Example sentences of "[noun pl] [to-vb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kirov took only a few more minutes to search the small studio from top to bottom . |
| 2 | Although Kanemaru had been personally grooming Ichiro Ozawa as his successor , the circumstances of his retirement allowed Ozawa 's opponents to mount an effective campaign against his succession . |
| 3 | It is often complained of by many that a meeting will take five minutes to agree the expenditure of ten million and two hours to debate a minor item worth only a few thousand . |
| 4 | The Department has plans to promote a wide range of activities for the community as a whole and to work closely with other bodies in the field to ensure the fullest use of resources . |
| 5 | ‘ Sir David English was not informed of the visit and in consequence had no plans to attend the Ideal Home Exhibition that day , ’ the official statement announced . |
| 6 | Using some scraps of board , it is worth experimenting with exposure times to optimise the UV time period . |
| 7 | However , not all the locals approve of the plans to demolish the Regal . |
| 8 | The private sector would remain separate and the public would have the right to be covered by it if they wished — having first paid their taxes to support the general service . |
| 9 | The ideal is to have several simply-administered taxes to support the national exchequer , levied after people have earned their pay or income . |
| 10 | The Cuban decision raised immediate fears in the USA that the 1980 officially sanctioned exodus of 125,000 Cubans [ see pp. 30474-75 ] might be repeated , and there were reports that the US navy was reviewing contingency plans to mount a naval blockade . |
| 11 | The ( unnamed ) organization responsible for the conspiracy was said to be directed by a committee of 75 members , and there were also allegations of plans to mount a money-laundering operation . |
| 12 | Drains to carry the dirty water underground to the main sewer , septic tank or cesspool . |
| 13 | The unit 's findings are based on a variety of factors such as : *more travel is likely to be for leisure purposes , with people taking greater advantage of greater access to the countryside *there simply is n't enough space in the cities to accommodate the predicted number of privately owned cars . |
| 14 | Although the confusion of shifts in allegiance within the various loyalist groupings made it difficult for contemporaries to see the underlying direction of change , with hindsight we can see a simplification of unionist politics . |
| 15 | The classic case is the famous opening scene of Le bourgeois gentilhomme , in which a hopelessly inept student , singing soprano , attempts to perform a languorous love song . |
| 16 | In this study for the Employment Department , Peck and Stone provide some very interesting evidence on employers ' attempts to embrace the new industrial relations . |
| 17 | In the 1991 Employee Report , we outlined our plans to penetrate the Middle East market . |
| 18 | Market traders were put out when it was announced they would be losing their pitches to accommodate the big top . |
| 19 | From early on , Hollywood used British stories and lured British actors , later also directors and technicians , across the Atlantic , while making a mint out of British cinemagoers and developing strategies to drive the local product off the nation 's screens . |
| 20 | persistent Soviet attempts to penetrate the Latin American market with its machinery and equipment indicate a distinct reluctance to acquiesce in the continuance of the existing trading imbalance . |
| 21 | The port principally connected with this was Bristol , and it may have been the existence of surplus tonnage that led its seamen to turn their attention to new ventures in the fifteenth century , including both attempts to penetrate the Mediterranean trade and the later voyages into the Atlantic . |
| 22 | He backed the plans to support the uneconomic farms and asked : ‘ Do we really need to compress the traditions and vitality of rural life and culture into the straitjacket of an industry like any other ? ’ |
| 23 | They may also partly explain the limited success of attempts to induce a full programme of T-cell development using either monolayer cultures of a single thymic stromal cell type , or cocktails of cytokines . |
| 24 | However , creditors or other claimants whose attempts to sue a subsidiary go unsatisfied remain unlikely to be able to probe behind the separate legal personality of the companies to challenge the parent . |
| 25 | Mr Thomas wished his sons to enjoy the best education he could provide , partly as a means of fulfilling their intellectual potential , but even more as a necessary upward step on the social-economic scale . |
| 26 | To protect the black child we need to develop strategies to enable the white family to become open so that there can be reciprocity between white and black society . |
| 27 | Registered foreign lawyers are not permitted to carry out activities reserved to solicitors , but MNPs may employ assistant solicitors to perform the full range of solicitors ' services for clients of the practice . |
| 28 | Furthermore , in the case of the Netherlands , von Beyme ( 1980 ) sees the tendency towards decentralisation in the early 1970s as a reaction to the failure of attempts to promote a central incomes policy — which had been pursued more strongly than in other countries . |
| 29 | THE Italian computer-maker , Olivetti , yesterday in Ivrea revealed that its losses for 1992 had jumped by 40 per cent and that it would ask shareholders to invest a further 900 billion lire ( £392 million ) through a capital increase . |
| 30 | Tom Shakeshaft , who is 15 , reveals his dismay at plans to drive a dual carriageway right through the beautiful piece of countryside where he lives . |