Example sentences of "to [adj] [noun] [unc] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 1992 accounts ( due 31 December 1993 ) are almost complete but another six to eight weeks ' work is needed before the audit can be signed off . |
| 2 | Six to eight weeks ' notice is advisable . |
| 3 | Song Yude , a 34-year-old Protestant evangelist , was sentenced to eight years ' imprisonment in 1986 for carrying out unofficial religious activities . |
| 4 | Yidana was further convicted , without right of appeal , in 1983 of harbouring one of the leaders of the failed coup and sentenced to eight years ' imprisonment . |
| 5 | However , the court upheld the conviction against Mario Biaggi , a former member of the House who was sentenced to eight years ' imprisonment on charges arising from the Wedtech affair . |
| 6 | Abdul Fatah , a former leader of the NII movement to make Indonesia an Islamic country , was sentenced to eight years ' imprisonment on June 1 convicted of " activities undermining the state ideology , Pancasila , and the 1945 Constitution " . |
| 7 | In January 1922 the Smolensk party committee estimated that there was only enough fuel of all kinds left for seven to eight days ' consumption . |
| 8 | On 11 June 1992 the husband was arrested at the wife 's house and on 12 June Judge Woodford , finding him guilty of breaches of the injunctions of 12 September 1991 and 12 May 1992 , sentenced him to eight months ' imprisonment for contempt of court . |
| 9 | Mr. Butler was sentenced to eight months ' imprisonment . |
| 10 | Handel wrote the Messiah in London , where he lived in a house close to present-day King 's Cross Station , five years after suffering a severe stroke , and it received its first performance in Dublin in 1742 . |
| 11 | The journey back to London went quickly as I mulled over the strange background to Froggy Davies ' death . |
| 12 | To this view in recent years has been added the opinion that great benefits would be attached to stabilising Britain 's currency by linking it to the Deutschmark . |
| 13 | Fripp , 25 , of King George Road , Ware , who admitted burglary and two charges of handling , was sentenced to 180 hours ' community service . |
| 14 | After a marathon seven-month trial , Noriega , 54 , the first foreign leader to be convicted in America , faces up to 120 years ' jail . |
| 15 | Salesman led police to pregnant woman 's body |
| 16 | Another key to Private Eye 's success , and one that was not to be lost on the underground , was its use of offset litho printing . |
| 17 | Alternatively fistulas have presented later after operation ( n= 14 ) due to unrecognised Crohn 's disease ( n=4 ) , chronic obstruction at the ileoanal anastomosis ( n=3 ) , from a stitch sinus ( n=1 ) , or from possible reactivation of latent cryptoglandular infections ( n=6 ) . |
| 18 | George Bush appointed Justice Souter , to political conservatives ' dismay , in the summer of 1990 , in that short period when it looked as if he might be a great president . |
| 19 | ( f ) Notice to insurance society When an endowment insurance policy on the life of a buyer-borrower is to be assigned to that person 's mortgagee ( commonly building society or bank ) notice of the assignment must be given to the insurance society when the policy has been assigned . |
| 20 | Now write the letter next to that person 's name in the box by the appropriate sports category below . |
| 21 | If , as is more likely , the seller gives his instruction to that person 's employer or principal , he must allow reasonable time for the instructions to be communicated to the person in actual possession before delivery is made to the buyer . |
| 22 | And I think what we 're trying to do is to see that we 're being treated fairly just as we might listen to that person 's argument as well . |
| 23 | Another is Padfoot , a creature with long , smooth hair who will creep unheard alongside a traveller , then suddenly rattle a chain , much to that person 's consternation . |
| 24 | He looked at Mr Dixon with new respect and , to that gentleman 's delight , really began to work hard . |
| 25 | When a character fails , he hits the person behind , giving a -20 penalty to that character 's test . |
| 26 | In reading , lexical access involves using information from a printed word to gain access to that word 's entry in the mental lexicon . |
| 27 | In Washington , Watson and his wife took lunch with President and Mrs Cleveland who later came to that night 's lecture . |
| 28 | The breed secretary , Peter Reynolds , was delighted with the result , which topped this month 's breed leader at Perth by 7500gn and added £150 to that centre 's average . |
| 29 | Copies of the resolutions were to be sent to the society in Odiham , to subscribers to that society 's farriery fund , and to members of the society resident in London . |
| 30 | Although a habitat may be manipulated particularly to encourage a bird species or group of species , this would involve the conservation of other forms of wildlife essential to that bird 's existence . |