Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] a [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Any attempt to define a futures contract is likely to be unsatisfactory in some respect . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ Hey thanks , Chief … but I reckon this could be a blatant attempt to influence a police officer in the execution of his duty . ’ |
| 7 | 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 |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | But few famous folk attracted more attention than Neil Bush , in town to launch a sports channel and to root for the Eagles . |
| 12 | He left wearing a dinner suit to attend an awards dinner at the Portman Hotel in Marble Arch . |
| 13 | To some extent , a post-White Paper NHS offers scope to reduce a managers dissonance . |
| 14 | You know , there 's no point in wasting your time you know , logging everybody else , and you go to the boss , and you say , boss you know that personal management skills course that I , you said I should go on , so you proving what , you know , what a good person you are , because you 've remembered a month later what the course was called , erm , I , I was told on that course to keep an interruptions log , so you 're proving , you know , that you are a good person when you 've done this , and i see from this that a great deal of your valuable time is being eroded by my humble concerns , you know , something like that . |
| 15 | bid for a contract to run a careers service on their own |
| 16 | Emma was Captain of the School 's under 12 soccer team … and today her friends started a collection to buy a sports trophy to be presented in her memory . |
| 17 | The US , having failed to persuade Britain or the OEEC to pursue a customs union , gave strong support to the Schuman Plan . |
| 18 | Colleagues , to allow a trades council delegate to represent a trades council view , which could mean an official or member of a trades union speaking in opposition to its national policy , would be unacceptable . |
| 19 | The first woman to place a lonely-hearts advertisement in a British newspaper was Helen Morrison , a spinster of Manchester . |
| 20 | Miss Menzies suddenly stood up , looked him straight in the eyes and said , ‘ Do you know it 's a very serious offence to impersonate a police officer ? ’ |
| 21 | That was good enough for BA to launch a rights issue to raise £442m to pay for its grand ambition : to become the first and biggest global airline . |
| 22 | The midwife — ’ here she hesitated ‘ — was very worried , and sent for the doctor to do a forceps delivery . |
| 23 | The United States is lukewarm to the Vance-Owen plan while the Europeans are resisting U.S. pressure to lift an arms embargo against the Bosnian Muslims . |
| 24 | The two parties were reported to have agreed in principle to create a customs union and a currency zone in which future separate currencies would be linked by a fixed exchange rate . |
| 25 | Now it says on average for , and then essentially we looked at the three main support of erm protectionist powers , like the E E C , U S A and Japan right , and they said that on average alright for every one dollar benefit alright for every one dollar benefit , one agricultural support , right it actually costs right one one fifty dollars of the general statistics in order to give a pounds worth of support to domestic farmers , we er have to find one pounds fifty right . |
| 26 | That is not the way to run a police force , and that is why police morale is low . |
| 27 | Similarly , a power entitling a landlord to re-enter for " building sites or planting or other purposes " did not entitle him to re-enter in order to build a sports stadium ( Coats v Diment [ 1951 ] 1 All ER 890 ) . |
| 28 | For most students , the decision to follow an arts path or a sciences path is made at the age of 16 , when choosing A levels ; for some students , it is made earlier , at 14 , or , for a very few students , those who have kept their options open , later , after A level . |
| 29 | Few Zambians other than Mr Vibetti questioned the use of government finance to subsidize a communications medium whose main output was then mostly imported and often in conflict with the values both of its audience and of the government that financed it . |
| 30 | At a pre-hearing review the chairman would have power to give a costs warning and to order the payment of a deposit . |