Example sentences of "a [noun] [to-vb] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In tide free waters like the Mediterranean we do n't have the same problem but we still need to consult a chart to find out a suitable location for sailing . |
| 2 | Far better to build more advanced Airbuses for a new market than a Euro-fighter to take on a non-existent enemy which is increasingly an economic partner . |
| 3 | Far better to build more advanced Airbuses for a new market than a Euro-fighter to take on a non-existent enemy which is increasingly an economic partner . |
| 4 | Joe saw an opportunity to get the couple to visit a branch to pick up a ‘ replacement ’ card but when they arrived the police moved in and detained them . |
| 5 | The deal provokes further speculation that Rowland is preparing the way for a successor to take over the group he has led for 30 years . |
| 6 | Elijah heard a divine message sending him back to troubled Israel , with intuition as to definite things to do , one of which was to find a successor to carry on the prophetic ministry . |
| 7 | It is clear from the Kanunname that the movement of scholars into other fields than the learned profession is envisaged : if a candidate for office in the learned profession , that is , a wishes to take up a military career instead , he is to be given a fief yielding 20,000 akce ; and Sahn muderrises and 300-akce kadis may hold the office of defterdar , and the first two may also become nisanci ; and 500-akce kadis may become . |
| 8 | He was put on a ventilator under sedation , and was given drugs through a drip to take down the bleeding and swelling in his brain . |
| 9 | An agent looking at a student actor makes a reasonable commercial judgement ; he considers whether a decision to take on an actor will be financially justified . |
| 10 | Talks held on July 23 between the deputy chairmen of the Russian and Ukrainian parliaments , Yury Yazov and Vasiliy Dudinets respectively , ended with a decision to set up a joint parliamentary commission based in Sevastopol to supervise observance of the Dagomys agreement . |
| 11 | For example there may be a decision to set up an expensive data-processing facility in order to cut the costs of data-processing . |
| 12 | The new Prime Minister was obliged , yesterday morning , to send a driver to find out the telephone number of one of his key ministers , before Mr Singh could pass on the good news of his appointment . |
| 13 | ‘ All three put up a struggle to fight off the attacker . |
| 14 | As David Carlton has written , this plan ‘ represented a willingness to buy off a bully with territory to which he had no legitimate claim . ’ |
| 15 | Whatever the shortcomings of the assumptions made about cause and effect in the relationship between man and the environment ( and man with man ) the model shows how the use of a computer to carry out the vast number of calculations necessary to realize the model can allow the consideration of a very complex situation on lines not previously possible . |
| 16 | This is largely overcome by using a computer to print out a new set of data at each revision , but there is a tendency to allow the plan to fall into disuse in the later stages of a project because of this . |
| 17 | This is largely overcome by using a computer to print out a new set of data at each revision , but there is a tendency to allow the plan to fall into disuse in the later stages of a project because of this . |
| 18 | I do n't know , maybe they erm a , they 'll listen to the tapes and they probably sample some of the words into a computer to build up a database of words that probably like you said , oh he 's getting a lot of jip from his boss , you know , is probably not in the dictionary but if a lot of people said that word then they would . |
| 19 | If I signed a contract to carry out a complete refurbishment of the interior of your house I have an obligation to fulfil that contract . |
| 20 | Most unpopular are subsidies to attract a buyer to take over an existing home so the seller is released to trade up . |
| 21 | From July it will be illegal for anyone other than a vet to carry out the operation . |
| 22 | Apart from the inherent improbability that the Lockerbie investigators never thought to ask for it , that it was left to a clerk to print out a copy on her own initiative before the computer wiped the record , only to return weeks later from holiday to find that still no one had asked for it , and that the BKA , after being given the list , sat on it for months before passing it along to the Scottish police , there remained the problem of the FBI teletype which left open the possibility that no such bag from Malta was ever loaded on Flight 103 . |
| 23 | a grant to set up an illicit still |
| 24 | He worked with scarcely a break to search out a new passage in the files , or to pick up the half-smoked end of his last cigarette from the ashtray , stub it out , light a new one , and put it down in its place . |
| 25 | Scientists and engineers at the conference , however , foresaw a major collaboration between academics and European financiers who would seek a permit to put up the estimated $130 million to design the garbage ships and capsules . |
| 26 | The bank had arranged for a four-wheeler to pick up the messenger , round the back of the building . |
| 27 | In mid-January 1991 the Indian government announced a programme to clean up the 800-km long Yamuna River which flowed through Delhi before joining the Ganges at Allahabad , and was polluted by ( among other sources ) untreated chemicals from a major oil refinery at Mathura and several tanneries in Agra . |
| 28 | According to Santiago O ate , attorney-general for environmental protection , the government has already invested $400 million in a programme to clean up the industrial zone on the US border , home to many of the so-called maquiladora industries , which locate there to take advantage of Mexico 's relatively lax pollution regulations . |
| 29 | THE French government has launched a programme to set up a nationwide telecommunications research network , in an effort to catch up with Britain 's JANET system and Germany 's DFN . |
| 30 | Mrs Doris Ledger and Mrs Jenny Metcalfe , two members of the fund raising committee , officially signalled the start of building work by wielding a hammer to knock out the first brick in a wall on Ward 42 . |