Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] [noun pl] [prep] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bookies installed the Gunners as favourites for the title — only to halve their odds against dropping out of the Premier League to 50-1 after just one week ! |
| 2 | Even though mammals lavish such care and attention on their young , they still have the same two options open to insects and fish , crabs and reptiles — whether to concentrate their energies on producing as many young as possible and then let them fend for themselves , or whether to restrict the numbers to very few but look after them carefully . |
| 3 | Another reason is that the US will simply need more of the world 's more unusual metals if it wants to meet its targets of producing more military equipment . |
| 4 | It also gives details of the special range of services which Barclays can offer to meet your needs in setting up your franchise business and running it profitably . |
| 5 | Within the gate of what is now the Bank of Scotland 's premises in Jedburgh is preserved a ‘ Loupin'-on Stane ’ from which they used to mount their horses before setting off . |
| 6 | Mr Dennis and the Honda Marlborough McLaren team face a massive task to resurrect their fortunes after scoring only nine points in the opening three races and enduring such a miserable weekend debut with the long-awaited MP4/7A . |
| 7 | I manage to calm my nerves by remembering how I feel before a World Championship run with twisting somersaults and double axels ahead of me . |
| 8 | While individuals may be seeking : ( 1 ) freedom to advance their careers by moving on to other firms , but " job security " in the meanwhile ; ( 2 ) payment , on death or retirement , of the full value of their partnership shares ( including capital contributions , undrawn profits , goodwill etc ) ; and ( 3 ) upon death and/or retirement from practice , financial security for themselves and their families , the firm 's priorities in the interests of preserving profitability are likely to be concentrated on : ( 1 ) the need to impose restrictions on the freedom of partners to leave without adequate notice and/or thereafter to compete with the firm ; ( 2 ) the ability to remove from the firm any partner who has failed to meet proper professional standards who is disruptive or who is not seen to be pulling his weight ; and ( 3 ) the need to minimise the strain on the firm 's finances when a partner leaves whilst recognising a certain moral responsibility towards the family of a deceased partner . |
| 9 | Following changes in legislation the directors are proposing an amendment which will allow employees to exercise their options on reaching either age 60 or age 65 , even if they continue in employment . |
| 10 | Reduce expenditure on imported foreign goods , reduce expenditure overseas on such items as defence and foreign aid and attempt to discourage its citizens from travelling overseas to stop money being spent abroad . |
| 11 | They could also seek to express their views by searching out a friendly bishop to speak for them in the debates . |
| 12 | Acceptance of the separate stages of rehearsal , drafting , revision , editing and publishing as normal practice for writers encourages children with special needs to express their ideas in writing more confidently than was possible when children were expected to get everything right at the first attempt . |
| 13 | Having an extra wash tray to rinse your prints before going back to the dev. time to allow for the stop , etc. would n't go amiss . |
| 14 | Having an extra wash tray to rinse your prints before going back in the dev. will keep it longer . |
| 15 | The compensation deal will cost the government an estimated A$100m and involves Canberra waiving airport landing charges for as long as it takes the airlines to recoup their losses from keeping about 21,000 non-pilot employees on their staff during the dispute . |
| 16 | Residents of Bishopton , Redmarshall and Carlton are invited to give their views on setting up a youth club for local 11 to 16-year-olds at a meeting on February 14 . |
| 17 | I could hear the shotgun barking as I walked through the dim , dripping woods from the house , staying off the muddy path as much as possible and walking on the flattened , exhausted-looking grass at its side to keep my shoes from clogging up . |
| 18 | In seven tightly reasoned chapters , the author lays out the traditional interpretation of Gris as it was advanced by Apollinaire , Kahnweiler , Maurice Raynal , Zervos and other colleagues and critics who had known the artist and followed his development , and then proceeds to question their assumptions by looking more closely at the works themselves than any other scholar had previously done . |
| 19 | She British ladies withdrawing , after their dinner from the frozen stores of English food flown into the Embassy shop , to powder their noses before flowing eagerly back to their men sipping brandy on the terrace under trees prodigal with flame-of-the-forest blossoms . |
| 20 | In fact , even the backward-looking Kinsley was forced to amend his views on taking over as Professor at Nottingham in place of Pinto seven years later . |
| 21 | In Britain the hostility of some to British political life is more explicit , with the implicit suggestion that we ought to solve our problems by handing over our powers of self government to those clever foreigners instead . |
| 22 | The thesis underlying our editorial is that if purchasing authorities are to base their activities on meeting epidemiologically defined need they should use epidemiological principles . |
| 23 | And the man in question is not a philosophical or statistical abstraction from reality , but the reality itself ; not a theoretician 's concept to play a mechanical part in a Marxist phenomenology of history or a philosopher-king 's model of ideal society , but flesh and blood ; the thinking and feeling individual whose right it is to make his life , including his working life , as fully as possible his own in a society the essential purpose of which should be to maximise his chances of doing so . |
| 24 | Nicol , one assumes , will be given the chance to prolong his celebrations by slotting immediately into the Scotland seven who are drawn in one of four pools with Western Samoa , Vanuatu and local Fijian district , Nadroga — selecting from more than 50 clubs and far removed from pushovers . |
| 25 | You should aim to avoid inducing them to break their contracts by walking out without either giving that notice or agreeing that the notice period be shortened . |
| 26 | But much more serious to Mr Frohnmayer 's cause was his reluctance publicly to discredit his opponents by pointing out inaccuracies and misrepresentations in their charges ; to defend the endowment 's choices when defence was appropriate ( as in many cases it was ) ; and to mount a solid campaign on the agency 's behalf before the American people . |
| 27 | He undressed , but could not bother to do so in the proper order , to remove his socks before stepping out of trousers and boxer shorts . |
| 28 | Males , therefore , generally wait until the female has started to lay her eggs before going off in search of a second mate , since females rarely mate again once laying has begun . |
| 29 | Passed fit , they were encouraged to anglicise their names before filling out identity cards and soldiers ' books . |
| 30 | Du Pont Pixel says , ‘ the OGI strategy is now operational and Silicon Graphics ca n't afford to take their markets for granted anymore , with this architecture once a piece or hardware or software has been modified it will run on full blown Sparcstations , clones , in fact anything that it is Sparc-compatible ’ . |