Example sentences of "[noun sg] in a [noun] [verb] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The government on Nov. 7 , 1990 , defeated a no confidence motion tabled by the opposition in an attempt to exploit divisions within the ruling party . |
| 2 | But the Department of Industry recently threw £½ million into the ring in an effort to get firms to adapt their software for use in schools . |
| 3 | Speaking after he revealed a 58.5 per cent jump in first-half pre-tax profits , Sir Alistair and his chief executive , John Robb , said the company was operating against the background of countries such as the Germany , Italy , Spain and the UK ‘ taking extreme measures against the pharmaceutical industry in an effort to control costs ’ . |
| 4 | After 410 minutes in the Premier League without a goal Ipswich threw their usual caution to the wind in an effort to check Saints ' run of five successive home wins . |
| 5 | The following example will save the current program to a file called TEST in a directory called PROGS which is in a directory called BBCBASIC on device : RAM.0 . |
| 6 | One former detainee said he saw Jacqueline Droully using the sun 's reflection in a mirror to send messages to her husband in another cell . |
| 7 | ‘ Tell met I have n't sat here on this bed like a boy in a schoolroom reciting lists of facts for nothing ! ’ |
| 8 | On March 8 , 1990 , at least six people were reported wounded and 20 others arrested in continued disturbances in Rosario [ for looting in February see p. 37244 ] , 300 km north-west of Buenos Aires , as police clashed with slum dwellers who had blocked a highway in an attempt to loot vehicles . |
| 9 | The bank says it has turned the cost centre into a business in an attempt reduce overheads . |
| 10 | MOVES are being made to plant trees on a grass verge in an effort to stop gipsies setting up camp . |
| 11 | So , at the age of 31 , instead of standing in court in a pinstripe making pleas in mitigation for the Saturday night disorderly drunks , he is on the road to fame , suitcase and guitar in hand . |
| 12 | ‘ I can manage , ’ she said firmly , shaking her head in an effort to banish images which frightened her , but enthralled her as well . |
| 13 | A MEETING is being sought between a public health group and Durham ambulance service in a bid to cut delays in response time . |
| 14 | It was developed by the World health Organisation in a bid to find methods of population control . |
| 15 | Despite the government 's resolution of Aug. 11 to pay up to 12,000 roubles per tonne for standard quality grain in an attempt to persuade producers to sell to the state , only a quarter of the target figure for state reserves had been delivered by mid-August . |
| 16 | Fire chiefs say they were pumping out thousands of gallons of water every minute in an attempt to keep levels down . |
| 17 | ‘ We think the government of Iran should seize this opportunity to condemn this so-called charity in an effort to normalise relations with the outside world , ’ she said . |
| 18 | The laboratory was the first in Britain to provide DNA evidence in a prosecution involving birds . |
| 19 | This is a case study of self-evaluation in a school using procedures of its own devising , rather than ones suggested by an LEA . |
| 20 | In response to the violence the Yugoslav National Army ( JNA ) had deployed tanks and armoured vehicles in the park , and on April 2 Croatian police complied with a JNA order to withdraw from the park in an effort to reduce tensions . |
| 21 | For the second approach , two things were significant : that a major change in British industry ( the fact that it was experiencing increasing competitive difficuIties ) was in turn being reflected in geographical changes , and that these geographical changes ( for instance , the decentralization in an effort to cut costs ) were themselves one way in which British industry was seeking to combat the growing pressures upon it . |
| 22 | Mr Brown is parading this tacit Jackson support in an effort to draw blacks away from Mr Bill Clinton , the Democrats ' front-runner whose solid black support helped him to big victories in the South and Mid-West . |
| 23 | The very first sortie that I did when the war started was with No 77 Squadron in a Whitley to take pamphlets to Germany , flying in at the top end near Kiel and going throughout the Ruhr spreading these horrors of war on the germans telling them " you are wicked naughty Germans and if you do n't mend your ways Hamish will come back tomorrow night and drop some more paper on you " . |
| 24 | Cyclists will be checked by police this month in a bid to stop thieves who made off with nearly £75,000 worth of bikes in East Cleveland last year . |
| 25 | The pictures go on display at leisure centres this week in a bid to encourage residents and businesses to reduce the city 's annual heating bill . |
| 26 | Ray Noorda , chairman of Novell Inc , and Unix System Laboratories Inc chief Roel Pieper visited Japan at the end of last week in an attempt to reassure shareholders and customers of their respective organisations , already , if not soon to become , joint shareholders , that life was proceeding as normal and that the future of Unix as the industry has known it was in good hands . |
| 27 | Operators of many of the nation 's largest power stations are challenging the government 's new environmental policy in an effort to keep details of their polluting activities secret from the public . |
| 28 | This situation makes it difficult to use basal colonic motility as a basis for comparisons and has led to the development of provocation tests in a controlled environment in an attempt to characterise differences between groups of patients . |
| 29 | It has targeted the Redcar area in a bid to persuade travellers to use stations at Redcar East and Redcar Central by distributing thousands of leaflets through letter boxes . |
| 30 | At a corner table , three men and an ample woman in an apron played cards noisily , the slap of the cards punctuated by bursts of virtuoso coughing , that cavernous café cough which echoes up from the boots . |