Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] a [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most significant breakthrough in this respect was the decision to implement a common tariff on imports from January 1991 , in order to facilitate the eventual removal of all barriers to intra-community trade . |
| 2 | What can be done to give even a tenth of our people the opportunity to acquire a small stake in the land , and to replace the missing bottom rungs in the farming ladder ? |
| 3 | On the face of it , this offers a potential bidder the opportunity to acquire a complete portfolio of assets at a discount to their value by taking over the trust by buying up all its shares . |
| 4 | The key to a good use is that it brings people to the building who value it for its beauty and appreciate and enjoy its surroundings — not simply people who regard it as an opportunity to acquire a large amount of cheap floor space . |
| 5 | AN application for outline permission to erect a detached house at 90 London Road , Holybourne has been turned down by local planners . |
| 6 | This meeting welcomes the decision of the CLE to conduct a comprehensive review of its admissions and assessments procedures . |
| 7 | This meeting welcomes the decision of the CLE to conduct a comprehensive review of its admission and assessments procedures with the involvement of the CRE . |
| 8 | Phonetics and Phonology : — An extension of the core course to include a detailed consideration of two of the following topics : Allophones and allophonic transcription , with reference to dialectal varieties of English ; further work on supra-segmental features ; the nature of orthography ; introduction to acoustic phonetics . |
| 9 | The two final categories call for no comment at this stage beyond the fact that the fiscal evidence shows that the overwhelming majority of husbandmen did actually have less than £10 worth of personal estate ; the £10-£99 group looks like an intrapolation to accommodate a broad spectrum of well-to-do peasants ( including yeomen ) , master craftsmen and small-time merchants . |
| 10 | The local Soprintendenza in charge of archaeology in the Salerno region hopes to find the money to conduct a systematic excavation of the villa . |
| 11 | As an example , contrast a contract to paint the whole of a house , but containing a clause exempting the contractor from liability if he fails to paint certain parts ( caught under s 3(2) ( a ) ) , and a contract to paint a whole house with the exception of certain parts ( not caught ) . |
| 12 | We all look forward to a comfortable future when we retire — with the time and money to enjoy a full life with family and friends . |
| 13 | The lowest , most general , and most unambiguously useful level consists in the employment of a computer to perform a humdrum task in less time than would be possible for an unaided human : the search through a text for a quotation , the determination of a word frequency , the construction and analysis of a contingency table , the classification of iconic data . |
| 14 | Maria made the decision to sacrifice a certain amount of advertising revenue and turn the radio station into a temporary community service , as other stations and television channels were doing , monitoring the situation and providing updates , broadcasting official government warnings and advice to those districts likely to be affected by after-shocks and urging their local listenership to donate blood against a possible depletion of existing supplies . |
| 15 | One recommendation has already been implemented : the agreement by the BMJ and the Lancet to include a separate heading in the classified advertisement for part time posts . |
| 16 | Says organiser Rob Smith : ‘ We are offering a unique opportunity to enjoy a unique series of events in unique surroundings . |
| 17 | The President of the Public Broadcasting Association of Australia ( PBAA ) , Dr Jeff Langdon , has welcomed the decision to conduct a Parliamentary inquiry into the non-commercial use of the channel . |
| 18 | Pop can be sufficient intoxication to induce a different state of being , other than the one in which you exist . |
| 19 | Local education authorities should not be allowed to evade their responsibility to implement a full policy for the promotion of community languages . |
| 20 | With the goal of curriculum enhancement it was possible for a junior member of staff with specific subject expertise to support a senior colleague without such expertise ; but when the goal was professional development it required a clear status differential between senior partner as trainer or consultant and junior partner as trainee or client . |
| 21 | The first was the proposal by the Southern Gas Board to erect a 39-metre-high gasholder in the historic centre of Abingdon . |
| 22 | Lack of communication and the inability to see a differing point of view are cited as being the main causes . |
| 23 | The lucky denizens of East Anglia are being given a rare opportunity to see a magnificent selection of 16th century drawings loaned form the British Museum 's great collection , which is only occasionally exhibited to the general public . |
| 24 | When Henry Vizetelly was prosecuted in 1888 under the obscenity laws for publishing an English translation of Zola 's novel La Terre , purists seized the opportunity to mount a sustained assault on the morally pernicious influence of French culture . |
| 25 | The direction of your movements should always be towards the heart to encourage a good flow of blood , and therefore nutrients , to the part being treated . |
| 26 | For the Profitboss it is an opportunity to provide a new challenge to Steve Lockhart , the graduate trainee in Personnel who 's won the confidence of the line management in engineering . |
| 27 | The aim of the research is to help those with responsibilities for educational provision to meet a significant challenge of the 1990s , namely : to establish systematic and credible systems for assessing the quality of schooling and thereby to improve the learning opportunities of all young people . |
| 28 | In the 1970s the Department of Education and Science pinned its hopes on the APU to provide a general measure of the achievement of children at schools and , implicitly , changes in standards over time . |
| 29 | TI also took the unusual decision to try a one-shot approach over a short timetable , rather than the more conventional series of increasing offers . |
| 30 | She could have laughed at her husband 's struggle to hide a strange mixture of emotions . |