Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I made the decision to abort using the apparatus and revert to an alternative er means . |
| 2 | Where forecasts are not legally binding on the buyer , another commonly used alternative is for the buyer to agree to compensate the seller ( up to some agreed limits ) for excess inventory of the products covered by the agreement which are still in the seller 's hands on termination of the agreement , but which he can not reasonably dispose of elsewhere . |
| 3 | FORMER Tour de France champion Stephen Roche last night revealed the agony behind his decision to retire admitted the pressure cycling exerted on his family life prompted his decision to retire the end of next season . |
| 4 | Thus , providers will not have any responsibility to plan to meet the needs of a particular population , but will , of course , require business planning to secure and fulfil contracts and to attract and treat extra-contract referrals . |
| 5 | The government certainly had no money to spare to help the colonies , and this introduced the general rule that English colonies had to cover their own costs , both in the sense that the government of a colony had to raise enough revenue to pay its own bills and in the sense that there were no subsidies to encourage people to stay in a colony where they could not earn their own living . |
| 6 | He wants ITN to continue to gather the news , but for individual companies to be left to edit and present programmes , giving ITN bulletins a local dimension . |
| 7 | ‘ This is one more example of our ability and willingness to continue to support the UN in the cause of peace . ’ |
| 8 | A LAST minute decision to continue funding the after-care scheme for elderly people at Middlesbrough General Hospital was welcomed yesterday by Age Concern Cleveland . |
| 9 | We played the harmonium and sang together and Dad sometimes gave us money to go to see a picture at the Queen 's Hall . |
| 10 | When it also rapidly became clear , following the 1972 White Paper , Education : A Framework for Expansion , that there was to be in fact a massive reduction in teacher education and an opportunity to diversify to fill the gaps created , the CNAA began to be faced with proposals for degrees in other subjects , often combined or modularized degrees , and often with an attempt to build both a BA and BEd degree on top of a two-year Diploma . |
| 11 | By early June the failure of an inquiry by Sir Edward Clark and of a group of ministers headed by Lloyd George to persuade the employers to agree to recognise the Federation and to negotiate with it on a joint board , began to bring nearer the prospect that the Transport Workers ' Federation National Executive would implement a recommendation by its Annual Conference that unless the joint board proposal was accepted a national strike would be declared . |
| 12 | Me and Phil , the roadie , even went on this midnight jaunt from Manchester to Guildford to try to steal the master tapes of the LP . |
| 13 | Exercise 13.3 has been set to give you an opportunity to try reading a table with four variables in it . |
| 14 | At the same time she can take the opportunity to try to build the esteem of those class members who lack confidence and are finding the work slightly embarrassing . |
| 15 | When he sought to do this from the pulpit of St Paul 's on 5 November 1709 ( the anniversary of the gunpowder treason plot , when preachers usually reserved their invective for Catholics ) , and combined it with a defence of the doctrines of passive-obedience and non-resistance , the Whig ministry of the day decided to use the opportunity to try to discredit the Church in Danger platform . |
| 16 | This little side-play caused Peggy to stop and wonder , and it also gave Lizzie the opportunity to try to bring a smile to her daughter 's face and perhaps ease the tension she saw there . |
| 17 | This structural awareness can be as hard to handle as any decision to try to publish the account , for what has happened in the past and what is expected now from the insider is tied up with an understanding of how the institution of policing prefers to present a restricted image for outside consumption , as I have described above . |
| 18 | They would look after the wounded and use their still-room skills to try to contain the multitude of diseases such as consumption and fevers , that would follow a travelling army . |
| 19 | The same thing happened in Holland and ATS gave the next three races a miss to try to fix the problems . |
| 20 | Harry Bromley is putting up his own money to try to keep the aircraft off the scrap heap . |
| 21 | He added : ‘ There is a genuine willingness to try to find a solution . |
| 22 | It is important for the prosecution case to try to identify the tyre by taking the tyre or batch number which will usually be something like 824927 E , on the tyre wall in letters and figures about I cm high — in about a quarter of all checks the number is nonexistent or illegible and the police officer should try to remember other forms of identification such as marks or scratches etc. on the tyre . |
| 23 | Short-term or emergency policies to try to reduce the pollution levels during a smog and to cope with the adverse health effects and economic disruption of a smog are complex . |
| 24 | It is essential , however — if we do not want a united states of Europe to retain the right , within a co-operative framework to try to forge a consensus on foreign policy — to make our own decisions . |
| 25 | The designer was Margaret Kaye , who had just had an exhibition of collages made with fabric , and she used a similar technique to try to provide the mixture of fantasy and realism needed to match the ballet . |
| 26 | If the pulsar is a rejuvenated old neutron star , the large magnetic field suggests that there has been little or no decay from its original value , lending support to work suggesting the field decay may not occur , in contrast to other evidence . |
| 27 | Allen Paulson , who runs Gulfstream , has resigned from the Chrysler board to try to launch a buy-out of the technology business . |
| 28 | Local projects to benefit include the Alton Sports and Social Club who will receive £1,000 towards extensions to the Harry Baker pavilion ; Medstead Parish Council , who have been awarded £1,500 towards extensions to the village sports pavilion ; and Old Alresford Cricket Club , who have been given £100 to upgrade windows in their pavilion . |
| 29 | Some of Britain 's best-known authors have lobbied Parliament to try to secure the future of the country 's libraries . |
| 30 | It was a mistake on my part to try to cover the grey with lowlights . |