | Of course , if government spending were financed by an increase in the money supply , the curve would also shift to the right to and the interest rate increase might be avoided as the economy would move from to rather than from to . |