Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [art] [det] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Patricia , 17 , goes to a sweatshop in Rio to work for a less than minimum wage . |
| 2 | Ideally one needs to subdivide the original low-ROI businesses into those at the beginning of their life-cycle and those at the end , because one would expect ROI to increase in the former but to fall in the latter . |
| 3 | All the anger she had ever felt seemed to shrink into no more than fits of petty temper in the face of what she was feeling now . |
| 4 | One of these , sometimes itself referred to as " behaviourism " , but better named causalism , takes consciousness to consist in no more than episodes which enter into certain causal relations . |
| 5 | Later this month Sam Torrance will set out from his home in Largs to embark on no less than his 20th season on the PGA European Tour . |
| 6 | The real difficulty about this type of individual help is that it may provide immediate relief but not necessarily the understanding to cope with the same or similar situations in the future . |
| 7 | When writing to a building society , never omit the mortgage reference number , or there may be some delay in receiving a reply , and if you act for your client 's bank , building society , etc , you will of course normally ask them to send the deeds direct to you ; in such a case include in your letter , if there is an existing mortgage to be discharged on completion ( as there will be in the case of a building society and may be in the case of a bank ) , an undertaking to hold the deeds on behalf of the bank or society , to return them on demand , not to part with the same except on completion of the sale , and to discharge the society 's mortgage . |
| 8 | The chips are expected to cost about the same when in volume production . |
| 9 | The chips are expected to cost about the same when in volume production . |
| 10 | She allowed herself to read for no more than half an hour a day . |
| 11 | Life appeared to continue largely as normal in the Libyan capital , and the warning seemed to amount to no more than the routine diplomatic tit-for-tat when countries expel each other 's envoys . |
| 12 | There we said that the foundationalist 's beliefs about his sensory states , to be infallible , would have to have vanishingly small content ; in fact , to amount to no more than an incomprehensible gesture . |
| 13 | They have allowed their care in the community policy for ex-mental patients to amount to no more than people drifting within a community of hostels , in which one finds people who have fallen through the safety net and ended up homeless on the streets . |
| 14 | Variations can also be expected to exist between the more and the less accessible rural areas , but few published data exist that allow this to be illustrated . |
| 15 | But , although they nearly ran out of steam and were forced to settle for a less than emphatic 27–24 margin of victory as the ‘ Boks came back at them , Sean Fitzpatrick 's side — with the Jones boys Ian and Michael , Zinzan Brooke and Frank Bunce outstanding alongside their skipper — were worthy of being the only New Zealand side ever to go through South Africa undefeated , albeit on an abbreviated tour . |
| 16 | I think it is helpful to think of the latter as debtor ( creditor-supplier ) agreements since this emphasizes the fact that in such agreements there is some connection between the creditor and the supplier : either they are the same person eg in the credit-sale , conditional sale , of HP agreement ; or there are business arrangements between them . |