Example sentences of "[noun pl] to build [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The biggest award was for £150,000 to Ullaspool , a company set up to raise funds to build a new swimming pool at Ullapool . |
| 2 | Why do you think that the stories have continued even to this day about the supposed link between the tax case and the gift of funds to build the National Gallery ? |
| 3 | Tied in by their own dogma , the Conservatives refuse to take any steps to build a genuine base for sustained economic growth . |
| 4 | How she bargained with the sorcerers to build the Bright Palace for her . |
| 5 | Should an accident seriously damage one of the craft it could take years to gear up specialised production lines to build the larger replacement parts . |
| 6 | Nigel : But 40 leading scientists do say that carbon dioxide is made in producing uranium and building the reactors , and power stations are not the main source of greenhouse gases anyway ; and nuclear programmes divert money from energy-saving programmes , and it takes six years to build a nuclear power station and you can save that amount of carbon dioxide in six months by saving energy . |
| 7 | Gray had told the board he needed three years to build a top side . |
| 8 | He organised a band of local workers to build a gigantic cairn 20 feet high , thus putting the summit safely above 4,000 feet again . |
| 9 | It 's cost a million pounds to build a new water treatment works at Stow on the Wold in Gloucestershire , to take nitrates out of spring and river water . |
| 10 | More than three months after it had won a parliamentary majority in a multiparty general election , the Bulgarian Socialist Party ( BSP — the renamed Bulgarian Communist Party ) finally abandoned in September its efforts to build a grand coalition government including the main opposition Union of Democratic Forces ( UDF ) . |
| 11 | Parsons 's efforts to build a general theory of action , though criticised in some quarters , did at least provide an ambition for social research as something it could and ought to contribute to . |
| 12 | The following are my reflections on what I saw during my time in the Philippines of the efforts to build a Philippine health movement . |
| 13 | Having reviewed our chemicals portfolio , we have embarked on a process of selective growth and divestment , concentrating on our core businesses to build a strong base from which to exploit future opportunities . |
| 14 | Until recently they included plans to build a second airport . |
| 15 | A row has broken out among Darlington councillors over plans to build a private hospital in Lingfield Way on the Yarm Road Industrial Estate . |
| 16 | PLANS to build a private hospital on an industrial estate at Darlington have been criticised . |
| 17 | Plans to build a toxic waste incinerator in Renfrew appear to be in jeopardy . |
| 18 | An engineer in Darlington has six weeks to decide whether he wants to return to South Africa or head his company 's plans to build a new factory in Russia . |
| 19 | Protestors are claiming that proposals to enlarge a trunk road are part of plans to build a new motorway . |
| 20 | A COMPANY behind plans to build a new village on the outskirts of Darlington is considering appealing against the rejection of its development by town planners . |
| 21 | Within five years the same railway contractors responsible for the spur line were actively pursuing plans to build a new dock system in the area . |
| 22 | The Soviet Union 's plans to build a new store for nuclear waste , close to the Finnish border near Leningrad , have aroused worry amongst Finnish environmentalists . |
| 23 | THE ENVIRONMENT Secretary , Mr Chris Patten , yesterday finally rejected plans to build a new town of 4,800 homes at Foxley Wood , Hampshire , saying the county council should come up with fresh county-wide plans . |
| 24 | British Coal 's plans to build a huge coal tip at Gascoigne Wood could get approval later today . |
| 25 | Don is involved in plans to build a large plastic slope , and golf course , at the site I visited , and has also applied to build a slope at High Wycombe . |
| 26 | The future of the Swiss nuclear industry had been in doubt for a number of years , particularly since the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster in the Soviet Union [ see pp.34460-62 ] , and in 1988 the government had halted plans to build a nuclear power station at Kaiseraugst near Basel [ see p. 36499 ] . |
| 27 | Chong Kun Mo , Minister of Science and Technology , was reported on Nov. 9 to have resigned over a " violent " incident concerning plans to build a nuclear power research complex on Anmyon Island . |
| 28 | Greenpeace has criticised Turkey 's plans to build a nuclear power station at Akkuyu on the Mediterranean coast . |
| 29 | After a lengthy and intense public campaign of opposition , the UK government has abandoned plans to build a six-lane motorway through the ancient Oxleas Wood in south-east London [ see EDs 55 , 61 , 69 , 70 , 71 ] . |
| 30 | Japanese plans to build an international airport on the Shiraho reef have been abandoned — in favour of building the same airport on the next reef along . |