Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] an [adj] [noun pl] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er in the nineteen seventies and eighties there was a long running campaign to get an equal rights amendment er which was sponsored largely by er women 's groups and er and er gay and lesbian groups er and they got almost there , they got two , I think two states short of getting a constitutional amendment and then something called Ronald Reagan happened and it all sort of fell apart . |
| 2 | Jack Jones himself remained poised , perhaps torn , between his traditional stance as a union negotiator committed to autonomy and his wider view of the need to recast an adversarial industrial-relations system . |
| 3 | failing to adopt a comprehensive equal opportunities policy in relation to its activities both as a provider of educational/vocational services and an employer of staff ( in particular the failure to properly consider the need to employ an equal opportunities officer derived from the ethnic minorities using the GOQ provision of the Race Relations Act 1976 ) ; |
| 4 | It was expected that elimination of the anticipated need to recruit an additional personnel clerk would result in sufficient cost reductions to at least partially cost justify the system . |
| 5 | At the UK 's IBM ‘ 93 Show in Birmingham last week , IBM UK Ltd became the first IBM company in Europe to publish an Open Options Catalogue of IBM and third party products available through mail order . |
| 6 | The aim was to encourage local authorities , schools and sports clubs to develop an after-school sports programme for young people . |
| 7 | To achieve this , and also to attract the interest of would-be exponents of the approach who have not had the opportunity to undergo an extensive systems education , it has been necessary at times to over-simplify the explanations of concepts and applications , and condense them from those developed by system researchers over many decades . |
| 8 | Royal College of Nursing spokesman Jamie Fleming said : ‘ The most important thing is for nurses to have an effective complaints procedure . |