Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun sg] to cover the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally , draught-proof the point where the sashes meet by pinning on a length of plastic or metal spring strip excluder to cover the gap . |
| 2 | Fill a small bottle to the brim with water and make a loose-fitting cap out of silver foil to cover the top . |
| 3 | He suggests that IBM has been using cash to offer attractive financing to help sell mainframes to generate the revenue growth to cover the cost of its 180,000-strong mainframe-oriented sales and service organisations , and needs to work out how to make the mainframe business the cash cow it should be , focussing on the near $20,000m in sales , general and administrative costs , not the $6,500m for research and development , pointing out that saying it is cutting $1,000m off this , mainly on mainframes , while not making a proportionate cut in costs , is a recipe for disaster . |
| 4 | The emergence of caveat emptor is probably explained in terms of it being a shorthand expression to cover the case where no writ or redress was available and this was transmogrified into a legal principle in the 18th and 19th centuries . |
| 5 | Was there a contingency plan to cover the loss of McGrath , Moran and Staunton ? |
| 6 | Allied to the reorganisation of the New Bond Street flagship store , the extension of the coordinated clothing range to cover the U.S.A. and Japan , and a successful ‘ being the best ’ internal efficiency review , this uplift in sales generated both improved results and an encouraging base for maintaining momentum . |
| 7 | Where an independent surveyor is used , he is paid by the society but the society retains part of the amount paid by the borrowing member to cover the costs of its administration . |
| 8 | Advance payment has to be made to the Post Office to cover the value of the postage expected to be used . |
| 9 | A keen traveller , in 1896 Rawnsley was sent as a newspaper correspondent to cover the coronation of the tsar in Moscow , and three years later toured the eastern states of the USA as ambassador for the National Trust . |
| 10 | He lost an eye at the Battle of the Jaws , and wears an iron patch to cover the wound . |
| 11 | I 'm not sure how much the insurance is you see that , what I 've against , I mean what I 'm doing , doing is co we have to have building insurance to cover the room |
| 12 | She offered to make over her full allowance of 28s.6d. per week from the Air Ministry to cover the cost of her stay in St. Peter 's and the cost of the ambulance ( ten shillings ) . |
| 13 | A spokesman for the Link network , which trades as Plus abroad , said : ‘ Cardholders from every other part of the world have to pay a transaction charge to cover the cost of the service but , interestingly enough , United Kingdom-based corporate members have decided not to charge their customers . |
| 14 | The third solution to the natural monopoly problem is to order the monopolist to produce at the socially efficient point E ' ; and the corresponding price P C but to provide a government subsidy to cover the losses that this will inevitably imply . |
| 15 | The banks receive a government subsidy to cover the differential between market interest rates and the loan 's fixed interest rate . |
| 16 | The government has paid for the restructuring of the Villahermosa Palace to house the collection ; it is guaranteeing any short-fall in the running costs after entrance fees are collected ; it is paying $6 million rent a year , index-linked , for the collection ; it has introduced an indemnity scheme to cover the works of art , and has given the Baron and Baroness the last word on how the collection is to be administered during the ten years of the loan , at the end of which the collection is handed back , with exemption from Spain 's otherwise very restrictive art export laws . |
| 17 | The funeral passed off without incident , and by 1630 hours the majority of the platoon was able to return to Omagh , leaving a section under the command of the platoon commander to cover the post-funeral gathering in the church hall . |
| 18 | Use the right size pan to cover the burner or ring . |
| 19 | However , members have recommended taking £385,000 from other capital funds to the housing budget to cover the shortfall . |
| 20 | Day nursery provision by local authorities was strictly limited in the 1930s and charged for , as a result of the cuts in local spending introduced as part of the National government 's economy drive , but when the Second World War came and women were to be mobilised in large numbers for the war effort , the government gave local authorities a 100-per-cent grant to cover the costs of day nurseries , merely charging parents for the cost of food served to the children . |
| 21 | That is no reason not to provide an advertising campaign to cover the whole of the country . |
| 22 | To extend our defence satellite system to cover the darkside channel would cost a further one hundred and twenty million . |
| 23 | I have now had an opportunity to discuss with relevant staff the intention to re-site the emergency alarm system to cover the reception area . |
| 24 | If you have an Orchard MSA and want to borrow on a more permanent basis , you can simply use your Orchard Reserve to cover the cost of major purchases such as a car or a holiday . |
| 25 | We will expand the Countryside Stewardship Scheme to cover the conservation of historic landscapes , meadows , pasture and hedgerows . |