Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Senior consultants and local politicians fear plans to create powerful purchasing consortiums among the region 's 15 districts are the first step towards merger . |
| 2 | Jane says : ‘ By helping homeowners give dignified care we prevented people ending up in large psychiatric hospitals and residential homes . ’ |
| 3 | For example the head of Craft , Design and Technology had received money to replace inadequate stock and an increase in capitation , whilst the head of Home Economics was in the process of gaining badly-needed equipment — although much of this was still in the ‘ pipeline ’ at the time of the interview . |
| 4 | Such policies may hinder attempts to achieve economic growth and may increase the level of unemployment . |
| 5 | BRITISH Rail has called on four rail unions to agree plans to limit excessive overtime worked by signals and telecommunications engineers as part of a radical review of pay and working conditions following the disaster . |
| 6 | Two previous experimental studies have shown an opposite effect , which may be due to the different species or sex of animals used and the methods of assessing cellular proliferation ( stathmokinetic technique v labelling index using tritiated thymidine ) . |
| 7 | Supplementary income generating activities include clinical work and consultancies for donor agencies . |
| 8 | • Tip : Do n't make plans to visit far-flung family , or have riotous parties for him when he 's very small . |
| 9 | As a response to popular demands for greater democracy , Habyarimana in November announced plans to abandon one-party rule and set up a review commission , whose brief was to make recommendations on the country 's future political system . |
| 10 | Shortly after Haq 's resignation the government announced plans to curb public expenditure by holding it during the current financial year ( ending in June 1990 ) at the 1988-89 level . |
| 11 | Following a large budget deficit in 1990 the Minister of Finance and Commerce announced plans to reduce public spending . |
| 12 | A club can be weighed using scales to give dead weight , but swingweight has to be measured on a special machine . |
| 13 | See Martin Sheen drunkenly method act himself into a heart attack , watch made Marlon improvise pure nonsense out of thin air and discover the real-life Dennis Hopper to be more manic than his character . |
| 14 | Brezhnev 's third proposal would require the Americans to renounce plans to sign bilateral security agreements with the Gulf states . |
| 15 | Greencare products include Automatic Washing Liquid and Powder without phosphates , Fabric Conditioner , Washing-Up Liquid , Chlorine-Free Bleach . |
| 16 | The ability to radiolabel the neutral components of reflux such as food or even bile using technetium-99m labelled hepatioiminodiacetic acid ( Tc-99m HIDA ) offers exciting opportunities towards the basic understanding of gastro-oesophageal reflux , mechanisms of gastro-oesophageal disease , and the effectiveness of its treatment without increasing the discomfort of the patient . |
| 17 | That scarcely encourages attempts to justify extra-territorial application of the principle . |
| 18 | They argue that the current distinction between debt and equity made by company law is unjustified , but will restrict attempts to develop sensible accounting practice in this area . |
| 19 | The priority to be accorded to light fiction needs particular attention . |
| 20 | Whitehall Watch : Poacher turns gamekeeper to scrutinise Civil Service : Peter Hennessy talks to Sir Angus Fraser , head of the efficiency unit |
| 21 | Sarup Singh replaced Mahipal Shastri as governor of Gujarat in December [ see p. 37915 ] . |
| 22 | Dolphin Sunday Dance Club presents old time and sequence dance , Central Hall , Dolphin Centre , Darlington , 2–4.30pm . |
| 23 | And here , ICMS goes even further than prevention ; it encourages growers to take positive action to enhance the environment by , for example , establishing wildlife strips to harbour natural predators or creating wildlife ponds to encourage wildlife diversity . |
| 24 | The trust will extend the telecommunications network to include GP call-handling and introduce a telemetry system to enable paramedics to transmit cardiac information direct to coronary care units . |
| 25 | The plan involved proposals to reduce excess capacity and to transform Rover from being a volume car producer to a specialist producer in an ‘ up-market move ’ with the aim of increasing profit per car sold ( see Figure 4.2 ) . |
| 26 | The Prince of Wales also cancelled plans to attend Royal Ascot to take the opportunity to recover from the back injury he aggravated at polo on Sunday . |
| 27 | We will consider requests to license limited specialist services to compete within the Post Office monopoly . |
| 28 | By the beginning of the 1960s the government had given up the attempt to encourage employers to take special note of the needs of older workers . |
| 29 | In the drive for greater efficiency , Manweb is in discussion with Welsh Water about sharing depot and other facilities and has plans to develop new business initiatives , including a fee-earning energy consultancy . |
| 30 | Three of them propose rules to make political bribery more difficult . |