Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Labour proposals to extend urban boundaries to take in surrounding suburban and rural areas in a pattern of unitary authorities threatened the traditional Labour dominance in the major cities in the non-metropolitan areas . |
| 2 | Mr Freeman last week told the committee of MPs considering the Railways Bill that they will not ask private operators to guarantee off-peak services in areas such as Strathclyde covered by passenger transport executives . |
| 3 | From intensive trading arose changes in the life style , values and population structure of local communities , massive over-use of resources , and the need for new economic inputs to maintain northern communities at even a minimal standard of living . |
| 4 | Today the human species has the knowledge of past mistakes , and the analytical and technical skills to halt destructive trends and to provide an adequate diet for all using lands well suited for agriculture . |
| 5 | With all this intellectual philanthropy , a Russian intelligence gatherer needs no covert skills to extract valuable information . |
| 6 | The only evidence offered by the Israeli authorities to support this allegation was the accusation made by a Palestinian caught in possession of 150 PFLP leaflets . |
| 7 | Apparently there are no specific plans to recruit more scientists to do the job , according to a Pentagon official who oversees the defence department 's research grants to university scientists . |
| 8 | More likely , Sir Patrick 's business will be to continue Mr Peter Brooke 's painstaking attempts to find common ground among Ulster 's politicians . |
| 9 | AMNESTY International 's unrelenting pressure on the Peruvian authorities to respect human rights , initiated by the Peru campaign launched in November 1991 , appears to have a direct effect in helping to reduce the number of people who have ‘ disappeared ’ by the security forces . |
| 10 | The aim will be to encourage discussion between leading professionals from medical and technical disciplines to identify related needs , technological achievements and scope for future exploration in this field . |
| 11 | If elected this year , the party intends to increase the funding to the Crafts Council , but on the condition that the council works with regional authorities to improve retail outlets and also widens its database , and co-ordinates with the Arts and Design councils . |
| 12 | Internationally , the industry is seeking to work with the World Health Organisation , the European Commission and other regional authorities to develop practical alcohol policies . |
| 13 | Colchester Borough Council has employed professional artists to produce giant murals on the gable ends of two shops on the town 's Greenstead estate . |
| 14 | If subjects rated these junctions as relatively low on accident estimates then the types of transfer bias which Poulton ( 1989 , p.238 ) describes could have caused the first few low judgments to inflate subsequent ones . |
| 15 | The declaration committed NATO members " to support reforms undertaken in the central and eastern European states to establish democratic systems of government " and to " related efforts to create modern competitive market-orientated economies " . |
| 16 | The extent of the territory to be administered and the fact that Henry and Eleanor had four strong sons to inherit these lands was to prove a problem . |
| 17 | ‘ We remain greatly concerned by the failure of the Iranian authorities to repudiate this incitement to murder and to repudiate the bounty , ’ the spokesman said . |
| 18 | FRIDAY : The management-employee buy-out bid at Tees & Hartlepool Port Authority was abandoned after possible plans to take legal action over the privatisation process were dropped . |
| 19 | By concentrating public attention on the training , employability and motivation of the unemployed , the Government hope to divert attention both from poverty and personal hardship experienced by claimants and away from the failure of their economic policies to create enough jobs . |
| 20 | The successive wars between the German states and France might be seen as the result of increasing German frustration over failed attempts to reach these markets . |
| 21 | The book explores these consequences by asking how industrial relations in state enterprises respond to economic crisis and to attempts of governments to formulate political programmes to combat that crisis . |
| 22 | USL said it will be taking full advantage of the new established Integrator Buyout Option , which will cost it $150,000 , and will be participating in all X/Open technical programmes to influence future standards . |
| 23 | Government also jumped on the bandwagon , first with wage restraint policies and later with restrictive monetary policies to reduce inflationary pressures . |
| 24 | The special session announced the creation of working groups to overhaul mass organizations and to strengthen participation in the municipal and provincial people 's power system of government ; and it proposed the National Assembly of People 's Power be upgraded to play a more dynamic role in assessing government performance . |
| 25 | Corporate management appeared everywhere , with the development of joint management teams of chief officers , central policy units and sometimes a series of interlocking interdepartmental working groups to cover joint areas of work and policy . |
| 26 | The IPCC has set up three working groups to investigate these points , and will present its report at WMO 's second World Climate Conference in November 1990 . |
| 27 | I says , ‘ I 'll give you two bloody minutes to take that bottle away . ’ |
| 28 | But Chesterfield had no rich merchants to build fine town houses round the market place ; the more prominent families were not conspicuously different from the rest . |
| 29 | It is a significant attempt to use spatial policies to co-ordinate existing research development and future innovations and to facilitate them on the ground . |
| 30 | The movement thus required economic programmes to parallel political ambitions , which would end what was seen as the domination of capitalism . |