Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the real job ( rather than the ideal version articulated by younger men ) is , as we shall see , much less about the application of science and technology to the measurement and control of pollution than the use of negotiating and bargaining skills to secure compliance . |
| 2 | Also at ‘ Wallop is the original Hafner R-II — BAPC.10 — which was used by Raoul Hafner to perfect his rotorcraft ideas in Austria , he brought this pioneering machine with him when he moved to England . ) |
| 3 | That 's highlighting , I guess , one of the points Sue made , that it 's very important when you answer the telephone in the O U P to say exactly who you are , or which department you work in , or something to do with your identity on the phone , because in the system , you could see that if Anthea now diverted her phone to 3434 , you want to call 3485 and you 'll get 3434 . |
| 4 | Jason Donohue raced on to a speculative John Pendlebury kick and beat the Hull defence to touch down . |
| 5 | It was a series of financial penalties imposed by Washington for manifold breaches of the 1977 Clean Air Act which forced the LA authorities to formulate such an epic approach in the first place . |
| 6 | The reason for this is not so much that it was beyond some people 's capacity to do imposition and so on ; but rather that it cost employers money to train people to do such tasks . |
| 7 | Lincoln brought in the big guns of William Temple to get bishop and rector to release the curate before the time . |
| 8 | In places , the Serbian army had to ask the local Serbian militia permission to visit the camps . |
| 9 | That will be overcome only if the industry has enough confidence to invest in plant to find new milk products to sell . |
| 10 | The second is the complexity and sophistication of modern weapons systems themselves : each containing a sufficient number of different component technologies to ensure that progress , by and large , remains incremental rather than revolutionary . |
| 11 | We had one more day trip by boat before we left Praslin , and that was to the island of La Digue to try and see the black paradise flycatcher . |
| 12 | However , with backing and commitment at board level to change , along with involvement of the whole work force , the long term benefits of environmental auditing should outweigh the short term cost involved . |
| 13 | We dismantled the imprinting equipment to make way for the passive avoidance pens and I set about raising the grant money to let us move into full swing . |
| 14 | They sat in the parlour , on the evening of Saturday , September 2nd , waiting for Menzies ' man Allan Stewart to come back with the news from Blair Atoll . |
| 15 | Very weakly but it is sufficient to pr prevent them pairing with calcium ions to form precipitate . |
| 16 | It was also agreed that the options for storage/retrieval of information in the long-term would be examined , based on the FAOR proposals to move towards a filly computerised storage system . |
| 17 | According to officers stationed at Darlington , the silent majority now support Mr Thompson 's plans and believe they could even speed response times to house fires in the town . |
| 18 | Our rotten mainmast began whipping sickeningly to and fro and required five men constantly clinging to its lee mainstay to cushion the strain . |
| 19 | It emerged also that air force commander Gen. Yevgeny Shaposhnikov and air force paratroopers commander Pavel Grachev had disobeyed the SCSE , Grachev ordering the Svirskaya paratroop division to withdraw from an attack on the Russian Supreme Soviet building . |
| 20 | I 'm not at all sure about the relevance of the last of these qualifications to the proceedings this evening but I am sure that all the other qualifications and all the rest of the experience conspire to make John Cruikshank an eminently suitable lecturer on our subject for tonight , which is ‘ Proust : Novelist and Explorer ’ . |
| 21 | However , after a £50,000,000 compensation package for UK depositors and employees had been put together by the Abu Dhabi government on July 30 , the High Court in London granted the bank a four-month delay to allow more time for majority shareholders to explore ways of reviving BCCI . |
| 22 | The story of the Nez Perce struggle to defend their ancient homeland is one of the most outstanding in American history . |
| 23 | Recent experience of walking Long Distance Footpaths ( LDPs ) has led me to believe that there is a case for de-emphasising certain routes ( I understand that the RA currently recommends Duke of Edinburgh Award Groups to avoid the Three Peaks for example ) . |
| 24 | Well I 've just come out of the debate which has just finished on the Palestine and Israel situation and er we passed the voting paper which will become policy for the party , calling for er a non-violent solution recognising the P L O and urging the U N to facilitate negotiations between Israeli government and the P L O. |
| 25 | Bob is helping a dozen patients at Stoke Mandeville to prepare for a new independent life . |
| 26 | Harry would often call his son in New York to tell him how much money the film was making in various cities , while Lillian phoned local LA cinemas to see how long the ticket queues were . |
| 27 | I can not recall the number of occasions I shuffled back in regulation sex cinema garb to see Daughters of Darkness , the lesbian vampire movie that starred Delphine Seyrig as Countess Erzsébet Bàthory and Andrea Rau as her lover Ilona . |
| 28 | Government officials in Dublin warned that they will make an official complaint to the European Commission if they find proof of claims that Britain used the lure of £400 million worth of lucrative defence contracts to persuade Digital to retain Ayr at the expense of Galway . |
| 29 | He made use of the new Dover–Calais cable to transmit information , which he sold to clients , between the London and Paris stock exchanges . |
| 30 | He pressured Max Radl at Abwehr headquarters to plan it all behind the Admiral 's back . |