Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [adv] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he meant this to come for only a few days , not for an indefinite stay . |
| 2 | For some other companies it is uneconomic to open for just a few days between bank holidays . |
| 3 | ‘ In broad terms the acrylics are mature products , ’ he says , ‘ So the general expectation must be that they are likely to grow at much the same rate as the economy of the industrial world as a whole . |
| 4 | Frame claims 38% of the world market for desktop publishing under Unix ; nearest rival is Interleaf Inc , and in Japan expects to win at least the same market share , according to senior vice-president Pat House . |
| 5 | In the first months , when hostilities were expected to last for only a few months , party activity was hardly affected at all . |
| 6 | She seems to bump into quite a few people that she knows , exchanges greetings , bits of news , and invites one or two to visit . |
| 7 | It 'll never rank with the French Riviera , but this council video aims to persuade at least a few people that Swindon 's the place to be next summer . |
| 8 | If you start throwing fragments of aeroplanes into heaps , the odds of your happening to hit upon exactly the same arrangement of junk twice are just about as low as the odds of your throwing together a working airliner . |
| 9 | Thus , we are prompted to suppose that an unspecified industrial strategy on the one hand is so like matters of health and safety for the purposes of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 , or like employment protection for the purposes of the Employment Protection Act 1975 on the other , as to amount to much the same kind of thing as they are ; and so to accept the view that , just as the second is a subject for joint regulation by management and unions or of prior discussion between management and unions , so too should the first . |
| 10 | Dr Nolan said it was just shock and she would get over it in time , but it was hard to live with just the same . |
| 11 | Are these words to use about an ally you stood shoulder to shoulder with only a few years back ? ’ |
| 12 | ( i ) Reselection is every five years for a further five-year period : ( a ) If panel members are with the same firm they would be expected to demonstrate at least the same level of competence covering their experience , skills and knowledge as when they initially joined the panel , and to have attended a number of updating courses , accumulating at least 20 continuing education points ( or hours ) from courses related to medical negligence work . |
| 13 | It is difficult to think of even a few ‘ minus points ’ to set against the outstandingly beautiful and accommodating Fairy Wrasse . |
| 14 | Many employers ‘ contracted out ’ of the Graduated Pension Scheme and agreed to pay at least the same amount as their employees would have received from the State under the graduated scheme , from their own occupational scheme . |
| 15 | He expects to pay at least the same dividend again in 1993 . |
| 16 | Thus if you want the news to break at roughly the same time the material will have to be sent out at intervals appropriate to the lead times of the publications concerned , and there is always the risk that the nationals will hear of the item and decide to publish it . |
| 17 | I think I obscurely felt relief that I would continue to live alone , to have at least a few hours of the day and night when I could try to regain one of my mixed-up selves . |
| 18 | The Church praises the courage of a small number of press , radio and TV journalists who are risking their lives to maintain at least a few channels of information which are not controlled by the government . |
| 19 | Water companies are obliged to give more comprehensive data to local councils , so consumers should be able to get at least the same amount of information . |
| 20 | In their last fixture before Henley at Marlow Regatta , St Edwards took on another Oxfordshire school Radley College , and were shocked to loose by just a few feet . |
| 21 | Keegan said : ‘ If I sold him , I would only have to spend at least the same amount on a replacement . ’ |
| 22 | Officers expect to strike for only a few hours , and Association leaders will meet later this week to finalise the details . |
| 23 | Ski with a friend and make some fairly short-radius turns which the second skier will try to emulate at exactly the same moment ( ie turn at the same time rather than follow the same track ) . |
| 24 | Fenella began to speak at exactly the same moment that Pumlumon began to intone the Draoicht Suan . |