Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [to-vb] [noun pl] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | In being prepared to lend to the discount houses or to buy bills from them , the Bank of England is the ultimate guarantor of sufficient liquidity in the monetary system and is known as lender of last resort . |
| 2 | Thanks primarily to Francois Mitterrand , a regulatory body , independent of the state , was set up in the 1980S to overview public service and other communications sectors and to protect broadcasters from pressures exercised by governments , politicians and lobbies of all kinds . |
| 3 | The package would also give the central bank increased independence in monetary policy , and Albanians would be allowed to open hard-currency bank accounts and to receive remittances from abroad . |
| 4 | There is also a danger that the reforms will enshrine the division between primary , secondary , and tertiary care and make it difficult to coordinate their activities and to move funds from one sector to another . |
| 5 | He concludes , therefore , that for the twin reasons of the capitalist 's desire to force high output from individual labourers and to prevent labourers from setting up in competition , a pattern of work organisation emerged in the early cotton industry that was characterised by intensive working in factories , with individuals performing fragmented tasks . |
| 6 | It provided a genuine incentive for the worker to intensify his labour and thus raise his productivity , a guarantee against slacking , an automatic device for reducing the wage-bill in times of depression , as well as a convenient method — by the cutting of piece-rates — to reduce labour costs and to prevent wages from rising higher than was thought necessary or proper . |
| 7 | Action at this level aims to avoid the worst effects of chronic family difficulties and to prevent clients from being drawn into increasingly intrusive interventions ( Wharf , 1985 ) . |
| 8 | To the extent that R&D is undertaken by independent firms merely in order to ensure that they innovate before their rivals or to prevent rivals from producing new products which displace those that currently generate rents , then firms who make R&D decisions co-operatively may do less R&D than they would if they were independent . |
| 9 | The New York Times of Feb. 10 reported that officials of the US programme for a space-based anti-missile system , the Strategic Defence Initiative ( SDI ) or " Star Wars " project , wanted to buy advanced technological developments and to hire scientists from the equivalent programme of the former Soviet Union . |
| 10 | It is not in the nature of partisan warfare to produce victory in the field : loth to leave their territories or to receive orders from soldiers , guerrillas were difficult to use in strategical combination . |
| 11 | This month its old-guard steering committee decided a better constitution would include annual meetings by the assembly , and powers for it to initiate laws and to veto bills from the legislature . |
| 12 | On the Gulf crisis , the Council denounced Iraq 's " unscrupulous use " of hostages and agreed unanimously " not to send representatives of their governments in any capacity to negotiate with Iraq the release of foreign hostages and to discourage others from doing so " , while calling on the UN Secretary-General to send a special representative to Iraq to press for the hostages ' release . |