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

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1 Arianespace has won a contract to launch a communications satellite for Eutelsat : the contract , Arianespace 's sixth this year , will take its order book to 37 birds worth $3,000m ; Eutelsat II F5 will go up an Ariane 4 rocket from the Kourou Space Centre in French Guiana at the end of 1993 or early next year .
2 Arrangements are currently under way for the University to provide the Graduates Association with more help and assistance for the future and to use the lists of the alumni that have recently been compiled , to help them enlist new members .
3 Designed by a German scientific team led by Rudolf Gantenbrink , the robot climbed at 45° up the 65 metre long passageway to find a portcullis type slab at the other end with large copper handles .
4 British Telecommunications Plc has won its biggest network contract yet , a multi-million pound five-year deal to provide a communications network to the Eurocontrol European air traffic control co-ordination body .
5 Any attempt to define a futures contract is likely to be unsatisfactory in some respect .
6 Press Esc to view the Options menu .
7 The use of the ‘ Fax Box and Jargon Box ’ is good and the general attempt to imitate the Windows desktop is a good idea but would work much better if less cluttered .
8 The Institute set up an independent Financial Reporting Commission last year , which was chaired by Dr Louden Ryan , former governor of the Bank of Ireland , in an attempt to address the expectations gap ( see ACCOUNTANCY , June 1991 , p 14 ) .
9 The Future Development of Auditing , issued by the Auditing Practices Board , is the most important attempt to bridge the expectations gap that has ever been made by the British profession .
10 They urged the President to hold a police inquiry into the killings and called on Congress to set up an investigation into links between the police and the death squads .
11 During this time George continued his studies both by correspondence and at night classes until he achieved his ambition to get the letters AMIMechE after his name .
12 To avoid ambiguity it is good practice to complete the comments section even if the current version is required .
13 ‘ Hey thanks , Chief … but I reckon this could be a blatant attempt to influence a police officer in the execution of his duty . ’
14 During a visit to Damascus by the Director-General of the International Atomic Energy Agency ( IAEA ) , Hans Blix , ash-Shar " announced on Feb. 9 Syria 's willingness to reach a safeguards agreement permitting the IAEA to inspect all nuclear facilities in Syria
15 Coun Richmond believes the authority squandered the opportunity to create a shops development in part of the town centre which could be hit by the new Cornmill shopping complex .
16 Double click on the ‘ Applications ’ icon to open the Applications window and all the installed application icons will be displayed .
17 He was the first European to win a Masters title and the difference between him doing that and Tony Jacklin winning the US Open in 1970 is that by the Eighties there were other talents ready to be inspired by the Ballesteros achievement .
18 The company , which has no plan to put the Windows Application Programming Interface into the public domain , characterises the Public Windows Interface initiative as ‘ farcical ’ .
19 The campaign to keep the Kuwaitis plight in the public eye is organised from a semi-detached house in central London .
20 Ken Edwards , vice-chancellor of Leicester University , voted against the proposal to investigate the fees option .
21 Another feature that we welcome is that manufacturers are now investing here in the manufacture of equipment to supply the telecommunications industry because of the strength of the underlying service provision in this country .
22 The project had been effectively nullified by the UN embargo on Iraq following its invasion of Kuwait , and by a decision by the US Congress during the ensuing Gulf war to stiffen a sanctions law preventing technology transfers , including non-military , to countries producing missiles .
23 Meanwhile I 've walked into the Ops Room to find the Ops Officer with his feet on his desk eating Smarties , thinking about an Op order he is due to write .
24 In practice the onus is on the plaintiff to obtain the police report and it should be borne in mind that the police destroy such reports as a matter of course after a relatively short period .
25 But few famous folk attracted more attention than Neil Bush , in town to launch a sports channel and to root for the Eagles .
26 Gradually the idea of serving the king in his wars was being replaced by the need to serve the res publica , a less particular and more all-embracing higher good .
27 This Union needs no convincing , nor does the Labour Party , of the need to retain the Wages Council .
28 No responsibility can be accepted for failure to contact the claims office within the stated hours .
29 And by this stage in this commentary , he wrote , there is no need to qualify the words success , triumph , and the rest , qualifications can be taken as read .
30 pay attention to get the Tats list
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