Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] a [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | While county councillors were in the chamber yesterday discussing how much to overspend in Gloucestershire next year , protestors outside were breathing down their necks demanding an end to the threatened cuts that would result if the budget was brought in on target . |
| 2 | Having said that , courts and tribunals are generally vigilant to ensure that an alleged deal bringing a job to a conclusion by mutual consent truly reflects the reality of what has occurred . |
| 3 | The crucial factor of associational appositeness relating a symbol to what it symbolizes is rarely seen directly and explicitly , although heraldry is replete with such purpose-built symbols . |
| 4 | In addition , opposition has its say , in the normal way , on any government motion and a government will normally accommodate a censure motion by the opposition allocating a day to its debate . |
| 5 | The , the point of the change in our constitution was actually to er move strictly away from all parish organizations having a right to representative here , and just a small number have elected . |
| 6 | But unfortunately , professionals are often deeply mistrustful of advocacy organizations and tend to see advocates as intruders creating a barrier to communication between the professional and the service-user . |
| 7 | And there will be no danger of fans taking a shine to the ‘ special effects ’ . |
| 8 | A fatal accident inquiry in Edinburgh heard how paramedics taking a child to hospital were flagged down to treat a badly injured man at a garage in Gorebridge , Midlothian . |
| 9 | A party of Mormons making a pilgrimage to Salt Lake City or a hydraulics problem on a 737 can thwart the most carefully laid plans . |
| 10 | Pte Clegg also denied lying to police during interviews about the car posing a threat to Pte Aindow . |
| 11 | It is a battle demanding an end to foreign domination of the Arab World and its resources , and an end to the illegitimate political and economic order in the region , imposed by outside forces . |
| 12 | Captain Ian Corcoran and fellow forward Iain Morrison — the standby hooker — were excused yesterday 's practice , Corcoran resting a strain to his left ankle and Morrison , bruising to his left knee . |
| 13 | Floppy discs from the design computer can be inserted directly into the machine enabling a sample to be made within hours instead of days . |
| 14 | A target of 201 presented a definite challenge and when Ambrose immediately had Hudson deflecting a catch to first slip second ball and bowled Rushmere off the bottom of the bat in his fourth over , the balance was , if anything , slightly tilted towards the West Indies . |
| 15 | Letters or articles advocating a switch to political pluralism ‘ would be an act against socialism , ’ according to Mr Tran Cong Man , Deputy Secretary General of the Journalists ' Association . |
| 16 | If , for example , lean-burn engines are developed by Western manufacturers as the best way of cutting carbon dioxide emissions by the world 's rapidly increasing stock of vehicles , is the technology passed on free of charge to developing countries beginning a build-up to mass production from their own motor industries ? |
| 17 | The population was distributed in a very uneven pattern with the concentration in four county boroughs of the south providing a contrast to the scattered and declining population of north and mid-Wales : ‘ six of the thirteen counties were experiencing falling populations and most of the others were only just holding their own ’ ( Wood 1976 : 117 ) . |
| 18 | a personal letter for each child giving a welcome to the school to be shared by the parent with the child . |
| 19 | We can see him very clearly following this method in his only other surviving letter on a question involving a reference to Canon Law written in Rufus 's reign . |
| 20 | Paper claims can be generated either by ( a ) the financial intermediary issuing a claim to the lender — for instance , a certificate of deposit , or ( b ) the borrower issuing a claim to the financial intermediary — for instance , a bond or a share . |
| 21 | Investors in People is the new national standard for companies making a commitment to training . |
| 22 | The plan can be attractive to anybody other than a parent making a gift to a child . |
| 23 | The plan can be attractive to anybody other than a parent making a gift to a child . |
| 24 | The plan can be attractive to anybody other than a parent making a gift to a child . |
| 25 | If a child has been made the subject of a supervision requirement following a referral to a children 's hearing on an offence ground , and that supervision requirement has been terminated and the child reappears before another children 's hearing , the main factors that the later hearing will need to consider to perform their statutory functions are why the child appeared before a children 's hearing , the reasons for that hearing 's disposal and , most particularly , the child 's response to the disposal ; in short , a children 's hearing would want to know the very things section 4 appears to prevent it ascertaining . |
| 26 | The initiative usually comes from the developer proposing an addition to an existing village , or from the local authority housing department wishing to construct a new council housing estate . |
| 27 | The ladies ' champion spoke out on the issue following a visit to the opera in London . |
| 28 | McLeish , who had a built-in prejudice , well supported by experience , against statements incorporating an appeal to belief , noted dourly that he might at some later stage need to get closer to Yeo Davis 's accounts . |
| 29 | On May 23 the King issued a decree granting an amnesty to all those involved in the violence , both the military and the demonstrators . |
| 30 | The Marine Conservation Society , a national organisation , alleges in a 54-page document that Britain has failed to meet the terms of a European directive requiring an assessment to be carried out where a proposed development is likely to have a significant environmental impact . |