Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] [prep] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A DOZEN wildlife watchdogs will turn to pedal power next week in a bid to raise at least £5,000 . |
| 2 | When the European Communities Act 1972 became law each House of Parliament set up a committee to advise on how scrutiny of European legislation could most effectively take place . |
| 3 | The couple were in the heat of a campaign to raise at least £200,000 for the St John Ambulance Brigade for a headquarters in the south east of England . |
| 4 | That underlines the fact that the one Bill will have the capacity to cater for both Scotland and England . |
| 5 | Their specification however , looks down the road and anticipates the need to provide for both Microsoft Corp NT interoperability and Windows NT SparcWare applications in future . |
| 6 | Section 40(1) of the Patents Act 1977 permits an employee inventor to apply to either tribunal for a single or periodic award of compensation over and above the salary he is already earning . |
| 7 | When you buy your spur , also buy bolts sufficiently long to pass through both spur and post to leave at least 25mm ( 1in ) protruding . |
| 8 | Yet in the face of almost every conceivable difficulty widespread and bitter popular hostility to the whole idea of naval development , the need to import from abroad officers and technicians of all kinds , the surrender of Azov and consequent loss of the Black Sea fleet in 1711 ( see pp. 271–2 ) — Peter I had by his death in 1725 made Russia one of the great naval powers of Europe . |
| 9 | ‘ I could have been the only Irishman to play for both Billy Bingham and Jack Charlton , ’ he said . |
| 10 | The Challenge team will mark the submission bid to the Department of the Environment later this month with a castle-building event to raise at least £15,000 through sponsorship for two local charities , the Ann Charlton Muscular Sclerosis lodge and the Kirkleatham Special School . |
| 11 | As the recent experience of many English villages shows only too well , there are ample opportunities for conflict to arise between both farmers and farm workers on the one hand and the newcomers on the other . |
| 12 | David the chief economist of Nat West Bank expects output to rise by only point six percent this year . |
| 13 | Cut the plastic to cover at least 75% of the tank 's base , cut one or two holes along the back for the uplift tubes to fit in tightly , either just pushed in or siliconed . |
| 14 | The Board is due to meet later this month to decide on how hospital services in its area will be delivered in future . |
| 15 | So I think it is a matter of erm importance for the structure plan its inclusion er and I think to put the an answer to one of the questions that was put earlier , if it is not to be left to the district to decide on where development is or is not appropriate in open countryside as defined in the structure plan policy , who it is intended could be making the decision on where development would be appropriate . |
| 16 | I had called round at the house early in the week to check on how things had gone over the weekend . |
| 17 | This involves a per unit price below average cost , plus a lump sum fee for the right to consume , which is of sufficient size to ensure at least breakeven . |
| 18 | This required every Elf to spend at least part of the year as part of a military force , and to provide wargear for himself . |
| 19 | We 're talking about hundreds , not thousands here because there are six hundred clubs , so we 're talking , but I think though we , we hope to be able to give significant amounts of money to pay for perhaps safety boats , perhaps instructors , perhaps rescue boat fuel , enough to kick-start these courses off which is important and those forms are going out at the end of the week and when the money 's gone we 'll stop giving the grants out . |
| 20 | Lawrence is a good campaigner to have around when nerves are fraught . |
| 21 | Lawrence is a good campaigner to have around when nerves are fraught . |
| 22 | It is also essential , as Alexander ( 1984 ) emphasizes , to avoid the historic tendency for management training to concentrate on how schools should be run while neglecting the purposes they serve . |
| 23 | Answer guide : This is an ideal situation to focus on how students will react to setting their own targets and having targets set for them and then relating this to a business situation . |
| 24 | There were even giggles as this ( as he seemed to some of them ) funny little man with a funny voice urged the audience to abstain from fleshly lusts . |
| 25 | The government had to increase its grant to the Arts Council in order to replace at least part of the subsidies these county authorities had paid to support cultural activities . |
| 26 | The local authority has adopted a computerised system to look at where savings can be made . |
| 27 | If we wish to know why hysteria is now so rare and why modern forms of psychopathology in general seem so often removed from their classical , nineteenth and early twentieth-century manifestations , we may now be in a position to give at least part of the answer . |
| 28 | The size of 's commitment to animal feed has increased very considerably with ’ turnover forecast to rise to over £500 million in 1993 compared to a previous level of £200 million per annum . |
| 29 | It expects entry-level boxes built with the PICA chip set and the Acer reference design to go for under $3,500 yet offer a fivefold performance leap over 66MHz Intel 80486DX2 machines . |
| 30 | It expects entry-level boxes built with the ‘ PICA ’ chip and the Acer reference design to go for under $3,500 yet offer a five time performance leap over 66MHz Intel 486DX2 machines . |