Example sentences of "[adj] plans [to-vb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the same day the government of Kirgizstan , a member of the CIS , was polishing plans to replace the rouble with the som , which became the country 's official currency on May 17th . |
| 2 | My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State has no specific plans to meet the ambassador , but both he and I have met him recently . |
| 3 | Its future , however , is uncertain , extensive plans to integrate the building into part of a much bigger new-build scheme having been put on hold . |
| 4 | Labour plans to replace the poll tax , which now costs the 81 Major Street residents a total £24,319.44 , exclusive of any rebates , for the financial year which started on Wednesday . |
| 5 | Labour plans to reduce the number of special schools to five , with one all-age school for children with physical disabilites were rejected . |
| 6 | European Community telecommunications ministers yesterday agreed the legislation intended to ensure that voice telephone services are provided in an open and efficient way across the Community , Reuter reports from Brussels : the legislation , which must be reviewed by the European Parliament before it becomes final , would improve access of users to public telephone networks and impose rules or objectives in areas such as prices , contracts and billing ; it would establish the principle that prices are based on cost , rather than cross-subsidy — in many countries , long distance calls subsidise local calls ; France won agreement on changes that would enable tariffs to be adjusted to ensure ‘ cohesion ’ within a state — in order to cover things like service to remote areas ; the ministers are also due this week to debate the controversial plans to liberalise the telecommunications market by 1998 . |
| 7 | By and large , capital had come to terms with war — an alliance given prominence in 1916 by press agitation for Allied plans to translate the wartime economic blockade of Germany into a post-war policy of concerted discrimination against German exports — the so-called ‘ War After the War . |
| 8 | King James I was a vain , foolish man , full of grandiose , impractical plans to impress the rest of 17th-century Europe . |
| 9 | If ‘ that bloody woman ’ had heard him utter such a curse , she would have ripped into him with a piece of her mind , then he would have whipped her with his tongue , then this sop of a man before him would have got between them , and afore you knew it , there would be a full-scale war waging — and in the heat of the moment he might foolishly betray his devious plans to boot the lot of them out of his house and out of his life . |
| 10 | Before it embarks on the task of proclaiming the gospel of Jesus Christ the local church must have a clear idea as to the hoped-for result of such an undertaking , and should make appropriate plans to maximise the chances of achieving it . |
| 11 | Indeed , the process was implicit in the ambitious plans to industrialize the country already drawn up under Dej . |
| 12 | With the total elderly population continuing to rise , women face having to stay on at work until 65 under Tory plans to equalise the retirement age . |
| 13 | Sedgefield District Council 's development sub-committee approved plans to extend the Parnaby Cyclones factory at Chilton Industrial Estate . |
| 14 | Given its success after only eighteen months , and the current plans to extend the Thameslink network , it now seems hard to believe that passengers have enjoyed the ability to cross London by regular electric BR services for such a short time . |
| 15 | The chairman of the committee , Mr Hugh Rossi , was concerned about the Government 's alternative plans to pump the sewage into the sea through long pipelines without treating the bacteria . |
| 16 | Although alternative plans to finance the NHS were rejected — ie the service continued to be funded from general taxation — tax relief was offered on health insurance premiums for retired people . |
| 17 | Initial plans to tour the exhibition to Russia , and to show the entire span of the artist 's activities , have now been shelved . |
| 18 | Despite NEC 's adherence to the MIPS Technologies Inc R-series RISC , which it fabricates , the move seems to move NEC inexorably towards the Hewlett-Packard Co Precision Architecture RISC camp , because Convex plans to use the part in forthcoming parallel machines , and NEC already markets the Stratus Computer Inc fault-tolerant machines in Japan — having chosen the ill-starred Intel Corp 80860 as the basis of its first generation of RISC machines , Stratus plans to use Precision Architecture RISCs in future iterations of its systems . |
| 19 | According to recent press reports , the Employment Department is opposing plans to broaden the remit of the European Social Fund ( ESF ) . |
| 20 | Norway has no immediate plans to leave the IWC which last year rejected plans from Iceland and Japan to catch a limited number of whales . |
| 21 | TECHNICAL problems and high projected costs have persuaded the British government to pull the plug on any immediate plans to tap the heat of the Earth for power generation . |
| 22 | A spokesperson said there were no immediate plans to publish the book in paperback but , when that happened , the novel would appear without prior publicity . |
| 23 | The CT2 standard is used in some 20 countries , but AT&T says it has no immediate plans to market the telephones in the US , because the Federal Communications Commission has not approved CT2 phones for use in the US . |
| 24 | Although there are no immediate plans to launch the system on the domestic vacuum cleaner market , I believe it would be welcome as it is environmentally better than standard chemical sprays . |
| 25 | Home Office Minister of State Michael Jack said later in a Commons written reply that the Government had no immediate plans to increase the penalties for the possession of porno-graphic material . |
| 26 | Conservative plans to privatise the schools ' inspectorate will be scrapped . |
| 27 | Bectu claims that the BBC has ‘ secret plans to dismantle the Corporation in advance of public debate on the charter renewal ’ and that reports by 15 task forces formed to provide a blueprint for the BBC 's role and function include possible job cuts . |
| 28 | It was George Wallace , Mr Hunt 's predecessor , who put the Confederate flag on the capitol in 1963 to show his contempt for federal plans to desegregate the University of Alabama . |
| 29 | Next day Jack pondered the mystery of the unexplained footsteps and laid plans to catch the intruder . |
| 30 | Radical plans to remodel the education system , especially anything which resembled the undermining of the comprehensive secondary schools against which Tories had long since railed , were scrapped . |