Example sentences of "[vb -s] [vb pp] [to-vb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hereford MP Colin Shepherd has lobbied to keep the base open . |
| 2 | Interestingly , during the same conversation , discussion switches to Merseyside , when Hounam makes it quite clear he believes someone in the Conservative government has intervened to prevent an investigation into a serious instance of corruption . |
| 3 | Emma has arranged to spend the weekend with a cousin , so there 's no possibility of being disturbed . |
| 4 | In Piata Universitatii , in central Bucharest , under the looming tower of the Intercontinental Hotel and the glaring neon of a Castrol sign , a crowd has gathered to mark the anniversary and hear political speakers . |
| 5 | Peter White of Midland Bank was less convinced , complaining of the failure of some large firms to adhere to a strict off-limits policy , and described an even worse practice of advancing a candidate who has undertaken to engage the headhunter involved at a later date if he or she lands the job . |
| 6 | The Forestry Commission has undertaken to bear the report 's findings in mind when embarking on future tree-planting programmes . |
| 7 | The institutions are required to monitor their use of the access funds and the Secretary of State for Education and Science has undertaken to review the operation of the funds in due course . |
| 8 | A different possible interpretation of a contract is that , not the buyer , but the seller has undertaken to accept the risk that the goods might not exist , i.e. he has undertaken as part of the contract that the goods do in fact exist . |
| 9 | The developer of the site , Ideal Homes Holdings , has undertaken to reserve the site and provide it free of charge to the school trustees in addition to a one-off payment of up to £150,000 . |
| 10 | A local group has formed to oppose the mining and has held its first public meeting . |
| 11 | Kurt Forster , for the last eight years Director of the Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities at Santa Monica , has resigned to accept the Chair in the History of Art and Architecture at Zurich 's Federal Polytechnic . |
| 12 | Dungannon District Council has voted to scrap the Post Office addressing system which insists letters must include house numbers and road names . |
| 13 | Unhappy about EC proposals on waste transport , the European Parliament has voted to stall the Commission 's draft legislation , with the aim of pressing Brussels into framing even tougher controls . |
| 14 | Leeds polytechnic has voted to change the method by which it elects its President . |
| 15 | THE United Nations Security Council has voted to establish a war crimes court at The Hague to try those accused of murder , and other atrocities in the former Yugoslavia . |
| 16 | The Church of England Synod has voted to approve the ordination of women priests . |
| 17 | * Meanwhile , the US Senate has voted to ban the use of large drift nets in US waters up to 200 miles offshore , as well as their use by US fishermen in international waters |
| 18 | Since the return to civilian rule the corporation has claimed to adopt an attitude of impartiality towards the five parties . |
| 19 | In his eagerness to depict the cloudy psychology of an adolescent , Motion has forgotten to give the boy a personality . |
| 20 | Anyone who has forgotten to take a glass bottle out of the freezer will know the shattering consequence . |
| 21 | But he says : ‘ He has lost touch with something wonderful — he has forgotten to let the child within him take flight . |
| 22 | It is that industry itself has come to hold a position of exclusive predominance among human interests , which no single interest , and least of all the provision of the material means of existence , is fit to occupy . |
| 23 | As our awareness of ‘ the environment ’ has gown , so has the meaning given to the term expanded until it has come to signify the whole of the non-cultural world . |
| 24 | In a preface he drafted shortly before his death for a prospective collection of his verse , the man who has come to epitomize the soldier-poet wrote : ‘ Above all I am not concerned with Poetry . |
| 25 | You know something 's going on , we have a little surprise set up for you , and I think the time has come to let the cat out of the bag . |
| 26 | He watches a man arrive who , we discover , has come to take the cure at the local sanatorium . |
| 27 | Sufficient to say I was deeply embarrassed , and the time has come to put an end to this absurdity . |
| 28 | KENNY DALGLISH has come to see a side of Alan Shearer that he never knew existed when he shelled out £3.3 million on the England striker . |
| 29 | Everyone has come to see the Radio 1 Roadshow and be entertained . |
| 30 | But when science proposes to manipulate the life of a human baby , the time has come to call a halt … . ’ |