Example sentences of "[verb] [noun pl] to [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As do their land and sea counterparts , air carriers delegate the power to issue waybills to various types of agents . |
| 2 | In the long term , electronic scanning and linking to an image database could provide a secure back-up to the herbarium collection , a means of transmitting images to other institutions , and a method for collaborative working between institutions using real-time computer conferencing . |
| 3 | If your conference has a significant attendance , it may be worth your while to stage an exhibition and sell stands to related groups . |
| 4 | And I do not believe that 24.3 million dollars a year is the average reward for selling coconut milk and conch shells to honky tourists . |
| 5 | Partnership It should rival the best of European cities and should be famously celebrated in Britain as an example of what can be achieved when resources and the expertise to implement solutions to environmental problems are combined with civic will . ’ |
| 6 | To make matters more complicated , where aid programmes have sought to channel funds to small-scale farmers , or small businesses , the real priorities of the target beneficiaries have seldom been identical to those of the donor or the government . |
| 7 | Financial intermediaries have the specialist knowledge to be able to channel funds to those areas that yield the highest return . |
| 8 | It 's well worth submitting entries to minor competitions as they often attract very few entrants giving high chances of success . |
| 9 | Investment trusts are in fact very active in the market for new issues of shares and in this respect are channelling funds to ultimate borrowers . |
| 10 | The campaigners claim that this will threaten vulnerable species of fish , low-XXXX lying meadows , and even pose dangers to local supplies of drinking water . |
| 11 | The idiom is significant : we attach meanings to linguistic expressions , and we do this by invoking some pre-existing knowledge or other , or some co-existing feature of the situation of utterance . |
| 12 | It would link countries that are almost all big international debtors — and so need to increase exports to third countries , not to each other . |
| 13 | In so far as the exercise of judgement by officials when applying rules to particular cases can never be made entirely unnecessary by the articulation of rules to fit all instances , the values of individual officials will affect the outcome of executive action . |
| 14 | Initial training in applying labels to these stimuli did not influence test performance , and this prompted Robinson ( 1955 ) to suggest that pre-training might be ineffective when the test task is ‘ perceptual , rather than ‘ motor ’ . |
| 15 | The ACP countries also expressed concern that the aims of the convention would be jeopardized by the planned introduction of a single market in the Community by 1992 , the opening towards East European countries , and the EC 's willingness to grant concessions to third countries under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) , all of which were expected to lead to a dilution of aid and benefits for ACP countries and to weaken the EC 's commitment to the convention . |
| 16 | Indeed , primary eurobond operations are often categorised as " loss-leaders " , making low or negative profits to attract clients to other operations ( equity issuance , financial advice , bank lending , etc. ) or to penetrate new markets . |
| 17 | In addition , the automated check-in facility will alert readers to current issues of periodicals as soon as they are processed . |
| 18 | Our firm actions to increase premiums to adequate levels and restrain costs are now being reflected more fully in our figures . |
| 19 | Ultrix on MIPS customers are those with existing applications who want upgrades to new chips with minimum hassle . |
| 20 | Where the property is to be transferred subject to a mortgage , or where a new mortgage is to be created , it will be necessary to obtain consents to such transactions from any occupants of the property aged eighteen years or over ( following the case of Williams & Glyn 's Bank Ltd v Boland [ 1981 ] AC 487 ) . |
| 21 | Therefore , the practice with the private sector is for employers and employees to make contributions to a fund at a rate which , combined with judicious management of the fund , should be sufficient to meet obligations to current employees at some point in the future . |
| 22 | Eavesdropping on process plant could alert engineers to developing problems in time to prevent a serious accident , according to the acoustic diagnostics team at AEA Technology . |
| 23 | motivate individuals to better efforts ; and |
| 24 | Aims : To provide tapes to all hospitals , residential homes and homes for the handicapped . |
| 25 | ‘ It 's a question of pragmatism , because we found to obtain rights to certain tracks would have cost more than the budget for the entire picture . |
| 26 | ‘ Until such times as they can do this , Her Majesty 's Government should get on with the task of governing Northern Ireland in a positive fashion , including the alternative means of returning powers to locally-elected representatives . ’ |
| 27 | Finally you attach priorities to these tasks and all other activities then have to be fitted in around these priorities . |
| 28 | Some committees may have a correspondence item in which they consider and suggest replies to important items of correspondence received . |
| 29 | we had er we had a candidate 's committee meeting last night , in which we were concerned that a number of the other constituencies throughout the northwest , who were not as far progressed as erm er as Greater Manchester West , and we took it upon ourselves to erm When appointing returning officers to those constituencies , to recommend to those returning officers that the people guiding Manchester Central , Merseyside East , Merseyside West , whoever they may be , contact John er for advice on how to how to run the er how to run the election . |
| 30 | The fact that Le Roy Ladurie takes this dual approach is , I think , unsurprising , and derives from the problem of relating structures to individual beliefs and actions . |