Example sentences of "[art] bid [to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ironically , the society is having to fight against the forces of nature itself in the bid to stop the reedbed being swallowed by fast-encroaching willows and scrub which would destroy much of the area 's significance . |
| 2 | Britain 's biggest building society gave the extra £750 million an instant vote of thanks in the bid to kick-start the struggling housing market . |
| 3 | The bid to crack the American market had n't worked , as Isidore Ostrer explained , due to ‘ the fact that we are not accorded playing time in the most important situations , these being almost exclusively controlled by American producing interests . ’ |
| 4 | The government 's efforts to join GATT could just pay off , but the bid to rejoin the United Nations ( in which communist China replaced Taiwan in 1971 ) is another matter . |
| 5 | Monika is now taking legal advice in a bid to force the missing priest to shoulder his responsibilities . |
| 6 | The daily and monthly Treasury bond indicators ( the BTN and BTNF ) which linked prices to inflation and were commonly used as economic indices were also abolished in a bid to restore the official currency , the cruzeiro , as the only mechanism for financial transactions . |
| 7 | Security chiefs were meeting today in a bid to counter the current upsurge in loyalist violence which has claimed four lives in as many days . |
| 8 | THE WORLD WILDLIFE FUND Switzerland this month secured the cooperation of the country 's largest manufacturer of coffins ( or as the Americans call them caskets ) in a bid to preserve the tropical moist forests of the world . |
| 9 | ‘ We have not made a bid to stage the 1995 Rugby World Cup . |
| 10 | In fact I 'm surprised they never made a bid to stage the next Olympics . |
| 11 | BRITISH athletics chiefs are to step up their policing efforts in a bid to stop the banned drugs offender , Robert Hamilton-Jones , from competing under assumed names in track meetings . |
| 12 | Detectives are first trying to locate other inmates in a bid to corroborate the original allegation before making a formal approach to the De La Salle Brothers . |
| 13 | Shoppers in St Helens cheered and applauded as more than 3,000 protesters , many of them waving banners and placards , marched through the town centre in a bid to save the doomed Parkside Colliery , on Saturday . |
| 14 | LOYALIST politicians are engaged in behind-the-scenes talks with the Northern Ireland Office in a bid to halt the recent upsurge of violence , it was claimed today . |
| 15 | LOYALIST politicians are involved in secret talks with senior Northern Ireland Office officials in a bid to halt the recent upsurge in violence , it was claimed today . |
| 16 | LOYALIST politicians are involved in secret talks with senior Northern Ireland Office officials in a bid to halt the recent upsurge in violence , it was claimed today . |
| 17 | Additionally , two regional transect lines are being included : they will traverse the margin in a bid to define the crustal structure better , and to improve our understanding of the tectonic framework . |
| 18 | Police have called in professional shark hunters in a bid to kill the great white . |
| 19 | A local contest is set to be introduced covering pubs , restaurants , hotels , shops and offices , schools , individual gardens and allotments , in a bid to boost the limited participation of the last few years . |
| 20 | Three weeks ago Chancellor Norman Lamont cut the tax by up to £400 in the Autumn Statement in a bid to revive the flagging motor industry . |
| 21 | In a bid to protect the Yanomami Indians , Brazilian police and military are evacuating the illegal gold miners who have streamed into the Indian reserve in Roraima state . |
| 22 | Timex talks Executives and union leaders , including Gavin Laird , general secretary of the AEUW , have held a second meeting in a bid to end the bitter four-month Timex Dundee dispute . |
| 23 | ARDS have failed in a bid to get the Bass Irish Cup semi-finals rescheduled . |
| 24 | The Capenhurst control line flyers formed in 1985 in a bid to recreate the golden days of their youth . |
| 25 | As noted , eurobond firms are seeking to reform issuance procedures in a bid to reduce the current pressures on profitability , one underlying cause of which has been excess capacity . |
| 26 | John Pitt , joint managing director of Anchor International , accused the protestors of objecting to the licence in a bid to scupper the whole scheme . |
| 27 | Quayle , in a bid to limit the political damage to himself , viewed the show in Washington with a group of single parents … who loved the gags . |
| 28 | RIVAL anglers are poaching each other 's fishing stocks in a bid to catch the big one . |