Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] [noun] of [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alongside the organisational changes aiming to improve exchanges between Government , the science base , and industry , the industry departments , supported by the Department of Trade and Industry 's ( DTI 's ) Innovation Unit , intend to scale up their activities to promote awareness of the importance of innovation among senior managers in the business community . |
| 2 | Her attempts to promote sales of the book by signing copies at a Long Island store ended abruptly when , following the bomb threat , police evacuated the store until closing time . |
| 3 | The common law courts have through three centuries consistently resisted all attempts to appeal decisions of the visitor . |
| 4 | All the other matches ended in draws but Nottinghamshire wasted an opportunity to go top of the table at Lord 's . |
| 5 | All the other matches ended in draws but Nottinghamshire wasted an opportunity to go top of the table at Lord 's . |
| 6 | It is a Baconian view , rather than an Einsteinian view ; students have a strong faith in the capacity of physics to provide explanations of the way the world works . |
| 7 | ( In passing this is why how and why can function as interrogative adverbs to request identification of the means required to achieve some end or the reason for something . ) |
| 8 | Talks held on July 23 between the deputy chairmen of the Russian and Ukrainian parliaments , Yury Yazov and Vasiliy Dudinets respectively , ended with a decision to set up a joint parliamentary commission based in Sevastopol to supervise observance of the Dagomys agreement . |
| 9 | I would like help from those who have taken on responsibility to inform groups of the changes and want to find out where they found materials which were user friendly . |
| 10 | The offshore petroleum industry training organisation has now established a data base to provide details of the courses attended . |
| 11 | I have no plans to meet representatives of the convention . |
| 12 | It concludes with a plea for an official checklist to inform assessments of the success of this feature of the reforms , together with some suggestions for inclusion . |
| 13 | Not only , therefore , was William party to the decision to request continuation of the supervision order , but he now looks back and agrees it was the right decision . |
| 14 | The DFR only acknowledged receipt for shipment and not receipt for on board shipment ; and as did the air waybill , the DFR required only proper identification by the consignee or his agent to obtain delivery of the goods . |
| 15 | The Supreme Council on May 12 had defeated Vagnorius 's attempt to pass motions of no confidence in Asmantas and in the chair of the Bank of Lithuania , Vilius Baldisis . |
| 16 | Not only do we find Lord Sumner in this case denying that elected members ‘ are to be guided by their personal opinions on political , economic , or social questions in administering the funds which they derive from levying rates ’ but Lord Atkinson denounces the councillors for being guided ‘ by some eccentric principles of socialistic philanthropy , or by a femininist ambition to secure equality of the sexes in the world of wages ’ . |
| 17 | After press inquiries yesterday , lawyers , councils and lending agencies contacted Government offices to obtain clarification of the situation . |
| 18 | Some of the costs that were eventually allowed were costs incurred in conducting correspondence with a surety in an unsuccessful attempt to obtain payment of the mortgage debt i.e. non-litigation costs . |
| 19 | As recently as 1949 a Dutch officer had committed some appalling massacres here in a misguided attempt to regain control of the colonies for Holland . |
| 20 | Rescuers sliced off the roof to reach victims of the crash near the Black Forest . |
| 21 | THE Shamen are shelling out £10,000 in a bid to help victims of the war in Yugoslavia . |
| 22 | If it was Mrs Foster 's intention to express disapproval of the Major 's predilection for gossip , the animation in her tone and the wild fluttering of her colourless eyelashes seemed rather to show an unhealthy interest in what he had to say and an eagerness to discuss it . |
| 23 | they can draw pictures to illustrate part of a story they have listened to . |
| 24 | I am sure you will be interested to know the outcome of the application by Lucy to use part of the North Yard as a temporary training organisation in construction worker skills , for previously unemployed adults . |
| 25 | Sotheby 's B shares carry ten votes each and this , of course , will enable Taubman to retain control of the auction house which he purchased for £80 million in 1983 , unless the bank forecloses on the debt of Mr Taubman 's affiliate ( assumed to be his investments in the troubled retailing sectors ) for which 11 million of his Sotheby 's B shares stand guaranty . |
| 26 | But the two ‘ warriors ’ explain that ever since the first Earth party came to the Sense-Sphere years ago , repaying kindness with treachery in a bid to seize control of the planet 's rich stocks of the metal molybdenum , all humans are now made permanent prisoners . |
| 27 | On a more modest basis , IBM UK have agreed to fund a pilot global population database being built in Birkbeck College to permit assessment of the impact of environmental change on the world s population . |
| 28 | Three-way bid to solve problems of the Dee |
| 29 | Although the club is some miles from Alresford , extra space allowed the association to welcome members of the Winchester RAFA and ATC , the Royal British Legion and the committee of the Kingsworthy club . |
| 30 | Despite this , the Labour Group did persuade some schools to delay implementation of the L M S Initiative and I rather suspect that some of these schools regret this decision today . |