Example sentences of "[verb] agreed [to-vb] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a considerable delay , the government has agreed to implement the Griffiths ' recommendations , but in the meantime health services have remained overburdened and unable to care for many older people , and there is a question mark over the future of geriatric care as a result of the 1989 White Paper on health services . |
| 2 | IBM Corp has agreed to pay the US government $14.8m to settle that potential False Claims Act civil suit after IBM admitted to providing reconditioned or remanufactured computer equipment to the US government between 1980 and 1990 , contrary to contract provisions — under the contract , IBM was required to notify the government prior to delivery of anything other than new equipment , and the investigation revealed that IBM delivered approximately 15,000 reconditioned or remanufactured machines to the government ; IBM voluntarily owned up that it might not have fulfilled its obligations under the contract after conducting an internal audit . |
| 3 | The Ministry of Defence had its continuing missile special relationship with the United States , whose Department of Defense had agreed to substitute the Trident submarine-missile system for Polaris . |
| 4 | Royal Bank Chief Executive Dr George Mathewson said , ‘ Following hard on the heels of our announcement in April that we had agreed to acquire the Boston Five , this is another encouraging step towards our strategic aim of deriving more than 10 per cent of our earnings from the USA . |
| 5 | It was reported on Oct. 16 that the 13 countries of the " Cairns Group " of agricultural exporting nations , led by Australia [ see pp. 36508 ; 37228 ] , had agreed to support the US proposal for reductions in subsidies but had demanded that the " export component " in US deficiency payments to farmers also be subjected to a 90 per cent cutback . |
| 6 | ( Congress had agreed to give the US administration until March 3 , 1991 , to submit an entire trade package which would then be subject to a single vote instead of the more usual procedure of amending it item by item . ) |
| 7 | But on Friday night news came through that VAT HQ had agreed to study the ER scheme ‘ to see if it can be classified as a training activity , which would be VAT exempt , rather than as a business activity , ’ Maxen reported . |
| 8 | South Africa 's President de Klerk announced on June 27 that South Africa had agreed to sign the NPT . |
| 9 | There was no demonstrable prejudice to Findlay by the amendment : the case against him , based on the admissions. remained the same : that he had agreed to rob the Hainault post office at a date unknown . |
| 10 | However I am also concerned that because we have agreed to give the Cyprus holiday company some editorial space , we should also be offering B&I Lines something similar . |
| 11 | Grampian and Tayside Regional Councils have agreed to purchase the Clarence franchise and Central ( Never — Ed. ) and Fife Regions may well follow . |
| 12 | Governors of Teesside Poly have agreed to redesignate the Middlesbrough seat of learning as the University of Teesside . |
| 13 | In January 1980 a Soviet commentator noted that according to the admissions of the American State Department ‘ the leaders of Egypt , Oman , Somalia and Kenya have agreed to grant the Pentagon the right to use the ports and a number of military installations in their countries ’ . |
| 14 | Road review : Parish councillors have agreed to keep The Glebe under review . |