Example sentences of "be extend [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bank overdraft Flexible borrowing up to a certain ceiling for people with bank accounts , usually without security , and paid off over a few months , but can be extended over several years ; interest , calculated each day on how much the account is overdrawn that day , fluctuates in line with bank base rates ( usually about two per cent higher ) . |
| 2 | Carey had , from the beginning , planned for the work to be extended through native evangelists and Krishna went on to become one of the best ambassadors for Christ to his own people . |
| 3 | There is a three-month time limit , which can only be extended for good reasons . |
| 4 | On another key organization matter , Gorbachev managed to secure rejection of a proposal that the mandates of the congress delegates should be extended for five years ( thus giving them control of extraordinary congresses or conferences called in the period before the next scheduled congress ) . |
| 5 | The school day should be extended for older pupils , with many activities currently classed as voluntary or extra-curricular brought within the normal working framework of the school timetable . |
| 6 | Count Walewski , the French Foreign Minister , read the advertisement in the Moniteur and told Lord Cowley , the British Ambassador , that not only were the premiums too low , but that the time should be extended for French competitors . |
| 7 | The principle can be extended for larger blocks of inherently similar experimental units and can thus increase the sensitivity of an experiment to detect a real effect if it exists . |
| 8 | According to the Smallholdings and Allotments Act of 1908 , a smallholding was defined as ‘ an agricultural holding more than one acre and not more than 50 acres in extent , though the area may be extended beyond 50 acres so long as its annual value for the purpose of income tax does not exceed £50 ’ . |
| 9 | Madonna 's long awaited multi media entertainment company Maverick , embracing film , books , TV and music publishing , signed a $60 million deal with Warner under a seven year arrangement which , should everyone be happy , can be extended to 11 years . |
| 10 | The EC Council of ( Consumer Affairs ) Ministers agreed on Nov. 9 , 1989 , on a directive preparing the way for EC-wide levels of product safety for consumer goods in the unified market , but rejected the Commission 's demand that the rule should be extended to non-consumer products . |
| 11 | That way , protection could be extended to small airlines , such as Virgin , in the winter months , enabling them to lower fares in the summer months . |
| 12 | Works of art of ‘ the same high quality ’ as the Guggenheim Museum in New York , and encompassing ‘ all the essential works in the Guggenheim collection ’ will be loaned to the new museum , initially for a period of twenty years , though this may be extended to seventy-five years or indefinitely , according to the agreement . |
| 13 | The Cork Committee considered that section 245 should not be extended to fixed charges since the charge would relate to the company 's existing assets whereas the floating charge could cover future assets . |
| 14 | A 'sell alongside " clause , whereby any offer made for more than 30% or 50% of the shares should be extended to all members , may be appropriate . |
| 15 | This type of care can be extended to all areas of human illness and suffering . |
| 16 | We feel it should be extended to all assets er all , all accrued rights that are not able to be provided . |
| 17 | Under the patients charter , NHS complaints procedures will be extended to all hospitals in which NHS patients receive care . |
| 18 | Fears of a two-tier system of treatment between patients of fundholders and non-fundholders ‘ are largely confused ’ : Glennerster sees no reason why , with careful management , the benefits could not be extended to all patients . |
| 19 | Fifty-year copyright may be extended to seventy years |
| 20 | Radio-carbon or C14 dating was first applied in 1949 and together with other evidence now provides the chronology for the last 50,000 years and may be extended to 75,000 years . |
| 21 | Proposals put forward by Mitterrand on July 14 , 1989 , that the right of referral to the Constitutional Council ( Conseil constitutionel ) should be extended to individual citizens resulted in a draft law which was approved by the Council of Ministers on March 28 , 1990 . |
| 22 | Where parenteral ivermectin is used the interval after first treatment may be extended to five weeks due to its residual activity . |
| 23 | On the subject of rollover relief , it is proposed that the Inland Revenue should give advance clearance of extensions to the three-year reinvestment deadline , or the deadline should be extended to five years . |
| 24 | The model most frequently projected by medics was of a militarized conception of health , which could be extended to key groups within civil society . |
| 25 | The concept of correlations , like that of probability distributions , can be extended to higher orders , by defining quantities such as . |
| 26 | Acting on the advice of the Greek astronomer Sosigenes , Caesar directed that to correct this anomaly the year 46 BC should be extended to 445 days . |
| 27 | Under the council tax , that hierarchy will be extended to two tenants , who , if they are at the same level in that hierarchy , could become responsible for each other 's council tax jointly and severally . |
| 28 | Under this proposal the preregistration period would be extended to two years with first and second year house officers working in pairs , sharing the on call commitment , and providing cover for each other to attend specially structured education programmes . |
| 29 | He has selected Darlington and Durham city for the pilot programme which , if successful , could be extended to other towns in the region . |
| 30 | Many ministers were said to support the view that exceptional aid to Poland and Egypt , effectively writing off half their debt , should be extended to other countries . |