Example sentences of "[noun pl] [to-vb] [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over the next three years it will be helping and encouraging authorities to gather information about the needs and preferences of local carers , to use this information to work out plans for improving carer support , and to ensure that caring for carers becomes an integral component of mainstream community care services . |
| 2 | Alongside the organisational changes aiming to improve exchanges between Government , the science base , and industry , the industry departments , supported by the Department of Trade and Industry 's ( DTI 's ) Innovation Unit , intend to scale up their activities to promote awareness of the importance of innovation among senior managers in the business community . |
| 3 | * The government is to host a further meeting in Tunis in April , when representatives of Western donors and multilateral agencies will consolidate plans to continue support for the environmental programme . |
| 4 | The proposals to combat discrimination within the profession have not met with the support I would have hoped for . |
| 5 | By the late 1920s and the early 1930s , governments were encouraging employers to rationalize coal along the lines laid clown by the Samuel Commission , whereby small units would be incorporated into larger units and be closed , as in shipbuilding , cotton and other industries . |
| 6 | The adoption in the 1950s and 1960s by western economies of demand-management policies to combat unemployment in the main kept unemployment rates down and we saw no return to the extremely high unemployment rates of the 1930s . |
| 7 | The plans , put forward by Environment Minister David Trippier , would involve each country disposing of its own waste and would alter the European Commission 's plans to enforce disposal at the nearest plant , regardless of cost . |
| 8 | Plans to revive part of the old railworks in Swindon have been sabotaged . |
| 9 | It also calls on the government to act on the relevant commitments it made at the UNCED summit [ see ED 59/60 ] , and on the major supermarket chains to provide information on the biodiversity of the foods they stock . |
| 10 | Coupled with attempts to provide compensation for the victims of crime , they represent an attractive package to a public deeply concerned with crime . |
| 11 | In contrast , Section 11 grants available since 1966 to some authorities to provide funding for the special needs of ethnic minority pupils , have tended to marginalize spending on black pupils . |
| 12 | The first charity began in 1659 , when Simon Smith gave by his will £5 , the interest of six shillings to provide bread for the poor on Easter Day . |
| 13 | By eligible bills is meant any instrument which the Bank is prepared to buy as part of its money market operations to adjust liquidity in the banking system . |
| 14 | When the library opens in 1995/6 there will be 100,000 volumes accessible digitally , but there are also plans to provide access by the year 2000 to a wide range of multimedia resources from sound recordings , to moving pictures , to radio programmes , to television programmes , to still images ( Fresko 1993 ) . |
| 15 | ( In passing this is why how and why can function as interrogative adverbs to request identification of the means required to achieve some end or the reason for something . ) |
| 16 | De Luca , alleged to be a member of the BR , was wanted by the Italian authorities to stand trial for the murder of a DC senator Roberto Ruffilli in 1988 [ see p. 35989 ] . |
| 17 | For many , the task of policing relaxed consents was a source of considerable professional embarrassment following their attempts to secure compliance with the former , stricter , standards . |
| 18 | He failed in three attempts to secure election to the Trades Union Congress 's parliamentary committee , but he represented the vellum binders at the foundation conference of the labour representation committee in February 1900 , and was elected to its executive . |
| 19 | ‘ So there will have to be some block contracts to provide predictability for the provider , ’ says Stephenson . |
| 20 | ‘ As chief executive of a large local authority , I employ solicitors to provide advice to the departments on many matters including child care , planning law , and negotiating with building contractors . |
| 21 | Prior to their purchase of the building , the owner of the adjoining mill house had made two attempts to obtain permission from the local authority to change the use of the mill from industrial premises into a dwelling , but it was only with the current owners ' application of 1977 that planning permission for this change was granted . |
| 22 | For those who have never been involved in the arts the exchange offers a wide range of opportunities to invest money with the aim of obtaining hard currency under a transfer deal system . |
| 23 | The Indonesian government has proposed the levying of a toll on ships passing through the Malacca strait to raise funds to combat pollution in the heavily used seaway . |
| 24 | With China 's international reputation already badly tarnished by its bloody suppression of protesters in Tiananmen Square , the Nobel Committee decision focuses attention on the use of equally brutal , though largely ignored , methods to silence opposition in the Himalayas . |
| 25 | It had long been a tradition for Roman emperors to claim descent from the gods , and on that basis to claim godhood for themselves as well . |
| 26 | Municipal sewage works have used such methods to treat sewage since the early 1900s and the biogas produced , which consists on average of 70 per cent methane and 30 per cent carbon dioxide ( Hawkes and Hawkes 1987 ) , can be used to power the digestion plant itself . |
| 27 | Their leader , Tran Van Giau , used extreme methods to enforce compliance from the people which probably went beyond the policy of Ho . |
| 28 | Heavy demands are placed on schools to find time in the curriculum for a wide range of individually worthwhile activities and difficult decisions have to be made about priorities . |
| 29 | The " Hallelujah lasses " had been used to raising their own voices in protest and employing some fairly dramatic methods to attract attention from the time Catherine Booth took up the cudgels on behalf of women in the early days of the movement . |
| 30 | The teachers appear to operate a very rigid model of the dual labour market and seem to make no effort to encourage their girl pupils to struggle against it ; on the contrary , they take positive steps to encourage passivity in the face of obstacles . |