Example sentences of "[to-vb] a [adj] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | A logo is a visual symbol which seeks to communicate a simple message to the public in such a way that it is instantly recognisable and memorable . |
| 2 | Vincente Minnelli , a director of the old school and greatly renowned and respected for such classics as The Band Wagon and An American in Paris , was looking for a touch of modernism to attract a young audience to a rather old-fashioned film called On a Clear Day You Can See Forever . |
| 3 | Tomorrow Eubank expects to attract a reasonable crowd to Manchester to watch him floor another no-hoper , Juan Carlos Giminez of Paraguay , as he doggedly attempts to squeeze the last pound from his slight talent . |
| 4 | The Sainsbury plans have received wholehearted support from borough councillors anxious to attract a prestigious development to the Grange Road site . |
| 5 | Sainsbury 's plans received wholehearted support from borough councillors anxious to attract a prestigious development to the Grange Road site . |
| 6 | COUNCILLORS keen to attract a major supermarket to Darlington have agreed to ‘ nudge ’ a Government minister to remind him to visit the town . |
| 7 | It is one thing to trust a middle-management appointment to an executive search consultant within a small firm ; it is quite another to trust him or her to find a new group chief executive . |
| 8 | The team resolved to produce a pro-forma to encourage a comprehensive response to requests for recommended schools from , for example , Area Education Officers . |
| 9 | The 1991 edition of the World Bank 's World Development Report , released on July 8 , called for fresh initiatives to encourage a market-oriented approach to economic development and a substantial reduction in defence spending in the developing world . |
| 10 | So , with all the emotional implications of colour , should we even try to encourage a specific response to our work ? |
| 11 | ‘ We want to encourage a positive attitude to individual health and fitness , ’ a police spokesman said . |
| 12 | The confidence which was necessary for the successful functioning of a coinage tended to encourage a conservative approach to its design , and one of the largest and most abundant coinages of the ancient world , that of Athens in the fifth and fourth centuries BC , deliberately preserved an archaic appearance , as a comparison with more up-to-date treatments of the same subject reveals ( fig. 9 ) . |
| 13 | And so , although she had hated having to do it , Laura had forced herself to write a long letter to Ross , saying how very much she loved and missed him — and could n't they still try to salvage something from the wreck of their marriage ? |
| 14 | Members are urged to write a polite reply to the National Commission for Human Rights asking them to take every step necessary to bring the perpetrators of Jose Ramon 's ‘ disappearance ’ to justice . |
| 15 | My own attempts in the following paragraphs may well demonstrate the difficulties facing us if we had tried to write a short response to all the great present-day debates in polytechnics and universities about the status of literature . |
| 16 | It is usual to write a short title to each memo in order that the reader can see what it is about at a glance |
| 17 | Perhaps because after an almost fatal spasm , Coleridge thought his marriage was now bearable — although on this eight-day storming and often precipitous walk around the mountains and lakes he was to write a passionate letter to the woman he desired as his mistress while perched on the highest mountain in England . |
| 18 | I will ask you to write a little note to Uncle Willi and I will take it with us when we go . |
| 19 | Going to write a little note to the examiner , are n't you . |
| 20 | Thus it is possible to write a single byte to a file and get a " No room " error . |
| 21 | Such notions have driven the RAF Chedburgh Aviation Group ( Memorial Trust ) to establish a lasting memorial to those who worked and fought from the base , perhaps best remembered for its association with the Short Sterling . |
| 22 | Its major proposals were to give the Secretary of State for Employment the right to impose a twenty-eight day conciliation pause in the case of ‘ serious ’ unconstitutional strikes ; the power to call a strike ballot of all members ; and to establish a legal liability to certain financial penalties if trade union members failed to comply with such orders . |
| 23 | In Britain , also , the intention was ‘ to establish a countervailing power to the growing effectiveness of unionism ’ ( Yarmie , 1980 , p. 212 ) . |
| 24 | In the report WEN calls on the government to establish a public plan to ‘ investigate and eliminate known and suspected sources of dioxins and similar compounds ’ . |
| 25 | As well as putting a ceiling on cases of average tetraplegia , the effect of the decision in Housecroft 's case has meant that awards in less serious cases have to bear a proportional relationship to the guideline figure for tetraplegia . |
| 26 | Singly and in groups , in a variety of motorised transport , ranging from thirty-ton sixteen wheelers to private cars , they were converging on their Operations HQ — which just happened to bear a remarkable resemblance to the County Sheriff 's office in Rockford ! |
| 27 | In all three areas the mammals that happened to be around at the start fanned out in evolution , and produced a specialist for each trade which , in many cases , came to bear a remarkable resemblance to the corresponding specialist in the other two areas . |
| 28 | Abernathy attempted unsuccessfully to secure a Democratic nomination to the House of Representatives in 1978 , and thereafter spent his remaining years as pastor of the West Hunter Street Baptist Church in Atlanta . |
| 29 | Schools made constructive use of the potential of enhanced staffing to secure a collaborative approach to curriculum development in the classroom through teachers teaching together ( TTT ) . |
| 30 | DANISH under-21 international Soren Andersen will play for Middlesbrough next week , hoping to secure a permanent move to the Ayresome Park club . |