Example sentences of "a [noun] [to-vb] [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We can juggle the hours around a bit to fit in with other things . ’ |
| 2 | Net income on the group 's £52.3 million of net cash grew from £2.4 million to £4.1 million , with the help of currency gains and a decision to lock in at fixed rates last July . |
| 3 | A secret postal ballot of parents then determines the fate of the school , and once a decision to opt out of local authority control has been taken it can not be reversed at a later date , although there is , of course , nothing to stop a new government introducing a legislation to repeal this provision . |
| 4 | A decision to go ahead with this approach to the formation of a company file was taken in January this year and the initial test files became available during April . |
| 5 | SHEARSON Lehman , the securities house , has sparked fears of a fresh wave of job cuts on Wall Street with a decision to make up to 800 employees redundant . |
| 6 | However , the DES has expressed a willingness to look sympathetically at limited transitional arrangements to help schools that enter the new system with serious inherited problems , such as buildings in a very poor state of repair . |
| 7 | I could have had a contract to compare favourably with any offered to anyone at the club . |
| 8 | Rent a jeep to get out onto small tracks which uncover some beautiful waterfalls and rock formations . |
| 9 | No longer did a sixth former of limited means need to win a scholarship to go on to higher education : admission secured a grant from the Local Authority . |
| 10 | I 'm not in a mood to fool around over this one , Johnny . ’ |
| 11 | The Dominican Republic was widely held to have undermined its own efforts to become a full member of CARICOM following the announcement in January 1990 of a plan to export up to 763 tonnes of bananas per week to Europe from April 1990 . |
| 12 | They 're holding an emergency meeting tonight to discuss a plan to build up to 2,000 homes there . |
| 13 | By doing so , reasoned the party 's elderly barons , the way would be clear for a baron to take over as prime minister come the party 's annual meeting in October ( four of the party 's five factional bosses were caught taking payoffs from Recruit ) . |
| 14 | MORTGAGE lenders sparked a storm yesterday by launching a campaign to crack down on crooked lawyers who run off with £20 million a year . |
| 15 | The Royal Society for Nature Conservation this week launched a campaign to crack down on so-called ‘ thirsty buildings ’ to make more water available for rivers and wetlands . |
| 16 | ‘ I just thought it was a shame to go inside on such a night as this , ’ he continued , ‘ so I persuaded Will to partake of my company for a while . ’ |
| 17 | Not only is there a failure to work together at local level , but central government also fails to provide the framework of legislation and subsidy that would enable housing and social services departments to address jointly the aspirations of disabled people . |
| 18 | People sometimes find that their housing requirements change and seek after a period to move on to different kinds of residence , particularly into flats of their own . |
| 19 | The equal opportunities/human rights lobby believes that people with special needs have a right to participate fully at all levels of education on a par with their peers who do not have special needs . |
| 20 | On short finals full flap is lowered , the speed is brought back to 75 kts and the propeller levers are moved into fully fine in case there is a need to go around for any reason . |
| 21 | He argued there was a need to go back to basic skills and more disciplined teaching , and announced that , within two years , schools inspection teams are to include non-educationists on each visit . |
| 22 | In practical terms , the audit process can be summarised as a sequence of stages ( Fig 13.4 ) although , like the SSM , these should be regarded as guidelines rather than prescriptive , as there may be a need to refer back to earlier activities and make adjustments as the audit progresses . |
| 23 | Abruptly she turned away from him and walked into the apartment 's lounge , not consciously knowing why she did so , but driven by a need to get away from this man and the harshness of his condemnation , which should n't matter to her , because he did n't matter , but which nevertheless called up a churning confusion of resentment and frustration , as well as a new , unnerving hurt . |
| 24 | These tendencies are at most tangentially in line with changes in concentration , suggesting a need to look elsewhere for causal factors . |
| 25 | Sometimes she thought that she and William both had a need to make up for those lost ten years . |
| 26 | For its trouble , Foothill received a warrant to purchase up to 300,000 shares of Ultimate common . |
| 27 | It is important not to be rushed into taking a test merely because of a request to do so by some other person or organisation . |
| 28 | Is the Fiction too slight a foundation to build on for some understanding of these intermediate years ? |
| 29 | It 's taken me quite a while to come up with this team and i 'm sure i 've missed some absolute wankers out , but here goes . |
| 30 | We have a portion to give away for each reader 's letter we print . |