Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [to-vb] [adv prt] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | As there was no other business the Conference concluded quickly after its momentous decision to set up a national organisation of the deaf and dumb . |
| 2 | In fact , we are at the New Athenaeum Theatre at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama where New Moves is presenting the Vicente Saez company from Spain , the first of three European groups to round off a superb season of dance . |
| 3 | The position of the Socialist Unity Party — Party of Democratic Socialism ( SED-PDS — since December the new name of the communist Socialist Unity Party or SED — see pp. 37107-09 ) had been badly damaged over its controversial attempt to set up a successor organization to the hated State Security police or " Stasi " . |
| 4 | THE week 's news was dominated by Chancellor Nigel Lawson 's failed attempt to stave off a rise in bank base rates . |
| 5 | Repeated attempts to start up a newly refitted reactor were delayed by a series of minor faults , including a small fire , insulation problems , and pump failures . |
| 6 | They use their chisel-like teeth to dig out a complex system of burrows , and solidify the ceilings by pressing the soil with their flattened heads . |
| 7 | For all three authors the ultimate source of royal authority is not God , or tradition , but the people , whether through some original popular decision to set up a monarchy , or through a constantly renewed popular choice of rulers . |
| 8 | Neutrality on a subject like male prostitution ( Masculinity NI 175 ) and child absue ‘ men bring their 12-year old sons to try out a travesti ’ is a political cop-out . |
| 9 | Its use of public money to set up a network of city technology colleges in joint ventures with businesses mocked the needs of the majority of children . |
| 10 | Clare Murphy , garden centre department manager , comes inside from the damp outdoors to check out a feature new to Homebase . |
| 11 | said there had probably never been a better time than now for a private company or public body to carry out a property audit . |
| 12 | For example , the Bank of England would hardly have hesitated in the old days to close down a bank like BCCI , knowing that few first-rate domestic institutions were prepared to deal with it in quantity . |
| 13 | You can help the old grandma to keep up a supply of hot water . ’ |
| 14 | I have asked Lord Ferrers to work on this with the Chief Police Officers , Sir George Young at the Department of Environment and Nick Scott at the Department of Social Security to draw up a strong package of measures which can improve our ability to protect the rural public against these parasites . |
| 15 | It will then be the responsibility of the Department of Social Security to take out a maintainance order against the father , although the form of the order should be such that the order continues to operate when the mother leaves welfare . |
| 16 | DAVID Mellor admitted last night that he called in British diplomats to sort out a water crisis during his Marbella villa freebie with his family . |
| 17 | Does the Minister agree that no matter what progress is made in energy efficiency — in Wales or in the west country , for example — it could all come to nothing if the Government press ahead and force British Gas to start up a new company for the transportation of gas through its pipelines ? |
| 18 | This is a delightful , funny , quirky old thriller , belting along on high octane enthusiasm and using its copious quantities of High Tech to dress up a more human story which gleefully sings the praises of Spirit over Machine . |
| 19 | That left Pitcher undefeated on 32 and the Light Blues to mull over a 133-run defeat that might have been much more comprehensive . |
| 20 | Hewlett-Packard is going to try to steal some of Sun 's thunder this week by getting their top honchos to roll out a high-end multi-processor , reportedly code named Emerald , that will come to use the recently announced 7100 PA-RISC chip . |
| 21 | When Czechoslovakia was in terminal crisis she raised money from the Royal Institute of British Architects to bring back a planeload of children from Prague . |
| 22 | Public NME takes a dim view of types who persecute innocent human beings who just happen to enjoy the feel of women 's lingerie against their bollocks , but did find it quite funny that the be-wigged ‘ bomb victims ’ were so convinced it was an aerial attack they raced into a nearby hotel to beat up a perfectly innocent couple snogging on a balcony . |
| 23 | Having publicly committed themselves to extending legislation to protect residents in small private residential care homes , the Government left it to a Back-Bench Member to bring in a Bill , and they have done the same thing again . |
| 24 | It 's a peculiar way to carry on a war , is n't it ? |
| 25 | Bill has plenty more photographs and stories about his walk and if it proves popular hopes to bring out a hardback guidebook . |
| 26 | Tories say the way forward is to work closely with the private sector to set up a scheme similar to that undertaken by Halton Council , which is aiming for 90% recycling . |
| 27 | It also feared that a coalition with the anti-fascist forces might create similar problems to those which the Labour government of 1929–3 I faced when relying upon Liberal support to carry out a legislative programme . |
| 28 | In some ways these experiences both alleviate the problem as well as reproduce it , since it enables some outside income to prop up a failing agricultural economy postponing either abandonment of the area and/or more radical transformations . |
| 29 | Mill Reef returned to Longchamp the following spring to notch up a ten-length victory in the Prix Ganay , but after a lacklustre display when beating Homeric a neck in the Coronation Cup at Epsom he did not race again : he was being prepared for a second Arc when on 30 August 1972 he fractured a foreleg on the gallops , and was retired to stud . |
| 30 | This required LEAs to set up a careers service . |