Example sentences of "[to-vb] [n mass] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Richard Coleman , managing directors of Compass Commercial Services , agreed that the MoD was a significant marketplace , although most of the contracts were now being let on a retender basis and a new insecurity in what was already a high risk business had recently presented itself — the application to the public sector of Transfer of Undertakings legislation , when incoming contractors are obliged to retain staff at current rates of pay , terms and conditions , or pick up the redundancy liability . |
| 2 | It is planned to target sales at other advice agencies , public libraries , personnel departments of large companies and publishers of newspapers and periodicals . |
| 3 | And its LANStreamer MC 32 Adaptor , which eliminates local network bottlenecks , and Person to Person/2 , designed to enable people at remote locations to work together , are among five new local networking OEM products now offered by IBM . |
| 4 | And I 'm sure that this report on the health action area is going to show some fairly , erm give us some fairly staggering erm revelations about about the health of Oxford citizens that 's going to surprise people at large when they find out how badly people have fared over the past ten years when we 've had the Tories in office who 've really done their very , very best to make the health divide of this country in a very poor state . |
| 5 | Ill-defined regions of the data , rational equations , unjustified polynomial fits ( particularly for extrapolations ) , failure to examine data at low X and Y values sufficiently , reversing X and Y values , and as the manual puts it , ‘ trusting numbers rather than the evidence of your own eyes ’ are some others . |
| 6 | These firms say part-time work enables them to boost staff at busy periods , improving customer service . |