Example sentences of "[to-vb] a [noun sg] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For more information and to request a brochure call Kuoni Travel on 0306 740500 . |
| 2 | On the other hand , unless there is some evidence of the existence of God then positive arguments about the need to trust a Deity become negative arguments about credulous and uncritical behaviour . |
| 3 | Then the Dutch representative in his turn alleged that he was being asked to accept a position implying mere equality with that of the duke of Savoy , which was contrary to his instructions : he therefore also refused to attend . |
| 4 | To then ask our members to accept a pay increase this year of between 0 and 1.5 per cent on the basis that they are in secure employment adds insult to injury . ’ |
| 5 | The VHP had agreed , during talks in Delhi with Prime Minister P. V. Narasimha Rao on July 23-24 , to accept a proposal to consolidate all cases pending in different Indian courts under " one judicial authority " , and to resume all-party talks on the issue [ see p. 38866 ] . |
| 6 | Only a few days before his state 's 40th anniversary celebrations , he has been obliged to accept a deal permitting several thousand of its citizens to flee to the capitalist Federal Republic . |
| 7 | Olivia — whose hits include You 're The One That I Want , Physical and Xanadu — still has a tough fight ahead , but she is a born fighter and is now planning to write a book to help other breast cancer sufferers . |
| 8 | It is important to establish a committee to monitor these matters , because of what has happened since the deregulation of bus services in Scotland in 1985 . |
| 9 | New firms can enter the software business relatively easily ‘ All you need to establish a software house these days , ’ says Mizuno , ‘ is a desk , a chair and four or five programmers . |
| 10 | Commenting on the new economic legislation , the Finance Minister , Vaclav Klaus , said that its main thrust was to revitalize small and medium-size state-owned companies through improved management and new investment ; furthermore , the government was aiming to establish a climate favouring private enterprise , but around one-third of the economy would remain under state control for the time being . |
| 11 | During their meetings in Pyongyang the two agreed to establish a commission to obtain foreign aid for economic and social rehabilitation and development in Cambodia . |
| 12 | As this joint is usually close to the bearing of the truss , it may be possible to repair a truss comprising small timber members with plywood gusset plates ( Fig 34 ) . |
| 13 | In contrast , deliberate reformulations are designed to achieve particular contextual effects , and they should not be taken to indicate a failure to communicate any more than , for example , repetition . |
| 14 | A contract for the writing of computer programs should have detailed provisions about completion times and all section 14 does is to provide a net to catch those instances where there has been an oversight . |
| 15 | Two of our most challenging contracts during the year were a five year contract won by Lincoln Turbine Service to maintain National Power 's fleet of gas turbine driven alternators throughout England and Wales and a contract for Turbine Engine Services to provide a power pack generating station in Malaysia . |
| 16 | It was 28 hours since he had driven the clapped-out Ford Capri into the street , and counted himself lucky to find a space to park that was pretty near opposite the front door from which the man had emerged with his two small girls . |
| 17 | How if we draw from the records of our knowledge to find a way to drive this ship of yours without the use of machines ? ’ |
| 18 | If you are in your late teens or are doing a further education course and you are extremely worried about examinations , you are going to have to find a way to tackle academic stress that does not involve eating and drinking too much . |
| 19 | With that kind of price tag , it is not surprising that a long string of American entrepreneurs — including even Thomas Jefferson — have tried to find a way to cultivate various Morchella species . |
| 20 | So in order to have a reasonable chance of seeing an explosion before your research grant ran out , you would have to find a way to detect any explosions within a distance of about one light-year . |
| 21 | A group of evangelical youth organisations wanted to find a way to send 18–23 year olds they had been involved in discipling to put their faith to work . |
| 22 | What a joy it is to find a press pack that is genuinely unusual , interesting , witty , self-deprecating or even just plain mad . |
| 23 | Insecure Christian men feeling threatened have fallen back on the Scriptures with authoritarian tunnel vision , while Christian women are learning Greek and Hebrew in order to find a loophole to invalidate this ‘ yoke of bondage ’ . |
| 24 | The US Energy Department needs to find a site to store nuclear waste accumulated over a forty-year period which will remain dangerously radioactive for tens of thousands of years . |
| 25 | It is usual to find a progression indicating significant transition probabilities to many vibrational levels of the modes concerned . |
| 26 | By the late 1620s , it was impossible to obtain a licence to publish any theological books containing predestinarian opinions . |
| 27 | ‘ If physicists had tried to discover a way to release nuclear energy before 1939 , they would have worked on anything else rather than the field which finally led to the discovery of fission , namely radiochemistry . |
| 28 | The object is to train a bird to fly free , but then to come back for food . |
| 29 | Here is a sample release , which refers to an event to launch a government sponsored industrial development scheme . |
| 30 | We have neither the resources nor the finance to launch a campaign to promote any particular aspect . |