Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [to-vb] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Packs of tested components are a different matter , and these represent the best way for beginners to obtain a useful stock of components for a modest outlay . |
| 2 | Pininfarina , just across the aisle from Italdesign , is crying out for Vauxhall to take a similar level of interest in its Lotus Carlton-powered Chronos , making a second show appearance but this time as a fully engineered runner . |
| 3 | Students at Fourah Bay College and other establishments had demonstrated and gone on strike during March to demand a multiparty system . |
| 4 | Mr Robinson continued : ‘ The Premier League executives now talk to clubs between meetings to get a better understanding . |
| 5 | Newport look for coaches to turn a falling tide . |
| 6 | He told the King that he would prefer MacDonald to remain in office in order to carry out the necessary programme of economies ; but that if he failed to carry enough of his colleagues with him , then the best alternative would be for MacDonald to head a National Government containing members of all three parties . |
| 7 | ‘ the clearest and simplest remedy for this evil of litigation about charity , by which so often the kindly intention of a testator is defeated , and still more often a considerable part of the benefaction is wasted in legal costs , would be for Parliament to enact a modern definition or classification of charities on some broad lines . |
| 8 | He began work as a mining engineer in Lanarkshire and applied to Alexander Hamilton Douglas , tenth Duke of Hamilton [ q.v. ] , for permission to open a new mine on his land , but was refused on the grounds that he was too young for such responsibility . |
| 9 | But when the owners later asked for permission to erect a temporary office , they were told the greenhouse itself should have had permission … and it would have to come down . |
| 10 | In our explorations , ostensibly in search of good compositions to sketch , we often came upon the nuns : a solitary sister on her knees in front of a grotto , a nervous magpie secreting days off purgatory , would fly up ; a group of novices , disturbed roller-skating or playing the guitar , would look to their novice-mistress for permission to accept a boiled sweet . |
| 11 | They are asking Darlington planning committee for permission to build a 36-bedroom extension . |
| 12 | When , in 1150 , the citizens of La Rochelle had asked the Bishop of Saintes for permission to build a new parish church to accommodate the growing number of worshippers , they had met with a refusal . |
| 13 | House extension : Mr Ross , of Bryan Close , Hurworth , has applied to Darlington Borough Council for permission to build a single-storey extension to his house . |
| 14 | One of them , Eddy Shah , the former national newspaper owner , said he was no longer interested in a deal with Knighton , but another , Owen Oyston , a local radio-station owner and property entrepreneur , applied to the Football League for permission to obtain a financial interest in United . |
| 15 | Westinghouse Electric Corp , Pittsburgh has asked 15 cellular and wireless companies for proposals to build a nationwide wireless data network , the Wall Street Journal reported : the company 's idea is to spur the wireless carriers , individually or as part of a consortium , to develop a network that would make it easier and cheaper for users of laptop and palm-top computers and other devices to send and receive information over the air — and in return , Westinghouse promised to buy a substantial amount of transmission capacity for turn-key communications services that it wants to offer over such a network for various types of companies , such as those that manage large fleets of vehicles and security concerns doing remote monitoring — ‘ We 're trying to get a national packet data network that covers , at a minimum , the 30 largest metropolitan areas , ’ the company declared . |
| 16 | Divide variegated perennials with great care and be on the look out for reversion to maintain a variegated display of interest and contrast to the lush green foliage of summer planting . |
| 17 | Design faults at the Susquehanna nuclear power station in Pennsylvania would make it impossible for operators to control a nuclear accident , according to engineers who worked on the plant 's construction . |
| 18 | James Beggs , has been lobbying hard for money to build a fifth Shuttle-orbiter , and the academy 's assessment could help loosen the purse strings at the white House . |
| 19 | You sell your time for money to have a better time in the unsold hours . |
| 20 | News on Sunday asked for money to produce a dummy newspaper , which would then be market-researched , and the results wrapped into a feasibility study . |
| 21 | The only way out now is for ITT to register a different name for its digital television sets in Britain . |
| 22 | Against all odds , he regained his health , and Mary pampered him back to fitness for David to win a National Championship on him . |
| 23 | As more graduates enter primary teaching , so I believe it will become easier for schools to have a common purpose and to recognize this in a jointly worked-out curriculum , with more communication and actual cross-over from one part of the system to the other . |
| 24 | Retailing analysts in the City believe Kingfisher will have to pay far more than the 120p a share now on offer for Dixons to have a realistic chance of winning its cash bid . |
| 25 | Having eventually gained planning permission , we have now launched in earnest our appeal for funds to create a suitable memorial to her — a campsite at Harrison 's Rocks near her home in , E. Sussex , where she taught climbing with her husband Terry . |
| 26 | Though Macao 's small population made it easier for Portugal to make a grand gesture , it triggered renewed bitterness in Hong Kong . |
| 27 | ACTRESS Audrey Hepburn was described as being ‘ very chipper ’ after surgery to remove a cancerous tumour from her colon . |
| 28 | FORMER England and Leeds United soccer star Paul Madeley is recovering after surgery to remove a benign tumour between his ear and brain . |
| 29 | SOME of you may remember me appealing for help to form a national organisation to write to prisoners on death row in the Caribbean . |
| 30 | By Barry Turnbull MERSEYSIDER Dot Phillips has sent out a call for help to find a missing parrot that mimics telephones . |