Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] a [adj] [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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1 | Women 's Design Service has received a small grant to carry out research into housing design for older women . |
2 | Each member state has designated a particular body to take responsibility for the comparability work . |
3 | When the Home Secretary announced the additional numbers for police forces throughout England and Wales , I was shocked to find that Gwent merited only one extra officer and was astounded to find that the South Wales police force was not to have a single extra officer , especially as the chief constable has undertaken a major review to ensure the best use of available manpower , a process which must continue . |
4 | A Pensioners Link initiative in Barnet ( Meade , 1986 ) has undertaken a local campaign to promote health activity for and with older people , with promising results . |
5 | If , on a sale of unregistered land , there is any personal obligation on the part of a seller-client to observe restrictions ( as , for example , where the seller is the original covenantor or has given a personal covenant to observe these ) , it is desirable to provide in the contract for a similar covenant indemnifying the seller against any future breach . |
6 | The issue in this case is whether an original lessee , or an intermediate assignee of a lease , who has given a direct covenant to pay the rent and observe the covenants , is released from liability following an agreement between the lessor and the occupying assignee of the lease under which the lessor takes a surrender of the lease and some of the assignee 's goods in return for releasing the assignee from all claims under the lease ? |
7 | Electronic cash till maker Riva Group of Bolton , Lancs , has completed a refinancing programme to reduce borrowings by £5.8m to £6.9m and save some £800,000 in annual interest payments , it announced yesterday . |
8 | The US car industry has formed a new alliance to challenge a bill which would compel car makers to increase fuel efficiency by 40 per cent over the next decade . |
9 | Mike Woodley , owner of the aviation film services and warbirds import/export operation Aces High at North Weald Airfield , has formed a new company to market the Ilyushin Il-103 light aircraft throughout Europe . |
10 | The National Council of Churches in Korea has formed a special committee to work on the ‘ democratisation of the Korean media ’ . |
11 | Nicholas Kenyon 's appointment as Controller of Radio 3 , in succession to John Drummond , means that the BBC has picked an unlikely man to try to turn around the fortunes of its embattled network . |
12 | Fourteen year old Catherine Pearse has organised a sponsored sleep-out to help the increasing number of young people with nowhere to live . |
13 | Since then , it has enjoyed a much-needed facelift to become the hip and swinging indie ( generic overlay ) festival of the year . |
14 | The United Nations has installed a peacekeeping force to maintain order until the elections in May 1993 . |
15 | A milkman who set up a round in competition with his old dairy firm has won a legal battle to continue his business for the time being . |
16 | A DUBLIN-BASED policeman has won a legal battle to prevent the Garda Commissioner from dismissing him from the force for allegedly offering a prostitute IR£30 for sex . |
17 | A TORY MP 's wife has won a three-year battle to inherit the Pounds 10 million mansion that inspired Evelyn Waugh 's Brideshead Revisited . |
18 | A woman who found £40 on a bank floor has won a three-year battle to have it donated to a baby unit — and the bank has stumped up an extra £10 . |
19 | A postal worker has won a two-and-a-half-year battle to bring his Filipino bride to England . |
20 | Scotland has won a bitter battle to house a new multi-million pound military centre creating 700 jobs , it was disclosed tonight . |
21 | Tony McTaminey has won a seven-month battle to set up a flower stall using a traditional , hand-painted barrow in the Linthorpe Road shopping precinct , Middlesbrough . |
22 | A Primary school has won a national competition to produce their own newspaper . |
23 | Amongst other new orders Sekers has secured a significant contract to supply the automotive industry with fabric for car interiors . |
24 | JOHN MONIE has accepted a two-year contract to coach Auckland when he finishes at Wigan at the end of this season . |
25 | ALEX WYLLIE , THE FORMER All Black coach , has accepted a two-year contract to work and coach in South Africa . |
26 | Nippon DEC has named a new president to replace Edmund Reilly , president of the Japanese subsidiary since its formation in 1980 , who is to move to Hong Kong as the president and managing director of DEC Asia Region . |
27 | I have suggested in this article that an influential forum of scholars , critics and performers in England has felt a pervasive desire to direct a good deal of medieval and Renaissance music away from the ‘ medieval/Renaissance group ’ ( a tradition which has come to seem increasingly hollow , even bogus , to members of the forum ) and towards the best voices to emerge from the chapels attached to the Oxbridge colleges where , almost without exception , the members of the forum received their higher education . |
28 | With the recent Fair Employment legislation the government has missed a golden opportunity to address some of the difficulties faced by disabled people in securing employment . |
29 | Fortunately , she has saved a large deposit to put down on a flat so she only has to borrow £45,000 . |
30 | No one can deny that the Council has done a great deal to improve the quality of education . |