Example sentences of "[noun pl] [to-vb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | DAREDEVIL blind pensioner Joe Collier ( 74 ) is making plans to perform a charity bungee jump at a secret location outside his home area to beat local councils which blocked his spectacular leap . |
| 2 | DAREDEVIL blind pensioner Joe Collier ( 74 ) is making plans to perform a charity bungee jump at a secret location outside his home area to beat local councils which blocked his spectacular leap . |
| 3 | That could reinstate plans to include a centrifuge . |
| 4 | The Town and Country Planning Association has been in the forefront of plans to promote a change in government policy on the North-South Divide . |
| 5 | These technical skills have to be allied , however , with social skills to enable an enforcement agent to predict the likely source of trouble . |
| 6 | Understandably there is reluctance within the authorities to diagnose a child under 5 as having a mental handicap , and there is a move to relax the criteria to include children with developmental delay amongst those eligible for funding . |
| 7 | Contrary to recent press reports , Neil Cooper of Robson Rhodes and liquidator of Bishopsgate Investment Management Ltd the Maxwell family controlled company which ran most of the pension funds — has no plans to issue a writ for negligence against Bishopsgate 's former auditors Coopers & Lybrand by Christmas . |
| 8 | He indicated that multiparty elections would be held in six months at the earliest , and appointed a commission of experts to draft a constitution , as well as an election law and an election timetable . |
| 9 | The question of economic benefits of science points to a concern with the character of the economy at the time and to the importance of considering the demise of the attempts to implement a science curriculum ‘ as practice ’ and the success of the science curriculum ‘ as fact ’ in the context of changes in Victorian capitalism . [ … ] |
| 10 | He 'd even made a series of phone calls to arrange a lift . |
| 11 | It will be appreciated that something less than the sanctity which attaches to completion in England exists in France … to resort to the courts to enforce a contract would be a rare and tediously long process and is hardly considered in textbooks as a remedy . |
| 12 | This time Wayans , a pleasing enough individual with a huge , flashing smile , attempts to carry a movie on his own . |
| 13 | The instances are the practice and the practice is the rule ; a rule is ‘ internally related ’ to its instances , and the sceptic 's attempts to plant a gap between them simply betray a misconception of what it is to follow a rule . |
| 14 | This teacher , therefore , was very pleased with the way the GCSE has broadened the scope of the subject to include critical studies as an integral part of the course , although he was critical of the failure of the examining groups to include an assessment objective to cover this aspect . |
| 15 | Burnley have beaten Britain 's biggest clubs to arrange a prestige home friendly with Ajax on Tuesday . |
| 16 | I suppose it came into my room for a few minutes to see a book I 'd been telling him about , then he left and I hit the sack . |
| 17 | NARAL is asking readers of the New York Times to see a loss of women 's rights as a loss of Americans ' rights , thus implying that this is a novel way to look at the matter . |
| 18 | The report called on the Government not to introduce laws forcing cyclists to wear a helmet and advised against encouraging cyclists to do so . |
| 19 | It has allowed employers to drive a wedge between workers making the members of thi the , the workforce a second class citizens within their , their own workplace . |
| 20 | It has also been observed that although these patients continue to experience chest pain , the knowledge that the oesophagus is the source of this reduces their perception of the disability and their requests to see a physician . |
| 21 | DUNES : To most people dunes are sandy hillocks to enjoy a stroll around but to golfers they are the enemy . |
| 22 | He said the authority had no plans to implement a merger programme , adding : ‘ The possibility has n't even been discussed . ’ |
| 23 | The failure to discharge his bankruptcy by 1802 compelled Koops 's creditors to issue a writ , inter alia , for seizure of the Straw Paper Manufactory 's assets . |
| 24 | The European Commission believes that it is of great importance for the completion of the internal market that a further protocol including the right of artists to claim an exhibition royalty be attached to the Berne Convention . |
| 25 | Attempts to light a fire in the glacial dining-room had to be abandoned when it smoked out the house . |
| 26 | Some demonstrators attempted to cross the border , prompting the Iranian authorities to issue a protest to the Soviet Union . |
| 27 | In July 1980 , AMES staged its first public demonstration , when the El Calvario church was occupied for a few hours to demand a reduction in the price of basic food stuffs . |
| 28 | The close relation between acid and duodenal ulceration was recognised in the early part of this century , and until recently , attempts to provide a cure for peptic ulcer disease have focused almost exclusively on the development of drugs and surgical procedures that inhibit or abolish gastric secretion , even though contemporary findings show that only 20–50% of DU patients actually secrete excessive amounts of acid . |
| 29 | This is a relic of the attempts to provide an income for the voluntary hospitals in the 1930's . |
| 30 | The research attempts to provide an answer to this question by means of a blanket survey of all manufacturing establishments in the industry with a follow-up in depth interview survey of selected case studies . |