Example sentences of "[noun pl] [to-vb] [noun sg] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over the next three years it will be helping and encouraging authorities to gather information about the needs and preferences of local carers , to use this information to work out plans for improving carer support , and to ensure that caring for carers becomes an integral component of mainstream community care services . |
| 2 | Alongside the organisational changes aiming to improve exchanges between Government , the science base , and industry , the industry departments , supported by the Department of Trade and Industry 's ( DTI 's ) Innovation Unit , intend to scale up their activities to promote awareness of the importance of innovation among senior managers in the business community . |
| 3 | The proposals to combat discrimination within the profession have not met with the support I would have hoped for . |
| 4 | By the late 1920s and the early 1930s , governments were encouraging employers to rationalize coal along the lines laid clown by the Samuel Commission , whereby small units would be incorporated into larger units and be closed , as in shipbuilding , cotton and other industries . |
| 5 | It also calls on the government to act on the relevant commitments it made at the UNCED summit [ see ED 59/60 ] , and on the major supermarket chains to provide information on the biodiversity of the foods they stock . |
| 6 | Coupled with attempts to provide compensation for the victims of crime , they represent an attractive package to a public deeply concerned with crime . |
| 7 | By eligible bills is meant any instrument which the Bank is prepared to buy as part of its money market operations to adjust liquidity in the banking system . |
| 8 | When the library opens in 1995/6 there will be 100,000 volumes accessible digitally , but there are also plans to provide access by the year 2000 to a wide range of multimedia resources from sound recordings , to moving pictures , to radio programmes , to television programmes , to still images ( Fresko 1993 ) . |
| 9 | ( In passing this is why how and why can function as interrogative adverbs to request identification of the means required to achieve some end or the reason for something . ) |
| 10 | De Luca , alleged to be a member of the BR , was wanted by the Italian authorities to stand trial for the murder of a DC senator Roberto Ruffilli in 1988 [ see p. 35989 ] . |
| 11 | He failed in three attempts to secure election to the Trades Union Congress 's parliamentary committee , but he represented the vellum binders at the foundation conference of the labour representation committee in February 1900 , and was elected to its executive . |
| 12 | ‘ So there will have to be some block contracts to provide predictability for the provider , ’ says Stephenson . |
| 13 | ‘ As chief executive of a large local authority , I employ solicitors to provide advice to the departments on many matters including child care , planning law , and negotiating with building contractors . |
| 14 | For those who have never been involved in the arts the exchange offers a wide range of opportunities to invest money with the aim of obtaining hard currency under a transfer deal system . |
| 15 | With China 's international reputation already badly tarnished by its bloody suppression of protesters in Tiananmen Square , the Nobel Committee decision focuses attention on the use of equally brutal , though largely ignored , methods to silence opposition in the Himalayas . |
| 16 | It had long been a tradition for Roman emperors to claim descent from the gods , and on that basis to claim godhood for themselves as well . |
| 17 | Their leader , Tran Van Giau , used extreme methods to enforce compliance from the people which probably went beyond the policy of Ho . |
| 18 | Heavy demands are placed on schools to find time in the curriculum for a wide range of individually worthwhile activities and difficult decisions have to be made about priorities . |
| 19 | The " Hallelujah lasses " had been used to raising their own voices in protest and employing some fairly dramatic methods to attract attention from the time Catherine Booth took up the cudgels on behalf of women in the early days of the movement . |
| 20 | The teachers appear to operate a very rigid model of the dual labour market and seem to make no effort to encourage their girl pupils to struggle against it ; on the contrary , they take positive steps to encourage passivity in the face of obstacles . |
| 21 | This in turn reinforced the vicious circle of foreign debt , exchange controls , administrative impediments to corporate planning and the reluctance of foreigners to increase investment in the country . |
| 22 | France wanted the extradition of six Libyans to stand trial for the bombing . |
| 23 | After press inquiries yesterday , lawyers , councils and lending agencies contacted Government offices to obtain clarification of the situation . |
| 24 | In taking steps to tighten control over the peasantry and the zemstvos , the government saw itself consolidating the alliance between State and nobility . |
| 25 | It bound the parties to observe neutrality in the event of war between one of them and a third state and to refrain from any kind of aggression against each other . |
| 26 | Instead , local authorities would be the ‘ gatekeeper ’ and would be able to choose to use such funds to provide care in the client 's own home , if that was a more satisfactory arrangement than residential care for the individual concerned . |
| 27 | Further steps to strengthen security in the region could , in his opinion , be determined by taking into account Soviet proposals on the abolition of weapons of mass destruction . |
| 28 | In 1950 the Court had held these ‘ declarations to constitute recognition by the Union of the continuance of the obligations under the Mandate and not a mere indication of future conduct of that government . ’ |
| 29 | This is partly due to the ability of pulses to fix nitrogen from the atmosphere , which feeds the rest of the mixture , and partly due to the little-understood symbiosis between ‘ companion plants ’ . |
| 30 | The exceptionally hot summer of 1989 resulted in wines of great richness and power , with plenty of ripe tannins to give longevity to the wine . |