Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] [adv prt] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The theatre has cancelled a string of performances and workshops while it finds the money to carry out vital repair work .
2 Historic Scotland commissioned Glasgow University Archaeological Research Division to carry out investigative work in advance of the installation of an improved heating system at the cathedral .
3 One of the main factors underpinning the share price was an anticipated shortage of water shares , because of the decision to scale down overseas allocations to increase the public offer from 23.5 to nearly 30 per cent of the offer .
4 I propose that the new Bill , like the Bill of 1938 , should contain a provision to carry out this recommendation .
5 The Henley Research Centre acts as a focus for research at Henley and offers both organisations and individual managers the opportunity to carry out interdisciplinary research into issues of strategic importance .
6 Henley offers both organisations and individual managers the opportunity to carry out interdisciplinary research into issues of strategic importance .
7 Their only son at the time , a cousin of my father 's called William Bayles Brown , went out on Cotherstone Moor in a snow storm to gather up some sheep , and never came back .
8 I felt sad about this as I have several friends from my Salford days in Hong Kong , but I understand a decision to carry out this action has been put off for some time , so perhaps it was a regrettable necessity .
9 This network will provide high speed , high band width information transfer which will enable the University to carry out leading edge research particularly in areas requiring the use of visualization techniques and rapid access to data banks .
10 The Society are now seeking a skilled modeller to carry out this work and have undertaken to bear the costs involved .
11 This fact meant that Danzigers had far more opportunity to mull over Nazi propaganda and assess for themselves the extent of the Polish , Communist and Jewish ‘ threats ’ .
12 The list includes the need for purpose , love , forgiveness , hope and strength , trust , personal belief and values and the freedom to carry out spiritual practices .
13 5.12.2 Not without the consent in writing of the Landlord to apply for planning permission to carry out any development in or upon the Premises and at the expense of the Tenant to supply the Landlord with a copy of any application for planning permission together with such plans and other documents as the Landlord may [ reasonably ] require and to supply prior to the commencement of any development a copy of any planning permission granted to the Tenant
14 ‘ Through Rugby Travel I get lots of invitations to schools and clubs — I did nine sessions in two days in Northern Ireland recently — and it 's a good opportunity to try out different moves .
15 Wearing specific copies of uniforms also gives children the opportunity to try out occupational roles , such as astronauts , or nurses as well as fancy roles like robots , or witches .
16 An inability to work up any enthusiasm for an Everton attack .
17 ‘ It does n't take a rocket scientist to work out that doubling productivity , and therefore halving the number of wells we have to drill , will greatly improve the economics of our activities in Colombia . ’
18 This small country in Central America was one of the first to seize the opportunity to write off international debt by trading a commitment to large-scale national nature conservation , and that good start is being taken much further .
19 This approach contravenes currently fashionable Human Factors methodology that there should be a formal attempt to carry out man-machine allocation .
20 Naturally , when I made this suggestion to St John and his sisters , they protested strongly , and it was with great difficulty that I finally managed to convince them of my firm intention to carry out this plan .
21 A secret report obtained by The Northern Echo says the authority has earmarked just £590 for publicity and advertising in a bid to drum up more visitors .
22 ‘ Documenta ’ is not even an attempt to sum up contemporary art , but is an expression of very personal viewpoints .
23 I mean , that takes a bit of research to find out these things ?
24 But some libraries subdivide initially by subject , allowing the department to sort out relative expenditure on books and periodicals .
25 It could have been intended to foment differences between the Western powers over the American intention to set up Rapid Deployment Forces in the Middle East , and over the suggestion that the area of responsibility for NATO be extended outside Europe .
26 He was using my car to pick up another girlfriend at the airport .
27 A GUIDE through the red tape to set up after-school care schemes has been launched by Cleveland Council for Voluntary Service .
28 At the same time I practised assiduously my calculus of personal ritual to ward off any kind of eidesis .
29 This latest attempt to sort out local taxation has all the hallmarks of another fiasco .
30 The DBTG also specified a language to set up the logical schema , called the data description language ( DDL ) and a DDL to set up particular user views ( sub-schemas ) of the data structures .
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