Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet Erhard 's honest , calm , and fair-minded character reflected a lack of political acumen and an inability to wield authority which won him the nickname of ‘ the Rubber Lion ’ . |
| 2 | IT systems are available now which can be trained by experts to perform decision making activities based on implicit information as well as , or even better than , the experts who have trained them . |
| 3 | Established internationals Gord MacKinnon and Pat Palmer represented the national team squad at the CRU 's recent three day planning meeting in Vancouver and were most supportive of a decision to implement fitness testing for all the country 's top players as an ongoing requirement . |
| 4 | For that end , for that end , you people over there , who took a decision to implement Local Management at the earliest possible time , regardless of the state of preparation of each particular school , regardless of the resources of staff and equipment and , if that was not enough , you also introduced a cut of thirteen million pounds in education funding . |
| 5 | In a statement tonight , the Department of Transport says there are no plans to include motorway driving in the normal test . |
| 6 | The reason for this is that the coprocessor is optimised at both hardware and micro code level to perform mathematics . |
| 7 | This is an interesting perspective and reinforces the key challenge referred to earlier for the research library , namely the simultaneous access to and consultation of material in all forms to support research , particularly in the humanities , and the need for both ‘ ancient and modern ’ skills . |
| 8 | The DHSS has , at headquarters , a Regional Directorate to channel policy directives on social security matters to the regions and local offices . |
| 9 | A Redken stylist can analyse your hair and assess its condition suing Redken 's unique Trichoanalysis system , enabling her to prescribe an appropriate regimen of products to promote strength and condition . |
| 10 | The Institute , therefore , seeks in its educational programme to cover the whole business activity involved from drawing board to prompt delivery , payment received , an after-sales service established and , hopefully , a repeat order on the way . |
| 11 | The " Copydesk " facility allows the user to input text in various forms on to the screen and thus create a true newspaper page . |
| 12 | The man accused of murdering Gloucester City Council worker Anna McGurk has been committed for trial to crown court . |
| 13 | These included the possibility of building study skills systematically into a PSD course to be extended to cover years 1–5 , the possibility of extending the IS provision to include study skills in years 1–3 , and the possibility of a new , totally free-standing study skills course . |
| 14 | Lady Franklin kept a journal during the voyage in which she described Gould 's eager attempts to continue bird collecting while they waited , windbound , in the Bay : |
| 15 | She has been recuperating from the shoulder wound at the Steadman-Hawkins Clinic and had made enough progress to prompt speculation that she might , after all , be fit to defend her French Open title . |
| 16 | Over the next three years it will be helping and encouraging authorities to gather information about the needs and preferences of local carers , to use this information to work out plans for improving carer support , and to ensure that caring for carers becomes an integral component of mainstream community care services . |
| 17 | ‘ This involved the collection of ( mainly qualitative ) data within a sufficiently loosely structured framework to enable unforeseen , as well as predicted , events to be described and accounted for . |
| 18 | It offered wider horizons , higher status , an opportunity to wield power , and , above all , a valuable source of income . |
| 19 | I went on to the next level to see Midnight Run . |
| 20 | The council sill be an ‘ umbrella organisation ’ to provide an infrastructure for other groups to monitor forest management , and the FSC will be promoting the standards through a Forest Stewardship Charter . |
| 21 | There is no opportunity to compare income with capital to yield a return on capital figure which is typically used as a measure of a business 's performance . |
| 22 | The ‘ time-out ’ procedure is intended to reduce the frequency of an undesirable behaviour by denying the child any opportunity to acquire reinforcement ( for example , getting everyone stirred up , getting his/her own way , becoming the centre of attention ) as a result of his or her misbehaviour . |
| 23 | Priority for training : when an investor opens a franchise , he is given the opportunity to acquire specialist skills through a training course covering all aspects of the business from personnel management to administration and from procurement to marketing . |
| 24 | There is the separate question of whether the opportunity to acquire Target or its business derives from management 's status as directors and employees . |
| 25 | John McQueen himself had a hard struggle to remain solvent as a twenty-six-year-old university student with a wife and three children . |
| 26 | Most of these studies have had a struggle to remain solvent , and have depended on the generosity of charitable foundations such as Nuffield and Ford , as well as finance from government agencies , often via the health services . |
| 27 | To help establish a strong UK base to enable participation in the EEC programmes |
| 28 | I repeat that it is not , and never has been , our policy to encourage local authorities or education authorities to promote homosexuality ... |
| 29 | Recent changes in legislation have made it easier for local authorities to promote traffic calming schemes and a significant programme for their provision has been approved by the Regional Council . |
| 30 | In 1918 she became the chief woman officer of the Labour party , in which role she was particularly active in pressing for improved working-class housing estates to include community centres with nurseries , restaurants , libraries , concert halls , and home-help services , all of which she saw as not merely desirable in themselves but essential for the emancipation of working-class housewives . |