Example sentences of "[noun pl] for [art] [adj] couple " in BNC.
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| 1 | It described the separation as a ‘ warped , hypocritical , half-hearted remedy ’ and said plans for the royal couple to avoid divorce were hopelessly unrealistic . |
| 2 | The need to separate the functions of chairman and chief executive has been a raging debate in City of London parlours for the past couple or years , and companies at which the two roles are combined in one person have been under enormous pressure to accept a separation of powers : now the same debate could take off across the Atlantic as Compaq Computer Corp 's ( non-executive ) chairman Ben Rosen tells the House Telecommunications and Finance Subcommittee that the troubles that have beset some of America 's largest companies can be traced to cozy relationships between their boards and their chief executives — he declares that the boards of most US companies are chaired by the company 's chief executive , who picks the board members and controls the agenda — ‘ With an appropriate form of corporate governance , I fully believe that the current problems of IBM , Digital Equipment , Westinghouse and other major American corporations could have been addressed and probably solved far earlier with much reduced ill effects , ’ Rosen told the legislators , adding that a company 's chairman should be a ‘ truly outside independent director , ’ not the chief executive or a former chief executive , and that all board members , with the exception of the chief executive , should also be outsiders , who should get their directors ' fees in the form of shares or options . |
| 3 | One of the best authorities for the next couple of years of Burton 's life — back in the UK , waiting for the demob in various rural localities — is the actor Warren Mitchell . |
| 4 | Developments such as these were to occupy some of Newton 's successors for the next couple of centuries . |
| 5 | Act Two , during which the wooing gets seriously under way , is naturally more devoted to arias , including Fiordiligi 's magnificent rondo ‘ Per pietà , ben mio ’ , and Ferrando 's ‘ revenge ’ aria ‘ Tradito , schernito ’ , and duets for the rearranged couples . |
| 6 | ( Simon and Garfunkel were used as models for the untalented couple of nerds played by Dustin and Warren Beatty in Ishtar twenty years later . ) |
| 7 | Together with Nina 's secretary , Alex rescheduled most of the Editor 's appointments for the next couple of weeks . |
| 8 | If you have never paid anything but reduced rate contributions , you are not entitled to a basic pension in your own right but instead must rely on your husband 's contributions for the married couple 's pension . |
| 9 | S see you every four weeks for the next couple of months , When are you |
| 10 | Silvia had stuck to her promises for the first couple of days , but then had followed a catalogue of excuses and cancelled lessons that had left Ronni feeling angry and on edge . |
| 11 | Well the farmers for the last couple of years have been arguing that they want this green rate devalued er to try and bring it line more with the market rate er and what this would do would er increase our guaranteed prices in this country and in fact on Friday this happened er the green rate was devalued by 60%. er and so I 've done a few calculations er and for the farmers that are listening and er may understand this er if he was selling his grain in November 89 he would be getting about £99 a ton , whilst if he sells it in November this year he 'll be getting £110 a ton . |
| 12 | All the excitement in the world of laser printers for the past couple of months has centred around the magnificent 600dpi ( dots per inch ) LaserJet 4 from Hewlett-Packard . |
| 13 | For example , The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show , which ran from 1950 to 1958 , made no attempt to construct bogus personas for the eponymous couple . |
| 14 | You get ‘ funny ’ results for the first couple of weeks … lets hope that we learn lessons , and get down to work . |
| 15 | And if you give her , just stick her to small amounts for the next couple of days |
| 16 | From a technical point of view this is mainly nip and tuck stuff , but Microsoft is betting that the innovative use of existing technology will be a winner and is finally cashing in on all the application programming interfaces , dynamic data exchange , object linking and embedding facilities that it has been burying in its applications and operating systems for the last couple of years . |
| 17 | All our mental and physical energies for the last couple of days have been concentrated on food . |