Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] [adv] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He spoke of the fight to preserve as much of possible of the Island 's rail network in the period of the Beeching closures . |
| 2 | … enables the retailer to know how much of an item he has in stock . |
| 3 | However , whereas GEC/Siemens had originally proposed that their joint bid would result in a series of joint ventures between them , it became increasingly clear subsequently that the bid was , according to Sir John Clark , Plessey 's Chairman , ‘ no more or less than a simple old-fashioned attempt to carve up one of the leading British electronics companies ’ between GEC and Siemens ' . |
| 4 | The attempt to slip out unnoticed at night fails , and all but one , including Barker , are killed by the Viet Cong . |
| 5 | For the recipient to increase as much of X as shown at point 7 , it would be necessary for income to be increased to point 9 on the income consumption curve . |
| 6 | Clearly the whole point of the exchange , namely a request for specific information and an attempt to provide as much of that information as possible , is not directly expressed in ( 2 ) at all ; so the gap between what is literally said in ( 2 ) and what is conveyed in ( 3 ) is so substantial that we can not expect a semantic theory to provide more than a small part of an account of how we communicate using language . |
| 7 | These six principles , which appeared from the experiment to relate as much to children as to adults , were : |
| 8 | The German government has approved at massive programme to clean up one of eastern Germany 's most polluted regions , the triangle linking Halle , Leipzig and Bitterfeld , formerly a major centre of lignite mining and chemical processing . |
| 9 | I have today won a concession from the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry , in as much as he is going to give a delegation from the Southampton and district licensed victuallers an opportunity to see him at the Department to talk over some of these matters . |
| 10 | Following the election , Hau indicated his intention to resign as Premier before the Yuan 's first session in February 1993 . |
| 11 | I would envisage the talk to last about sixty to seventy five minutes and the discussions for another thirty to forty five minutes commencing Oh it does say , commencing at seven thirty P M. |
| 12 | From an ‘ Ideas ’ book , one should n't perhaps expect much in the way of detailed costings of large schemes , but the lack of any attempt to cost even some of the individual measures lent the whole exercise an air of unreality . |
| 13 | The discussions are close to a conclusion and I understand that my hon. Friend will shortly be writing to the industry to clear up some of the remaining points , which will isolate the relatively few issues to be settled . |
| 14 | It matters a great deal , and I want in this chapter to sketch out some of the implications of this inviolable link which the New Testament writers make between Jesus and the Spirit . |
| 15 | SPOT the dog is a greyhound in a million — he 's beaten cancer , and this weekend will resume his racing career in a bid to pay back some of the costs of two major operations that saved his life . |
| 16 | The sections that follow represent an attempt to examine briefly some of the liveliest areas of debate . |
| 17 | The Government has paid out £150m to former BC investors since the company 's collapse , and it first voiced its intention to recover as much of that sum as possible from BC 's professional advisers almost three years ago . |
| 18 | Principal Hotels signed a deal to take over six of the 12 Crown Hotels which went into receivership in April . |
| 19 | This supposition is mistaken , according to the argument of this book ; the imperative to become equally aware from different spatial , temporal and personal viewpoints is independent of moral traditions and habits , and we need not doubt that under any conditions spontaneity will continue to channel itself in selfish or unselfish directions with inequality or equality of awareness . |
| 20 | ONE of Britain 's leading arts organisations has withdrawn funding from Edinburgh University over its contentious decision to sell off one of two world-class works from its prestigious Torrie art collection . |
| 21 | Are the standards which the Secretary of State will accept as sufficient to allow a buy-out proposal to go ahead those of TOPS or the standards of schemes run by Stagecoach and other private sector operators ? |
| 22 | I would reckon I 'll be finished with Norman about ten o'clock it takes me an hour and a half to drive down half past eleven say I 'm in here about twelve o'clock right , cheers |
| 23 | Soon after Modigliani 's death Lipchitz exchanged the portrait to buy back two of his own stone heads from his dealer . |
| 24 | And , he attests , the only two other mainframe manufacturers , Fujitsu Ltd and Hitachi Ltd , have the capacity to build just 400 between them , while a total of 2,000 machines are sold every year . |
| 25 | Held , allowing the appeal , that , notwithstanding the general principle that a trading or non-trading corporation was entitled to sue in libel to protect so much of its corporate reputation , as distinct from that of its members , as was capable of being damaged by a defamatory statement , a local authority , as a corporate public authority , was not entitled at common law to sue for libel to protect its governing reputation ; that to allow it to do so would impose a substantial and unjustifiable restriction on freedom of expression , since an action for malicious falsehood , or a prosecution for criminal libel , provided the local authority with the sufficient and necessary protection it required in a democratic society ; and that , therefore , the local authority could not maintain its libel action for any words which reflected on it as the county council for Derbyshire in relation to its governmental and administrative functions in that county ( post , pp. 41H , 48F–G , H — 49B , 56B–C , 58A–B , 59F–G , 65B–C , F ) . |
| 26 | A plan to turn over millions of hectares of unused agricultural land to the growing of willow trees is to be implemented in Britain . |
| 27 | Oh , Mum , what a mess your daughter has got herself into , and all because of her silly pride , her determination to lash out first before anyone could lash back ! |
| 28 | The subsequent development of the jaw enabled the vertebrates to exploit a wider range of lifestyles than were available to the jawless fish , and it would not be too gross a generalization to say that much of the evolution of the vertebrates was intimately related to things that happened to jaws . |
| 29 | But we may expect in the long run to become as comfortable in the new clothes as we were in the old . |
| 30 | It also concluded that the capability of the Management Committee to become further involved in economic ventures are limited . |