Example sentences of "[verb] a [adj] [noun sg] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A postal worker has won a two-and-a-half-year battle to bring his Filipino bride to England . |
| 2 | Scottish conservationists have won a major award to create a marine underwater trail at Dunollie Point near Oban . |
| 3 | A milkman who set up a round in competition with his old dairy firm has won a legal battle to continue his business for the time being . |
| 4 | A DUBLIN-BASED policeman has won a legal battle to prevent the Garda Commissioner from dismissing him from the force for allegedly offering a prostitute IR£30 for sex . |
| 5 | A TORY MP 's wife has won a three-year battle to inherit the Pounds 10 million mansion that inspired Evelyn Waugh 's Brideshead Revisited . |
| 6 | A woman who found £40 on a bank floor has won a three-year battle to have it donated to a baby unit — and the bank has stumped up an extra £10 . |
| 7 | Tony McTaminey has won a seven-month battle to set up a flower stall using a traditional , hand-painted barrow in the Linthorpe Road shopping precinct , Middlesbrough . |
| 8 | Scotland has won a bitter battle to house a new multi-million pound military centre creating 700 jobs , it was disclosed tonight . |
| 9 | A Primary school has won a national competition to produce their own newspaper . |
| 10 | The package included new interpretations and maps derived from BGS open-file archives and provided a geological framework to help companies to plan surveys and prepare bids . |
| 11 | It included new interpretations and maps derived from BGS open-file archives and provided a geological framework to help companies to plan surveys and prepare bids . |
| 12 | In his speech to the Polish parliament he said that the changes in Eastern Europe provided a historic opportunity to build a Europe made up of independent democratic states , not divided into blocs and relying on the protection of superpowers . |
| 13 | The prototype and test-bed for the new approach was to been seen first in some of the New Towns , particularly Harlow , where the design of the neighbourhood units provided a classic model to follow . |
| 14 | These records provided a rare opportunity to study the attenuation of strong seismic waves as a means of assessing seismic hazard . |
| 15 | What started out as a potential disaster provided a great opportunity to create something really different . |
| 16 | And although we were joined by French , Belgian , Dutch , German , Danish and Finnish colleagues , the week-long Whitsun course provided a wonderful opportunity to reinforce the close links between the British Medau community and the College , directed by Jochen Medau , son of the founder . |
| 17 | The suggestion for a community treatment order was rejected by some , on the grounds that it would infringe civil liberties , there was insufficient research to justify this extra measure , the existing legislation provided a sufficient framework to give the necessary powers to deal with the problem , and changing the law might divert attention from the real need to provide resources to support an acceptable programme of community care . |
| 18 | The preparation of submissions for the UFC Research Assessment Exercise provided a timely opportunity to take stock of our research activities in more depth than usual . |
| 19 | During the first ascent a precariously jammed flake provided a valuable aid to progress . |
| 20 | The estimate meant that , if no agreement was reached between congress and the president , $104,800 million would be sequestrated automatically from the 1991 budget , under the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings deficit reduction legislation ( the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act ) which provided a statutory obligation to reduce the deficit to $64,000 million by 1991 and to achieve its complete elimination by 1993 . |
| 21 | The work of Möbius and Forbes falls into these traditions , while the pressure to study fish resources provided a direct incentive to investigate how populations could be affected by external disturbances such as human activity . |
| 22 | The celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the Battle of Britain provided a magnificent opportunity to achieve new records in fund-raising . |
| 23 | Lisbon diplomats said Portugal had asked the United States to try a new initiative to bring the two sides together . |
| 24 | TWO of Britain 's biggest unit trust groups , Henderson Unit Trust Management and Gartmore Investment Management , are launching a joint company to handle the administration of their funds . |
| 25 | A CHURCH is launching a medical mission to save a teenage member of the congregation . |
| 26 | Edward Plantagenet of England , disgusted at his minion Balliol 's miserable failure at Annan , had announced that he himself would now take over the subjugation of Scotland , despite the Treaty of Northampton , and was presently assembling a great army to bring north with him . |
| 27 | In November 1970 the CNAA was informed that the NCDAD had written formally to request a joint meeting to explore ‘ interrelationships ’ . |
| 28 | Rule 24 enables a Chancery master taking an account to request a taxing master to tax any items of ‘ costs ’ comprised in the accounts . |
| 29 | ( 4 ) The Chancery master taking the account has power under Ord. 62 , r. 24 to request a taxing master to tax any of the items of costs , including fees , charges , disbursements , expenses and remuneration , contained in the account . |
| 30 | All items had to be packed so that they weighed less than twenty-two pounds and sometimes there were so many parcels filling the room that it was impossible for other customers to pass through the door ; the postmaster would then telephone the Newtown depot to request a special van to come and collect them . |