Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Capital provision to support these two areas is scarce and the 1990s are going to test even the most supportive administrations to meet urgent demands for library extensions and preservation/substitution programmes , neither of which has been an established part of institutional budget planning , nor likely to receive much more than sympathy from the funding councils , except perhaps in cases where enormous growth in student numbers have caused such pressures on space . |
| 2 | It seemed to Elizabeth that it took people half an hour to greet each other each day . |
| 3 | British Telecommunications Plc 's formal application to the US Federal Communications Commission for permission to resell international private line services and offer switched services is now under review , and approval would enable the UK company to provide International Virtual Network services in the US . |
| 4 | Further , the decision to implement criminal law legislation did not originate with the state in the narrow sense at all , but with purity and feminist groups who were increasingly taking the lead in sexual politics . |
| 5 | Athena is part of the Pentos Group which also owns Ryman and the Dillons bookshop chain and it has a substantial organisation which goes into play to support new franchisees . |
| 6 | Some builders on what began as prestigious estates in Britain had to compromise with the arrival of the recession , and alter their plans to include cheaper housing . |
| 7 | Work on the stand has already begun and the club are hoping to extend the plans to include seven executive boxes and a press box . |
| 8 | The Non-Aligned also approved ‘ the efforts being made for the early establishment of a zone of peace , freedom and neutrality in the region ’ and called on all states to support these efforts . |
| 9 | There must be a complete scrutiny on every level to re-create this past knowledge , seek out its truths , bring them into today . |
| 10 | This initiative was designed to stimulate local authorities to mount full-time programmes which would be funded from central funds — to the extent of £400,000 per project — provided that they met certain centrally determined criteria relating to equal opportunities , progression , the specification of objectives , the balance between general , technical and vocational elements of programmes , planned work experience , and assessment . |
| 11 | Casting grave doubt on the future of any in-house repository at IBM Corp , the company has extended its existing licence for Hewlett-Packard Co 's SoftBench Framework to include non-Unix IBM systems such as OS/2 — the original licence for the software engineering tools environment covered IBM 's AIX-based development offerings only . |
| 12 | Some modellers are designed to allow the user to perform arbitrary rotational and transformation activities , for the purpose of satisfying various geometric constructions and the generation of auxiliary views . |
| 13 | The face-lift includes new picture stores and conservation studios and the introduction of air-conditioning throughout the building to include all the display galleries . |
| 14 | It was also possible for the user to input these characters , by re-programming the keyboard . |
| 15 | In villages , educational workers would drag women out of their houses to attend mass literacy classes , in others the cadres of the party kidnapped the wife of the mullah on the grounds that , wherever she went , other women would follow . |
| 16 | On Dec. 20 , after talks in Delhi with the central government , all the Cabinet ministers resigned to allow Abdullah to conduct another Cabinet reshuffle . |
| 17 | A.J. Wilson , the President of the National Deaf Club , and the first deaf person to drive a car back in 1896 , got another ‘ first ’ that was most unwelcome when he became the first deaf driver to fall foul of the road traffic laws and be fined for speeding . |
| 18 | A particular advantage of studying in Scotland is that most of its universities are within convenient travelling distance of each other , so that it is easy to extend the range of academic contacts to include other Scottish Universities . |
| 19 | This can affect people 's willingness to report certain crimes , which has contributed to recent increases in the official statistics for racial attacks , domestic violence , and child abuse . |
| 20 | Shadow Education Secretary Ann Taylor said that instead of asking the Treasury for more money to restore crumbling schools , Mr Patten ‘ is actually volunteering to cut standards and to cram ever larger classes into smaller rooms ’ . |
| 21 | Prominent individuals , including Gen. ( retd ) Olusegun Obasanjo and Chief Anthony Enahoro , announced plans to promote new moves towards full multiparty democracy . |
| 22 | PLANS to promote environmental tourism and encourage birdwatching in Mid-Wales have been put forward by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds and the Development Board for Rural Wales . |
| 23 | PLANS to promote environmental tourism and encourage birdwatching in Mid-Wales have been put forward by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds and the Development Board for Rural Wales . |
| 24 | A BACK injury aggravated by polo forced the Prince of Wales to pull out of the Garter ceremony today and cancel plans to attend Royal Ascot . |
| 25 | The Prince of Wales also cancelled plans to attend Royal Ascot to take the opportunity to recover from the back injury he aggravated at polo on Sunday . |
| 26 | Organizations that have horizontal and adaptive structures are able to meet the changes in market need more readily than those with cumbersome hierarchical structures , and create multifunctional development groups to plan new product developments . |
| 27 | Organised guided tours for the uninitiated and the last minute promotion of the multiples section , where the less well-off will have the opportunity to acquire first-class signed works at rock-bottom prices , might suggest that it is . |
| 28 | She or he would have to spend a year in general practice to have the opportunity to acquire similar skills . |
| 29 | The lengthy period which most party leaders have already spent in Parliament before gaining office certainly gives them time and opportunity to acquire suitable skills . |
| 30 | Trainer wars were well underway , and European away matches were the perfect opportunity to acquire those obscure training shoes available in Germany , but not in Liverpool . |