Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] to [noun] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Beaverton , Oregon-based company has been working over the last few months to staff up a new business unit to concentrate on low-end multi-processors , an area it feels offers great potential . |
| 2 | Why , when the opposition goalie was taking a goal-kick , did he crouch forward and remain motionless like Johnny Fartpants ? was this some attempt to psyche out the opposition ? |
| 3 | Anecdotes like this help to flesh out the inanimate objects we sell . |
| 4 | Because of the drive swapping the CONFIG.SYS file is stored in the uncompressed drive D. If you edit this file to REM out the DEVSWAP command you might be lucky enough to recover the ROM drive but I can not guarantee it . |
| 5 | The old Apache Group , now restyled the Mips ABI Group , has added a few members ( current count is 16 ) and is going to stage a rally later this month to wheel out the promised ABI . |
| 6 | In a discussion document published on 11 June the Department of Trade and Industry also sought views on extending this exemption to areas where the auditor 's only relationship with an associate company providing non-audit services to a client is as a trustee . |
| 7 | I caught up with them about 3.30pm in Jackson Bridge where they were finishing a hymn , and possibly a silent prayer , before they marched back up the steep winding hill to Hepworth where a free tea was waiting for them in the school . |
| 8 | Written in a very attractive style this little publication is the ideal vehicle to while away a quiet few minutes and , at the same time , does something practical to help with the preservation of steam . |
| 9 | Pretty comfortable ways to while away the summer |
| 10 | 14.2.5 Entitlement to expenses also a matter of contract |
| 11 | TOP rugby coach Mostyn Richards has made a plea for all clubs to back fully the Mid-Wales District representative team . |
| 12 | The least they should be required to do , without further reluctance , is to announce a firm decision to phase out the drift-netting within five years . |
| 13 | Drawing from his experience of Japan , Johnson ( 1984 : p. 8 ) considered that this ‘ means the initiation and co-ordination of governmental activities to leverage upward the productivity and competitiveness of the whole economy and of particular industries in it … |
| 14 | As far as I know , there are only two still in existence : one , the U.505 , was captured by an American task force towards the end of the war , towed up the St Lawrence and through the Great Lakes to Chicago where a special cradle was built for it to cross the Lake Shore Drive and then set up in a little house of its own in the Museum of Science and Industry . |
| 15 | ICI strongly supports the Montreal Protocol , an international agreement to phase out the dispersive use of ozone-depleting chemicals . |
| 16 | Non-typists have difficulty finding the desired keys and may take a long time to type even a short word . |
| 17 | The Mercantile 's switch to Klea 134a is another step in a growing trend to phase out the use of CFCs which is required by 1995 under a world environmental agreement . |
| 18 | He took five minutes to type out the piece and comment on it . |
| 19 | Then Vernage noticed Sergeant King staggering down the road in a desperate bid to flag down a car . |
| 20 | If there is any predisposition to psychosis then the changes induced can be permanent . |
| 21 | The nature of those policies with their emphases on private sector developments , home ownership and small businesses , suggests that in part at least the Government is seeking to produce electoral change by introducing traditional Conservative supporters to areas where the party has been very weak — as , for example , in many of the residential developments in London 's Docklands . |
| 22 | We had a fast and uneventful run to Stornoway where the new propeller was fitted but , to my horror , in the haste to re-launch us the same prop . |
| 23 | ‘ I gave twenty quid to Oxfam only the other day , ’ said Emma . |
| 24 | The progression is familiar enough , and it adds another modern dimension to Middle-earth-or rather a timeless one , for though in the modern age we give Saruman a modern ‘ applicability ’ , his name , and the evident uncertainty even in Anglo-Saxon times over mechanical cleverness and ‘ machinations ’ , shows that his meaning was ancient too . |
| 25 | In 1155 , the customs confirmed by Louis VII for Lorris on the royal demesne established that no parishioner should have to pay taxes on food intended for his own consumption or on grain grown by his own labour ; he should be exempt from tolls when he took his produce to the neighbouring towns of Etampes , Orléans , Milly , or Melun ; if required for a chevauchée , he must be allowed to return home at the end of the day ; the only labour service he owed his lord was in carrying seigneurial wine to Orléans twice a year ; and the burgesses of Lorris as a whole were exempted from seigneurial tailles . |
| 26 | Their names will be in Japanese history books if they can persuade the Soviet leader to hand back the islands . |
| 27 | Nevertheless , those unfamiliar with the original Dutch version ( which is most people ) may find this a satisfying way to while away an evening . |
| 28 | Nevertheless , those unfamiliar with the original Dutch version ( which is most people ) may find this a satisfying way to while away an evening . |
| 29 | It was expected that case law would give rise to sufficient precedents to flesh out the relatively few guidelines available under UCTA , but in fact cases have been few and not very helpful . |
| 30 | On Jan. 30 , 1991 , the ruling Liberal Party in Quebec released a report which offered a " last chance " to Canada by demanding that the federal government accord a special status to Quebec whereby the province would have jurisdiction over almost all of its domestic affairs . |