Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [to-vb] [conj] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That still meant she had fifty-six metric minutes to wait until they scrutinized her ticket-chip . |
| 2 | likewise we have some projects to show that we have worked very closely as an engineering firm , with the local college . |
| 3 | The daily meals have all been specially worked out by trained nutritionists to ensure that they provide all the nutrients essential to a balanced diet . |
| 4 | He still had forty minutes to run before he met Billie . |
| 5 | Penry 's been on the phone every few minutes to see if you 've arrived . |
| 6 | Closer , there were her outstretched fingers to study as they burrowed through the sand . |
| 7 | " I know I 'll be all right because there 's a few steps to go before it gets to that , " she said , " but some of the lasses would n't know that . " |
| 8 | The nationality rule was a beautiful get-out for them , but I only had a few months to go before I 'd been here for ten years and would have been entitled to fight for the title . |
| 9 | Goldthorpe and his team ( 1969 ) wanted to study manual workers with high incomes to see whether they had developed a middle-class way of life . |
| 10 | AVCs are a very efficient way of saving , especially if you have only a few years to go before you retire . |
| 11 | But it might be as well for those of you with just a few years to go before you have to repay your loan to check with your insurance company that there 's going to be enough in the kitty to repay it . |
| 12 | Even if he survived the present crisis with its unusually heavy demands on resources , there were still a few weeks to go before he received his allocation for the next year . |
| 13 | I would wait a few weeks to see if it grows or clears up of its own accord and if it is still there , go to the vet . |
| 14 | ‘ As I said , you and I have a few things to settle before you leave . ’ |
| 15 | They are interesting things to erect since one rushes round doing things to apparently little effect and then suddenly it 's all there . |
| 16 | All such cases need an alternative approach to the problem of origin and it is natural to turn to scientific techniques to see if they have something to offer . |
| 17 | That 's all : no laborious abstracting , no checking of old abstracts to see that they comprise what you " ve contracted to give , no checking of old schedules of documents against the deeds , no copying of documents . |
| 18 | Ian Smales 's try and Fox 's fourth goal tied the scores again with 10 minutes to go and it took Fox 's drop to separate the sides . |
| 19 | Here are some easy rules to remember before you embark on a major scheme : |
| 20 | Doctors gave him six months to live if he did n't quit drinking . |
| 21 | But we are responding by saying , well , we will give you six weeks to respond when we notify . |
| 22 | An engineer in Darlington has six weeks to decide whether he wants to return to South Africa or head his company 's plans to build a new factory in Russia . |
| 23 | The accounts department is responsible for ensuring that top management is aware of the financial state of the company and for advising it on appropriate actions to ensure that it remains sound . |
| 24 | The accounts department is responsible for ensuring that top management is aware of the financial state of the company and for advising it on appropriate actions to ensure that it remains sound . |
| 25 | It may all look a little complicated at first , but camcorders are quite simple things to use if you tackle the job in an orderly fashion . |
| 26 | I want to encourage such customers to complain and I want us to resolve those complaints quickly . |
| 27 | Several customers had similar tales to tell although there seemed none of the panic of the previous year , only a feeling that war was inevitable and a preoccupation with details . |
| 28 | So powerful did the Association feel itself to be that it declined to amalgamate into a nationally representative Shipping Federation which came into being in September 1890 , though it allowed its individual members to join if they wished and developed a working arrangement with it.Indeed the separatism of the Mersey shipowners lasted until 1967 when they eventually merged into a British Shipping Federation , though not under the title " Employers ' Labour Association " . |
| 29 | This policy was in line with the state 's promotion of healthy motherhood , which did not encompass the right of individual mothers to choose whether they wished to bear children . |
| 30 | They caused her delicate brows to rise as she demanded indignantly , ‘ What do you mean ? |