Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb -s] [to-vb] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Guardian 's cartoonist showed one health official saying to another : ‘ These regional days of action are so badly organized that Len Murray has to ring up Norman Fowler to ask where they are being held . ’ |
| 2 | In addition , the LDDC plans to spend over £200 million by the mid-1990s on road improvements with Docklands , and the Department of Transport is to spend more than double that figure on linking the area to the national road network . |
| 3 | Yet Uganda continues to get about $100m a year in foreign aid . |
| 4 | Sales will be direct and via existing third-party distributors , though ICL plans to sign up specialist Unix and office software VARs in all regions . |
| 5 | It was hard to imagine Eleanor 's contrariness , since she rarely saw it , but even , Dorothea told herself , were she the dearest , most unselfish soul in the world , she is old , nevertheless , Alida has to carry heavily trays up and down stairs and see the food being left uneaten , to get up in the middle of night after night , to listen to the rambling memories , to put up with incoherence and with having to repeat everything because her mother did not remember . |
| 6 | In the United Kingdom , the NHS plans to spend about £36 billion in the calendar year 1993 ( about 15% of public spending , or 5.7% of the gross domestic product ) ; a small percentage of this should be devoted to the conduct of prevention trials and the implementation of worthwhile new preventive medical services . |
| 7 | Brazil expects to export over 1m tonnes , twice its estimate a few months ago . |
| 8 | Now Betterware plans to set up shop elsewhere in Europe , with Spain the likely first stop . |
| 9 | UN acts to set up war crimes court |
| 10 | 1947 South Africa refuses to hand over mandate for Namibia to UN trusteeship on the grounds that it does not recognize UN as successor to League of Nations [ see p. 8834 ] . |
| 11 | Although Sweden plans to phase out CFCs by 1995 and Norway plans to cut production by 90 per cent by 1995 , the UK will not phase these chemicals out until 1997 . |
| 12 | RTE claims to reach about 30pc of all homes in the province , mainly in the south and west , giving it 8pc of the total TV audience . |
| 13 | HOW sickening that President Bush has to fend off allegations of a long-ago affair as he gears up for the US election . |
| 14 | US agrees to speed up protection of species |
| 15 | In 1816 – 18 the second Marquess of Bute had the courtyard cleared of vegetation and rubble , and in 1871 – 79 the third Marquess cleared out the moat and engaged the architect William Burges to carry out restoration of the masonry . |
| 16 | Maria tries to fend off Glass 's questions , then cracks . |
| 17 | If SunSoft does the port it costs $150,000 , but that 's apparently $150,000 every time it needs to be done even though SunSoft has to change only 5% of the code , an activity that takes only seven to ten days . |
| 18 | Teenager Jamie Pollock hopes to start off week-end birthday celebrations with a win . |
| 19 | In The Merchant of Venice , in a verse-scene , when Gratiano tries to cheer up Antonio with an ‘ exhortation ’ that misfires , as soon as he has left Bassanio drops into prose suddenly , for five lines of mocking comment : ‘ Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing , more than any man in all Venice . |
| 20 | There was another piece of good news yesterday with the announcement that BAe plans to take on apprentices again . |
| 21 | There was another piece of good news yesterday with the announcement that BAe plans to take on apprentices again . |
| 22 | Except in France , where the idea is still regarded as politically incorrect , and in Germany , where it appears to be politically impossible , floating shares in the phone company is part of fiscal orthodoxy these days , and India proposes to raise about $32m by selling a 16% stake in the New Delhi-based telephone company Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd to the public this year to help finance India 's five-year telecommunications development plan , Reuter reports . |
| 23 | Gloucestershire hopes to spend nearly £328m in the coming year . |