Example sentences of "[noun pl] [to-vb] a [adj] [noun pl] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Furthermore , in the case of the Netherlands , von Beyme ( 1980 ) sees the tendency towards decentralisation in the early 1970s as a reaction to the failure of attempts to promote a central incomes policy — which had been pursued more strongly than in other countries . |
| 2 | The 24-year-old Great Britain tourist , who was sidelined earlier this season for nine weeks with a troublesome hamstring injury , grabbed 12 points with a try and three goals to halt a gallant Rovers performance . |
| 3 | The determination of the two superpowers to reduce their huge military budgets and the upheavals in Eastern Europe towards the end of 1989 translated themselves into special efforts to conclude a conventional weapons treaty ( see Bush 's NATO summit plan for a CFE agreement p. 36642-44 ) . |
| 4 | Although efforts to form a joint sports team dated back to 1963 — when the two countries discussed the possibility of joint participation in the 1964 Olympic Games — no consensus had ever been achieved . |
| 5 | The aim was to encourage local authorities , schools and sports clubs to develop an after-school sports programme for young people . |
| 6 | In addition , General Honours courses are offered , in which students can combine study of biology with another subject to an advanced level , or can combine biological courses to make a joint honours degree . |
| 7 | Royal College of Nursing spokesman Jamie Fleming said : ‘ The most important thing is for nurses to have an effective complaints procedure . |
| 8 | We had developed this principle by joining lumps of plastic explosive together with some machine gun cartridges to make a simple anti-personnel charge . |