Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adj] [noun] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 So the Bank of England is in the situation that it usually wishes to sell government securities ; it invariably wishes to sustain long-run demand for such securities but it periodically has to take action which inflicts losses on the holders of such securities .
2 As a result , it saw the need to continue strong support for local authority housing provision .
3 They were united , too by a common aim ; they both wanted to do what they could to restore normal life in that community , to take away the fear and to see justice done .
4 Of particular interest to the incentive field is that responsibility for the administration of the LINK initiative , under which support is provided to stimulate collaborative research in key areas of science and technology , will be passed to the Office of Science and Technology .
5 Although the investigation was to cover the period from 1980 onwards , most of the allegations related to the so-called " W. A. Inc. " period from 1987 to 1989 , when ALP state governments led successively by Brian Burke and Peter Dowding had sought to promote economic development through close links with local entrepreneurs .
6 His main issue was the need to promote economic growth through free trade , free markets , less government spending , better education and a fair taxation system which outlawed market-distorting tax subsidies and investment shelters .
7 They are often written as well to support private ventures by British firms , which are showing promise , but need a Staff Target or Operational Requirement before they can be given official consideration .
8 The nuclear programme has not only not exceeded the country 's investment capacity : it has , as we shall see later , helped to sustain economic activity in hard times .
9 There seems no particular reason to ascribe economic rationality to one group and not the other .
10 Dr. Elliott detects in it ‘ a desire by the composer to accommodate progressive ideas about clear word-setting and harmonic , chordal idioms ’ : he has elsewhere invoked the violent and repressive political climate of the time , and seen an attempt by Carver to compromise — in a period of Protestant fundamentalism which had limited the formerly sumptuous musical presentations in the Chapel Royal to plainchant and Faburden improvised upon it — with the strictly harmonically-conceived music of English Reformation composers .
11 Fifthly , the efforts made by FPCs to promote cost-effective behaviour by those GPs opting to manage their own budgets should be monitored .
12 The narrower range of discretion of each bureau in selecting production processes should mean that review committees are less likely to include strong representations by those with an interest in any given bureau 's output .
13 Should they be found , it would be necessary to have a physically separate record to enable specific identification of this object to be made .
14 providing one or more platform faces to enable specific journeys on regular Fife line and Glasgow line services to stop to set down or pick up passengers on match days
15 One obvious policy for the achievement of this objective is for government to stimulate aggregate demand by some means or other .
16 It is precisely because I want to see political changes of this kind that I support Home Rule for Scotland .
17 The widely anticipated move , designed to stimulate economic growth through increased exports , included the easing of credit restrictions and the provision of increased funds to assist with capital investment .
18 The object of this project is to gather extensive material from Dutch archives on the largely unstudied aspects of Dutch government initiatives to defend and promote Dutch economic primacy in Europe and the wider world in the period 1650-1713 .
19 Canberra to lead new Normandy landings P&O CRUISE SHIP TO CARRY ALLIED VETERANS AT 50TH ANNIVERSARY
20 English has about the same lix level as the Nordic languages and this enabled Bjornsson to compare Scandinavian newspapers with those from English-speaking countries .
21 The other initiative is designed to promote collaborative research between higher education institutions in Wales .
22 Looking in more detail , it is possible to classify seismic activity into four zones .
23 Dr Owen 's decision to support tactical voting for some Liberal Democrat candidates will surprise senior Conservatives , who had hoped for a simple message of support for Mr Major .
24 There is also some doubt about whether enterprises are entitled to issue promissory notes at all , and whether banks are entitled to endorse them .
25 Therefore , the catalyst helping to promote high density among salaried staffs was government support in the form of legislation since 1936 guaranteeing the right of association and negotiation to white-collar as well as manual employees .
26 We confidently assume that the results set out here will , in their broad principles , be valid for any language ; however , because of the limitless domains that would appear on the horizon if one were to include proper exemplification from other languages , and since there is ample material to consider in English alone , the latter is the basis on which the investigation will proceed .
27 To merge routing and cell-switch functions , it is claimed to perform direct switching of Asynchronous Transfer Mode traffic , as well as Ethernet , Token Ring and FDDI traffic .
28 Mr Michael had been asked to arrange electronic sweeps of all office communication equipment in the interests of personal security .
29 Since Ferdinand 's instructions to the Junta of Government ( which he left in Madrid to govern while he was at Bayonne ) were to cultivate French friendship at all costs , and since these counsels were not modified until after the outbreak of a popular rising , it meant that official Spain could not take the leadership of the instinctive movement against France .
30 Williams continued to gather public support throughout 1954 , ( also the year that Learie Constantine returned after 30 years in England ) , and it seems that he was now consolidating his position in preparation for a decisive political move , but while he was still involved with the Caribbean Commission in an apolitical capacity , this move would be put on hold .
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