Example sentences of "[noun] to build a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The owner of Con O'Neill 's Castle at Castlereagh told his agent to build a protective wall around it ; the agent , looking for the nearest source of building stone , saw the castle and demolished it to make the wall . |
| 2 | From the perspectives of both professionals and parents the attempt to build a cooperative framework directed towards meeting John 's needs had broken down . |
| 3 | In an attempt to build a new life for himself and his daughter , Paul Kersey takes a job managing a radio station in Chicago . |
| 4 | This , it seems to me , is a them that is of abiding significance , because we all of us do things for the wrong reasons , and yet it 's all rather magnificently tied up with the attempt to build a glorious spire to a medieval cathedral . |
| 5 | The government made slow progress in its attempt to build a political consensus for economic reform . |
| 6 | By the end of the 1650s , the Puritan attempt to build a Calvinist Zion in England had foundered on the rock of the nation 's preference for its traditional religious and cultural life . |
| 7 | He also designed the Midland Hotel , Morecambe , Lancashire , in 1933 as a pioneer modernist public building , and was involved in the attempt to build a modernist seaside resort at Frinton Park , Essex . |
| 8 | Addressing a press conference in Islamabad she said that " Pakistan has the information and the capability to build a nuclear bomb in the event of a threat from India " . |
| 9 | A deputation from Bedford Corporation , acting on this occasion as the Sewer Authority , proposed joint action to build a temporary smallpox hospital on land held by the local government board . |
| 10 | The biggest award was for £150,000 to Ullaspool , a company set up to raise funds to build a new swimming pool at Ullapool . |
| 11 | Tied in by their own dogma , the Conservatives refuse to take any steps to build a genuine base for sustained economic growth . |
| 12 | James Piccian , assistant general manager of technology products , told the Dataquest semiconductor conference that as part of IBM 's plans to enter the merchant market , the company is hiring from outside IBM to build a world-class sales and marketing organisation . |
| 13 | The question arises therefore , of combining care with other groups , but other than noting a joint social work/geriatric medicine/geriatric psychiatry proposal to build a combined day facility locally , discussion of this topic lies out with the scope of this talk . |
| 14 | The Pacific Bell telephone company led a consortium to build a downtown factory and make $1m-worth of purchases from it annually . |
| 15 | We want to give the children positive memories which they can draw on during the difficult times at home to build a better country . |
| 16 | The Sex Pistols apparently instant recognition was in direct contrast to their original plan to build a new Bay City Rollers . |
| 17 | Troubled Telecom Eireann has abandoned a plan to build a new headquarters in Ballsbridge , Dublin , and the decision may cost the company more than £6m ; it bought the site for £9.4m in 1990 , but it is now worth only around £5m ; the company may also be required to pay for a government investigation into the purchase , which is also under scrutiny from the Fraud Office . |
| 18 | An earlier plan to build a new home in conjunction with a housing association on the Chevet Hey site in Prices Lane , Wrexham , failed to get off the ground . |
| 19 | Sir David Wilson , the Governor of Hong Kong , held " wide-ranging and useful " talks with Chinese leaders in Beijing on Jan. 21-24 , defusing a potentially damaging conflict over the Hong Kong government 's plan to build a new airport and port complex . |
| 20 | Douglas Hurd , the United Kingdom Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary , visited Hong Kong and China on April 2-9 for discussions aimed at settling the ongoing conflict between China and the Hong Kong government over the latter 's plan to build a new airport and port complex [ see p. 37961 ] . |
| 21 | Peter de Savary 's Canvey Island development has won approval from the local planning committee which voted 15 to one in favour of the plan to build a new community , against the advice of its chief planning officer . |
| 22 | It has been outlining a plan to build a unified network to all California homes by 2015 that would provide the gamut of information and entertainment services — home shopping , entertainment and video telephone capability . |
| 23 | The inquiry , now ending 14 weeks in session , is examining the Central Electricity Generating Board 's plan to build a pressurised water reactor ( PWR ) at Sizewell in Suffolk . |
| 24 | The museum director , Mr Murata , states that since French paintings have become so expensive today it is no longer possible for a museum to build a satisfactory collection of them , and therefore they have decided to collect British works , focusing on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century artists . |
| 25 | Neighbours living near Scarborough 's Filey Road sports centre are opposing plans by the Borough Council to build a giant dome over two tennis courts . |
| 26 | Those studying full time will study up to three major and two subsidiary subjects , adding work experience , parenting and citizenship to build a baccalaureate-style programme . |
| 27 | * A public inquiry is to be held into plans by the Wind Energy Group to build a 24-turbine farm near the Cader Idris mountain in Snowdonia National Park . |
| 28 | Nigel : But 40 leading scientists do say that carbon dioxide is made in producing uranium and building the reactors , and power stations are not the main source of greenhouse gases anyway ; and nuclear programmes divert money from energy-saving programmes , and it takes six years to build a nuclear power station and you can save that amount of carbon dioxide in six months by saving energy . |
| 29 | Gray had told the board he needed three years to build a top side . |
| 30 | Wycliffe had no maxims , but that was exactly what was being done , though to him it seemed of paramount importance to build a clear picture of the victim himself . |