Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [to-vb] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was , therefore , proposed in 1953 to introduce a form of ‘ boost ’ training for trained crews on reserve status whereby they could return to a squadron to undertake two weeks of intensive refresher flying . |
| 2 | You 've got a week and a bit to do four questions . |
| 3 | The regime used the fact that it had been " approved " in a referendum to prove two apparently contradictory notions , both of which served , nevertheless , to legitimate Franco 's rule . |
| 4 | Even a decision to paint one of them a garish blue has failed to ameliorate the effect . |
| 5 | General strikes in the public and private sectors in protest at sharp increases in food and utilities prices , low wages and a decision to dismiss 7,000 public employees by the end of the year took place in April , July , October and December and continued into the new year . |
| 6 | It 's unfortunate that yet again the Mercury got it wrong they stated that we had made a decision to close four homes |
| 7 | The TE Electronics Inc manufacturing subsidiary that Tandy Corp plans to spin off , says it will take a $20m charge against results for the first half to December 31 to cover the cost of the proposed sale of its Micronic hand-held computer operation and a decision to close two small European offices of the Tandy/GRiD Europe subsidiary . |
| 8 | The Libyan leader , Col. Moamer al Kadhafi , sent his congratulations to Déby on Dec. 5 , and welcomed a decision to repatriate 2,000 Libyan prisoners of war held since the end of the 1986-87 war . |
| 9 | In Cinnamond v. British Airport Authority ( C.A. , 1980 ) Denning M.R. found that natural justice had no application to a decision to exclude six minicab drivers from Gatwick Airport . |
| 10 | Government spokesmen had indicated on June 11 a willingness to consider one of the protestors ' later demands , namely the opening up of an independent television station . |
| 11 | VP is about what it is for a sentence to be significant rather than meaningless , while MP is about what it is for a sentence to have one meaning rather than another . |
| 12 | Smart drives using a peer to peer 8 bit interface bus supporting up to 8 devices … |
| 13 | Berkshire County Council is looking for a writer to spend two months in Vienne , France , and represent the county in the ‘ European Writers in Vienne Festival ’ in the autumn . |
| 14 | Such close contact with the facts of life certainly drives the lessons home , but a blunder can be costly , and it is not always easy for a beginner to put two and two together and deduce the root cause of his error . |
| 15 | PRICES for an autumn break start from as little as £140 for a cottage to sleep four in the Lake District . |
| 16 | Re Wait ( 1927 C.A. ) involved a contract to sell 500 tons of wheat out of the cargo of 1,000 tons in the ship ‘ Challenger . ’ |
| 17 | Mr Saldykov insists that he has a contract to sell 84 tonnes of red mercury over the next three years to an American company called API International . |
| 18 | The security forces had been sent to the bank to escort Naim to a meeting with Khazen to discuss the bank 's refusal to advance money to pay for a contract to print 1,000,000 passports . |
| 19 | They were in the throes of obtaining a contract to build 87 hawker Furies , the first military order placed outside the close knit ring of SBAC constructors , and must have felt this was where their immediate future lay . |
| 20 | The builder concerned has recently signed a contract to construct six Messerschmitt Me 262s ! |
| 21 | COMPLACENCY is almost a sacking offence at Hunslet Transportation Projects , the Birmingham-based firm which in June 1990 startled railway experts by winning a contract to supply 37 electric passenger trains to Regional Railways . |
| 22 | COMPLACENCY is almost a sacking offence at Hunslet Transportation Projects , the Birmingham-based firm which in June 1990 startled railway experts by winning a contract to supply 37 electric passenger trains to Regional Railways . |
| 23 | Orders for the Olympian have been received from the independent operator , Stagecoach , while a contract to supply 50 buses to Kowloon Motor Bus company marks Irvine 's first foray into overseas markets . |
| 24 | That offer was accepted by the customer making a contract to buy four gallons . |
| 25 | The consideration which the customer gave for the garage proprietor 's promise to supply a World Cup coin was the making of a contract to buy four gallons of petrol . |
| 26 | The making of a contract to buy four gallons of petrol was not a ‘ money consideration . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ The requirement of a creditor to wait 12 months before claiming relief instead of being able to claim at the end of the first quarter after an insolvency ( as was possible previously ) has an adverse effect on his own business 's cash flow . |
| 28 | THE history of science is a sequence of conflicts between incompatible theories in which each side vigorously defends its own theory until conclusive evidence persuades a majority to accept one view . |
| 29 | Assuming £100 a foot to build 60,000 square feet , this would bring the total cost to £20m , a scandalous figure for any efficient organisation to even contemplate . |
| 30 | I detest the architect Francisco Rodríguez Partearroyo who became famous for using a pick-axe to create two recesses in the Casón del Buen Retiro to make room for the ‘ Guernica ’ carnival to burst into life . |