Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two scrutinies , in particular , were crucially important : the first in 1979 led to the decision to implement a management information system for ministers ( MINIS ) in the Department of the Environment ( DOE ) . |
| 2 | On 8 October , the Swedish government seems to have side- stepped its own strict wolf protection laws by pressuring the National Environmental Protection Board to issue a licence for her to be taken into captivity . |
| 3 | Information retrieval ( IR ) systems attempt to allow the user to input a query and extract the relevant text from a corpus of documents . |
| 4 | Had that been so , it would not have been necessary for his contract to include a statement that , ‘ the Company will bear the entire cost of servicing , repairing , maintaining , taxing and insuring the said motor car ’ . |
| 5 | These shears are not generally available to the public , so take this opportunity to acquire a pair now . |
| 6 | Employees should be given every opportunity to acquire a stake in the business for which they work . |
| 7 | The agency has applied to the Scottish Office for permission to erect a barrier across the mouth of the dock which is used by local fishermen to unload their catches and berth their boats . |
| 8 | It is said that the vicar fell out with the church when , some years after his children 's deaths , he was denied permission to erect a monument in the churchyard . |
| 9 | This illustrates the vital importance of prompt and detailed investigation to establish the FACTS in each case to enable a decision to be made . |
| 10 | Nevertheless , quite apart from their value as a temporary measure to kick-start a move to overcome corporate cultural stereotypes , it was argued convincingly that at an operational level they worked as a performance standard on managers , making them work harder to find , encourage and develop female high-fliers . |
| 11 | North Yorkshire County Council is being urged to restore its funding to support a bus service to Murton near York , the home of the Yorkshire Museum of Farming . |
| 12 | In other parts , a sea wall would be built at a suitable inlet to enclose a mill-pond . |
| 13 | I have been lucky to secure European Community funding to attend a conference on the proposed EC Coastal Directive , being run by the European Environmental Bureau in Copenhagen over the 1st and 2nd of May . |
| 14 | He wore a cap on his head ( 'I even capitalized on my semi-baldness by signing with Parmalat to wear a cap with their name on it' ) and my memory is of a certain artificial constraint on the part of many in paddock and pit-lane in approaching him . |
| 15 | The train had been forced to brake hard at a level crossing to miss a taxi and one of the wheels had been damaged . |
| 16 | It was disappointing that the Scottish Office refused an application for an Urban Aid grant to support a package of initiatives for Greater Pilton . |
| 17 | Majella Carroll spent eight hours walking through hills and dales in Wales to raise money to support a workshop for people with mental disorders . |
| 18 | Therefore s 1(1) was contravened when , as happened in the present case , a person caused a computer to perform a function with intent to secure unauthorised access to any program or data held in the same computer . |
| 19 | Held , that , in the opinion of the court , in section 1(1) ( a ) of the Act of 1990 the words ‘ causes a computer to perform any function with intent to secure access to any program or data held in any computer , ’ in their plain and ordinary meaning , were not confined to the use of one computer with intent to secure access into another computer ; so that section 1(1) was contravened where a person caused a computer to perform a function with intent to secure unauthorised access to any program or data held in the same computer ( post , pp. 437A–B , C–D , 438A , E–F ) . |
| 20 | It 's marvellous that the Brighton Corporation came in , but nevertheless the building to perform a function which is going to be useful for the community as a whole has got to be properly funded . |
| 21 | THE Amateur Boxing Association has received a boost following the Sports Council 's decision to restore a grant worth more than £100,000 . |
| 22 | While her letter galvanized sixty Members of Parliament to draft a motion ‘ deploring the manner in which Lady Diana Spencer is being treated by the media ’ and led to a meeting between editors and the Press Council , the siege of Coleherne Court continued . |
| 23 | Asked if at that stage no decision to issue a warning had been reached , again Mr Runciman replied : ‘ I am afraid that is not so . ’ |
| 24 | The banker 's decision to issue a credit nowadays is rarely based upon the availability of a ‘ clean , on board , negotiable ’ ocean bill covering the shipment of a readily marketable commodity . |
| 25 | In holding that the decision to issue a warrant was not ‘ so outrageous in its defiance of logic ’ , Taylor J. said : |
| 26 | The consequences of the revolution were ramified , and the outcome rarely depended on Qaddafi 's decision to issue a decree , or on a cadre 's negotiations with a shaikh over its implementation . |
| 27 | ‘ But I believe a senior officer should make the decision to issue a weapon only after investigating both the seriousness of any threat and also the personal circumstances of the person concerned . |
| 28 | Must have a bit of money to drive a car , and that great leather handbag had cost something , he should n't wonder . |
| 29 | The section enables a licensing board to suspend a licence on the ground that the licence-holder is no longer a fit and proper person , or that the premises cause undue public nuisance or are a threat to public order or safety ( subs . |
| 30 | A board can only refuse a provisional grant for the reasons specified in 5.17(2) , and there is a right of appeal against such a refusal to the sheriff in virtue of s.17(4) , and also against the refusal of a board to affirm a licence under subs . |