Example sentences of "[vb base] [adj] [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ ( 1 ) The cash equivalent of any benefit chargeable to tax under section 61 above is an amount equal to the cost of the benefit , less so much ( if any ) of it as is made good by the employee to those providing the benefit .
2 As environmentalists pointed out at the time of the Shetlands disaster , there is a degree of hypocrisy in expressing outrage at the spillage when such accidents are the price we seem prepared to pay for access to oil .
3 However , the more authentically Italian types of pasta are rapidly gaining ground and look set to continue in popularity .
4 All the fish that the average person is likely to have are of the carp family and have similar requirements for their successful reproduction , although certain species , such as orfe and tench , seem loath to breed in captivity in Britain .
5 At a time when skilful economic leadership will be needed to manage a variety of financial and other difficulties , and when international economic stability is most desirable , the biggest industrial countries seem ready to engage in trade war .
6 You look ready to dance with rage , and although we might collect a few pennies from them in return for our providing such a spectacle I hardly think that we could put it on as a permanent entertainment ! ’
7 Furthermore , there are significant flaws in the use of such substitutes as Methadone : sufferers from addictive disease will commonly use other drugs including intravenous drugs in addition to their oral Methadone and when they do finally want to end their suffering and come off drugs altogether they commonly find that it is far harder to come off Methadone that to come off heroin .
8 The Subject Assessor was extremely approachable , and we now feel able to ask for advice ’ .
9 Three years later , on his father 's death , he paid a 1,000 mark fine to accede as heir to his father 's estate .
10 And there is always the problem of establishing a link between enforcement activity and its impact : most changes in water quality may be attributable to levels of economic activity and shifts in patterns of land-use , which have little to do with pollution control work .
11 Finally , the reasons for moving ministers frequently have little to do with ability and the time spent in any particular office is often too short to allow the minister to master the subject and the department .
12 Certainly the most difficult ideas in statistics have little to do with mathematics but are rather about what is knowable and how it may be known .
13 First , as shown in the previous section , factors which have little to do with cost — such as habit , convenience , being paid weekly will continue to dictate many people 's choice of credit .
14 For this reason office duties are disliked and paperwork despised as ‘ dirtywork ’ ( Hughes , 1971:343 ff. ) which diverts time and energy from ‘ real ’ pollution control work , making one accountable for matters which have little to do with law enforcement .
15 Golf course get the thumbs down — the study says they have little to do with farm tourism — and further farm museums , rare breed centres and farm attractions which need a large number of visitors to service a high capital investment should not be encouraged .
16 We suspect that your recommendations have little to do with Pool 's well-being , and much to do with preserving the secrets of your people . ’
17 Rather than contemplate the real world , Mr Pick prefers to bustle off in pursuit of symbols that have little to do with war itself , like the Channel tunnel , or the Nazi Holocaust , or time-and-motion studies in industry .
18 This is partly explained by the fact that the countries and institutions that collectively wield the greatest power in the EEC have focused their attention on matters arising out of the Single European Act which have little to do with trade .
19 Producers in smaller countries now face even higher barriers to entry in such industries , if they want to develop beyond ‘ dependent ’ exporting ; they have little to offer by way of an entry ticket to the two-way partnership .
20 The offering of a free service and the ability to advertise have obviously been key factors having little to do with questions of social class composition , though they have much to do with socialization since law centres perceive their role very differently from those in private practice .
21 In this we have much to learn from child abuse .
22 They have less to do with gender per se than with context , formality , subject matter , the relationship between the participants and their shared background assumptions .
23 These questions should have been foreseen , certainly , but the real personnel issues have more to do with selection , induction and training in general , and the question is whether George 's relatively informal system is really suited to the new circumstances .
24 Finally , the dilemmas associated with abuse have more to do with anxiety over taking a moral position than with the complexity of the subject .
25 Does he also agree that the reservations in his party about a single currency have more to do with nationalism than with economics ?
26 The acceptance of these conditions as being worthy of medical time an the tendency to resent scarce resources being used on drug addiction and alcoholism have more to do with fear or disgust than whether or not a condition is demonstrably self-induced .
27 There is a continual need to appraise existing techniques , to seek refinements and to search out new instrumental methods of examination which have more to offer in speed , accuracy or range of elements found .
28 Carlisle , in 12th place , have the second-highest average home gates in the Third Division at more than 4,000 but need 11,000 to survive on income from gate receipts alone .
29 It may be worth pointing out to new customers who prove reluctant to pay on time that the keenly competitive rates being charged on the haulage contract can only be maintained if customers settle promptly .
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