Example sentences of "[verb] an [adj] [noun pl] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The SDP also favoured the welfare state and state action to reduce unemployment but argued that government control of the economy must include an effective incomes policy if ruinous inflation is to be avoided .
2 Essex has an equal opportunities policy which should mean that adults with special educational needs are well represented among its students and this is , indeed , the case .
3 Our college , and authority , now has an equal opportunities policy document .
4 In that sense , Britain already has an armed police force .
5 Zell am See also has an excellent Sports Centre , with an indoor swimming pool and sauna .
6 We say loud and clear the masses of ordinary women are our inspiration , build an autonomous peoples movement !
7 Maybe it 's like driving an expensive sports car : you ease through city traffic , choking on fumes and endless queueing , and then you finally edge out onto a motorway , you drop down into a stronger gear , and you press the accelerator .
8 One coronory care unti in five operated an age-related admissions policy .
9 Notwithstanding this , the BBC also hopes that older viewers who have had their powers of endurance tested once too often by The Late Show 's cold-blooded eclecticism , may welcome an audience-friendly arts magazine .
10 Over a quarter of respondents claimed that their organisation was either implementing and operating an Open Systems strategy .
11 Perhaps the expats could do an Old Codgers Corner .
12 Next month the Russian research Institute of Information Technologies and the firm ArgusSoft are due to open an Open Systems training centre equipped with Sun Microsystems Inc Sparcstations .
13 Next years competition brief is to design an energy-efficient ceramics factory producing heavy-duty decorative tiles for buildings .
14 Because we must remember that Iraq has already had an eight years war and they 're used to a war , they used to withstanding a war and it was the only reason that Britain survived in the last world war because it could withstand attack , and wait and wait until they were ready to counter attack .
15 A few authorities , however , have long had a formal policy of allowing parents to see their children 's school records , and individual schools have sometimes had an open files policy and reported beneficial results to the motivation of pupils and relations with parents .
16 Second , while two thirds of respondents espoused an open systems policy , in reality few are adopting it — again , open systems is regarded as a technology to keep the computing professionals amused rather than something that will show real business benefits .
17 ICI , the chemicals giant , is paying $193million ( £120million ) to buy an American explosives manufacturer .
18 Fujitsu Ltd has opened an Open Systems Integration Centre in its Systems Laboratories in Kamata on the outskirts of Tokyo .
19 I mean , I do I do take your point about the culture , and it and it 's it is a significant issue , which will take some time , I mean , probably wi with your experience in Social Services you 'll know that a substantial number of directors of Social Services are in fact female , and maybe one of the questions that we have to ask at a senior level is , our s senior erm , chief officers , erm , the fact that we 've got no woman , chief officer , and it may well be because now that we 've got an equal opportunities policy , that we may get applications from erm , very able women who see that we have got a clear commitment to equal opportunities demonstrated in this paper .
20 This book — covering labour , the workplace , tools , materials , information and money — will help you become an efficient resources manager .
21 It was in a cinema on 86th Street where he sat in the balcony , wearing an old sports jacket and open-necked shirt .
22 When bad weather threatened an American Airlines flight from Chicago to New York the pilot , it emerges , offered his passengers the choice : shall we turn back or go on ?
23 Jack Jones himself remained poised , perhaps torn , between his traditional stance as a union negotiator committed to autonomy and his wider view of the need to recast an adversarial industrial-relations system .
24 The two leaders on June 17 signed an unprecedented arms reduction agreement which would eventually cut the two powers ' nuclear arsenals by two-thirds , going far beyond the START treaty signed by President Bush and President Gorbachev of the Soviet Union in July 1991 [ see p. 38320 ] .
25 And I will , although he 's here , thank him in front of him , moving mountains to make sure we get an increased police presence in .
26 Nance Frank , one who was dropped , tried to put an all women crew together but failed dismally .
27 At the UK 's IBM ‘ 93 Show in Birmingham last week , IBM UK Ltd became the first IBM company in Europe to publish an Open Options Catalogue of IBM and third party products available through mail order .
28 The Local Police Authority ( made up of twelve elected councillors and six appointed magistrates ) is responsible for maintaining an adequate police force ( i.e. in terms of finance , equipment , accommodation and personnel ) , and making arrangements for local consultation .
29 Blood samples were collected from all available family members and DNA extracted from the leucocytes using an Applied Biosystems Model 340 DNA Extractor .
30 The use of B avoids the problem of estimating the normal level of government expenditure which , ADD argue , Barro handles inconsistently since he assumes that agents form their expectations about normal government expenditure using an adaptive expectations mechanism , while assuming that agents form their expectations rationally elsewhere in the system .
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