Example sentences of "[to-vb] [noun] [vb -s] to [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It has been suggested that the USSR will need to finance imports of food , high technology and machinery to the value of $42 billion between 1984–1987 and would therefore need to increase energy exports to the West to about 150 MTOE per year .
2 The safest way to connect mains leads to the board is via p.c.b .
3 Some argued that the Party should threaten to withdraw from the coalition unless the Tories accepted demands to extend war controls to the nationalization of major industries .
4 In the face of an economic climate characterised by a higher degree of " uncertainty " , a greater volatility in demand for their output and increased pressure to reduce labour costs to a minimum , employers are seeking to build in to their workforces an element of " numerical flexibility " .
5 In an attempt to keep labour costs to a minimum none of the organizations wanted to employ any more labour than was absolutely necessary .
6 The government in turn undertook to keep price increases to a minimum .
7 Second , if it is accepted that the organisations in question were operating in highly competitive markets , then their ability to win orders did necessitate an ability to adjust their manpower levels upwards and downwards and to hold labour costs to a minimum .
8 It should also throw light on how lack of response to iron treatment points to the need for further colonic assessment .
9 ( 2 ) Nothing in this section affects the rights of the seller where the neglect or refusal of the buyer to take delivery amounts to a repudiation of the contract . ’
10 Like the earlier incidents the raid was thought to have been motivated by a desire within the Papuan military to cut fuel supplies to the Bougainville rebels .
11 Disagreements remained over US demands for cuts in the volume of EC farm exports , the level of reductions in price subsidies , and EC proposals to limit US exports to the EC of cereal substitutes .
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