Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Furthermore , in the case of the Netherlands , von Beyme ( 1980 ) sees the tendency towards decentralisation in the early 1970s as a reaction to the failure of attempts to promote a central incomes policy — which had been pursued more strongly than in other countries . |
| 2 | This alliance of opposition frustrated all attempts to establish a professional police until Peel 's 1829 Metropolitan Police Act . |
| 3 | The authorities in the Australian state of New South Wales have formed a task force to combat a disastrous algae outbreak on the Darling river system , which is killing large numbers of fish and livestock and disrupting drinking water supplies . |
| 4 | There is also the intention to establish a major schools music competition , which will culminate in a special BT Scottish Ensemble concert . |
| 5 | SIEMENS NIXDORF TO ESTABLISH A RUSSIA-WIDE POLICE NETWORK |
| 6 | From them and from a local solicitor , Thomas Watson Brown , he learned much about trade union administration and the drafting of trade union rules ; they also , he claimed , fed his ambition to lead a national seamen 's union , initially at the cost of some domestic disharmony , his wife and his mother-in-law accusing him of neglecting his own restaurant business and resenting the time he spent with his own visitors , particularly " old long-faced Brown " the lawyer . |
| 7 | The 24-year-old Great Britain tourist , who was sidelined earlier this season for nine weeks with a troublesome hamstring injury , grabbed 12 points with a try and three goals to halt a gallant Rovers performance . |
| 8 | They used minute-to-minute data to fit a simultaneous equations model of the determination of spot and futures prices for the MMI . |
| 9 | He wants to be left alone to get on with the job , including completing Knowsley 's ‘ positive futures ’ programme to develop a direct services system for supporting those in need living in the community . |
| 10 | National was set up in 1989 specifically to sell the capacity , and the change leaves National 's attempt to become a public telecommunications operator in doubt . |
| 11 | ‘ Yes , and I hear there are plans to open a licensed supporters ’ club just outside the ground . |
| 12 | To conclude therefore the borough council strongly urges the panel to recommend the county council to include a strategic exceptions policy . |
| 13 | Three leading opposition figures were prevented from leaving Kenya in the first week of July to attend a human rights conference in London . |
| 14 | But MEPs complained that the package had reappeared for a second reading minus the crucial proposal to create a European Medicines Agency . |
| 15 | A SECURITY scare has scuppered plans by the King and Queen of Spain to visit a Tall Ships regatta today . |
| 16 | HOLYWELL Coun Gareth Roberts is asking Delyn Borough Council to consider a new bowls pavilion and floodlighting at Fron Park in Holywell . |
| 17 | The campaign to save a local arts centre starts innocently enough , but soon becomes the target for intimidation , and Jane finds herself in increasing danger as she uncovers layers of corruption that spread from an Oxford college to the Houses of Parliament . |
| 18 | Tower Hamlets found that they could not decentralize Social Services , for example , because of the statutory requirement to have a Social Services Committee , but everything else they 've erm within the overall Council policy , which is decided by all the Councillors , they 've decentralized a great deal of the powers down to these local groups of Councillors , and where the Labour control the areas they control these local Councils , and where the Liberal Democrats control them they control them , and I think it 's working very well . |
| 19 | Another woman , after all , would no more hire a beauty queen to present a current affairs programme than she would hire a motor mechanic to give her a facelift . |
| 20 | Though available to either party it is in reality a procedure designed to enable employers faced with weak cases to apply a potential costs sanction to encourage the early demise of weak cases . |
| 21 | The central core of the town was mostly occupied by those families which had lived in Dronfield before the momentous decision was taken in 1873 by the new company of Wilson Cammell to found a large steelworks specializing in the manufacture of rails made from Bessemer steel . |
| 22 | The failure to find a referent results in a numerical penalty being awarded to the reading for which it occurs . |
| 23 | Herr Hans-Ludwig Zachert , head of the federal criminal police , warns of the immediate need to organise a European police force to combat a new breed of international criminal for whom the Schengen agreement — under which France , Germany , Italy , Spain , Portugal and the Benelux countries have agreed to drop border controls — creates the ideal working environment . |
| 24 | In July 1984 , a new initiative to form a national women 's organization aligned to the FDR was launched . |
| 25 | These three companies , all believing in the need to maintain a strong components capability , in 1988 formed the $3.3 billion JESSI ( Joint European Submicron Silicon Initiative ) co-operative research and development programme . |
| 26 | SHL Systemhouse Inc says it has reached agreement with the state-owned Canada Post Corp to negotiate a 10-year facilities management contract covering all of Canada Post 's data processing , telecommunications and system management needs , SHL said in a statement ; the value of the pact was not released ; it will provide full mainframe services from its data centres in Ottawa and Halifax and help Canada Post to accelerate the change from a mainframe environment to distributed client-server architecture . |
| 27 | Mr Foster also called for provisions to establish a national rights of way record . |
| 28 | The determination of the two superpowers to reduce their huge military budgets and the upheavals in Eastern Europe towards the end of 1989 translated themselves into special efforts to conclude a conventional weapons treaty ( see Bush 's NATO summit plan for a CFE agreement p. 36642-44 ) . |
| 29 | Although efforts to form a joint sports team dated back to 1963 — when the two countries discussed the possibility of joint participation in the 1964 Olympic Games — no consensus had ever been achieved . |
| 30 | After MPs sat all night to defeat a private members ' bill to enable building of the Cardiff Barrage , the government announced that it would introduce its own bill to ensure that the measure passed into law . |