Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Says organiser Rob Smith : ‘ We are offering a unique opportunity to enjoy a unique series of events in unique surroundings . |
| 32 | A protocol on banking , which asked the heads of central banks in CIS member states to set up a co-ordinating body , was reinforced by their decision to conduct a co-ordinated finance policy , reported on March 17 . |
| 33 | The President of the Public Broadcasting Association of Australia ( PBAA ) , Dr Jeff Langdon , has welcomed the decision to conduct a Parliamentary inquiry into the non-commercial use of the channel . |
| 34 | The strategy is currently being developed by regional health authorities , which have the responsibility to plan a coherent programme . |
| 35 | The number of patients intolerant of the diet is disappointingly high and together with inability to sustain a prolonged remission , elemental diet treatment does have its disadvantages . |
| 36 | The stolid sexton , James Whiting , had to find a bit more space in her grave to accommodate a certain Mary Humphries ; we know her — she is Thomas the Calvinist 's daughter Mary , née Titford , who had married Stephen Humphries of Devizes in 1752 . |
| 37 | To our knowledge , this is the first controlled trial to compare a polymeric formula enteral diet v steroids in the treatment of active Crohn 's disease . |
| 38 | agreed : ‘ It is not a sign of weakness to attend a stress-management course . ’ |
| 39 | Pop can be sufficient intoxication to induce a different state of being , other than the one in which you exist . |
| 40 | Local education authorities should not be allowed to evade their responsibility to implement a full policy for the promotion of community languages . |
| 41 | Then down the lane to borrow a slating ladder , the one that hooks over the roof ridge . |
| 42 | With the goal of curriculum enhancement it was possible for a junior member of staff with specific subject expertise to support a senior colleague without such expertise ; but when the goal was professional development it required a clear status differential between senior partner as trainer or consultant and junior partner as trainee or client . |
| 43 | Some observers have attributed the Soviet Union 's apparent willingness to carry a high trade deficit with almost all of its trading partners in Latin America to the fact that it is using trade primarily as a political instrument in order to increase its influence within the region . |
| 44 | With the decision to include a four track sequencer on the GR-1 , the implications are manifold . |
| 45 | The first was the proposal by the Southern Gas Board to erect a 39-metre-high gasholder in the historic centre of Abingdon . |
| 46 | Lack of communication and the inability to see a differing point of view are cited as being the main causes . |
| 47 | The reason for building a high mutation rate into the model is that the whole performance on the computer screen is for the benefit of human eyes , and humans have n't the patience to wait a million generations for a mutation ! |
| 48 | Greenpeace has won permission to mount a High Court challenge to the opening of British Nuclear Fuels ' ( BNFL 's ) thermal oxide reprocessing plant at Sellafield . |
| 49 | Feargal McSorley from BAT said : ‘ Many of those who attended Tuesday 's performance are involved in drama groups within their school or youth club , so of course they are delighted to get the opportunity to see a modern classic being staged by the very talented opera company . ’ |
| 50 | The lucky denizens of East Anglia are being given a rare opportunity to see a magnificent selection of 16th century drawings loaned form the British Museum 's great collection , which is only occasionally exhibited to the general public . |
| 51 | The opportunity to see a semantic net and dynamically generate outlines from it may help authors mold the desired document . |
| 52 | ‘ He 's not the first striker to go a few games without scoring , ’ Alex Smith , the Aberdeen manager , said . |
| 53 | He said if Hal would get the American clearance , he would look after Russian permission to carry a Canadian journalist and radio man into his country and back . |
| 54 | When Henry Vizetelly was prosecuted in 1888 under the obscenity laws for publishing an English translation of Zola 's novel La Terre , purists seized the opportunity to mount a sustained assault on the morally pernicious influence of French culture . |
| 55 | I was recently given permission to search a derelict town house and made a 50/50 agreement with the owner as to the value of any finds . |
| 56 | ‘ The Labour Party must produce policies which convince voters that their own prosperity depends on a government which takes active responsibility to promote a strong economy and that their own security — and that of their families — is best advanced by a government which works for the welfare of the whole community . ’ |
| 57 | Whatever passed between him and Bellarmine in 1616 , his freedom to champion a moving earth had clearly been curbed , even if at that stage — as Bellarmine confirmed in a signed affidavit — there had been neither abjuration nor penance . |
| 58 | The direction of your movements should always be towards the heart to encourage a good flow of blood , and therefore nutrients , to the part being treated . |
| 59 | For the Profitboss it is an opportunity to provide a new challenge to Steve Lockhart , the graduate trainee in Personnel who 's won the confidence of the line management in engineering . |
| 60 | I take in my opinion the size , scale of settlement that is being pursued by erm North Yorkshire is of sufficient size , erm my experience erm are twelve fifty to fifteen hundred new settlement is sort of of a size that can sustain a reasonable balance of community facilities , I think in looking at the new village and in the context of P P G thirteen its highway implications , we see from table one of er Mr Curtis 's supplementary statement that public transport , I E bus and train , in terms of journeys to work to the Greater York area amounts to about eight percent of all journeys made , now I think if we were to follow Mr Curtis 's view through and put all development on the periphery of York , if we put two hundred to the North , two hundred to the East , two hundred to the South and so on and so forth , the contribution that those , that new housing can make to improving the public transport system , will be very small , if you concentrate your developments in a new settlement , or or maybe two new settlements which is another point , erm you have a better opportunity to provide a public transport system which would not only serve that new village , but also settlements in the surroundings , and I think you will find that the percentage of people in the new village who are reliant on public transport as a means of getting to work is greater that what you find in the Greater York area at the present time . |