Example sentences of "[adv prt] a joint [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps if you do n't want to sell we could take on a joint venture . ’ |
| 2 | Both it and the Tories took on a joint gamble when the Sun talked up the ‘ independence in Europe ’ line . |
| 3 | Six Local Art Societies , Art Gallery in the Town Centre , Queensway , Billingham ( until March 14 ) IT seems to me that the ink was barely dry on my last little piece which suggested that Darlington Society of Arts seemed content to restrict itself to one exhibition per year when , all of a sudden , came news that Darlington , the CAS and Hartlepool Art Club were to join forces respectively the Hambleton , Leven and Yarm art societies to put on a joint show of their work at Billingham . |
| 4 | And the divide between the Catholic and Anglican churches was bridged — at least for investment purposes when the insurance arms of the two churches set up a joint venture , Ecclesiastical Underwriting Management , headed by the aptly named Kevin Cannon . |
| 5 | It has set up a joint venture with Hungary 's state-owned producer , which makes 40% of the country 's cigarettes . |
| 6 | Mitsui Toatsu Chemicals , Japan , and ICI Resins have set up a joint venture for the marketing and production of styrene acrylic and polyester photocopier toner resins . |
| 7 | Morton 's first overseas venture was in the UK in 1964 , when it set up a joint venture in Coventry to distribute the LP polymer . |
| 8 | Others have found it more advantageous to acquire a local bank or set up a joint venture with local banks . |
| 9 | There are some helpful rationalisations afoot : Mercury , together with 11 other telecomms companies , has recently set up a joint venture , FNA , to provide ‘ unified communications services ’ between the financial centres of the world . |
| 10 | Bulgaria is to set up a joint venture with the Sprint International division of Sprint Corp , Reuter reports from Sofia : Sprint-Bulgaria will build a public packet-switched data network for Bulgarian Telecommunications Co ; Bulgaria has also invited foreign companies to submit tenders for a $230m project to upgrade the present telephone system . |
| 11 | On his return to Uralmash from a business course in West Germany in 1988 , Mr Korovin set up a joint venture with an Austrian company to make equipment for the continuous casting of steel . |
| 12 | And Bechtel is setting up a joint venture with Kiewit that is looking at projects in 15 states and outlays of up to $1 billion . |
| 13 | The company set up a joint venture with Magneti Marelli the Italian firm which has already taken over two big Lucas plants in the Midlands . |
| 14 | Both Ian Allan , chairman of AIR , and I have felt for some time that this division was not helpful to the railway movement and it was agreed at the ARPS Council meeting held on 25th April ( which I missed due to the pleasure of attending my secretary 's wedding ) and the AIR Board meeting two days later that we adopt a proposal put forward by David Madden , a member of ARPS Council and director of operations on the North Norfolk Railway , to set up a joint committee to handle affairs of mutual interest , which we agreed should be called in good railway tradition : ‘ The Railway Clearing House ’ . |
| 15 | There were echoes here of 1984 , the year in which the main associations of the book world set up a joint committee to run a vigorous campaign to fight the then Thatcher government 's rumoured intention of levying a positive rate of VAT on books and learned journals . |
| 16 | The agreement included a clause setting up a joint committee to oversee air quality . |
| 17 | The Presidents of six Amazon Basin states — Bolivia , Brazil , Colombia , Ecuador , Guyana and Surinam — together with representatives of Peru and Venezuela , held a two-day summit meeting in Manaus , Brazil , on Feb. 10-12 to draw up a joint position in advance of the UN Conference on Environment and Development ( UNCED ) in June . |
| 18 | His untiring efforts over a 27-year period include developing services for the mentally handicapped in Cleveland , including setting up a joint unit of Venture Scouts and Ranger Guides . |
| 19 | In July 1918 these universities set up a Joint Standing Committee of Convocations , intended to be non-political and non-partisan , the main purpose being the selection , on approved educational grounds , of candidates for the parliamentary constituency . |
| 20 | Being apart all week means you 're doing none of the things young married couples normally do — building up a joint lifestyle , going out , having friends around and generally enjoying yourselves together . |
| 21 | The 13-nation Independent European Programme Group ( IEPG , involving all the European members of NATO except Ireland ) meeting on June 28 , 1989 , in Estoril , Portugal , agreed to set up a joint programme known as Euclid to promote research and development among European defence contractors . |
| 22 | For the future of course , we have now erm negotiated with Eurofighter a rather better arrangement , they 're setting up a joint team , they 're trying to do all the work in one place and they really are now making a lot of progress . |
| 23 | The two companies decided to set up a joint research and development project to find a system which would meet the new standards in a cost-effective way , and Project Alaska was born . |
| 24 | The FBI is keen to set up a joint task force with Scotland Yard to combat the growing number of insurance , investment and banking frauds in the dependencies which cause a great deal of embarrassment to the British Government . |
| 25 | This improvement in relations was reinforced at the biannual Franco-German summit in Paris on April 25-26 , when the two leaders also agreed to set up a joint study on the " future architecture of Europe 's security " . |
| 26 | The conference agreed to set up a joint study group to look at the particularly urgent question of the DipHE , to be followed by a similar study group on the BEd . |
| 27 | Modrow did not return with more than a commitment to set up a joint commission of experts to consider monetary union ( which first met on Feb. 20 in East Berlin ) . |
| 28 | Agreement was reached on setting up a joint commission of experts to deal with minority questions and on working towards guaranteeing minority rights . |
| 29 | A communiqué issued at the end of the talks said that " Iran and Iraq and the International Committee of the Red Cross ( ICRC ) have agreed to set up a joint commission to review the resumption of the exchange of prisoners of war " . |
| 30 | The two agreed to set up a joint commission examining the issue . |