Example sentences of "forward [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having watched and assessed the track record of some young officer , the middle-ranking detectives will perhaps put him forward as a candidate , and I have watched as potential members were admitted only after a series of phone calls had ensured their acceptability to the department . |
| 2 | You do n't even have to own a boat as most clubs will let you put your name forward as a crew member for a season . |
| 3 | Though his ‘ City ’ is put forward as a remedy for secular , increasingly industrial-urban values , he does conceive of it as including non-Christians , though these he hopes would be a minority . |
| 4 | It was the strange circumstance of wartime which enabled Lewis to put Williams forward as a lecturer in the English Faculty . |
| 5 | Sir Ian was one of those who considered putting himself forward as a candidate , but did n't when Sir Anthony Meyer declared himself . |
| 6 | He may begin as a standard-bearer and allow himself to be persuaded to go forward as a contender . ’ |
| 7 | The ‘ chief executive ’ view , often put forward as a radical set of ideas , is in fact profoundly conservative — based as it is upon a traditional , hierarchical mode of thought . |
| 8 | After the Labour Party conference Dame Judith Hart had said that ‘ we can now go forward as a united party ’ . |
| 9 | In the second phase of the swing , in the last 130 ms to impact , the shaft gradually straightens and begins to bend forward as a result of the force exerted by the offset mass of the club head behind the shaft centre-line . |
| 10 | The existence of internal labour markets is sometimes used to explain labour ‘ hoarding ’ ( the practice of employing more labour than is actually required ) because firms do not wish to break the link between workers and the firm , thereby losing the skills acquired by workers over the years ; and is also put forward as a cause of a reduction in the overall level of competition in the aggregate labour market and , therefore , a possible reason for the inflexibility of wage rates , particularly in the downward direction . |
| 11 | Our costs have risen far more than the increases we have put forward as a result of the devaluation . ’ |
| 12 | After this I put my name forward as a candidate for the official biography and so informed my editor at Collins , Philip Ziegler . |
| 13 | Of course , Simak was not putting this forward as a serious theory . |
| 14 | This unattractive and socially divisive reaction has been reinforced by government publications ( DHSS , 1985/86 ) on the ‘ reform ’ of social security in which the potential burden on the tax payer of pension provision was put forward as a primary reason for the changes . |
| 15 | Imbalances in the ecology of the reefs has been put forward as a reason for these plagues caused by commercial fishing of the large predatory gastropod the triton ( Charonia tritonis ) one of the few predators of the Crown of Thorns . |
| 16 | There is , to put it crudely , a firm intuition that the self we can identify with our immediate consciousness is a unity , in that we would not count as being that self any part or module of ourselves which was put forward as a candidate for being a conscious entity . |
| 17 | However , IBM was expected to come forward as a Wabi development partner , like USL , which would automatically make it eligible for SunSelect 's most favourable pricing schedule ( UX No 432 ) . |
| 18 | However IBM was expected to come forward as a Wabi development partner , like Unix Labs , which would automatically make it eligible for SunSelect 's most favourable pricing schedule . |
| 19 | However , this year the Speaker has also been reaching outside his Sacramento stronghold : convening an economic summit in Los Angeles to examine the state 's recession ; pushing laws to reform California 's hated workers'-compensation scheme ; leading a team of legislators to Washington to plead for the state 's interests ; putting himself forward as a mediator in a fractious dispute over teachers ' pay in Los Angeles . |
| 20 | Now , by allowing his name to be put forward as a candidate for governor , the Speaker seems to be providing a pretext himself . |
| 21 | He will not suppose that there is any possibility of proving that the principle of utility is true in any strong sense , but will put it forward as a guide to life which he endorses and , as a philosopher , seeks to make precise and free of confusion . |
| 22 | This assumption of improved supervision is put forward as a great strength of the proposals , but in fact what is being suggested is that the first year house officers would receive supervision from second year staff who are not yet fully registered . |
| 23 | The proposals themselves were generally positive and paved the way for community-based nursing to really move forward as a cohesive and dynamic force , but the fact remains that significant concerns have been raised , and the organisations and individuals concerned should at least have an explanation as to why these concerns can not be acted upon , if that is indeed the case . |
| 24 | Some work of my own which uses the telephone and takes advantage of recent advances in discourse analysis will be presented , and the idea of a communicative support system will be put forward as a possible explanation of the findings obtained . |
| 25 | He put himself forward as a self-consciously ordinary man , a politician who asked to be identified with as an equal rather than deferred to as a leader . |
| 26 | Haney and Ullmer ( 1970 ) note that the modern American generation will have viewed , on average , 15,000 hours of television , attended 500 motion pictures and spent approximately 11,000 hours in class by the end of their school careers , and put this forward as a reason for using television and film very much more in the classroom . |
| 27 | As far as I know , the only suggestions that have been put forward as a possible cure for this problem have been related to dietary deficiencies . |
| 28 | To save his neck and protect his family was perhaps not the noblest of motives for coming forward as a witness , but if the DEA had not sought to frame him under the misapprehension that he was feeding information to Pan Am and the media , and if the DIA had not lacked the will to protect him behind the scenes , the idea of coming forward would never have crossed his mind at all — indeed , he might never even have known that he had a contribution to make to the Lockerbie investigation . |
| 29 | The application will now go forward as a |
| 30 | In workplace after workplace we find exploited workers , frightened workers , vulnerable workers , but little chance of recognition no hope of check-off and no one brave enough to come forward as a steward . |