Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The theatre has cancelled a string of performances and workshops while it finds the money to carry out vital repair work .
2 Plans to carry out similar programmes in other resorts will depend on the success of the first two schemes .
3 The committee will be broken down into four district working groups covering Hartlepool , North Tees , Middlesbrough and Langbaurgh , as well as task groups to carry out specific functions .
4 At Level One students will work together in small groups to carry out small scale investigations into aspects of life in the local area .
5 The strategy unit has marshalled the efforts of several Australian research groups to carry out new analyses on socioeconomic factors .
6 If , however , you are cynical enough to believe that the shelf-life of a tax efficient investment is inversely proportional to the number of national press articles highlighting its advantages , then you will not expect these rules to remain as generous as this forever .
7 Historic Scotland commissioned Glasgow University Archaeological Research Division to carry out investigative work in advance of the installation of an improved heating system at the cathedral .
8 But he has changed his accent to sound less posh .
9 It is not always possible to give adequate thought to the future when caught up in the day-to-day running of an operation , but if you live the business , as Sir Hector unashamedly does , there are always less hectic times to mull over major issues .
10 One of the main factors underpinning the share price was an anticipated shortage of water shares , because of the decision to scale down overseas allocations to increase the public offer from 23.5 to nearly 30 per cent of the offer .
11 There have also been attempts to promote more humane-looking alternatives such as restitution and reconciliation ( for example , Wright , 1982 ) .
12 Current attempts to promote more energetic competition and entrepreneurial risk swim against the dominant tide of upper-class values , which continue to be reproduced .
13 District nurses have always had the skills to treat acutely ill patients , but have not had nurses or aides under them .
14 Above all , research of the kind described above is informative and helpful in some ways as a tool for looking with some objectivity at children 's writing ; but it does not isolate areas of difficulty or suggest teaching strategies to promote more effective writing .
15 The Henley Research Centre acts as a focus for research at Henley and offers both organisations and individual managers the opportunity to carry out interdisciplinary research into issues of strategic importance .
16 Henley offers both organisations and individual managers the opportunity to carry out interdisciplinary research into issues of strategic importance .
17 Dalton proposed to introduce a Bill to give financial help to local authorities to carry out major town expansion in their own areas to relieve overcrowding in the areas of other authorities .
18 She urged health authorities to carry out urgent research into the problem .
19 Councillors were flown to France to see a PWR in operation , to Torness to see how luxurious the workers , accommodation could be — an attraction to keep them on site and out of trouble .
20 This network will provide high speed , high band width information transfer which will enable the University to carry out leading edge research particularly in areas requiring the use of visualization techniques and rapid access to data banks .
21 There is also evidence of similar disparities in the sentencing practices of comparable Crown Courts in different parts of the country , though attempts to conduct more rigorous investigations of the kind described above have so far been met with judicial opposition and refusal to cooperate ( see Ashworth , 1994 ) .
22 It is only necessary to reverse the meaning of the sentence to realize how difficult it would have been for Baldwin to have given a negative answer .
23 He looked anything but gratified , and she could only marvel at Araminta 's inability to see how unwelcome was the good fortune that had come to him .
24 Now , they say they are going ahead with plans to go over High Force later this year .
25 Charles thoroughly enjoyed the experience and it was a rare opportunity to see how ordinary people lived .
26 A readily visible chart gives children the opportunity to see how good they have been .
27 It is useful for these trials to cover quite a wide range of classes to test the reaction of different groups of children and also to give the teacher and observers the opportunity to see how effective their use of the unit becomes with experience .
28 It would give me a chance to see your wrist plaster has dried correctly and give our students a rare opportunity to see how fit and active a lady of your age can be . ’
29 This fact meant that Danzigers had far more opportunity to mull over Nazi propaganda and assess for themselves the extent of the Polish , Communist and Jewish ‘ threats ’ .
30 The list includes the need for purpose , love , forgiveness , hope and strength , trust , personal belief and values and the freedom to carry out spiritual practices .
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