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

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1 Dr James Tiedje and Dr Stephen Boyd at Michigan State University , are awaiting final approval of a grant to support further research of a startling and previously unknown anaerobic organism , which they found in sludge from a Michigan sewage treatment plant and in lake sediments .
2 Appealing to employers to make special provision to enable older people to continue or , indeed , return to employment , the Ministry offered the help of its industrial rehabilitation units in cases where lack of confidence and low morale were obstacles to the re-employment of older people .
3 After the decision to suspend further negotiations on the return of exiled President Jean-Bertrand Aristide [ see p. 38716 ] , the Haitian Senate voted on Feb. 13 to resume talks under the auspices of the Organization of American States ( OAS ) .
4 that a delegation of ACTS officers and Staff Council reps meet with Michael Taylor and Alastair Hanton to convey the anger and disappointment of their members and their willingness to continue further action if necessary in order to reverse the decision .
5 A full report was published to all who attended and from this 11 employers expressed a willingness to attend further meetings and become involved actively in an education business partnership with Hinde House School .
6 This was the only division to report lower profits too .
7 In complex learning such as problem-solving , it can mean having the opportunity to perform further activities within a particular class of problems .
8 Commented NAPF : ‘ It seemed to represent the pinnacle of a well thought out programme of communication between the scheme and the members , providing plenty of notice of change and the opportunity to request further information .
9 Students from overseas countries should contact Student Services upon arrival at the University to obtain further information on National Health Service reciprocal agreements .
10 Students from overseas countries should contact Student Services upon arrival at the University to obtain further information on National Health Service reciprocal agreements .
11 As a purely mechanical filter , packed mainly with filter floss to extract larger particles of detritus and act as a prefilter for reverse-flow systems and trickle filters .
12 The unanimous decision was intended to signal the Council 's willingness to establish closer relations with those East European countries embarking on political reforms .
13 The marriage ended when her husband gave up the struggle to find better ways of communicating with her .
14 A willingness to accept greater liability under a contract in return for payment of a higher price may make it more likely that an exclusion or limitation of liability will satisfy the test of reasonableness ( Woodman v Photo Trade Processing Ltd ( 1981 ) , unreported ; see Lawson , Exclusion Clauses p174 ) ; however , the fact that the client has a second set of terms of business , containing less restrictive terms , may be taken as recognition that the more stringent terms are unreasonable .
15 ‘ Its effectiveness in the delivery of health care depends upon each nurse and upon the nurse 's competence and willingness to accept greater responsibility and accountability for decisions . ’
16 The Enterprise Centre 's role is to act as a catalyst to encourage further development of live project work so that an increasing number of students get an opportunity to tackle this special combination of project work and contact with industry and to co-ordinate the evaluation of the ‘ Live Projects ’ scheme .
17 Nigel Griffiths has tabled a bill in Parliament to provide greater regulation of travel companies but that 's of little comfort to Michael Cratchley from Banbury who lost his holiday with SFV .
18 We are also focusing on exploration projects which will give us the opportunity to find larger oil and gas deposits at lower costs .
19 These ‘ speech levels ’ are also used as a polite framework to communicate further subtleties of meaning .
20 A common theme of urban redevelopment in both the USA and UK is that of leverage , or the use of small amounts of public funding to attract larger sums of private investment .
21 ( A programme to promote healthier lifestyles , supported by the Department of Health , the Health Education Authority and the National Health Service )
22 Sixteen companies in the Grampian Region were visited by the fitness analysts as part of a programme to promote better health in the workplace .
23 equation to induce better performance then we should look to the reward system .
24 LASMO North Sea will discover in May if its latest bid to secure further exploration rights in UK waters has been successful .
25 The attempt to impose stricter limits on arms exports followed criticism at the time of the Gulf War of German weapons sales to Iraq over a long period [ see pp. 37639 ; 37471 ; 36498 ] .
26 The decision to cancel the summer sale is a major disappointment for BML : after the failure of the trade to support the 1992 winter sale , it reduced the bookseller licence fee from £40 to £10 in an attempt to encourage greater participation .
27 The announcement was the chess federation 's response to the decision by Kasparov and Short to stage their final outside FIDE 's auspices in an attempt to attract higher prize money and give players more control over professional chess .
28 It was an unfortunate choice of phrase when memories are still fresh of the summer of discontent when workers staged sit-downs on some platforms in an attempt to secure better conditions .
29 On becoming choirmaster at south Hackney parish church ( 1872–5 ) Hunt gathered the support of leading organists in London and in 1872 set up an independent institution to provide better training for church musicians .
30 Demand for his services exceeded his capacity to meet the many requests and in the second year of the scheme he acquired a car to provide greater mobility .
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