Example sentences of "[verb] [noun pl] to a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A proposal by the BAPU parliamentary group to repeal Paragraph 1 , defining Bulgaria as a " People 's Republic " and as " a socialist state of the working people from town and country , headed by a working class " , was rejected on procedural grounds after a heated debate , but it was decided to set up a working group of government and opposition representatives to examine this and other possible constitutional amendments , with a view to submitting proposals to a forthcoming National Assembly session . |
| 2 | They also want the station to expand in order to be able to transmit programmes to a wider area . |
| 3 | The first of a new family of drugs based on the leech has been developed thanks to a key piece of understanding provided by Huber 's team at the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry in Germany . |
| 4 | Confusion surrounding chlorine and its derivative products is being eased thanks to a new public information service . |
| 5 | On the one hand , as I wrote , I found myself wanting to alert readers to an increasing amount of detailed literature , across a wide range of disciplines , currently being reported ; and to indicate something of the complexity of the issues being pursued . |
| 6 | Reports emerged during November of differences between the USA and the European Communities ( EC ) over the financing of UN peacekeeping operations , specifically over a US plan to divert its back dues owed to current UN peacekeeping operations to a proposed UN fund intended to cover start-up costs of new peacekeeping operations . |
| 7 | In 1265 the papacy had reserved to itself the right to provide candidates to a wide variety of livings in the gift of ecclesiastical patrons and to bishoprics vacated at Rome . |
| 8 | This is desirable in itself , though I do not warm to the feminist MacCarthyism which subjects texts to a close , hostile interrogation in a search for sexist attitudes . |
| 9 | Methods used to attract visitors to a particular stand include : |
| 10 | In the period between the writing of The German Ideology and Capital , Marx made a living in great part by contributing articles to a radical American newspaper , The New York Daily Tribune . |
| 11 | BUS SERVICES to encourage visitors to a national park to leave the car at home start this weekend . |
| 12 | Each night the Falcons depart from over 130 major market areas , jetting packages to a computerised sorting centre at Memphis , where they are sorted at the rate of 10,000 per hour . |
| 13 | Artisoft Inc has announced that LANtastic v5.0 — which adds communications to a wider range of systems , and enhanced network administration , security and printing facilities — is to ship this month . |
| 14 | Earlier Mr Yeltsin had appealed to the 1,000-odd deputies to accept amendments to a hardline resolution and save the power-sharing compromise struck at the last Congress in December . |
| 15 | He transfers assets to a discretionary trust . |
| 16 | A family notebook has clues to a notorious Edwardian murder . |
| 17 | Chester by 1780 had only one packhorse service , to North Wales , while it had wagon and coach services to a large number of English towns . |
| 18 | These are awarded each year to those parks which not only provide facilities to a high standard but also have first class caravan holiday homes for hire . |
| 19 | Small boats develop emotions to a fine pitch , and she felt that she would go with him to the end of the world , if his outboard was always going to start like that . |
| 20 | A strike , declared on October 25th , has pushed losses to an estimated $1m a week . |
| 21 | Apparently , in his childhood , he 'd give speeches to an empty barn , er , had , would stand in the , in the family barn , erm , giving lectures to the hay , you know , and he , he , he loved this , and he , he was , he had a great erm sense of grandiloquent language and , Freud and Bullitt 's interpretation is that , Woodrow Wilson , in a sense , was a typical politician . |
| 22 | Failure to bring about the defection would mean certain imprisonment , possibly death , for if he did not bring matters to a successful conclusion , Manville and his colleagues would not make the slightest attempt to help him . |
| 23 | Presenting it on Jan. 23 , Prime Minister Dimitur Popov complained that time wasted on partisan arguments about reforms during 1990 meant that the government would have to " pursue a considerably more severe budget policy , maintain higher interest rates , and restrict incomes to a greater degree than in other countries " . |
| 24 | Those currently in receipt of Unemployment Benefit , in other words those who have been unemployed for less than one year , can reopen rights to a further year of unemployment benefit if they work in insured employment for at least eight weeks . |
| 25 | ‘ This show really does carry things to a new low . |
| 26 | ENOUGH Britons took a holiday from the recession in 1992 to provide Thomson , the leading travel company , with a near-14 per cent boost in operating profits to a new record . |
| 27 | In several fables the kelpie appears as a handsome young prince , who lures maidens to a watery fate worse than death . |
| 28 | As the prime resource in the classroom , the teacher should be conscious of his/her responsibility to lead pupils to a deeper understanding of the person of Jesus and of gospel values , sometimes at an individual level , sometimes at group level , sometimes at class level . |
| 29 | Nationalists organized in " Citizens ' Committees " attempted to pre-empt the Estonian Supreme Soviet elections by holding at the end of February and in early March privately organized elections to a rival " Congress of Estonia " , intended as a revival of the parliament of the independent pre-war republic . |
| 30 | Although representatives of Age Concern England were interviewed by a number of local radio interviewers the stations are always far more interested in a local angle and it is very helpful when we can refer enquiries to a local group . |