Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] [art] [adj] [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.

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1 Basically this involves using the right foot to draw the ball into the post from the left side of the field and the left foot to do the same from the right side .
2 One of these involves using the hind leg to scratch an area of skin to which an irritant has been applied .
3 The tough love hurts the family member not simply because it involves allowing the primary sufferer to experience the full painful consequences of addictive disease but also because it involves the family member in resisting his or her own addictive urges to " fix " all the problems and manage the life of the primary sufferer .
4 Women 's Design Service has received a small grant to carry out research into housing design for older women .
5 The creditors ' committee does not come into being until the trustee has issued a certificate of its due constitution ( r 6.151 ) and his certificate must not be issued until he has received the written consent to act from three members of the committee ( r6.151(3A) ) .
6 ‘ After a long and painful recession business needs to readdress the strategic issues to secure sustainable growth in the 90s , ’ said Harold Eatock , director of the CBI south-eastern region .
7 Each member state has designated a particular body to take responsibility for the comparability work .
8 Work on the long term test at Cusiana in Colombia has highlighted the special need to ensure formation damage is minimised in the difficult geology of the Llanos foothills .
9 When the Home Secretary announced the additional numbers for police forces throughout England and Wales , I was shocked to find that Gwent merited only one extra officer and was astounded to find that the South Wales police force was not to have a single extra officer , especially as the chief constable has undertaken a major review to ensure the best use of available manpower , a process which must continue .
10 A Pensioners Link initiative in Barnet ( Meade , 1986 ) has undertaken a local campaign to promote health activity for and with older people , with promising results .
11 Middlesbrough Council has joined the growing campaign to urge British Steel to keep using the Redmire to Redcar freight rail link in order to prevent thousands more lorry journeys through Teesside .
12 Redwood Shores , California-based Oracle Corp has joined the Greek chorus to say that it plans to convert its complete family of products to run on Alpha architecture under both OpenVMS and DEC OSF/1 ; the conversion effort on the VMS products is under way and should be out by the time DEC starts ships .
13 And he wants to see a careful scrutiny to make sure that the existing money is used to greatest effect .
14 If , on a sale of unregistered land , there is any personal obligation on the part of a seller-client to observe restrictions ( as , for example , where the seller is the original covenantor or has given a personal covenant to observe these ) , it is desirable to provide in the contract for a similar covenant indemnifying the seller against any future breach .
15 The issue in this case is whether an original lessee , or an intermediate assignee of a lease , who has given a direct covenant to pay the rent and observe the covenants , is released from liability following an agreement between the lessor and the occupying assignee of the lease under which the lessor takes a surrender of the lease and some of the assignee 's goods in return for releasing the assignee from all claims under the lease ?
16 Electronic cash till maker Riva Group of Bolton , Lancs , has completed a refinancing programme to reduce borrowings by £5.8m to £6.9m and save some £800,000 in annual interest payments , it announced yesterday .
17 The US car industry has formed a new alliance to challenge a bill which would compel car makers to increase fuel efficiency by 40 per cent over the next decade .
18 Mike Woodley , owner of the aviation film services and warbirds import/export operation Aces High at North Weald Airfield , has formed a new company to market the Ilyushin Il-103 light aircraft throughout Europe .
19 The National Council of Churches in Korea has formed a special committee to work on the ‘ democratisation of the Korean media ’ .
20 Time and again as boss of Rangers and Liverpool , Souness has smashed the million-pound barrier to sign players .
21 Nicholas Kenyon 's appointment as Controller of Radio 3 , in succession to John Drummond , means that the BBC has picked an unlikely man to try to turn around the fortunes of its embattled network .
22 Government needs to provide an immediate impetus to get the economy moving .
23 Fourteen year old Catherine Pearse has organised a sponsored sleep-out to help the increasing number of young people with nowhere to live .
24 Since then , it has enjoyed a much-needed facelift to become the hip and swinging indie ( generic overlay ) festival of the year .
25 The United Nations has installed a peacekeeping force to maintain order until the elections in May 1993 .
26 A milkman who set up a round in competition with his old dairy firm has won a legal battle to continue his business for the time being .
27 A DUBLIN-BASED policeman has won a legal battle to prevent the Garda Commissioner from dismissing him from the force for allegedly offering a prostitute IR£30 for sex .
28 A TORY MP 's wife has won a three-year battle to inherit the Pounds 10 million mansion that inspired Evelyn Waugh 's Brideshead Revisited .
29 A woman who found £40 on a bank floor has won a three-year battle to have it donated to a baby unit — and the bank has stumped up an extra £10 .
30 A postal worker has won a two-and-a-half-year battle to bring his Filipino bride to England .
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