Example sentences of "[vb -s] [to-vb] the [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The list of recipient church projects is very long , ranging from refurbishment of church buildings to small revenue grants to enable the establishment of local good neighbour ( community care ) schemes . |
| 2 | Until such time as the Secretary of State agrees to such a Commission , the Council agrees to support the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities ' call for a policy of non-co-operation between the Authority and The Scottish Office over the question of local government reorganisation . |
| 3 | Prior to the Peres visit , Japan had on Dec. 4 issued a call for an end to the Arab economic boycott of Israel , as a response to recent Israeli guarantees to curb the building of Jewish settlements in the occupied territories . |
| 4 | The purchaser will use its reasonable endeavours to obtain the release of any personal guarantees made by the Directors in respect of ABC and its subsidiary companies ' existing obligations relating to the business of ABC and subsidiaries ( which after investigating such guarantees and terms of release it agrees to obtain the release of ) and pending such release will indemnify the Directors against any claims under such guarantees . |
| 5 | The prospectus needs to transmit the ethos of the school : child centred , church school , traditional values , family atmosphere etc and this message needs to run consistently through the text . |
| 6 | Leadership has to see the work of the organisation within a wider context and to be aware of the environment within which the organisation is working . |
| 7 | This is because , during sleep , our spine no longer needs to support the weight of our body . |
| 8 | It is hard to understand why the RIBA has to promote the idea of employing architects to design individual homes — only the British seem to resist architect involvement . |
| 9 | As the House of Commons has sole responsibility for financial matters , it has to carry the burden of the work on financial bills . |
| 10 | Because I believe that it is the women that goes through all the pain , suffering and has to carry the burden of the chance of getting pregnant which a man does not have for obvious reasons . |
| 11 | All in all , this is a most effective collaboration even if the innocent eyed Sunday painter W. Littlefair has to carry the burden of being the sole representative of the newly formed one-year-old Yarm Art Society which boasts 18 members on his shoulders . |
| 12 | TEM declines to estimate the cost of the entire operation , which will be borne by the company , but say it is ‘ not cheap . ’ |
| 13 | One only has to compare the uniformity of contemporary stations with the richness , profusion , and variety in British nineteenth-century stations : the classical temple of Huddersfield , the Byzantine basilica of Blackfriars , the robust Jacobean manor-house of Stoke-on-Trent , the scholarly Jacobean collegiate buildings of Shrewsbury and Carlisle , the ‘ Russian dacha ’ of Petworth , the ‘ baroque orangery ’ of Newmarket , the airy French pavilion of Slough , the medieval Gothic abbey of Battle , the Queen Anne town house of Market Harborough and Birkenhead Woodside , so much like the great hall of a medieval house that one expects rushes on the floor , minstrels in the gallery , and foaming tankards of old ale . |
| 14 | Yet it wants to emphasise the Europeanness of any future European defence collaboration . |
| 15 | The leadership wants to see the proportion of union voting strength at party conferences reduced from the current 70 per cent — down for the first time this year from the traditional 90 per cent — to an eventual 50 per cent . |
| 16 | However , the AIB inspectors always try to be helpful and provide the coroner with the basic information he needs to establish the cause of death , but nonetheless , they sometimes get little thanks for the efforts they make to assist the coroner and sometimes they are treated in a rather off-hand manner . |
| 17 | To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what plans he has to increase the number of heart specialists working in national health service hospitals in Scotland . |
| 18 | This is the experiment and experience I commend to any business man or industrialist who wants to meet the challenge of the ideological crisis of our times . |
| 19 | We sipped — or in my case gulped — the weak but tasty punch , nibbled on Aunt Tone 's buffet-bits , and played Alternative Charades ; an invention of my father 's in which one first has to guess the category of the thing one is being asked to decipher . |
| 20 | Your partner has to guess the name of the product . |
| 21 | ‘ Because ’ — and now the words were stressed — ‘ he no more wants to suffer the shame of such an exposure than I do . ’ |
| 22 | To be a candidate one has to obtain the signature of 10 electors in the constituency and submit a deposit of £150 ( approximately $225 ) , returnable in the event of receiving one-eighth of the votes cast . |
| 23 | Mr Moares said : ‘ What the public must understand is the fact that Nuclear Electric has to secure the economics of operation of the plant in the changed business circumstances which include the station 's reduced output capability , the new competitive trading arrangements within the industry , and the current general economic climate . |
| 24 | The house needs remedial action to make it safe , but who has to bear the cost of this work ? |
| 25 | Similarly , if the contract provides that The Customer shall provide such temporary roadways , footways , scaffolding and other equipment as may be necessary for the safe installation of the goods who has to bear the cost of equipment hire if a fork lift truck , or heavy lifting crane , is needed for the installation ? |
| 26 | As has already been pointed out in section I .2 , practical redistributional measures are not costless , so that it is in all probability more efficient to tell the telephone company it has to bear the expense of maintaining rural telephone boxes than to fund these separately . |
| 27 | Also , taking into account a 100 Group survey and a brief note on the view of organisations already authorised to train , the report concludes that although the ‘ TOPP schemes established so far are providing excellent training opportunities for those students who are committed to a career in a non-practising environment ’ , the Institute may need to review its approach if it wants to increase the range of its training opportunities . |
| 28 | If one wants to increase the output of trained social workers or teachers one can reduce the length of their training and dilute its standard , but this will conflict with the need for more specialized staff for the more specialized needs and problems that better services reveal . |
| 29 | He has put before the House an illustration of how the Labour party wants to increase the cost of national insurance . |
| 30 | As the company wants to increase the number of cars it sells in the UK rather than maximise profits , that is likely to mean price cuts . |