Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] a [noun pl] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Arising from the work of the Way Ahead Committee , proposals were made in March to establish an Estates Management Advisory Committee , which would subsume much of the Accommodation Committee 's work . |
| 2 | Arianespace has won a contract to launch a communications satellite for Eutelsat : the contract , Arianespace 's sixth this year , will take its order book to 37 birds worth $3,000m ; Eutelsat II F5 will go up an Ariane 4 rocket from the Kourou Space Centre in French Guiana at the end of 1993 or early next year . |
| 3 | Designed by a German scientific team led by Rudolf Gantenbrink , the robot climbed at 45° up the 65 metre long passageway to find a portcullis type slab at the other end with large copper handles . |
| 4 | British Telecommunications Plc has won its biggest network contract yet , a multi-million pound five-year deal to provide a communications network to the Eurocontrol European air traffic control co-ordination body . |
| 5 | Any attempt to define a futures contract is likely to be unsatisfactory in some respect . |
| 6 | There was , he believed , no route from a world of warring states to genuine peace except via the imposition of the rule of law in international affairs : ‘ a stable peace requires all disinterested nations to form a police force in any quarrel . |
| 7 | They urged the President to hold a police inquiry into the killings and called on Congress to set up an investigation into links between the police and the death squads . |
| 8 | ‘ Hey thanks , Chief … but I reckon this could be a blatant attempt to influence a police officer in the execution of his duty . ’ |
| 9 | During a visit to Damascus by the Director-General of the International Atomic Energy Agency ( IAEA ) , Hans Blix , ash-Shar " announced on Feb. 9 Syria 's willingness to reach a safeguards agreement permitting the IAEA to inspect all nuclear facilities in Syria |
| 10 | Coun Richmond believes the authority squandered the opportunity to create a shops development in part of the town centre which could be hit by the new Cornmill shopping complex . |
| 11 | He was the first European to win a Masters title and the difference between him doing that and Tony Jacklin winning the US Open in 1970 is that by the Eighties there were other talents ready to be inspired by the Ballesteros achievement . |
| 12 | The project had been effectively nullified by the UN embargo on Iraq following its invasion of Kuwait , and by a decision by the US Congress during the ensuing Gulf war to stiffen a sanctions law preventing technology transfers , including non-military , to countries producing missiles . |
| 13 | On March 9 Iran called on the UN to impose an arms embargo on the two states . |
| 14 | My Lord the er case moves on there over the page now to the twenty fourth of September and on that day Mr was notified erm by his bank on the telephone that head office had approved the finance proposal in principal and as a result of that Mr then telephone Peter , the defendant , told him that the financing for this deal had been approved in principal and Mr asked Mr to provide a bankers draft of some seven and a half thousand pounds in order to enable exchange to take place as a matter of urgency . |
| 15 | But few famous folk attracted more attention than Neil Bush , in town to launch a sports channel and to root for the Eagles . |
| 16 | On 22 November 1968 , the Prime Minister , Terence O'Neill outlined an ameliorative package of reforms which , in amongst its other measures , encouraged local authorities to devise a points system for the allocation of housing ; abolished the company vote for local elections ; and repealed parts of the Special Powers Act . |
| 17 | Paramount supremo Frank Mancuso received death threats as he voiced plans to do a Police Academy -style Star Trek . |
| 18 | He left wearing a dinner suit to attend an awards dinner at the Portman Hotel in Marble Arch . |
| 19 | After the Guardian pointed out on December 8 that Kingfisher did indeed face a prima facie competition problem , he told another newspaper that during his 1986 bid for the then Woolworths , he had been obliged by the OFT to pre-sell Comet to Granada to avoid a monopolies investigation . |
| 20 | To some extent , a post-White Paper NHS offers scope to reduce a managers dissonance . |
| 21 | Finding that he was not there , they ordered two family members and three customers to enter a police minibus and to keep their heads down . |
| 22 | The Pacific Bell Inc arm of Pacific Telesis Group Inc plans to build a communications highway connecting participating California universities , research labs , major hospitals and leading high-tech companies in the San Francisco Bay Area and Los Angeles : to be known as the California Research and Education Network or CalRen , the project will use emerging communications switching and transmission technologies such as Asynchronous Transfer Mode in a network capable of carrying voice , data , video and images concurrently between as many as 80 educational , medical and high-tech industrial organisations in the San Francisco Bay Area , and a similar number in the Los Angeles area . |
| 23 | It also announced plans to build a sports hall and improve playing fields at the Knowsley Park Lane school , once the Lathom Wing on St Helens Road is closed . |
| 24 | There are moves to get hunslet out of Elland road … in particular there are plans to build a sports complex out at Stourton … it would be perfect close to the M1 even close to hunslet … ! ! ! |
| 25 | You know , there 's no point in wasting your time you know , logging everybody else , and you go to the boss , and you say , boss you know that personal management skills course that I , you said I should go on , so you proving what , you know , what a good person you are , because you 've remembered a month later what the course was called , erm , I , I was told on that course to keep an interruptions log , so you 're proving , you know , that you are a good person when you 've done this , and i see from this that a great deal of your valuable time is being eroded by my humble concerns , you know , something like that . |
| 26 | bid for a contract to run a careers service on their own |
| 27 | The Government also wants to make it easier for people to obtain a drinks licence and to water down the power of licensing magistrates , who currently have absolute discretion to refuse applications , often without giving a reason . |
| 28 | Emma was Captain of the School 's under 12 soccer team … and today her friends started a collection to buy a sports trophy to be presented in her memory . |
| 29 | The US , having failed to persuade Britain or the OEEC to pursue a customs union , gave strong support to the Schuman Plan . |
| 30 | Colleagues , to allow a trades council delegate to represent a trades council view , which could mean an official or member of a trades union speaking in opposition to its national policy , would be unacceptable . |