Example sentences of "[to-vb] an [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | This being so , it was necessary to establish an appropriate merits test . |
| 2 | While failure to establish an effective Teachers ' Council supports the view that teaching can not be regarded as a profession , the establishment of such a Council would be fraught with administrative difficulties . |
| 3 | On May 28 four people were killed when a demonstration in Freetown by students in support of teachers ' demands was broken up by police after a police station had been stoned ; earlier a meeting attempting to establish an independent teachers ' union was also broken up by the authorities . |
| 4 | To circumvent an entrenched clergy and arouse the spirituality of those whose livings were so poor that they combined their priesthood with farming , shoemaking or fishing , he brought in ‘ lecturers ’ , unbeneficed clergy who provided a new preaching tradition , and organised sympathetic clergy into ‘ classes , or ‘ prophesyings ’ where the tenets of the new faith were discussed . |
| 5 | Teenager Barbara Sleeman made an explosive start when she decided to open an exclusive ladies ' golfwear company , ON THE GREENS . |
| 6 | Next month the Russian research Institute of Information Technologies and the firm ArgusSoft are due to open an Open Systems training centre equipped with Sun Microsystems Inc Sparcstations . |
| 7 | Next years competition brief is to design an energy-efficient ceramics factory producing heavy-duty decorative tiles for buildings . |
| 8 | ICI , the chemicals giant , is paying $193million ( £120million ) to buy an American explosives manufacturer . |
| 9 | Jack Jones himself remained poised , perhaps torn , between his traditional stance as a union negotiator committed to autonomy and his wider view of the need to recast an adversarial industrial-relations system . |
| 10 | Nance Frank , one who was dropped , tried to put an all women crew together but failed dismally . |
| 11 | Towards the end of the period the two parties began to produce competing plans to superimpose an earnings-related pensions scheme on top of the inadequate flat rate system . |
| 12 | At the UK 's IBM ‘ 93 Show in Birmingham last week , IBM UK Ltd became the first IBM company in Europe to publish an Open Options Catalogue of IBM and third party products available through mail order . |
| 13 | At the gates , frustration turns on the police , once again called on to enforce an industrial relations strategy . |
| 14 | As statutory services continue to implement an equal opportunities policy these matters will need sensitive handling by social services . |
| 15 | This brings me to the second part of this paper in which I wish to turn to some of the ‘ challenges ’ a UK government archivist faces in attempting to implement an archival records management programme in government . |
| 16 | Instructors were expected to attend an instructional techniques course since the skill to instruct well was every bit as important as the craft skill . |
| 17 | Research is now to be undertaken to determine an appropriate communications strategy for the Fund and this research will take place in 1993 . |
| 18 | Senior officials representing the five permanent members of the UN Security Council ( China , France , the Soviet Union , the United Kingdom and the United States ) which between them accounted for 85 per cent of international arms exports , agreed at a meeting in Paris on July 8-9 to establish a weapons-free zone in the Middle East and to endorse an international arms register [ see also p. 38321 ] . |
| 19 | Sadat and the Shah had become friends the previous year , after first quarrelling at an Islamic summit in Rabat , about the measures needed to protect an Islamic shrines under Israeli occupation . |
| 20 | All English law firms may shortly be obliged to adopt an Equal Opportunities policy , in line with a package of stipulations by their Law Society . |
| 21 | But even these programs are small-fry compared to the program that would have to be written to simulate an emerging arms race between predators and prey , embedded in a complete , counterfeit ecosystem . |
| 22 | Er in the nineteen seventies and eighties there was a long running campaign to get an equal rights amendment er which was sponsored largely by er women 's groups and er and er gay and lesbian groups er and they got almost there , they got two , I think two states short of getting a constitutional amendment and then something called Ronald Reagan happened and it all sort of fell apart . |
| 23 | It 's also telling people it was expecting to have an installed Windows 3.1 base of more than 8m systems at the end of ‘ 92 . |
| 24 | Royal College of Nursing spokesman Jamie Fleming said : ‘ The most important thing is for nurses to have an effective complaints procedure . |
| 25 | Thirdly , they would need , in some sense , to be rational to have an effective means-ends reasoning that told them how to implement each desired goal . |
| 26 | Well who needs it and why is it necessary to have an international women 's day and has there been any progress in the women 's movement . |
| 27 | That is why it is vital always to have an advocatus diaboli , another mind with you with which to argue , and another pair of eyes with which to observe , to ensure a constant dialogue . |
| 28 | The first occasion was in the early 1980s when it and the Stock Exchange spent three years trying to develop an automated settlements system for the gilts market before the Bank took over total responsibility for the project in 1985 to develop what has become the highly effective Central Gilts Office . |
| 29 | The aim was to encourage local authorities , schools and sports clubs to develop an after-school sports programme for young people . |
| 30 | I explained this as a consequence of two main motives : on one hand , the desire to show how gender inequality enters into everyday talk , and on the other hand , a desire to uncover an authentic women 's speech that can be positively valued . |