Example sentences of "[noun pl] [to-vb] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The council sill be an ‘ umbrella organisation ’ to provide an infrastructure for other groups to monitor forest management , and the FSC will be promoting the standards through a Forest Stewardship Charter . |
| 2 | In 1918 she became the chief woman officer of the Labour party , in which role she was particularly active in pressing for improved working-class housing estates to include community centres with nurseries , restaurants , libraries , concert halls , and home-help services , all of which she saw as not merely desirable in themselves but essential for the emancipation of working-class housewives . |
| 3 | Acts to enable river navigations to be improved , necessary because the building of locks , new cuts or dredging often affected the interests of local landowners , farmers and especially millers , went back as far as the sixteenth century but were consolidated in a veritable spate of river improvement after the Restoration . |
| 4 | This Convention attempts to harmonise data protection legislation among the signatory states to remove the need for restrictions on the free flow of data between states on the grounds that personal data is not protected . |
| 5 | The commitment , enthusiasm and dedication of business owners , allied to the power of a major , well-known brand name , is a powerful combination that has enabled individual franchisees to enjoy business satisfaction and reward , and franchiser companies to grow more rapidly , as Burger King explain . |
| 6 | The promise of immunotherapeutic strategies to combat HIV infection was one strong and clear message to emerge from Berlin . |
| 7 | It is increasingly common for contracts to include definition clauses . |
| 8 | Recently we changed the rules to include TV people . ’ |
| 9 | It says nationally the worst is over but the improvement in the market is almost undetectable … it wants the Government to rethink its plans to reintroduce stamp duty on all property next month . |
| 10 | President Clinton 's plans to bolster US industry — particularly the high tech sector , begin to look disturbingly corporatist , and the chief executive of the Baby Bells ' Bell Communications Research , George Heilmeier , seems to feel the same way : he told Reuter that the government should certainly spur industry to construct a national information highway but it should not build it itself : ‘ I do n't think the public sector should operate or control networks that are commercial , ’ he said , ‘ I am not in favour of the government building the national information infrastructure . ’ |
| 11 | SNOW , high winds and bitter disagreement yesterday further hampered attempts to tame Mount Etna , which is threatening to overrun the Sicilian town of Zafferana with millions of tons of volcanic lava . |
| 12 | Plans to continue music studies at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama next year . |
| 13 | Plans to lease timber rights from indigenous peoples for extremely low prices were also criticised . |
| 14 | The public conflicts of recent years have involved confrontations between different political ideologies : the resistance from the Clay Cross Urban District to the Conservative Housing Finance Act ; the rejection by Merthyr County Borough of the Conservatives ' withdrawal of free milk for schoolchildren ; the resistance of a number of Conservative education authorities to the Labour commitment to the introduction of comprehensive secondary education ; the resistance of Labour local authorities to the Conservative government 's legislation on the sale of council houses ; and the forms of creative accounting developed in the mid-1980s by some local authorities to evade expenditure restraints . |
| 15 | A videotape made by the JNA had been broadcast on Jan. 25 , purporting to show Spegelj at a private meeting boasting about Croatian arms purchases from Hungary , and discussing plans to kill JNA officers . |
| 16 | From a public health viewpoint , it is more useful to monitor HIV infection ( because of the long AIDS incubation period ) and to analyse , for example , transmission in newly infected cases to implement control measures . |
| 17 | Attempts to implement ceasefire arrangements and peace talks |
| 18 | Leaders of major political parties and organizations met in New Delhi on Nov. 23 under the auspices of the National Integration Council [ see p. 38866 ] and gave their backing to the government 's attempts to implement court orders barring construction at the disputed Babri mosque site in Ayodhya , Uttar Pradesh , where Hindu militants planned to build a Hindu temple [ see pp. 38532 ; 38682 ; 39008 ] . |
| 19 | As the electoral process has lumbered into action , much attention has been paid to Bill Clinton 's alleged sexual dalliances and his attempts to evade war service in Vietnam . |
| 20 | If crowned champion , Lewis has long-term plans to accommodate Mike Tyson — ‘ once he 's out of jail ’ — and to give Frank Bruno a title tilt in Britain 's fight of the century . |
| 21 | Goldsmith ( 1986 , p. xv ) observes that concern with legislation as a means of controlling central-local government relations and the parallel use of the courts to enforce government intentions has been a feature of post-1979 Conservative governments . |
| 22 | Among proposals to combat noise pollution are alterations to road surfaces , reductions in aircraft and vehicle noise , controls over burgular and car alarms , better sound insulation in buildings and a " quiet neighbourhood " scheme are proposals to be examined to combat noise pollution . |
| 23 | Selecting which leadership groups to include poses problems . |
| 24 | Law : A bad system for tackling hackers : Proposals to curb computer crime may have the opposite effect , argues Mary Fagan |
| 25 | this is a new United though … they 've a bit more go … bit more steel in their boots … and with just three minutes to go Alex Dyer gave them victory … what a win 3-2 three cheers for Oxford … |
| 26 | but the cup does n't run like that … and with fifteen minutes to go Bath sub Paul Batty who wortks in a swindon sportshop during the week hit the headlines and the back of the net with the winner … so he 's the only local player with something to celebrate from the weekend … |
| 27 | Five minutes to go Leicester City one Nottingham Forest nil . |
| 28 | Thistle play for time with 900 minutes to go Partick Thistle 1 St Johnstone 1 |
| 29 | Belgium is to impose a tax on beer , soft drink and mineral water containers by the end of 1993 as part of plans to curb packaging waste . |
| 30 | CANBERRA ( Reuter ) — Australia 's conservative opposition , led by Andrew Peacock , announced plans to curb trade unions , sell state assets and cut taxes , with a view to the general election a year ahead . |