Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] [prep] [art] [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Agree either that there continue to be no lower limit for the remuneration certificate jurisdiction or that the Solicitors ' Remuneration Order 1972 be amended to provide for a lower limit of £100 profit costs . |
| 2 | He argues that the small firms sector is particularly well situated to benefit from the wider enterprise opportunities offered by the single market and should not be tied down by EC red tape . |
| 3 | GDP fell by 9 per cent in 1991 and was expected to fall by a further 14 per cent in 1992 , which may well be an underestimate . |
| 4 | Such a fluid working arrangement can not be expected to work in a larger industrial firm . |
| 5 | Having doubled in the past fifty years to five billion , the world 's population is expected to increase by a further one billion in the 1990s alone . |
| 6 | Direct subsidies are expected to increase by a further £100 million this year . |
| 7 | Girls are expected to conform to a stricter morality , by their parents in particular . |
| 8 | It now appears that , in addition to this , I will be expected to part with a further portion of my income as a graduate tax to pay for my education , the last three years of which I am spending in hospitals , not only studying , but assisting on a voluntary basis with essential clinical procedures and tests . |
| 9 | In Sabah the United Sabah Party ( Parti Bersatu Sabah — PBS ) won 14 of 20 federal seats , and was expected to press for a better return from the exploitation of Sabah 's natural resources . |
| 10 | Guo and Bradshaw carried out analyses of the nutrient ( N , P and K ) and energy flow patterns within the village and have conducted a variety of experiments to see how these patterns can be modified to result in a greater retention of nutrients and a more efficient return of energy to the human population . |
| 11 | And , because they are designed to operate at a lower cost level they tend not to make demands for expensive peripherals such as PostScript devices or even simpler page printers such as Epsons and Okis that emulate the Hewlett-Packard LaserJet . |
| 12 | The successful candidate will be expected to register for a higher degree and will also contribute to the teaching programme . |
| 13 | Unemployment , already over 3m ( 10.7% of the workforce ) , is expected to rise by a further 150,000–200,000 this year . |
| 14 | If one male was defending a better territory than another male , the female might be selected to mate with the better male . |
| 15 | Philip the Fair 's government was often ( sometimes surprisingly ) prepared to compromise during the later stages of his reign , an attitude clearly reflected in the ‘ process ’ of Montreuil in Ponthieu . |
| 16 | Louis B. Wright 's Middle-Class Culture in Elizabethan England is welcomed by C. Bowie Millican on the grounds that it confirms a healthy trend in literary research whereby antiquarian , statistical , and editorial work are made to contribute to a broader and more comprehensive " cultural synthesis " : " it is the proper evaluation of such information … that leads to perspective and reveals literature to be both a continuum and a truthful mirror of life . |
| 17 | The speaker 's sectional interests , as a businessman , are seen to coincide with the wider interests of everybody else . |
| 18 | Others have dabbled in general insurance , though most have preferred to swim in the safer waters of life insurance . |
| 19 | Pupils can be helped to come to a deeper understanding of other peoples and/or events with the questioner 's guidance . |
| 20 | The verbal pinpricks are shrewdly administered in a story indulgent to the conscious flippancy of the early 1920s ; from our own angle of vision it seems as though one socially artificial and isolated world is being used to comment on an earlier , equally artificial and isolated one . |
| 21 | They came together with control engineer Dave Smith to look at this particular problem but , as their work progressed , their recently acquired quality training made them realise that a Corrective Action Team was needed to look at the wider question . |
| 22 | It is anticipated to grow by a further 50 per cent in the next seven years . |
| 23 | Within the spirits category , Scotch Whisky has had to compete with a wider range of heavily marketed white spirits . |
| 24 | And secondly , due to shortage of heavy-lift transport aircraft in the RAF , the US Air Force had to be asked to provide those needed to fly in the heavier military equipments and supplies into Amman until an overland supply route could be established . |
| 25 | Using the hypothetical examples above , for instance , this is how it might work out : skilled employment ( 4 ) the top possible score : employment duration — she has just gone back to work ( 1 ) ; housing — she has had to move to a smaller flat(l) so has n't been there long ( 0 ) ; she does have a bank account ( 4 ) ; but is separated ( 0 ) ; and quite young ( 2 ) . |
| 26 | It seems to me that , what , what 's tended to happen throughout the greater part of this century , is people have read this book , they 've said oh look , this is Freud 's Lamarckism , we know this is all wrong , so let's forget all that because it 's not essential to Freud . |
| 27 | Before we could do so he was called to account before a higher tribunal . |
| 28 | Far too many handicapped young people have been condemned to operate at a lower level of education and achievement than their abilities warrant because of lack of facilities for further and higher education . |
| 29 | The fictional drama that had seemed to appeal to the better classes was now being offered to a mass society . |
| 30 | That fund is set to increase by a further £1 million next year , and I certainly expect motor projects to figure significantly within that increased expenditure . |