Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [to-vb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Indeed , tighter financial targets increasingly conflicted with the consensual political decision to maintain a certain size of railway system .
2 Azerbaijani attempts to open a new front in the east through attacks on the Askeran region of the enclave from Agdam could not prevent their loss of control over Lachin on May 17 .
3 The manager who has the job of making any decision should have the technical skills to make a sensible decision and avoid unnecessary mistakes .
4 That way we shall have a good idea of all the different kinds of rose , where to look to find the right variety to suit a particular purpose , and more importantly , where not to look , and what to leave alone .
5 Now , in the last decade of the century , we have an opportunity through our European institutions to create a wider prosperity and a more lasting peace for all the peoples and all the countries of Europe .
6 Once the early morning jobs were done there was a relaxing of discipline , and when the family returned from church everyone on the staff , from Mr Priddy down to the newest domestic , was invited to the second-best parlour to receive a small present .
7 As did the Harter Act , COGSA also required that carriers exercise due diligence to provide a seaworthy ship .
8 But a reorganisation last year within Telfos Holdings , Hunslet 's parent company , presented the firm with an unmissable opportunity to acquire a 100,000 sq ft factory at Telfos 's headquarters in Leeds .
9 But a reorganisation last year within Telfos Holdings , Hunslet 's parent company , presented the firm with an unmissable opportunity to acquire a 100,000 sq ft factory at Telfos 's headquarters in Leeds .
10 Because log-normal distributions follow linear trends on the cumulative probability plot he considered each segment to represent a separate sub-population whose character was determined by the dynamics of transport : traction , saltation and suspension .
11 Each subject was asked to use each technique to solve a simple problem , having two constraints and one objective .
12 To this end their policy has been aimed at creating a greater diversification of supply bringing in housing associations and private builders to create a greater choice and , according to the Conservatives , value for tenants .
13 Though available to either party it is in reality a procedure designed to enable employers faced with weak cases to apply a potential costs sanction to encourage the early demise of weak cases .
14 The other , which seems to be an obsession for the Prime Minister , was his odd crusade to get a fair deal for the oppressed users of motorway service stations .
15 But , second , he had pressing political reasons to want a rapid liberation of Paris .
16 For all its brilliant rhetoric and endearingly dishonest struggle to regain a masculine integrity , Norman Mailer 's defence of D. H. Lawrence in The Prisoner of Sex conveys finally a certain desperation in the face of apprehensions similar to those which Bersani explores .
17 If he is , attack while he is rising because then he will have little opportunity to launch a powerful counter-attack .
18 IS IT REALLY ONLY three years since the infamous incident when drunken revellers used champagne to flush a broken nightclub toilet ?
19 He said Labour plans to devise a comprehensive scheme of transport improvements to suit Britain 's needs .
20 An alternative to attempting to deal with such matters by a policy of continuous and possibly unsettling adjustment ( by moving departments and personnel around ) would be to allow each branch to become a separate partnership under the aegis of a superimposed managing firm .
21 In the first half of the nineteenth century , the age-old struggle to reconstitute an ancient text from imperfect manuscript copies was , for the first time , given a proper basis : methodical study of the manuscripts ' interrelationships .
22 Full participation in society , however , means enabling hitherto under-represented groups to play a full part in shaping their future .
23 CONTROVERSIAL plans to redevelop a dilapidated shopping arcade in a town centre have been delayed for at least a year .
24 He scored twice in the closing eight minutes to force a 4-4 draw , a result which helped the Paisley men increase their lead at the top of the table to two points .
25 It took very little ingenuity to transform an ordinary bone conductor type of National Health hearing-aid and to attach a metal ring to the receiver so that it could be worn like an ordinary ring .
26 For all her talk of shaking up the town 's bureaucracy , Mrs Molina will have to learn some of her opponent 's conciliatory skills to win a better deal for her constituents .
27 If one takes wines such as these together with the inevitably ill-fated attempts to make a red wine from black grapes grown in a climate barely hospitable enough to ripen a grape , let alone colour it , a wealth of curiously coloured , clouded wines must have constituted the norm , despite a half-hidden glint of pink or red in a few instances .
28 The government of the Republic of Hungary will become the first East European administration to adopt an open system strategy across the board , saying it intends to use X/Open Group Co Ltd 's XPG brand in procurement and is to join X/Open 's user council : a government action plan on information technology has been put togther with the assistance of the European Commission and individual national governments within the EEC .
29 They emigrate to Australia , and do not learn till long afterwards that Ham has died in a vain attempt to save a drowning man , who turns out to be Steerforth .
30 Fraud essentially occurs for two reasons — inherent criminal intent or the resort to deceit and plunder in a vain attempt to salvage a crumbling empire .
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