Example sentences of "[noun pl] [to-vb] the [noun prp] " in BNC.

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1 The year also saw a fair number of attempts to stimulate the UK market — introductory offers of 50% discount ( OUP ) , money-off vouchers ( LTP ) and extra discount ( CUP ) .
2 Are there any plans to re-badge the Yorkshire Volunteers ?
3 United had four cleared off the line … hit the bar twice but it took a hand ball and a penalty from Jim Magilton to get them back into the game … with ten minutes to go the Manor was celebrating an equaliser from Joey Beauchamp and surely they could see the second division side off … but after extra time it was still two all and now down to penalties … the crunch came when Chrissy Allen 's kick was saved … and Swansea 's Keith Walker scored to make it five four to the second division side on penalties …
4 Now , as the capital returns to Berlin , there are plans to restore the Reichstag and use it as the new German parliament .
5 It could be years before plans to restore the River Misbourne ever come to light .
6 If you venture past the crowds to see the Poussins , you find yourself alone with a collection which is as lamentably hung as ever .
7 In the Conservative manifesto 's section on Women and Opportunity there are cringing pledges to implement the EC Directive on ‘ pregnant workers ’ , expand childcare facilities , maintain child benefit and generally encourage more women to work .
8 Though one can not claim for Green the sublimity of Turner , the clarity of Cotman or the magnificence of Constable , he was one of the most faithful topographical artists to paint the Lake District .
9 Go north-east through the woods to meet the Corfe-Studland road .
10 These responses showed that there was a wide range of existing provision and that the proposals to meet the Haycocks recommendations also varied considerably .
11 The X-CS association that results would then interfere with subsequent attempts to establish the CS-US association .
12 At the 1935 ILP Annual Conference unofficial groups were declared bad in principle though previous attempts to disband the RPC had been defeated .
13 The Scheme had already taken steps in this direction for new employees but had no plans to equalize the NRAs of existing members .
14 Until the 1860s or 1870s the natural increase in the local population was sufficient to fill the vacancies in the pits , but then the sinking of deep mines to work the Silkstone and Barnsley seams on a vast new scale increased the demand for labour to such an extent that immigrants poured in from Staffordshire , Lancashire , Cheshire , other parts of Yorkshire and elsewhere .
15 For these reasons , SCOTVEC embarked upon several major projects to write the HN Unit Specifications for .
16 Attempts to rewrite the Lord 's Prayer and the whole of Christian theology are now being seriously considered .
17 Will he assure the House that the necessary funds to enable the TECs to undertake the additional responsibilities that he announced will be provided for those excellent bodies ?
18 However , Mr Everett said , it had taken two months to obtain the Giro for Emma .
19 No date had been set for pesticides to meet the MACs in Severn Trent .
20 ‘ We later found out that the university had hired ten people in New York to raise funds to re-build the Beirut campus .
21 International haircutter Terence Renati has teamed up with Japanese craftsmen to create the Terence Renati Scissor .
22 This included bringing in ex-L.C.C. cars to replace the Felthams as they were moved to Leeds .
23 There is a shortlist of four candidates to buy the UK government 's private telephone network , the Evening Standard reports : the paper says the contenders are British Telecommunications Plc , Mercury Communications Ltd , Sprint International Inc and OTC Australia — but not all have decided to bid .
24 Sir Edmund Hillary has spent much of his life , and a great deal of the determination that took him to the top of Everest , raising funds to help the Sherpa People of the Nepalese Himalaya .
25 In October , the left-of-centre Partido Intransigente ( PI — Intransigent Party , Oscar Alende and Lisandro Viale ls. ) and the Partido Demócrata Cristiano ( PDC — Christian Democrat Party , Elio Silveira l. ) withdrew from the Frente Justicialista de Unidad Popular ( FREJUPO — United Popular Justicialist Front ) , the electoral coalition formed by the Peronists to contest the May 1989 presidential elections [ see p. 36651 ] , over criticisms of the government 's economic policies .
26 Other media could be used in place of the ceramic sponges and Hex-Nodes if required ( though I 'm sure Hagen would n't recommend this ) , but all other media sections come in standard units to fit the Bio Life .
27 The September merger of four Tuareg organizations to form the Azaouad Liberation Front under the leadership of Brahim Lidmi was noted .
28 During the 1800s several US private banks established branches in Europe to finance trade and participate in the overseas marketing of US bonds , the latter being issued to raise funds to finance the USA 's economic development .
29 Now Sir John has got together with all the local traders to form The Ross Initiative , an action group to pull the town out of the doldrums .
30 Articles of government made under the 1986 Act gave control of the secular curriculum to governors of aided schools and required the governing bodies of other maintained schools to study the LEA curriculum statement and consider how it might be modified to meet the needs of their schools .
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