Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun sg] [noun pl] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | In September 1986 the Iranians paid $7 million direct into one of North 's three Swiss bank accounts and North drew out $2 million to pay for 500 TOW missiles that were flown direct from America to Iran ( which shows the true price of TOW missiles compared to what Iran was being charged ) . |
| 2 | If you have a complaint about British Rail services that has not been dealt with to your satisfaction , your local Transport Users ' Consultative Committee , set up by Parliament , will help . |
| 3 | Why is it that governments are so concerned about high inflation rates that they are prepared to put so much effort into its control and even tolerate a rise in unemployment ? |
| 4 | Incidentally , what is it about old railway earthworks that one finds attractive ? |
| 5 | It 's through foreign exchange earnings that they can develop . |
| 6 | Again , while distraction can cause forgetting during the day , this is normally confined to very recent memories which have no obvious meaning ( such as unfamiliar telephone numbers that have just been looked up ) . |
| 7 | of the , the national average and it 's not because erm they 're paying high wages to get the , the most able people , it 's because there are mechanisms , institutional mechanisms that keep wages high , there 's no market in the jobs for , th these are generalizations but I think they are fairly , fairly true erm becau there is no market for er for the jobs , for civil service jobs that appointments are made and it is much more important who you know than , than what , what you know and the old boy network , as it 's called , in this country is fairly important in the English Civil Service but a similar sort of network tends to be far more important in developing countries , something that is euphemistically called patronage erm but we might call the old boy network or er er jobs for the boys whatever , but erm |
| 8 | The where used look-up file provides the cross-reference between separate product trees that share common components . |
| 9 | Certainly we need road space for those who must drive , but there are many drivers who would willingly change ( or revert ) to public transport given some inducement — like services that are more frequent , more reliable and more widely available , or a further disincentive to the scandal of non-essential company cars that make commuting free of charge to their users . |
| 10 | This chapter analyses government policy towards private sector firms that are necessarily imperfectly competitive . |
| 11 | Given the ambiguity of word parses discussed in the previous section , we must keep a dynamic record of hypothesized word tokens that is distinct from the representation of word types stored in the lexicon . |
| 12 | Bearing in mind the number of private nursing homes that spring up and erm , er , I mean the sort of privately run places er , presumably the local authorities have to give them a licence to run , but is there no way that it , can the Fire Service , can our officers go and make an inspection ? |
| 13 | Er Jed is keeping records of private security companies that 's unchanged , just as a reminder that everybody should keep in touch with him , please . |
| 14 | Erm , the position then on carry forwards , Chairman , is that you have a number of specific contingency provisions that we are holding , funded from these previous savings . |
| 15 | It is in the development of specific accounting procedures that the US and UK experience has most obviously diverged . |
| 16 | The portfolio also contains a number of low equity interests that are peripheral to LASMO 's main areas of activity and which are not material to the fortunes of the enlarged Group . |
| 17 | She paid the taxi-driver and walked briskly towards the main entrance of the building , slowing her pace as she reached the flight of broad stone steps that led up to the doors . |
| 18 | Plant pieces are not actively used in the construction of the nest , but they may be employed as an anchor , or in the case of broad leaf plants that reach the surface , as a site for the whole nest . |
| 19 | The bloodhound 's nose may be so overwhelmed by the scent of fresh skin cells that it is unable to follow them . |
| 20 | He urged booksellers to cooperate to form a nationwide chain of ecumenical book outlets that would be well-funded and professionally run . |
| 21 | I certainly know of further education colleges that are very enthusiastic about the Bill and whose one concern is that it may not complete its passage during the current Session . |
| 22 | They include , to give just a few examples , realizing that they have re-read the same page of a book three times without taking any of it in ; nearly getting knocked over crossing the road ; yelling ‘ Tie ! ’ at a pupil they do n't know ; noticing that they are both reading a magazine and watching the television while having their evening meal ; spotting the line of empty wine bottles that has accrued since the weekend . |
| 23 | It is towards high definition programs that take a long time to write . |
| 24 | Fulcrum Technologies Inc , Ottawa , Canada has introduced SearchTools , a suite of SQL-based query tools that allow corporate developers , working in client/server environments , to access text retrieval applications via SQL . |
| 25 | This has been based on an OEM pact for the Cobol compiler and debugging technology in the Development System , but Microsoft is withdrawing that the better to address ‘ the needs of corporate Cobol customers with a broader range of Micro Focus products that both companies will promote . ’ |
| 26 | This has been based on an OEM pact for the Cobol compiler and debugging technology in the Development System , but Microsoft is withdrawing that the better to address ‘ the needs of corporate Cobol customers with a broader range of Micro Focus products that both companies will promote . ’ |
| 27 | Oh there 's a lot of funny trade names that Oh it 's here , no Yes it is Melkrom two oh eight . |
| 28 | There are a number of different knowledge constraints that can be applied to improve the performance of the pattern recognition information . |
| 29 | There is a wide range of different eating difficulties that are described by parents and the severity can vary through a spectrum of simple feeding problems to severe failure to thrive due to insufficient nutrition . |
| 30 | It is a familiar , yet penetrating , criticism of free market economies that the imperatives companies face to satisfy the adolescent greed of the financial markets and the escalating expectations of shareholders — or else prepare for predators — has diminished the scope of strategic planning to buffing up the next set of interims . |