Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [to-vb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At an extraordinary general meeting last Thursday , Spectrum 's shareholders agreed to form a consortium , Harmony Investments , which has pledged to inject at least £600,000 into the station to cover debts estimated at £450,000 . |
| 2 | Employers tend to use a range of recruitment strategies employing a number of devices . |
| 3 | Despite their differences , both views tend to support a tightening of the law on pornography . |
| 4 | The Efta states agreed to make a contribution to the Community budget in return for participation in the market . |
| 5 | More fundamentally , many courts failed to find a basis for the first resort approach . |
| 6 | After backroom lobbying by presidential aides , the organising committee of the Congress of People 's Deputies agreed to drop a resolution that would have recommended that Mr Yeltsin should be deprived of his post of Prime Minister and the right to select his Cabinet . |
| 7 | The sessions involve boys that Spurs want to have a look at and among the 16 taking part tomorrow will be two already signed — Paul McVeigh and Jason Carlisle . |
| 8 | Concern swung away from programmes designed to reschedule a reduction of service costs , back towards the earlier aspiration of redemption . |
| 9 | These bodies regarded the cultural form as part of a commercialized industry and were unwilling to provide grants for activities designed to make a profit . |
| 10 | The TVEI was set up in 1983 as a series of pilot projects designed to test a variety of different methods and approaches , and was extended in 1987 , becoming a national scheme intended , eventually , to be available to all 14–18-year-olds , irrespective of ability . |
| 11 | At present the new authorities appear to display a mixture of helplessness within the Russian Federal democracy and cynical enjoyment of a position of power . |
| 12 | Again and again in the fifth and fourth centuries the other Greek states tried to get a hold on Thessaly . |
| 13 | In other words , if a majority of member states want to adopt a piece of legislation which has the effect of transferring sovereign powers from national governments to the European Community institutions , that is at one and the same time an expression of national interest . ’ |
| 14 | Will Compact employers expect to have a role in the management and curriculum of the school ? |
| 15 | A number of other values appear to play a part , although these are less overt . |
| 16 | Johnny Miller is one of a handful of cricket fanzines struggling to find a readership on the fringe of the mainstream of cricket consciousness . |
| 17 | Water flowing over the ground surface as overland flow cuts channels , and these channels combine to form a stream network . |
| 18 | David Taylor examines how words and pictures combine to tell a story |
| 19 | The results of these contradictions tend to follow a pattern . |
| 20 | Linguistic units tend to form a hierarchy of extent . |
| 21 | In your letter you said two four hour sessions failed to pull a response . |
| 22 | A breakthrough was made in September in the search for a peaceful settlement of the Cambodian conflict when the warring parties agreed to implement a UN peace plan . |
| 23 | Overconstrained designs tend to become a compromise between these well defined parameters , which generally leads to low-risk , slow product development . |
| 24 | In the weeks preceding her dismissal , she was beset by rumours of dissent within her own party and on Aug 5 it was announced that the Combined Opposition Parties intended to table a motion of no confidence against her government . |
| 25 | Typical questions relating to this need would be : has the education authority enough funds to continue to provide a place for all school-age pupils ? |
| 26 | The legislation at present does not require delegation to special schools , nursery schools or primary schools with less than 200 pupils , but each of the primary schools has to have a budget share which is managed individually . |
| 27 | While the mechanics were setting up the cars , she thought she 'd go outside into one of the empty stands to try to find a breath of wind , anything rather than standing in the back of the pits in the high humidity which made her skin glow . |
| 28 | Those financing the advertising of parties expect to receive a return on their outlay . |
| 29 | On Scotland 's Grand Slam night in 1984 , for instance , some England supporters tried to steal a soup tureen from what was then the Claret Jug in Great King Street . |
| 30 | It is open to parties to try to avoid a prohibition decision by offering appropriate undertakings to the Commission . |