Example sentences of "[noun pl] [to-vb] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Kirov took only a few more minutes to search the small studio from top to bottom .
2 Although Kanemaru had been personally grooming Ichiro Ozawa as his successor , the circumstances of his retirement allowed Ozawa 's opponents to mount an effective campaign against his succession .
3 It is often complained of by many that a meeting will take five minutes to agree the expenditure of ten million and two hours to debate a minor item worth only a few thousand .
4 The Department has plans to promote a wide range of activities for the community as a whole and to work closely with other bodies in the field to ensure the fullest use of resources .
5 ‘ Sir David English was not informed of the visit and in consequence had no plans to attend the Ideal Home Exhibition that day , ’ the official statement announced .
6 Using some scraps of board , it is worth experimenting with exposure times to optimise the UV time period .
7 The private sector would remain separate and the public would have the right to be covered by it if they wished — having first paid their taxes to support the general service .
8 The ideal is to have several simply-administered taxes to support the national exchequer , levied after people have earned their pay or income .
9 The Cuban decision raised immediate fears in the USA that the 1980 officially sanctioned exodus of 125,000 Cubans [ see pp. 30474-75 ] might be repeated , and there were reports that the US navy was reviewing contingency plans to mount a naval blockade .
10 The ( unnamed ) organization responsible for the conspiracy was said to be directed by a committee of 75 members , and there were also allegations of plans to mount a money-laundering operation .
11 Drains to carry the dirty water underground to the main sewer , septic tank or cesspool .
12 The unit 's findings are based on a variety of factors such as : *more travel is likely to be for leisure purposes , with people taking greater advantage of greater access to the countryside *there simply is n't enough space in the cities to accommodate the predicted number of privately owned cars .
13 Although the confusion of shifts in allegiance within the various loyalist groupings made it difficult for contemporaries to see the underlying direction of change , with hindsight we can see a simplification of unionist politics .
14 The classic case is the famous opening scene of Le bourgeois gentilhomme , in which a hopelessly inept student , singing soprano , attempts to perform a languorous love song .
15 In the 1991 Employee Report , we outlined our plans to penetrate the Middle East market .
16 Market traders were put out when it was announced they would be losing their pitches to accommodate the big top .
17 From early on , Hollywood used British stories and lured British actors , later also directors and technicians , across the Atlantic , while making a mint out of British cinemagoers and developing strategies to drive the local product off the nation 's screens .
18 The port principally connected with this was Bristol , and it may have been the existence of surplus tonnage that led its seamen to turn their attention to new ventures in the fifteenth century , including both attempts to penetrate the Mediterranean trade and the later voyages into the Atlantic .
19 They may also partly explain the limited success of attempts to induce a full programme of T-cell development using either monolayer cultures of a single thymic stromal cell type , or cocktails of cytokines .
20 However , creditors or other claimants whose attempts to sue a subsidiary go unsatisfied remain unlikely to be able to probe behind the separate legal personality of the companies to challenge the parent .
21 Mr Thomas wished his sons to enjoy the best education he could provide , partly as a means of fulfilling their intellectual potential , but even more as a necessary upward step on the social-economic scale .
22 To protect the black child we need to develop strategies to enable the white family to become open so that there can be reciprocity between white and black society .
23 Registered foreign lawyers are not permitted to carry out activities reserved to solicitors , but MNPs may employ assistant solicitors to perform the full range of solicitors ' services for clients of the practice .
24 Tom Shakeshaft , who is 15 , reveals his dismay at plans to drive a dual carriageway right through the beautiful piece of countryside where he lives .
25 Before I leave , I stop by Contracts to sprinkle a little salt in the wounds of deskbound Nick Thumb by describing ( almost ) all the fun of the Fair .
26 With the Irish party abstaining , both English and Irish Roman catholic bishops began to pressurize the leader of the Irish party , Redmond , and his associates to support the Conservative bill .
27 He had worked long hours to acquire a complete understanding of the Plan and to learn Mark 's presentation word for word .
28 As regards degree courses themselves , some are broader than others , and in effect provide a foundation for subsequent specialized postgraduate education or training ; indeed , it may be more accurate in some cases to see the whole process as a four-year not three-year one , consisting of three foundation years followed by a specialized professional post-graduate year .
29 Years later it was divided into three houses to accommodate a growing family , and now the middle house and its crumbling neighbours belonged to Smallfry and Buddie .
30 The Diary 's attempts to arrange a late night drink with her ( ‘ she has to be home by 10.30 , ’ said her secretary , stealing 90 minutes on Cinderella ) were re-routed into breakfast at 8.15am .
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