Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [num] [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 Looking at the account books — the real ones , not the fabrications served up to the Poles and the League of Nations — it was clear that Danzig 's projected budget for 1934–5 would run at a deficit of over 44 million gulden , which , when added to the employment projects the Nazis needed to keep their supporters in Danzig happy and faithful , would leave the Reichsbank to pick up a bill of over 110 million marks .
2 A referendum after 2007 would decide the future formation of the Legco ; however , any changes approved by referendum would require the endorsement of a two-thirds majority of the Legco , the consent of the chief executive , and the approval of the NPC standing committee .
3 Secondly , the number of significant train accidents recorded in 1990 was the lowest on record and it is expected that the final figure for 1991 will show a further decline .
4 Although the country 's economy had grown in real terms by 3.5 per cent in 1989 , the Central Bank 's current prediction was that the figure for 1990 would show a 3 per cent contraction , attributable largely to a drop in tourism and to the continuing weak performance by export manufacturing .
5 Daily administration of CR-1409 can inhibit CCK induced pancreatic growth after pancreatobiliary diversion .
6 The " Front from Below " was based on the totally unrealistic view that the Parliamentary collapse of 1931 would lead to the replacement of the Labour Party by some other form of Left party .
7 A steady circulation of 300,000 should make a healthy profit , even at a cover price of 35p .
8 If the English artist Mark Quinn can get his own head , cast in his own frozen blood , on display in the Saatchi Gallery in London ; if the Italian papers can be filled with agitated articles about whether ‘ a cardboard box covered in cloth , with bits of cardboard , bone glue , red pen , tempera and oil paint ’ , until recently exhibited at the Brera Academy in Milan , is or is not an authentic , therefore meaningful , work by the shamanesque German , Joseph Beuys ; if Duchamp 's own famous urinal of 1917 can grace the Palazzo Grassi in Venice as from this month , then surely there is room for those centuries-old objects of ancient devotion to be resurrected as the focus of the new cult .
9 If we alter the figures 2 and 2 to 3.5 , the middle figure of 5 would remain unaltered because it is independent of the bottom figures .
10 A coalition in 1910 would have excluded Ulster , Irish Nationalists , and Labour ; coalition in 1915 excluded anti-war MPs and diehards .
11 His September 4-10 tour of the Baltic States of Lithuania , Latvia and Estonia under Moscow 's rule until 1991 would have been impossible before the 1989 fall of the Berlin Wall .
12 There were certainly regions where this situation was developing — the new cotton districts of south Lancashire for example , and in the Potteries where females unknown in the industry before 1760 could earn from 12s ( 60p ) to £2 a week by the end of the century .
13 The latter part of 1992 will see the development of a ‘ Steady as You Go ’ campaign aimed at elderly bus users .
14 Under the proposed new arrangements , booklets issued for the remainder of 1992/93 will contain only enough payslips to take employers to the end of the deduction year , and they will be accompanied by an explanatory leaflet .
15 A rating of 1 would mean that you feel there is no possible way in which an accident could occur in this situation , a rating of 20 would mean that you feel that you could be involved in an accident at any moment . ’
16 A rating of 1 would mean that you feel there is no possible way in which an accident could occur in the situation , a rating of 7 would mean that you feel that you could be involved in an accident at any moment . ’
17 A rating of 4 would mean that the driver is going at the correct speed for the conditions . ’
18 A rating of 1 would mean that you feel there is no possible way in which an accident could occur in the situation , a rating of 7 would mean that you feel that you could be involved in an accident at any moment . ’
19 A rating of 1 would mean that you feel there is no possible way in which an accident could occur in this situation , a rating of 20 would mean that you feel that you could be involved in an accident at any moment . ’
20 Assured by his agents that disaffection was widespread in England and that the Catholic Northern rising of 1569 would win extensive support , Pius responded to the appeals of the rebels by signing in February 1570 the bull Regnans in Excelsis , excommunicating Elizabeth and releasing her subjects from their allegiance to her .
21 Had there been any accumulated revenue account surpluses , then the deficit of 2,037,500 would have been netted off them .
22 Is the Home Secretary aware that his decision of 2 May put that Zairean teacher in an extremely dangerous and vulnerable position , and that it is not the first time that his Department has deported people in the face of a court decision that they should remain in this country ?
23 This Coq au Vin for four will take a mere 8 minutes , for example .
24 A configuration of four will cost between $400,000 to $500,000 .
25 Wilf Medlam 's task was clearly not an easy one , but his efforts have ensured that at least one little country mill has been saved in order to show future generations just how a mill of 1830 would have been operated .
26 If we retain the assumption that leakages constitute 60 per cent of additional income , then a multiplier of 1.67 would apply to the increase in exports .
27 As we shall be explaining in the following chapters , we do not believe that the steps taken in the Criminal Justice Act of 1991 will prove drastic enough .
28 Such a contention involves this proposition , that no subsequent Parliament by enacting a provision inconsistent with I he Act of 1919 can give any effect to the words it uses .
29 Even if the matter were still proceeding before the justices ' court , either for the purposes of committal for trial or for trial of an information , it would be my opinion that neither section 5(1) nor section 10(1) of the Act of 1980 would apply to give the justice hearing a proceeding under section 7(5) of the Bail Act 1976 a power to adjourn that proceeding .
30 It is a matter for the coroner to decide whether the inquest should be held with a jury : section 19(3) ( d ) of the Act of 1988 might suggest that a jury is appropriate in this case .
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