Example sentences of "[vb pp] [verb] [adv prt] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is also intended to carry out a number of modifications to the current listings , and to introduce new features which will broaden the usefulness of the Directory . |
| 2 | A procedure on the other hand , is specifically intended to carry out a number of actions , some of which may affect program variables , but it does not directly return a result . |
| 3 | Furthermore even in a fused profession , the barristers in chambers in the Inns of Court and elsewhere would undoubtedly enter into partnership as specialist trial advocates and do agency work for other solicitors , whose own staff were unable to act as advocates in every case or where the complexity of the case justified bringing in a specialist advocate . |
| 4 | In return for the group 's agreement to purchase and write off $4 million worth of Mexican debt from foreign creditors , the government has undertaken to carry out a $2.6 million programme of support for forest conservation efforts , with a particular focus on the Selva Lacandona , which is the largest remaining tropical rainforest in North America . |
| 5 | If machines could be taught to plan over a chessboard , maybe they could do it in a factory as well . |
| 6 | In the Countess 's childhood , before the Revolution , and before Belgium had been liberated from Austrian rule by the French , women had been taught to glide along a floor , their feet hidden by wide skirts and their slippers barely leaving the polished boards . |
| 7 | However , recent technological advances have made possible a robot which can be programmed to carry out a range of services on command . |
| 8 | One said that a man had been approached to carry out a contract killing on Freddie , but he refused because he liked him . |
| 9 | ‘ Our Quality Charter states that NICMA members are expected to work out a policy on discipline which does not include smacking children , ’ she said . |
| 10 | Bruce Armitage , Grampian Enterprise 's director of training , stressed that the £100,000 grant had been designed to set up a framework in which other agencies could work . |
| 11 | ‘ Wow , I 'm glad you called , man , ’ said Hopper who thought his friend had telephoned to patch up a quarrel they 'd had before Fonda left for Canada . |
| 12 | The directors recommended that the dividend payout to shareholders should be increased by 25 per cent to 7.5p a share which was widely regarded as a move designed to ward off a takeover bid . |
| 13 | Such people obviously can not be approached to fill in a questionnaire ! |
| 14 | The visiting pilots had come to ferry back a score of U.S. fighter aircraft flown up from the States as part of the American lend-lease programme . |
| 15 | No other party has officially confirmed they will be contesting the election but the SDLP are expected to put up a candidate . |
| 16 | The surfeit of codes and jargons in which she is immersed brings about a loss of faith in the power of the word , but her attitude toward the ‘ instant world ’ that is ‘ whiter than white ’ because it has no memory and no values makes her uneasy . |
| 17 | Haymarket had intended to set up a computer business with over 20 staff to build its own PCs under the brand Eyecon and sell them through a dealer network . |
| 18 | Doctors had decided to carry out a forceps delivery on her mother 15 year old Sally Taylor after a long labour . |
| 19 | His best friend did not go to the funeral because he had already decided to go on a day trip to France ! |
| 20 | ‘ If you 're not seen to go out a lot , you 're a failure , ’ he said . |
| 21 | No further attacks developed but five escorting destroyers of Capt. Lord Louis Mountbatten 's 5th Destroyer Flotilla were detached to carry out a bombardment of Benghazi just after midnight . |
| 22 | Other companies quickly moved to siphon off a share of the new business . |
| 23 | On the lower crag lies Goth ( E1 5b ) , a finely positioned climb up a steep , curving groove . |
| 24 | Finally , Mr Murray said that he had received numerous letters about the selection of the typeface ( Courier ) for all our future correspondence and due to the strength of feeling on this and other layout issues it has been decided to set up a Keyboard Operators panel to discuss the way forward . |
| 25 | The Lord Chancellor originally intended that lenders should be self-regulating , but has now decided to set up a policing Authorised Conveyancing Practitioners ' Board . |
| 26 | We 've decided to set up a campaign to put pressure on the Government and we need someone to run the office . |
| 27 | Q I have decided to set up a 48″ x 18″ x 15″ fish only aquarium , with a view to changing a mixed fish/invert set-up and I am now contemplating which fish to buy . |
| 28 | I 've even missed going out a couple of nights . ’ |
| 29 | Here and there the head of a child was seen peering over a windowsill . |
| 30 | A joint committee was empowered to draw up a plan for mutual inspections . |