Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] [noun sg] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | John McQueen himself had a hard struggle to remain solvent as a twenty-six-year-old university student with a wife and three children . |
| 2 | This will release space in the Cottrell Building to accommodate expansion of the other Schools . |
| 3 | It was left to the Hercules to unload help to the hungry . |
| 4 | * The government is to host a further meeting in Tunis in April , when representatives of Western donors and multilateral agencies will consolidate plans to continue support for the environmental programme . |
| 5 | Programmes of study should be so constructed as to give all pupils the opportunity to enjoy work in a wide range of literary forms . |
| 6 | It is the only personal fellowship in Scottish history backed by industry and provides an excellent opportunity to support research in an underfunded area . |
| 7 | It did , however , incorporate a decision to promote jute as an environment-friendly product because of its biodegradable qualities . |
| 8 | The adoption in the 1950s and 1960s by western economies of demand-management policies to combat unemployment in the main kept unemployment rates down and we saw no return to the extremely high unemployment rates of the 1930s . |
| 9 | The plans , put forward by Environment Minister David Trippier , would involve each country disposing of its own waste and would alter the European Commission 's plans to enforce disposal at the nearest plant , regardless of cost . |
| 10 | However , the degree of liberalisation afforded by the Directive is limited ; full freedom to provide insurance on a cross-border or ‘ services ’ basis only applies where the life insurance contract is entered into by the policyholder on their own initiative ; in the case of other ( ’ non-own initiative ’ ) contracts the Directive allows the authorities of the member state into which the insurance is provided to require such services business to be authorised by them . |
| 11 | The agreement also contained a provision to increase security along the Tajik-Afghan border . |
| 12 | Plans to revive part of the old railworks in Swindon have been sabotaged . |
| 13 | Being angled , it allows the user to extract soil from a deep hole without the soil sliding off the blade . |
| 14 | In contrast , Section 11 grants available since 1966 to some authorities to provide funding for the special needs of ethnic minority pupils , have tended to marginalize spending on black pupils . |
| 15 | The first charity began in 1659 , when Simon Smith gave by his will £5 , the interest of six shillings to provide bread for the poor on Easter Day . |
| 16 | The Comintern worked predictably but with difficulty to establish control over the recalcitrant comrades in both factions but was faced with firm opposition from those who did not wish to see Korean communism become a minor branch of the world communist movement directed by Moscow . |
| 17 | SURVEY ( DEMOGRAPHIC ) — An inquiry that employs statistical data collecting and processing operations to provide information on a particular demographic subject ( e.g. fertility or human reproductive behaviour ) or on several topics ( multi-purpose survey ) . |
| 18 | Penrose ( 1969 ) suggested a technique to extract energy from a rotating black hole . |
| 19 | For many , the task of policing relaxed consents was a source of considerable professional embarrassment following their attempts to secure compliance with the former , stricter , standards . |
| 20 | IBM Corp 's vast personal computer contract with the former Soviet Ministry of Education ended early with just 15,000 machines installed in schools and only 75% of those paid for , IBM Europe chief Renato Riverso told the Wall Street Journal ; he also said that IBM has yet to receive its first payment on its $150m contract to provide Aeroflot with a modern reservations system . |
| 21 | An up-and-coming composer would probably welcome the opportunity to write music in a religious idiom . |
| 22 | Prior to their purchase of the building , the owner of the adjoining mill house had made two attempts to obtain permission from the local authority to change the use of the mill from industrial premises into a dwelling , but it was only with the current owners ' application of 1977 that planning permission for this change was granted . |
| 23 | At that time few attempts were made to measure the effectiveness of such activity , and advertising agencies tended to branch out into sales promotions with the aim of offering an all-inclusive package to their clients in an attempt to combat competition from the emerging sales promotion agencies . |
| 24 | The purpose of the subsidy is to increase the recipient 's consumption of good X. While the cash transfer appears efficient at increasing the recipient 's welfare , it is not the best instrument to stimulate consumption of a particular good . |
| 25 | THE SDLP on Down Council has confirmed its intention to continue power-sharing between the two traditions , after extending its majority to three in last week 's elections . |
| 26 | Will the Minister widen his reply to include funding of the national companies , and in particular will he explain the remarks that he made to the Royal Society of Arts last week , when he speculated on the Government funding the national companies directly ? |
| 27 | Leach ( 1977 ) has shown the ephemerality which lies in any attempt to classify deviance on a global scale ; for what is criminal in one society or at one point in time is relative to that time and place and to who holds the discourse on power . |
| 28 | In July 1989 her party secured a huge electoral breakthrough by causing the LDP to lose control of the upper chamber of the Diet for the first time in its history . |
| 29 | Municipal sewage works have used such methods to treat sewage since the early 1900s and the biogas produced , which consists on average of 70 per cent methane and 30 per cent carbon dioxide ( Hawkes and Hawkes 1987 ) , can be used to power the digestion plant itself . |
| 30 | Leicestershire won by 133 runs IN MAKING a laudable attempt to sustain interest in a foreshortened contest at Fenner 's , Leicestershire learnt something of long-term disadvantage : their spin-bowling is not of county championship quality . |