Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] [adv] 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | You 'd be hard pressed to see how a package costing , say , £49.95 could possibly have a special upgrade price , but Guildsoft manages it . |
| 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 | The case studies will be undertaken to establish how a bus company operates from the viewpoint of its management and organisation . |
| 8 | However , recent technological advances have made possible a robot which can be programmed to carry out a range of services on command . |
| 9 | One said that a man had been approached to carry out a contract killing on Freddie , but he refused because he liked him . |
| 10 | The telephone may ring at any moment and an account executive will be expected to know when a client can see the " Answerprint " of their new commercial or proofs of the latest press advertisement , so complete knowledge of the minutiae of the client 's business ready at his finger tips is required . |
| 11 | ‘ Our Quality Charter states that NICMA members are expected to work out a policy on discipline which does not include smacking children , ’ she said . |
| 12 | Manley claimed that it would provide training , marketing and financial advice to help " ambitious and disciplined young people " , but the benefits were expected to reach only a minority of the young unemployed . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Such people obviously can not be approached to fill in a questionnaire ! |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | No other party has officially confirmed they will be contesting the election but the SDLP are expected to put up a candidate . |
| 19 | Based at Dhahran , Saudi Arabia , they are expected to have mainly a reconnaissance role . |
| 20 | As an organization , Stop Hinkley Expansion had initially expected to present only a handful of witnesses at the inquiry — people who would stand up on our behalf and defend their arguments against the assault of Lord Silsoe and his colleagues . |
| 21 | And so to standard two , where the That was th the next year , each class was expected to take about a year , which it did . |
| 22 | ‘ The cost of a vessel such as the Khan has described will be beyond a trader 's reach , Noyon , given that men are permitted to make only a profit from an enterprise which may be considered just . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Doctors had decided to carry out a forceps delivery on her mother 15 year old Sally Taylor after a long labour . |
| 25 | His best friend did not go to the funeral because he had already decided to go on a day trip to France ! |
| 26 | ‘ If you 're not seen to go out a lot , you 're a failure , ’ he said . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | She wished she had decided to come home a month earlier , even two days earlier . |
| 29 | Other companies quickly moved to siphon off a share of the new business . |
| 30 | Second , the LEA must be informed if the head teacher has decided to exclude permanently a pupil excluded for a fixed or indefinite period . |