Example sentences of "[to-vb] a [adj] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The massive tax increases that lie ahead should go some way to reassure the financial markets that he is determined to redress a recessionary budget deficit now projected to run at £50 billion — £1 billion a week — in the current year . |
| 2 | If you were to try a new carbon zinc battery on one of these testers , and then an alkaline one , in both cases the needle would bang hard over . |
| 3 | Mr Chambers ' solicitor advised him to try a medium-sized London firm . |
| 4 | Cordless technology is still not perfect , but Black & Decker is the first to try a battery-powered hedge trimmer . |
| 5 | The family doctor advised them to try a well-known rehabilitation unit , not realizing that it specialized in orthopaedic rather than neurological cases . |
| 6 | Indeed , the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous advises the unsure newcomer to try a sensible drinking programme in order to assess whether he or she is alcoholic or not . |
| 7 | Loans for risky projects like the Channel Tunnel and North Sea oil exploration , for example , are likely to attract a higher interest rate than the rate on a loan to finance the construction of , say , a foodstore . |
| 8 | Pat Cash is to request a wild card entry for Wimbledon , but it is open to question whether it will be granted . |
| 9 | ‘ Mr Manners farmed the land until 1987 and the landowner began to re-negotiate a further Licence period . |
| 10 | On Jan. 19 , 1990 , the East German airline Interflug and Lufthansa announced a co-operation agreement to improve services , to build a new airport in Berlin by 2000 , to found a joint charter company and to co-operate on catering and software training . |
| 11 | Dealing generally with the question of art teaching , when addressing himself to the abortive attempt to found a Fine Art course at Oxford in 1922 , he postulated that art schools should , above all else avoid , ‘ The temptation to consider the number of students as a test of success , what I may call a kind of moral and social capitation grant . |
| 12 | In Ethiopia she helped to found a Social Service Society and edited a monthly periodical , the Ethiopia Observer . |
| 13 | As any keen gardener will know , plants need phosphorus ( found in the form of phosphates ) to encourage a good root system and healthy growth . |
| 14 | The first of those points is the principle of a Greater York dimension to the structure plan , erm we 'll all probably be aware that in the original structure plan the Secretary of State was n't prepared to accept a Greater York dimension in the structure plan , but did accept with the support of the district councils on the first alteration , the inclusion of a Greater York dimension . |
| 15 | Bankers close to the deal say that Morgan Stanley was forced reluctantly to accept a lower commission structure because Italy was being offered this by other banks competing for the business . |
| 16 | It 's a matter for conjecture whether he would have been willing to accept a real theatre wordsmith had one been available . |
| 17 | Let us assume that insiders are now willing to accept a real wage reduction so as to protect their jobs . |
| 18 | In a move designed to save on court time , the Scottish Office yesterday confirmed that from 1 April motorists will be offered the chance to accept a fixed penalty notice requiring the payment of a fine within 28 days . |
| 19 | He is unwilling to accept a long-term back-up role and is likely to be traded during the off-season . |
| 20 | Shareholders in Central Television are being urged to accept a multi-million pound takeover offer from Carlton Communications . |
| 21 | NORTH Korea , suspected of trying to develop nuclear arms , declared yesterday that any attempt to force it to accept a United Nations inspection could lead to war . |
| 22 | Now we had originally had this extra facility available er so that we could trade off life against the extra thrust in an emergency but there was clearly the possibility erm that that might be used er when it really was n't necessary and we would end up with extra costs , extra life cycle costs , shorter engine life and it was felt on balance that with a reduced threat overall that it was sensible to take out that facility and to accept a longer engine life , but not , there 's no reduction in the total normal thrust but its merely its override combat facility . |
| 23 | It meant that senators fell into line with their colleagues in the House of Representatives who , in 1989 , had voted to accept a large pay rise ( effective from Jan. 1 , 1991 ) in return for the ending of honoraria . |
| 24 | His big breakthrough was to get parliament to accept a high technology spending programme up to 1985 with a commitment to priorities . |
| 25 | The MA in Comparative British and American Labour History ( 1880–1980 ) offers the opportunity to combine a taught programme and to write a substantial research dissertation . |
| 26 | So in 1950 the American , Hillary Waugh , impressed by a volume of real murder cases he had picked up , not so much because of the horrific details the author had dwelt on as by the tone of authenticity that seemed to arise naturally from the accounts of the cases , decided to write a fictional crime story catching as much as he could of this real-life feel . |
| 27 | Breed are the kind of band who will begin to write a tormented love song and watch it develop into a bloody massacre . |
| 28 | Young writer Tim Firth scored a big hit here last year with the lunchtime show , A Man of Letters , so this year we 've asked him to write a main house show for us — the hilarious Neville 's Island . |
| 29 | The packing department show how to write a proper Quality Manual ! ( l to r ) , , , and . |
| 30 | In celebration of his new appointment Mozart apparently intended to write a large scale missa solemnis in D minor , of which one movement , a Kyrie previously thought to date from much earlier in his career , survives . |