Example sentences of "[unc] [noun] [to-vb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is understood that the UK Prime Minister , John Major , is urging the heads of other G7 countries to come to an agreement which would effectively " plug the gap " . |
| 2 | Meanwhile , SI is developing a V9 application binary interface , enabling both V8 and V9 binaries to run on a V9-compliant machine . |
| 3 | From 1250 onwards he received a number of ad hoc commissions to act as a royal justice and was regularly commissioned to act as a gaol delivery justice at Newgate and elsewhere . |
| 4 | Examples of teaching practice are rejected because they seem too remote from the trainees ' own situation : " Yes but … my students would never ( work in pairs/bring things to class/respond to a video screen . ) " |
| 5 | That , and a matching bed bedspread to go with the erm duvet |
| 6 | It has been subcontracted by Intermetrics Inc to define the mappings from Ada9x languages to ANDF for the UK 's Defence Research Agency ( DRA ) , whose Ten15 Distribution Format technology forms the basis of ANDF . |
| 7 | Well , I 'll have to er , send you a copy of my er invitation to renew from the |
| 8 | Topped with the typical cynical yet liberal chorus , ‘ William It Was Really Nothing ’ appeared as a complete condemnation of the ‘ Glenda Brownlow ’ approach towards marriage ; simply another of Morrissey 's attempts to dispense with a traditionally Northern , working class system , an assault on an institution which effectively freezes two people into whatever mundane existence they live , as a blindly accepted method of halting all ambition . |
| 9 | Of course Maastricht 's attempts to deal with a number of important political issues . |
| 10 | His acute political and personal crisis was increased by a direct attack from Michael Heseltine , who said the Chancellor 's attempts to shrug off the trade deficit smacked of ‘ socialist naivety ’ . |
| 11 | In an epistemological parable , ‘ The Man who looked into the Future ’ , Allen Wheelis describes a man 's attempts to escape from the fluidity of the present and imprint value on his life . |
| 12 | Weather conditions had definitely worsened since she went to bed , and she needed Fen 's support to struggle along the towpath in the face of the gale , in order to reach his car . |
| 13 | Li Yuan might as well try to harness Change itself as try to force the boy 's talents to conform to the needs of State . |
| 14 | Lord Denning concluded that the proposition did not apply in this case and that there were reasons which a reasonable minister could entertain and so there was no ground on which the court could interfere with the minister 's decision to ask for a ballot order . |
| 15 | Labour 's decision to vote against the Government provoked a slanging match between all three major parties . |
| 16 | PRESIDENT REAGAN 'S decision to sell off the United States 's weather satellites , which was announced last week , has thrown the world 's meteorological community into confusion . |
| 17 | It is not hard , however , to make a strong case for the view that unrest in a particular part of the empire in 1858 loomed large in the regime 's decision to opt for the version of emancipation which gave peasants land . |
| 18 | Ruskin Spear , on the other hand , thought Minton 's decision to paint in the life room a mistake . |
| 19 | Western Sahara was divided between Morocco and Mauritania under a 1975 treaty following Spain 's decision to withdraw from a region which it had controlled since the 19th century [ see pp. 27575-77 ] . |
| 20 | BASIC DATA Controlled by Spain since the 19th century , Western Sahara was divided between Morocco and Mauritania under the tripartite Madrid agreement of 1975 following Spain 's decision to withdraw from the territory ( see pp. 27575-77 ) . |
| 21 | On June 24 a group of seven reformers — including Damanaki , who had resisted Papariga 's decision to withdraw from the Alliance — had been suspended from the KKE 's central committee . |
| 22 | The government 's decision to withdraw from the contract was felt to be a major reason behind his departure . |
| 23 | The British Government said yesterday it was deeply concerned at North Korea 's decision to withdraw from the treaty , saying the move cast doubt on Pyongyang 's long-term nuclear intentions . |
| 24 | BIIBA has now made a strong complaint to Fimbra about the latter 's decision to withdraw from an agreement made on 18 September which would have allowed BIIBA members , who held existing professional indemnity cover , to renew their existing policies . |
| 25 | The other is that Mr Rabin 's decision to seal off the occupied territories — the closure is now in its second month — has made most Israelis feel a lot safer , and some of them a lot happier about giving up the territories altogether . |
| 26 | He made a good living , and seemed resentful of his wife 's decision to take in a lodger . |
| 27 | But Laird 's trade unionists are still bitter about the council 's decision to object to the proposed Point of Ayr gas terminal the development that could offer a lifeline to the yard if it wins approval . |
| 28 | The biggest change that the end user may find , other than the obvious alterations to the program , is that Letraset are now Adobe 's primary distributor for Europe following McQueen 's decision to move into the manufacturing and acquisition of software rather than its distribution . |
| 29 | Keith Cardwell 's decision to move from the world of commercial photography into the more demanding , and typically less lucrative , area of documentary photography can be almost directly attributed to a TV series , a BBC 1 documentary called The Family . |
| 30 | Likewise , every decision is made as a result of some influence : a patient 's decision to consent to an operation will normally be influenced by the surgeon 's advice as to what will happen if the operation does not take place . |