Example sentences of "[to-vb] [noun] and [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It should make an interesting text for a graduate-level course in community ecology , help students to plan research and set any ecologist thinking about possible generalizations . |
| 2 | Regarding environmental issues , the Group of Seven in the final declaration ( i ) committed itself to undertake " common efforts to limit emissions of greenhouse gases " ; ( ii ) reiterated its support for the negotiation of a " framework convention on climate change " under the auspices of the UN ; ( iii ) committed itself to negotiating a " global forest convention " in order to curb deforestation and protect biological diversity ; and ( iv ) agreed to co-operate with Brazil on a programme to protect the tropical rain forests in that country . |
| 3 | In March 1990 the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) and World Bank officially approved the government 's new economic austerity measures , which included further devaluation , cuts in public spending and food subsidies , and a tightening of the money supply , as well as the introduction of a two-tier foreign exchange rate [ see below ] to encourage exports and to increase hard currency earnings . |
| 4 | The problem , however , was that they kept blaming the tenants ' ’ lifestyle ’ for the dampness , refused to accept responsibility and spent unknown amounts of money treating the symptoms by using chemical washes to try and kill the fungus . |
| 5 | In office he would prove a ruthless party politician , carrying on the Thatcherite strategy of using the powers of the British state to batter opposition and maintain Tory dominance . |
| 6 | One possibility currently being explored by the director Nicholas Mann , together with the directors of the group of University of London Institutes for Advanced Study ( ULIAS ) to which the Warburg belongs , is the creation of a single federal research institute which would be in a stronger position to attract funds and to resist indiscriminate cuts from above . |
| 7 | The moderation teams continued to meet on a regular basis , to provide feedback and consider further ways of setting and maintaining national standards . |
| 8 | it compresses the model renewal interval , which increases the opportunities to modify designs and make better use of new technologies ; and |
| 9 | Women who had been forced , in the name of Victory , to return to work in shops and factories , yet still found time at the end of the day to brew tea and serve hot meat pies , and smile . |
| 10 | A decorative horizontal panel of fabric usually attached to the top of the window frame , or just above , to hide rods and provide added interest . |
| 11 | Since then we 've had plenty of time to take stock , to get to know areas and compare different locations , ages and styles of house before making any decision . |
| 12 | The fall in population did not , however , mean a general decline in economic activity ; rising wages may have served to increase consumption and give some stimulus to production , and it is worth noting that even the magnate class , which was more likely to suffer from the changed balance of power between land and labour through declining rent rolls and higher payments of wages was still able to invest considerable sums in new building during Richard II 's reign . |
| 13 | Speaking at ICL 's Software Open Show in Birmingham in the UK last week , Unify said it expects to launch Accell/TP and Accell/Object next month . |
| 14 | The majority of people with acute mental disorder can be treated at home if sufficient staff are available to supervise medication and give adequate support . |
| 15 | We will continue to pursue policies to encourage enterprise and bring new jobs — by contrast with Labour , whose plan for a national minimum wage would hit the Province particularly hard . |
| 16 | It suggested small teams of business people in each city to provide leadership and to encourage private sector investment . |
| 17 | He thought to take Mr gross salary in the present financial year , to reduce it by a third to get from gross to net earnings and to do similar calculations for the rest of the three and a half years so as to arrive at the figure of fifty three thousand nine hundred and six pounds . |
| 18 | For the first time in a BHC hovercraft , the AP1-88 has separate engines to provide lift and generate forward speed . |
| 19 | The training , involving all personnel , revolves around changing attitudes to work situations and regarding each member of the workforce as both a customer and a supplier . |
| 20 | We will encourage local councils to continue to provide smallholdings and to introduce part-time holdings for new entrants . |
| 21 | The PLO had been attempting to formalize its relations with the Lebanese government since the latter 's 1987 abrogation [ see p. 35348 ] of the 1969 " Cairo agreement " granting Palestinian fighters the right to bear arms and to conduct cross-border raids into Israel . |
| 22 | The racket benefits from IPS ( Integrated Power Weight System ) which produces a greater ‘ moment of inertia ’ on the frame face to increase stability and add more power to every shot . |
| 23 | It 's also hired to new supervisors to increase training and ease managerial stress . |
| 24 | Shortlisted parties will also be given access to the vendors ' various professional advisers to obtain information and to discuss specific areas . |
| 25 | If firms find that they are not producing enough to satisfy demand , they will experience an unwanted fall in their inventories and so this time will attempt to increase production and hire more workers . |
| 26 | Prime Minister Mario da Graça Machungo called for international assistance to increase production and improve social services at the third consultative group meeting co-ordinated by the World Bank for Mozambique in Paris on Nov. 16 , 1989 . |
| 27 | Oyston kept close connections with local Labour parties , and helped with schemes to provide jobs and start small businesses . |
| 28 | In addition to fronting , TNCs resorted to public sale of shares to dilute ownership and retain effective control , technical agreements with Nigerian partners , negotiation of exemptions from the authorities , the two company strategy , changes in voting rules to disenfranchise local partners , dividing boards of directors , bringing in expatriate executives , bribery and simply ignoring the law . |
| 29 | Somebody should tell them to bugger orff and catch some criminals . ’ |
| 30 | She failed to regain consciousness and died two days later in hospital . |