Example sentences of "in a bid " in BNC.
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| 1 | The European Eureka programme has brought together 32 organisations from 12 countries in a bid to develop the technology needed to bring all-digital TV to the home or office . |
| 2 | Negotiators for 33,000 manual workers at Ford Motor Company yesterday put in a bid for a ‘ substantial rise ’ — thought to be at least 10 per cent . |
| 3 | Eight months later , GM completed a merger with the computer services company Electronic Data Systems in a bid to improve computer services throughout the GM empire . |
| 4 | So spoke Arnold Wesker at the Riverside Studios where , next week , he will take the unusual step of mounting eight rehearsed readings of his play , Shylock , formerly titled The Merchant , in a bid to raise enough interest from commercial backers to persuade them to mount a full production . |
| 5 | In recent months it has been expanding its market research activities while offloading its education publishing division and other subsidiaries in a bid to slash debt . |
| 6 | An emergency meeting has been called for clubs leasing stretches of the Macclesfield Canal in a bid to find a solution to an increasing mink problem . |
| 7 | • Williams was due to carry out urgent tests in England in a bid to trace and cure the gearbox problems evident in Phoenix . |
| 8 | ‘ She 's very genuine , she 's very beautiful and she 's still very much in love with Prince Charles , ’ he told Woman 's Own , in a bid to rebut rumours that the marriage was in trouble . |
| 9 | Remy , which lost out to Martini last year in a bid for Benedictine , is the world 's third largest cognac firm and the only one which is still family owned . |
| 10 | The company has appealed Mr Wakeham in a bid to dilute the market share promised to National Power which will retain a near 50 per cent interest in British generating plant even without its nuclear plant . |
| 11 | In a bid to get to France , he joined the Foreign Legion , escaping from that two days later . |
| 12 | In a bid to meet the problem halfway , the AFRC has also invested £730,000 in a five-year study of the relationship between wildlife and farming — and what will happen as land use goes on changing . |
| 13 | Ask your local delicatessen to keep the end of a new Parma ham for you , or put in a bid for the unsliceable knuckle end . |
| 14 | Humpback whale songs change throughout the breeding season , as males change their songs in a bid to attract females . |
| 15 | Shocked clockwatchers at other banks in Zurich are turning up to work earlier , and leaving later , in a bid to avoid the chop . |
| 16 | Britain 's National Westminster Bank tightened the reins at its American firm Natwest Bancorp , in a bid to control its losses , which reached $352m last year , mainly because of bad company loans . |
| 17 | The turning point came when , thousands of miles away from the series ’ Melbourne home , the then controller of the BBC 's main channel ripped up his schedules in a bid to beat plunging ratings . |
| 18 | Schoolteachers , power workers , post office engineers , staff at the Royal Mint and sections of the newspaper industry were among those who either struck or worked to rule in a bid to break the pay policy . |
| 19 | In a bid to keep the action secret , the case has been called Anonymous I v Anonymous II . |
| 20 | The weakness in passenger traffic , which fell 8 p.c last year , and operating losses have not prevented the airline from launching the most successful expansion programme among European airlines so far , in a bid to be among the few groups which are expected to survive deregulation over the next few years . |
| 21 | Faced , however , with the catastrophic increase in unemployment and the need to occupy large numbers of workless people without directly employing them ( which would have run counter to the economic doctrine which had led to the redundancy of many of them in the first place ) , the Government poured money into any ‘ voluntary ’ agency willing to put in a bid for government-funded cheap labour . |
| 22 | They flung themselves at sailors in a bid for immortality . |
| 23 | The loser is likely to be tempted into playing a return game on some future occasion in a bid to square the match . |
| 24 | The objective helps you to be clear about what you have to do in a bid to get it to come true . |
| 25 | Why have they needed extensive spiritual counselling in a bid to reconstruct their disintegrating personalities ? |
| 26 | A feature of the safety approach favoured by the CEGB is the use of microprocessor technology in a bid to side-step the errors by operators which helped cause the Three Mile Island accident in the US four years ago . |
| 27 | THE WORLD WILDLIFE FUND Switzerland this month secured the cooperation of the country 's largest manufacturer of coffins ( or as the Americans call them caskets ) in a bid to preserve the tropical moist forests of the world . |
| 28 | In IBM 's method , the electrode tip moves up and down in a bid to pick up a constant current . |
| 29 | Comsat , the Washington satellite firm , has put in a bid for all the craft . |
| 30 | Youth development group Raleigh International is being relaunched with a new marketing department and strategic direction , in a bid to overcome its ‘ army camp ’ image . |