Example sentences of "[noun prp] in a bid " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sefton Council officers are considering proposals to introduce the fun figures in Southport in a bid to help rejuvenate the town 's shabby seafront area . |
| 2 | Agassi was seeing a specialist in Seattle in a bid to beat the injury which kept him out of the French Open . |
| 3 | • Williams was due to carry out urgent tests in England in a bid to trace and cure the gearbox problems evident in Phoenix . |
| 4 | The company has appealed Mr Wakeham in a bid to dilute the market share promised to National Power which will retain a near 50 per cent interest in British generating plant even without its nuclear plant . |
| 5 | ALL-GIRL band L7 are teaming up with wild rockers Nirvana in a bid to promote women 's rights . |
| 6 | The trialist is with Scarborough for the rest of the campaign and is keen to impress manager Ray McHale in a bid to earn a contract . |
| 7 | Pearce has been told he may have to sell top players such as David Leworthy , the league 's leading scorer , or Dean Coney in a bid to balance the books . |
| 8 | Lingdale Residents Association has asked Langbaurgh Council 's permission to organise holiday activities on spare land at Wilson Street in a bid to discourage vandalism during vacation time . |
| 9 | LEIGH have opened talks with Oldham in a bid to capture former Wigan and Wakefield utility back Ged Byrne ( above ) in a swap deal . |
| 10 | David and Linda Leeder , of Wayside , Shalford , near Braintree met the archdeacon of Colchester , the Very Reverend Ernest Stroud in a bid to get the church to change its mind over the refusal . |
| 11 | MARK JOHNSTON 'S dream double attempt failed in France yesterday — but only just.Johnston sent out Marina Park for the £100,000 Prix Morny at Deauville in a bid to add to Quick Ransom 's Ebor success last week . |
| 12 | WALES yesterday chose Olympic hurdler Nigel Walker in place of Llanelli 's Wayne Procter in a bid to pull a fast one on Ireland in the Five Nations Championship at Cardiff on 6 March . |
| 13 | Hundreds of posters are being circulated around Hartlepool in a bid to jog people 's memories . |
| 14 | Meanwhile , Lancashire County Council announced it was to send representatives to the Netherlands in a bid to rescue the Leyland truck plant and the Chorley parts warehouse , where together more than 900 jobs were lost on Friday . |
| 15 | Irish Employment Minister Ruairi Quinn flew to Boston last weekend for talks with DEC president Robert Palmer in a bid to save the Galway jobs , and Tony O'Reilly , Irish-born chairman of H J Heinz Co , was also rallied to lobby DEC , but to no avail . |
| 16 | The event is organised by Greenpeace in a bid to stop whaling and campaign against Norwegians who have announced they intend to resume commercial whaling this summer . |
| 17 | FUW leaders are now to lobby the UK Government and the EC in a bid to ensure they continue the level of current spending on the scheme . |
| 18 | Graham Kelly , FA chief executive , yesterday morning abandoned England 's team headquarters in Santander to fly to London in a bid to sort out the crisis . |
| 19 | A joint meeting in Hanoi on Jan. 17-19 , 1990 , noted that up to August 1989 seven joint search missions had been conducted in Vietnam in a bid to seek information on MIAs . |
| 20 | WEST Belfast MP Dr Joe Hendron has called on the security forces to step up their patrols in loyalist areas of Belfast in a bid to halt sectarian killings . |
| 21 | FLOATING voters were yesterday targeted by Conservative candidate Michael Fallon in a bid to win the ‘ do n't know ’ vote . |
| 22 | Cray Computer Corp , Colorado Springs , says it will start shipping its first scaled-down versions of the much-delayed Cray-3 in a bid to raise cash . |
| 23 | Meanwhile , Cray Computer Corp , Colorado Springs , says it will start shipping its first scaled-down versions of the much-delayed Cray-3 in a bid to raise cash . |