Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] [noun] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the early 1890s the NVA had begun to pass on evidence of cases to the Home Office , complaining of the difficulties of prosecuting under existing legislation . |
| 2 | This came about because entrepreneurs realised that they could maintain higher profits by not indulging in fierce competition which forced them to pass on benefits to consumers . |
| 3 | And she blasts supermarkets for failing to pass on profits to customers by cutting prices . |
| 4 | The ante-natal clinic is a useful place for advice , and I also like to pass on tips to women planning a family . |
| 5 | The local groups will be able to send delegates to the association 's central committee to pass on details of complaints , campaigns and victories . |
| 6 | Both carry notebooks with them to jot down ideas for sketches . |
| 7 | His role was to drum up contributions from friends in big business . |
| 8 | LAWS to tighten up control of strays take effect this week but anyone who expects to see the streets cleared of roaming dogs will be disappointed . |
| 9 | questions designed to find out reasons for views held |
| 10 | If the business buys goods for resale , or components for assembly , the terms on which it buys should be considered : to what extent is it possible to pass back liability for defects in those goods ; can the business recover an indemnity from its supplier against any liability it incurs to third parties , or is such liability excluded ? ( 3 ) Who are the business 's customers ? |
| 11 | Others offered to man phones , to work out rotas of helpers , and to provide clerical back-up for the two solicitors . |
| 12 | Further , from the outset , they were encouraged to set aside time during meetings to devote to a training topic . |
| 13 | They could also find themselves having to pay to clean up pollution on sites they have bought . |
| 14 | Reception was , and still is , poor in many parts of the country , but with ingenuity and a certain amount of patient tuning it is possible in any area to pick up services from transmitters in Lusaka , Kabwe , Livingstone and the Copperbelt . |
| 15 | One advantage of a card file is that it is very easy to pick up handful of cards and flip through them in odd five minutes in order to memorise some new words . |
| 16 | In several respects , though , the fate of Black Fury had confirmed basic Warner Bros notions and they continued to pick up ideas for movies from the daily papers , they went on believing that social melodrama could be profitable , and they had been given further evidence that Muni could win acclaim by projecting himself as a hard-done-by but eventually triumphant saint . |
| 17 | look out for the opportunities arising from meeting children 's special needs , to open up discussions about ways to improve the curricular experiences for all children in the future . |
| 18 | For instance , we are well-used to integrating vocational assessments in care , but for the general SVQ we have for the first time found it necessary to set up meetings with colleagues delivering modules in numeracy , information technology and budget financing . |
| 19 | In 1986 , she moved to Matagalpa , and helped to set up projects with women whose menfolk were killed in the war . |
| 20 | ‘ If you are going to set up things for volunteers , you need to make sure that you 've got your act together because otherwise , if they just turn up and muddle along , they wo n't stay . |
| 21 | For further information on the Blues Festival Programme or to set up interviews with musicians performing at the Blues Festival please contact : |
| 22 | Ridging ploughs , with double ( left and right ) mould-boards , are used to set up ridges for potatoes and roots . |
| 23 | The Nayar case also illustrates my earlier comments on the anthropologists ' use of the term " society " and of their attempts to set up typologies of societies of various kinds . |
| 24 | The easier it is to use courts or , even better , private agreements to sort out disputes between creditors and shareholders while the firm continues to operate , the lower the costs will be , and the greater the incentive to skate closer to the edge . |
| 25 | This was true enough : the Company needed to sell about £100,000 of goods a year in West Africa to carry on enough trade to cover its fixed costs for shipping and for its forts ; it was never able to manage this and in a good year it could only take about 6,000 slaves across , which might be worth £90,000 . |
| 26 | Morden , Surrey-based Short Term Rental Systems Ltd can now offer UK customers what it reckons is a unique combined hardware and software personal computer rental service , thanks to a series of agreements with WordStar International Inc , Microsoft Corp , BitStream Inc and Lotus Development Corp : users are offered a combination of Compaq Computer Corp , Dell Computer Corp and Apple Computer Inc machines ready-loaded with the software of their choice — an 80486 machine with colour monitor , inkjet printer , WordStar word processor and Lotus spreadsheet will cost £135 ; 24 hour support is also available from Bushey , Hertfordshire-based Professional Support Centre ; the service is aimed at ‘ Small-Office-Home-Office ’ users , large corporates wanting to hire machines for project work , and hotels , exhibition and conference organisers wishing to hire out facilities to clients ; rental , naturally , has been viewed with suspicion by software companies anxious about piracy — Short Term Rental has got round this by removing the installation commands from the software it rents so preventing users from copying . |
| 27 | The group that was introduced to the sounds of individual letters was better at spelling than the group trained only to pick out sounds in words . |
| 28 | One , as it were , to pick out addresses , one to pick out socio-economic groups , one to pick out motor cars , one to pick out number of bedrooms , one to pick out whatever , and trivially or , or superficially everyone says the same thing , a database , it 's on the database , now |
| 29 | However , booksellers may offer discounts at their own discretion on the sale of multiple copies , the idea being to enable educational authorities to purchase competitively quantities of copies , in supplying which the bookseller does not incur his usual overhead costs because of the volume of the business . |
| 30 | In his 40s , he squats in blueberry bushes to strip off handfuls of berries , scrabbles in the snow to uncover the nut-hoards hidden by squirrels , and carries home touch-me-not seeds that explode ‘ like a pistol ’ in his hat . |