Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] [noun sg] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Although he found that television is far less violent than in Japan , the United States , France or West Germany , Dr Tadecki intends to campaign with Mary Whitehouse to curb violence on the screen .
2 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 .
3 Likewise , a carpenter or joiner might be on a set day rate but who for a period might take on a separate contract to saw timber at a rate per 100 ft. , the figure depending upon the hardness of the wood .
4 MILK producers are well on course to hit quota by the year-end , according to Milk Marketing Board head of quotas Huw Rees .
5 The reported separation was the third blow to hit Tatum in a week .
6 The decision to conduct debate on the war in closed session was taken by a majority vote on Feb. 13 on the proposal of the UK .
7 The only options open to the courts to enforce compliance with a contact order is a fine or imprisonment .
8 The proposals to combat discrimination within the profession have not met with the support I would have hoped for .
9 All the other matches ended in draws but Nottinghamshire wasted an opportunity to go top of the table at Lord 's .
10 All the other matches ended in draws but Nottinghamshire wasted an opportunity to go top of the table at Lord 's .
11 France expressed horror at the assassination and appealed for unity to assure peace in the country it once ruled .
12 The second vehicle will be a former Midland Railway six-wheeled third class brake coach dating from 1884 and , finally , a remarkable opportunity to sample travel in the groom 's compartment of a horse box dating from 1949 .
13 What is especially insulting about the decision to impose VAT on a purchase about which no family has a choice , is the flimsy pretence that this was all done in the name of greener government .
14 Caroline has a full length EVA midsole to absorb shock during the game .
15 It also calls on the government to act on the relevant commitments it made at the UNCED summit [ see ED 59/60 ] , and on the major supermarket chains to provide information on the biodiversity of the foods they stock .
16 teachers in ‘ feeder ’ middle schools were invited to read the study and two schools subsequently redesigned their humanities course to provide continuity with the curriculum at Sir Frank Markham ;
17 On Aug. 27-29 ministers from all OPEC member states except Iraq and Libya agreed in talks held in Vienna , the Austrian capital , to suspend production ceilings and to permit Saudi Arabia , the UAE and Venezuela to increase output by a total of 3,000,000 bpd .
18 He seems to be on talking terms with the creator and is able to gain permission to tempt Job in a number of horrible ways .
19 By eligible bills is meant any instrument which the Bank is prepared to buy as part of its money market operations to adjust liquidity in the banking system .
20 When the library opens in 1995/6 there will be 100,000 volumes accessible digitally , but there are also plans to provide access by the year 2000 to a wide range of multimedia resources from sound recordings , to moving pictures , to radio programmes , to television programmes , to still images ( Fresko 1993 ) .
21 If the defendant is successful in the RSC Ord 14 proceedings , the court may make various orders , including allowing the defendant to defend the claim , which means that the plaintiff 's next opportunity to obtain judgment against the defendant will not arise before the end of a full trial .
22 You have tried to either force a user to accept responsibility for a Software Performance Report ( SPR ) ( using option 3.8.0 — Force User To Accept SPR ) or to submit a Software Status Report ( SSR ) ( using option 4.3.0 — Submit SSR ) , without having the privilege SPR SSR CONTROLLER .
23 De Luca , alleged to be a member of the BR , was wanted by the Italian authorities to stand trial for the murder of a DC senator Roberto Ruffilli in 1988 [ see p. 35989 ] .
24 Faced with the problem of induction and related problems , inductivists have run into one difficulty after another in their attempts to construe science as a set of statements that can be established as true or probably true in the light of given evidence .
25 ‘ So there will have to be some block contracts to provide predictability for the provider , ’ says Stephenson .
26 In particular , the extension of the select committee system has meant that more civil servants have attended Parliament to provide information about the work for which they are responsible .
27 It troubled Alexei that the failed assassination seemed about to be dismissed as an effort at the removal of some imagined stain on family honour , and he wondered if Jotan truly believed the explanation he had offered , or if he was acting at Burun 's direction to distract Artai from the truth .
28 The food is prepared in the prison kitchens by a private catering company — ARA , which has a contract to provide food at a set cost .
29 Against this , it was argued that government bodies which use public money to provide information to the public are under a special public law obligation to ensure that the information is accurate ; and this obligation , being a public law one , was properly enforceable by judicial review .
30 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 .
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