Example sentences of "forward a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1990/91 we carried forward a substantial reserve which allowed us to meet greater than expected demands . |
| 2 | When both the Minister for Justice , General McEoin , and the Attorney General , Mr Charles Casey , made it clear that they considered the legislation inopportune , pressure for an explanation eventually brought forward a response from Mr Casey . |
| 3 | Each party puts forward a list of candidates for election in multi-member constituencies , which can often be geographically very large : Rome , for example , has 53 MPs . |
| 4 | One minute they were pushing forward a couple of tentative singles on their own label ( The Far Out Recording Company ) , the next they were being pressganged by Polydor and trailed across the press following the release of their debut album , The Eight Legged Groove Machine . |
| 5 | Those who support the Public Service Ideal could accept the combination of a polyarchic press putting forward a multitude of rival viewpoints and an impartial , balanced broadcasting monopoly . |
| 6 | as if reading her thoughts the Minister leaned forward a little . |
| 7 | The latest letter from Dumenil managers refers to their ‘ intention ’ of putting forward a ‘ proposal ’ to allow unit holders to realise their units . |
| 8 | The latest letter from Dumenil managers refers to their ‘ intention ’ of putting forward a ‘ proposal ’ to allow unit holders to realise their units . |
| 9 | The event has been brought forward a year from 1991 and moved also from France to West Germany . |
| 10 | His colleague , Lord Beloff , asked why the Government had brought forward a bill without support in either House for a scheme the vice-chancellors had repeatedly told them was impossible . |
| 11 | Defence is now allowed to carry forward a percentage of its vote into the next financial year . |
| 12 | Lloyd 's has put forward a constructive plan ; it must not be allowed to flounder on rate . |
| 13 | When we say that what we see is a mile away , we must mean that were we to move forward a mile , we would be ‘ affected with such and such ideas of touch ’ ; and so Berkeley concludes that the things we see are not the same as those we touch . |
| 14 | Though fascist candidates put forward a strong campaign in the London County Council elections of March 1937 , their six candidates for the three two-member divisions of Bethnal Green North East , Shoreditch and Limehouse were defeated and they received less than 20 per cent of the vote . |
| 15 | The large woman with the flashy rings simply tipped her catalogue forward a fraction of an inch . |
| 16 | Now they have brought forward a plan which is that they should lend me sufficient money to rent another house in which Mr Landor is to have the first floor , comprising three rooms , a book closet , and a terrace , and I am to reside on the ground floor and care for him receiving £30 a year for my trouble . |
| 17 | It picked its way forward a couple of mincing steps , dragging behind it what looked like a gigantic bunch of dried up old herbs . |
| 18 | Full-back Mark Mapletoft contributed 17 points , including a try , with other touchdowns from winger Eddie Saunders , No 8 Mark Charles and a penalty try after David Pears was adjudged to have deliberately knocked forward a pass . |
| 19 | The prosecution need only prove that the physical action took place , and after that the defendant is expected to put forward a good reason or excuse for his action to escape conviction . |
| 20 | He pushes forward a pointless bishop 's pawn . |
| 21 | He promised to forward a specimen when it was dry but went on to say ‘ the flowers are so small as not to be discerned , by my eyes , without a glass ’ . |
| 22 | The flush pipes from high-level cisterns need less room than the low-level types , and the extension pipe at the back of the loo told me it had been moved forward a few inches . |
| 23 | We will carry forward a family support initiative , encouraging the voluntary sector to work in partnership with families and local authorities . |
| 24 | put forward a scheme to lay a new spur from the Barrow Hill to Seymour line just north of Staveley Town . |
| 25 | We will then forward a Holiday Details form to your travel agent , verifying details of the booking . |
| 26 | Lawrence Stone has put forward a highly influential argument that the eighteenth century saw the rise of the companionate marriage , and that affection between husband and wife was for the first time widely judged as important as economic considerations in marriage This argument has been widely challenged in relation to all classes by historians examining various kinds of evidence from the seventeenth century and earlier The belief that affection as an ideal of marriage was basically invented by the middle and upper classes in the eighteenth century has , however , led some critics into simplistic views . |
| 27 | Then Candy brought forward a witness who assured police he had been drinking with the prisoner in the Star , another central Reading public house , at the time of the murder . |
| 28 | The infuriated Abbot put forward a test case by sending a monk with a wagonload of corn across the bridge . |
| 29 | When pressed for a favourable reply the pontiff put forward a set of propositions which would have to be accepted by Napoleon before the ceremony could take place . |
| 30 | Show some ability to organise and present complex subject matter , eg putting forward a number of conflicting points of view , or weaving two strands into a story . |