Example sentences of "[adv] to [adj] [noun pl] ' [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , it was the sort of autonomy that Dustin had already won on his last two pictures , and would retain , much to many directors ' displeasure , in most of his future ventures . |
| 2 | The bad news is revealed partly by the results for the first half year and partly by the company 's prediction that its borrowings will only be down to half shareholders ' funds even at the end-of-year low point after the Christmas rush . |
| 3 | Frequently recurring criticisms of the contracts are that they are of up to nine years ' duration , they contain hidden annual increases , that the costs of settling old agreements are added to the undisclosed capital value of new equipment , and that the total cost of a contract is not disclosed . |
| 4 | One vice-president is accountable for several strategic business units , each with a president who works with critical tasks of up to 7 years ' duration . |
| 5 | After a marathon seven-month trial , Noriega , 54 , the first foreign leader to be convicted in America , faces up to 120 years ' jail . |
| 6 | At the moment the punishment is up to six months ' imprisonment and/or a £2,000 fine . |
| 7 | Sometimes they offer up to two years ' rent free ; in other instances a capital sum changes hands . |
| 8 | The ruling in Strasbourg yesterday that the complaints are admissible clears the way for a future hearing before the European Court of Human Rights in up to two years ' time . |
| 9 | The relocation allowances package covered such items as : legal expenses ; the cost of a structural survey ; stamp duty ; estate agents ' fees ; removal expenses ; the cost of two visits by the family to view accommodation ( this covered travelling and accommodation costs ) ; and a disturbance allowance of up to two months ' salary . |
| 10 | If a union complains to an industrial tribunal of failure by the employer to consult , the employer may be liable for a compensation award of up to two weeks ' pay per employee affected with a week 's salary being limited to £184 . |
| 11 | It was prompted by nationwide dismay at an announcement that 31 out of 50 pits still operating in the UK were to close and up to 30,000 miners ' jobs would be lost . |
| 12 | Accountants , lawyers and other professionals who engage in such business would face enormous fines and up to 10 years ' imprisonment . |
| 13 | The more liberal law replaced one from 1867 which declared abortion a criminal offence punishable by up to 10 years ' imprisonment . |
| 14 | On May 8 the government announced the introduction of the death penalty for those convicted of murder or the attempted murder of magistrates , jurors , government ministers or security force commanders ; at the same time penalties of up to 10 years ' imprisonment and fines of up to GF10,000,000 ( about US$12,500 ) were introduced for the organizers of public demonstrations ending in violence . |
| 15 | A NEW vaccine against the infectious liver disease Hepatitis A , ‘ Havrix ’ , has this week been introduced in the UK : a course of two injections in the arm followed by a booster which could give up to 10 years ' immunity . |
| 16 | Coelomic fluid was successfully aspirated in nearly all cases up to 10 weeks ' gestation , but the success rate fell at later weeks ( table I ) . |
| 17 | Buried within IBM announcement of its PowerParallel multi-processing RISC system last month ( CI No 2,113 ) was the news that its parallel processing capabilities will opened up to other vendors ' machines . |
| 18 | Among the possible prisoners of conscience are 37 people sentenced to up to 20 years ' imprisonment for their involvement in a peaceful flag-raising ceremony in the town of Jayapura on 14 December 1988 . |
| 19 | On July 27 Robert Louis White , 46 , grand dragon of the Maryland Knights of the Ku Klux Klan , pleaded guilty to charges of illegal possession of firearms , he faced up to 20 years ' imprisonment . |
| 20 | Some 157 demonstrators were subsequently convicted of a range of offences and were sentenced to up to 20 years ' imprisonment . |
| 21 | Of the others arrested on 9 October , some were later released , one is awaiting trail and others have been tried and sentenced to up to three years ' imprisonment for , among other things , ‘ illegal association ’ . |
| 22 | Failure to observe the ban was punishable by up to three years ' imprisonment . |
| 23 | The ban on sale or display is backed by tough penalties , including a heavy fine and up to three years ' imprisonment . |
| 24 | Not only does BSL learning apparently take much longer ( ‘ beginners ’ were people with up to three years ' experience ) but only the beginner group showed the normal pattern of understanding being better than production . |
| 25 | But should parents do that and should the car be taken away with a child in it , those who took the car could be charged with a much more serious offence under section 2 of the Child Abduction Act 1984 , punishable by up to seven years ' imprisonment . |
| 26 | Based on current values , up to 1,000,000 forints ' worth of land and 200,000 forints ' worth of other property ( houses , hotels , factories , etc. ) would be compensated in full , with compensation above those limits being awarded against real values on a sliding scale ; the upper limit for awards per claimant was set at 5,000,000 forints ( US$1.00=76.6553 forints as at April 29 , 1991 ) . |
| 27 | Criminal damage itself is an offence carrying up to ten years ' imprisonment , but this is a more serious offence — more of an offence against the person . |
| 28 | Under the existing law , helping someone to die was a criminal offence punishable by up to 12 years ' imprisonment , but this had rarely been invoked in recent years amid great public debate and controversy on the ethics and possible modalities of euthanasia . |
| 29 | National Certificate courses are modular in structure , with students receiving credits for units of up to 40 hours ' study . |
| 30 | On Dec. 8 Gen. Iván Jiménez Sánchez , the Defence Minister , announced that 240 people , both military personnel and civilians , would be tried for taking part in the coup attempt and would face penalties of up to 30 years ' imprisonment . |