Example sentences of "to embark on [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The union movement is still new in the country , and members at Tsumeb and at mines in Kombat and Otjihase ( also run by TCL in Namibia ) , were the first to embark on a major strike when they walked out in July 1987 . |
| 2 | But it 's unlikely that the conservative party is likely , going to embark on a major distribution of wealth programme between now and the next election . |
| 3 | Eire is planning to use its forthcoming Presidency of the European Commission to press Britain to embark on a major upgrading of road and rail links between North Wales and the Channel Tunnel , and the Shadow Irish Transport Minister Gay Mitchell has gone as far as proposing an Irish Sea Tunnel to be constructed using Channel Tunnel equipment and an allegedly largely Irish Channel Tunnel workforce . |
| 4 | By the summer of 1322 Edward felt secure enough at home to embark on a final solution of the Scottish problem . |
| 5 | Each time he was about to embark on a new affair , he bought Jessica an expensive present — as if that made the whole thing right . |
| 6 | He was about to embark on a new life in New York with the most boring woman in Britain . |
| 7 | He was asked if he wanted to embark on a new life with a different identity . |
| 8 | Many people would balk at the thought of setting up a new business during a recession ; but to embark on a new accountancy partnership when half of it is about to have a baby would surely cause the strongest to flinch . |
| 9 | The company is also now expected to embark on a new round of lay-offs in addition to those already planned for , with the need for further provisions against its fourth quarter figures — despite still having $694m of the $1,100m reserves already taken that is not yet allocated . |
| 10 | Changing the subject quickly , I wondered how great an inspiration she had been to all those women out there in their 40s who lacked her drive to embark on a new career . |
| 11 | And further expansion is on the cards as Sainsbury plans to embark on a similar programme of store opening in future years . |
| 12 | He urged on me the need to embark on a full-sized book , and to send him a synopsis as soon as possible . |
| 13 | But such men were totally unwilling to embark on a diplomatic career by doing humdrum routine work or studying documents , and then rising step by slow step through a hierarchy of ranks . |
| 14 | I think candidates who are thinking of applying for entry in nineteen eighty-five , who are now say seventeen coming on eighteen , have got three or four years ahead of them at university , which is a considerable time , and if nothing else , university will make them question themselves , what their interests are , and they 'll introduce them to new subjects , new areas of study , and it may be a mistake to embark on a vocational course , and discover halfway through that actually it 's not what you want to do . |
| 15 | BELFAST Rock/Blues musician Brian Scott is about to embark on a European tour in support of his new album ‘ Deliverance ’ , which will include twelve Irish dates . |
| 16 | The former Prime Minister flew back from America on Thursday just in time to embark on a royal progress through London 's Tory drawing rooms . |
| 17 | Evangelical religion furnished Hopkins with a powerful rhetoric to arouse mass meetings and personally motivated her to embark on a public career exposing immorality . |
| 18 | Christopher was to embark on a painful programme of physiotherapy . |
| 19 | For heaven 's sake , she lectured herself despairingly , he was two-timing a fiancée back in England , and if last night 's incident had been any indication he was quite prepared to embark on a brief dalliance with her as well as Tara … |
| 20 | While there was no pressure from her family to embark on a structured career , there was considerable reluctance about allowing her to live on her own in London . |
| 21 | This led to involvement in a wide range of speculative projects throughout Europe , North America , and the West Indies , and the huge resources at his disposal enabled him to embark on a vigorous attempt to secure control over the affairs of the East India Company . |
| 22 | He bought some of EH Shepherd 's original sketches for The Wind in the Willows , and decided Mole had to be about to embark on a big adventure . |
| 23 | He and Joseph Hucks were to spend ‘ three or four days ’ in Oxford , and then to embark on a lengthy exploration of North Wales , the destination at that period of many travellers searching for the picturesque beauty praised by writers such as William Gilpin . |
| 24 | ‘ As you know only too well , ’ he wrote after leaving Broadlands on one occasion to embark on a six-month cruise , ‘ to me it has become a second home in so many ways , and no one could ever have had such a splendid honorary grandpapa in the history of avuncular relationships . ’ |
| 25 | Lewis was about to embark on a three-stranded career . |
| 26 | The best way to avoid this problem is to embark on a low-carbohydrate diet to reduce the numbers of Candida before starting the drug — if you have followed Steps 1–4 described above , then you should not experience this problem . |
| 27 | The response by government has — primarily — been to embark on a massive prison building programme , despite hopes of malting the Home Secretary 's ‘ twin-track ’ approach more of a reality . |
| 28 | A top-level decision to embark on a nuclear weapons programme … might well involve falsification of records and a good deal of covering up . |
| 29 | To rectify this and to make sure the Concert Halls can promote themselves as a fully-fledged venue , the board has decided to embark on the final refurbishment step . |
| 30 | X/Open Co Ltd is about to embark on the largest Xtra process ever : it expects to invite 50 to 75 user groups worldwide to participate , get 35 to 50 of them actually involved and circulate 10,000 multiple-choice questionnaires in six languages : English , French , German , Spanish , Chinese and Japanese ; it is now trying to figure out how to get feedback from the non-industrial nations ; results will probably appear in Rome in early December . |