Example sentences of "a [noun] [to-vb] [adv prt] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | S J Paliwoda ( International Marketing ) draws attention to the need to evaluate political risk in a country before taking a decision to set up operations within that country . |
| 2 | There may be a decision to break off negotiations precisely in order to achieve some end in those negotiations . |
| 3 | When Ellcock announced his retirement from first-class cricket at the age of 216 after Middlesex 's pre-season tour to Portugal , he was finally admitting defeat in a struggle to overcome back problems he has been fighting for much of his 10-year career . |
| 4 | So far as the former are concerned , the Act ( as does the Financial Services Act ) assumes that public issues of debentures will be undertaken by the same methods as issues of shares and it provides that a contract to take up debentures , like one to take up shares , may be enforced by an order for specific performance . |
| 5 | We all know how difficult it can be to arrange for a contractor to carry out repairs to our home . |
| 6 | This is a conspiracy to bring about boycotts and harm the industry . ’ |
| 7 | PONY-owners in Hampshire 's New Forest have launched a Neighbourhood Watch-style campaign in a bid to ward off horse-thieves . |
| 8 | NORTH Wales Police are stepping up patrols of flood areas in a bid to ward off looters . |
| 9 | Among the ideas under consideration are : — changes to bus lanes in a bid to speed up services ; — giving buses priority at traffic lights ; — contraflow bus lanes allowing public transport to travel against the main flow of traffic in a one way street ; — measures to protect bus stops from careless motorists who park illegally . |
| 10 | For Humphrey , aesthetic structuring arises from the urge to group and classify information as well as from a capacity to pick up similarities and associations that generate a sense of rhythm and rhyme . |
| 11 | A PLAN to draw up registers of land which may be polluted has been abandoned by the Scottish Secretary , Ian Lang , writes Auslan Cramb . |
| 12 | Also turned down is a plan to carry out alterations at 135 Church Street , Whitby because it is also a listed building . |
| 13 | Hence there is a need to seek out opportunities for creativity in the general fabric of daily life . |
| 14 | Mr. Croucher said there was a need to build up funds for premises , which towns such as Alton already had . |
| 15 | Out of the Regal Trophy and falling behind in the League where they had already lost four games , Wigan players and coaching staff held a meeting to iron out problems caused by a lengthy early season injury list and the loss of Ellery Hanley , to Leeds . |
| 16 | A meeting to draw up plans took place in the Chairman 's room at the Conservative Central Office on 7 July 1978 . |
| 17 | GREAT GRANNY , 75 , DOES A LINFORD TO SEE OFF BURGLARS |
| 18 | This extends beyond a tendency to influence policy delivery by the characteristic ‘ insubordinate ’ responses of evasion , delay , and so on , into a desire to feed back views into the policy-making process . |
| 19 | Even under such circumstances , he was not a person to blurt out words that he did not mean . |
| 20 | In between the Players played — to give us a chance to get out breaths back . |
| 21 | The agenda included a discussion of a rota to set up displays in the library , policy on the acquisition of periodicals and an intended course on information retrieval to be related to the library skills already incorporated in the basic studies programme . |
| 22 | Hardly a title to conjure up visions of wild youthful abandonment , ‘ Heaven Knows … ’ pushed The Smiths further into the badlands of bedsit squalor , a Godsend for those who could n't stomach the effortless polish of Sade . |
| 23 | Slow Fade ( 1984 ) draws on Wurlitzer 's own experiences as a screen-writer to set up narratives-within-narratives . |
| 24 | Peers visit him once a month to hand over expenses forms on which they specify the days they have attended the Chamber for debates . |
| 25 | The UK Labour Party has set up a commission to draw up policies on the environment . |
| 26 | A commission to draw up proposals for changes to the 1947 Constitution was established on Sept. 9 . |
| 27 | Here is a space to fill in things you suggest . |
| 28 | Use the back of a rake to break down lumps , and check the surface for slopes , lumps and follows using a batten and spirit level . |
| 29 | The wistful look back to the glorious and not-so-glorious age of steam has ensured that there has been a rush to print off books about the railwayman 's experience . |
| 30 | At a general evolutionary level it is quite adaptive for a species to seek out foods that provide reasonable amounts of nutrients and give high energy levels . |