Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] a [adj] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | You do n't look to me like someone desperately struggling to nurse a company-patient back to life . |
| 2 | We believe specific criteria should be formulated to enable a reasoned judgement to be made as to whether any new body should be subject to the provisions . |
| 3 | ROAD sought to provide a credible alternative to the Solidarity Centre Alliance political grouping , which had been established in May [ ibid. ] and advocated that the Solidarity trade union chairman Lech Walesa should be appointed by parliament as President . |
| 4 | Agree that the Solicitors ' Remuneration Order 1972 be amended to provide an upper limit to the jurisdiction of £50,000 . |
| 5 | The various techniques described and proforma letters set out in section 11 are intended to provide a helpful aid to the smooth running of the sale rather than to prescribe standard procedures and formats . |
| 6 | The scheme is intended to provide a systematic approach to the arrangement of books on shelves . |
| 7 | Longer-range decisions — Decisions made once and reviewed infrequently , but which are intended to provide a continuing solution to a continuing or recurring problem . |
| 8 | This lecture course is intended to provide a basic introduction to Neuroscience across a broad range of topics from molecular neurobiology to behavioural psychology . |
| 9 | I want to acknowledge a personal debt to him . |
| 10 | Neil Kinnock has received a rousing reception to his keynote speech to delegates at Blackpool . |
| 11 | A review of this coverage supports the conclusion that the refusal of tenure to MacCabe was related to a sense among Cambridge traditionalists that the time had come to mount a strong resistance to further incursions by the tendency MacCabe was thought to support . |
| 12 | In this section I want to compare a Marxian approach to growth — based upon Bukharin 's equations — with that of Harrod . |
| 13 | They want to continue a gradual opening to the West , chiefly to obtain the finance and technology needed to rebuild the economy . |
| 14 | The multi-national task force in the Gulf has diverted an Iraqi ship to a port on the Ammani coast for breaking sanctions . |
| 15 | One day after her daughter 's death , she was driving to see a new house to which the family planned to move . |
| 16 | The public outcry against young offenders has given a bumpy ride to the seven-month-old Criminal Justice Act . |
| 17 | The long-wave , world-systems and regulationist theories are broad frameworks to which several writers have contributed and each has given a new twist to the framework they use . |
| 18 | ‘ The Tip ’ has given a new meaning to the weekend . |
| 19 | Continued economic restraint has given a new urgency to demands to improve the efficiency of management in the public sector . |
| 20 | More recently the vast programme of legislation for the completion of the single market has given a new urgency to the matter . |
| 21 | The advent of microelectronics has given a tremendous boost to Man 's capacity to acquire , process , store and disseminate textual , numeric and other forms of information . |
| 22 | increase in fixed assets — has given a tremendous boost to the economy and pride of the north-west . |
| 23 | Currently the Labour Party in Scotland is committed to no nuclear weapons on our soil , but shadow Chancellor Gordon Brown has given a firm commitment to Rosyth Dockyard for the refitting of Trident submarines . |
| 24 | Mr Michael Fallon , MP for Darlington , has given a guarded welcome to the idea of a shopmobility scheme : ‘ The search for that sort of solution gets my support . |
| 25 | The advent of poststructuralism has given a great impetus to interpretive productivity , since all the literary texts that were once interpreted to show organic unity and complexity of meaning can now be interpreted to reveal underlying clashes . |
| 26 | His absence has given a rare opportunity to his deputy and political rival , Zhu Rongji , who has taken over the reins of government . |
| 27 | The decision was , I do not doubt , a thoroughly beneficial decision which has given a sensible ambit to powers which Parliament had conferred in a way which good sense would suggest had left them far too restricted . |
| 28 | In addition — and I will begin with this point — linguistics has given a special status to the kind of binary opposition masculine/feminine exemplifies , and of which deconstructionists , including feminists , have been critical . |
| 29 | The Further Education Unit , a curriculum review and development unit established in 1977 to make possible a more co-ordinated and cohesive approach to curriculum development in further education , has given a commendable priority to special educational needs . |
| 30 | The first is where the Act is silent or ambiguous on any given point and the second is where the court in a decided case has given a particular interpretation to a section of the Act ( or to the same section in the original Act of 1893 ) . |