Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Obviously this was a ruse to throw would-be pursuers off the scent . |
| 2 | When debating their new Constitution in 1988 , Congress passed a provision to force foreign companies to divest their controlling interests in mineral extraction over a four-year period . |
| 3 | One does not have to be a statistician to discount these results . |
| 4 | Over 400 patients have already been recruited into a trial to test this regimen . |
| 5 | It was , therefore , proposed in 1953 to introduce a form of ‘ boost ’ training for trained crews on reserve status whereby they could return to a squadron to undertake two weeks of intensive refresher flying . |
| 6 | You 've got a week and a bit to do four questions . |
| 7 | These colours are so strong that you have to thin quite a bit to gain softer tones . |
| 8 | The result was a very satisfied customer was able to drive away minutes later , Tina having proved it is not necessary to work in a branch to provide good customer service . |
| 9 | It has prompted President De Klerk to hold a referendum to guage white support on ending apartheid . |
| 10 | The Contingency Reserve has always existed as a cushion to meet unexpected demands for spending without breaking the overall planning target for public spending set in the White Papers . |
| 11 | A more convincing sign of confidence would be a decision to let more soldiers come home from the front . |
| 12 | Making a decision to spend large quantities of money is not easy . |
| 13 | I would have thought that a decision to allocate more time to showing the event could have been taken , particularly in view of our previous successes . |
| 14 | DARLINGTON Transport Company Ltd has defended a decision to allow Labour advertising on its buses in the run-up to the General Election . |
| 15 | It 's unfortunate that yet again the Mercury got it wrong they stated that we had made a decision to close four homes |
| 16 | unnamed that is not true and I do agree with Mr that when we make a decision to close some homes that they should be named to avoid the terrible indecision which exists at the moment . |
| 17 | A decision to purchase new curtains is more than a matter of taste ; it is also a financial decision . |
| 18 | A decision to refuse medical treatment by a patient capable of making the decision does not have to be sensible , rational or well-considered : see Sidaway v. Board of Governors of the Bethlem Royal Hospital and the Maudsley Hospital [ 1985 ] A.C. 871 , 904–905 . |
| 19 | Today Mr Mendiluce will go to the Bosnian capital , Sarajevo , to urge President Alija Izetbegovic to reverse a decision to refuse further aid to the city out of sympathy with the Muslims in the east . |
| 20 | There is a decision gap and then there is a fork Since there must presumably be a decision to take either fork there should be further decision gaps . |
| 21 | A decision to pipe crude oil from the B.P. Forties Field in the North Sea to a new terminal at Hound Point from where it was to be shipped outwards , raised doubts about safety of navigation in the River Forth . |
| 22 | The Rueff plan , which was presented to de Gaulle in mid-November , had three main planks : a substantial devaluation of the franc ( accompanied by the creation of a new franc equivalent to 100 old francs ) ; action to control the budget deficit , both through increased taxes and cuts in governmental expenditure ; and a decision to remove many restrictions on foreign trade and to reduce tariffs on trade with the other five Common Market countries ( in line with a commitment that had been made by the Fourth Republic the year before ) . |
| 23 | There has been an influx of women into the party , accompanied by a decision to have equal representation at all levels of the party by the mid-1990s . |
| 24 | In the event of Conservative defeat , one of the great questions never to be answered would be whether a decision to postpone full-scale implementation of the various forms of opting-out , in favour of local experiments , might have saved them . |
| 25 | Whether central government chooses to remove this is , however , dependent on value judgements and a decision to attain horizontal equity ( Grewal , Buchanan and Matthews 1980 ) . |
| 26 | In Cinnamond v. British Airport Authority ( C.A. , 1980 ) Denning M.R. found that natural justice had no application to a decision to exclude six minicab drivers from Gatwick Airport . |
| 27 | With monetary policy , for example , the money supply may not decrease immediately following a decision to make open market sales of public sector debt to the non-bank sector . |
| 28 | It is hoped that a decision to develop these fields will be taken in 1993 . |
| 29 | It would be good practice never to accept a referral without the knowledge and consent of the client , but issues of risk and protection with vulnerable elderly people sometimes lead to a decision to override that principle . |
| 30 | The collision comes at a difficult time for Russian President Boris Yeltsin , who is defending a decision to impose presidential rule in parliament and in the Constitutional Court . |