Example sentences of "to build a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 * A public inquiry is to be held into plans by the Wind Energy Group to build a 24-turbine farm near the Cader Idris mountain in Snowdonia National Park .
2 AC Scotland was a new company created by MacDonald with public shareholder money , to build a limited run of the AC ME3000 sports car .
3 A public inquiry has opened into Oxford United 's plans to build a twelve million pound football stadium .
4 A planning inquiry into its application to build a dry store at Torness to hold the spent fuel has already been held , although the decision has not yet been announced .
5 It will soon submit an application to build a dry store at Hunterston .
6 This , it seems to me , is a them that is of abiding significance , because we all of us do things for the wrong reasons , and yet it 's all rather magnificently tied up with the attempt to build a glorious spire to a medieval cathedral .
7 The authorities are attempting to build a technological society on unpromising foundations .
8 It was from little hints such as this , undoubtedly consciously dropped , that I began to build a fuller appreciation of what Mr Broadhurst really was .
9 Egon Zehnder has a not dissimilar approach , but a more cautious and longer-term perspective , putting quality of people and of work above everything else and truly trying to build a worldwide firm with a recognisable cultural identity .
10 Having accepted that previous attempts to build a comprehensive Western Europe had failed through the efforts to incorporate Britain into the design , there was now a widespread conviction that a multi-purpose unit could be fashioned by the little Europe of the Six .
11 The gallery has its lighter side to arouse the interests of children — the ‘ smellerama ’ to test their sense of smell and relate it to certain types of food , the ‘ food pyramid ’ to test their ability to build a healthy diet , and an ‘ aerobicycle ’ which will demonstrate the amount of exertion required to burn off a given number of calories .
12 If we fail to build a healthy , living soil , chemicals will , at best , provide a short-term panacea ; in the long term they will ‘ kill the goose that lays the golden egg ’ .
13 Join the campaign to build a healthy , vibrant Anti-apartheid movement in Britain , with strong branches in every borough and in every country .
14 From the perspectives of both professionals and parents the attempt to build a cooperative framework directed towards meeting John 's needs had broken down .
15 By the end of the 1650s , the Puritan attempt to build a Calvinist Zion in England had foundered on the rock of the nation 's preference for its traditional religious and cultural life .
16 The aim was to build a classic bike .
17 An idea to build a western bypass around Scarborough to aid the town 's economy won unanimous backing from borough councillors yesterday but they now need to convince North Yorkshire County Council .
18 The plans were prompted by the decision of Sainsbury , the supermarket company , to build a 75,000 sq ft food store on an adjacent site in the city 's Craigleith area .
19 The aims of the trust will be to build on the achievements , to become more responsive , to build a closer local link with the community and closer links with the health councils and with the GPs , to upgrade wards and facilities in the hospital , to upgrade theatres and equipment and to build on the success of recent years .
20 It may help to build a shallow cone of soil around which to spread the root system evenly .
21 A deputation from Bedford Corporation , acting on this occasion as the Sewer Authority , proposed joint action to build a temporary smallpox hospital on land held by the local government board .
22 The reasons players are able to build a temporary reputation in the game stem from the way information is processed by the B t 's .
23 They are asking Darlington planning committee for permission to build a 36-bedroom extension .
24 The Marxists , by contrast , had only been able to build a viable organization , under the name of the British Socialist Party , for a few years before 1914 and were always bedevilled by sectarianism and schism .
25 The republicans , in other words , were keen to push the civil rights agitation further and to use it to build a radical coalition which would set its sights , eventually , on a united Ireland .
26 In the eighteenth century a number of parishes in England took advantage of an Act of 1722–3 ( 9 Geo.I.c.7 ) to combine with other parishes to build a central workhouse in order to manage the problems of poverty more economically .
27 ‘ We both want to improve things ; to build a better world .
28 There is nothing inherently wrong in this situation ; if we want to build a better society we have to be prepared , collectively , to pay for it .
29 The conversation between the four of them ranged from the trial and Venice itself to the difficulties besetting the people who were trying to build a better , more humane world than the old one on the wreckage left by the war .
30 A story is when McTavish wants to build a better world for everyone — just like you have it in the book , I do n't want to change anything — and the local hoods jump on him .
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