Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] [pron] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | * Uganda has announced plans to promote its small population of mountain gorillas as a tourist attraction . |
| 2 | One wonders just how furious : last week , back in Moscow to see her three-year-old son between performances , Semenyaka was having difficulties getting a visa to come back for her next role here , Cinderella , in only three weeks ' time . |
| 3 | Management does not have the freedom to optimise its own performance in pursuit of a single objective , or even in pursuit of a number of stable and compatible ones … |
| 4 | To pick out just a few examples : grandparents treat their grandchildren in the same way whether they live in Aberdeen or London ; middle-class people use money to support their close relatives in similar ways whether they live in Swansea , Sheffield or London ; people use their kin network to help them find employment whether they live in Glasgow , Basildon or Corby . |
| 5 | They had no great love for Conservatism , but , given the tenor of Liberal politics , saw the Conservative party as the last hope in a struggle to preserve their own brand of Liberalism . |
| 6 | The reduction was intended not only to save central government expenditure but also to put pressure on local authorities to curb their own spending by increasing the local cost thus making the expenditure more ‘ visible ’ to both councillors and the electorate . |
| 7 | George Bush yesterday drafted in Secretary of State James Baker to bolster his flagging bid for re-election . |
| 8 | In the United States the President often has to work hard to create a majority to support his proposed legislation in its passage through Congress . |
| 9 | That is a special allocation , in addition to the normal resources made available to local authorities to support their inner-area programmes of social and economic regeneration . |
| 10 | He can even indirectly , but effectively , interfere with the legal owner 's attempts to enforce his legal rights by action in the Common Law Courts . |
| 11 | Golf enthusiasts will have the opportunity to plan their entire year on the new Golfer 's 1990 Year Planner which is being launched this autumn . |
| 12 | The scope for member states to promote their own culture through funds and subsidies remains . |
| 13 | Although written with unquestioned partisan commitment to the WEA , the letter reflected some of the fundamental weaknesses redolent of the earlier dissatisfaction which had prompted Mansbridge to write his historic articles in the University Extension Journal in 1903 . |
| 14 | Christy , 34 , Sonny 's daughter from his first marriage , invited her superstar stepmum to launch her Mexican restaurant in Santa Monica , Los Angeles . |
| 15 | Surrealist theory may have set great store by sexual experience with women , but it made virtually no provision for the female experience per see , and so it was up to women artists to reinvent their own forms of femininity . |
| 16 | It 's fun to see the no-nonsense , motor-bike-riding heroine beating up on the men in true fantasy-heroic style , but her attempts to encourage her young protege in self-defence end in disaster , making the messages it gives out totally confused and its solutions seeming no more realistic than Ms 45 storing her rapist in the fridge and blowing male scum off the street . |
| 17 | The People 's Liberation Army was told at the National People 's Congress in March to meet its financial needs by making a profit out of business operations … it sounds close to privatising the armed forces . |
| 18 | Wilson 's decision to found his new union on his own north-east coast was not lacking in rationality . |
| 19 | As a hotel increases in size , however , the tasks have to be subdivided into separate areas of work and supervised by section heads ; and in a very large hotel ( Fig. 1.2 ) the volume of work is such that under departmental heads staff specialise in one aspect of the work only and there is little opportunity to relate their individual efforts to the whole operation . |
| 20 | The United States government announced on July 30 that it was to scale down or close 79 of its defence bases in Europe , following its January 1991 decision to halve its military presence in Europe . |
| 21 | How is a user to know which multi-word terms in a system have been inverted and which have not ; or , with three-word terms or more , which option for rearrangement of the words has been chosen ? |
| 22 | However they confirm that farmers who had claimed for more quota than they had ewes would be given ‘ around ’ two months after the statutory instrument had passed through Parliament to secure their extra rights to ewe premium and to notify the authorities of the transfer . |
| 23 | Powell 's conversion gave the Welsh students the lead , only for Mardon to find his kicking rhythm in the 81st minute . |
| 24 | He had been at his wits ' end , with no reply to Bigwig 's scornful impatience except his readiness to risk his own life in company with Fiver and Pipkin . |
| 25 | Also in 1909 , Chiswick saw the opening of two new Churches — the Methodists in Sutton Court Road had raised sufficient funds to erect their large Church on the corner of Barrowgate Road . |
| 26 | Rachel knew , however , there was no point trying to explain that she was merely going with David to see her new friends from Conway House , because it looked as if her mother , together with Nina , Greg and all the others , had jumped to conclusions and were ready to believe that what was a perfectly innocent friendship had developed into something more . |
| 27 | ‘ You could n't supply the children of Wales with a toothbrush or tube of toothpaste to promote their oral health with that budget , ’ he declared . |
| 28 | Does he incorporate the votes of everyone who voted Labour or Liberal Democrat at the last election and use that as part of his mandate to enforce his unwanted policies on the Scottish people ? |
| 29 | Having milked his seventy-five Friesian cows , he set about the main business of the day , loading Norton 's Coin , one of only three horses he trained under permit on his farm , into the horsebox , then taking the wheel to drive his stable star to Cheltenham . |
| 30 | LIZ McCOLGAN will play ‘ mind games ’ tonight in a bid to drive her main rivals for the 10,000 metres gold crazy . |