Example sentences of "[to-vb] together a [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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1 | I CAN IMAGINE THE INDIGNANT HOWLS OF protest as collectors all over the country now run to their shelves to gather together a clutch of beloved performances . |
2 | Other voices , too , are now being raised in support of a national body to pull together a multitude of organisations , currently pursuing , often blindly , their selfish individual goals . |
3 | 88open is trying to pull together a meeting of consortia chiefs this month to mull over the kinds of business , customer and anti-trust issues they all share . |
4 | Trying to group together a selection of best walks in an area as complex as Northumberland , with its historical landmarks , beautiful coastline , vast afforestation and rolling moorland is a very subjective exercise , but Frank Duerden has managed to select 30 diverse walks . |
5 | What is clearly a dealers ' market is often signalled by the invention of a brand name to group together a variety of material , perhaps rather disparate . |
6 | Republicans say Mr Bush 's win on capital gains suggests that the White House might be able to put together a majority of its own for budget restraint , with or without the Democratic leaders . |
7 | George was ever-present for nearly three seasons , became only our second post-war goalkeeper to put together a run of 100 consecutive League games ( John Jackson was the first ) , while his hundred appearances straight from his debut was the first achieved by a Palace player for over a quarter of a century . |
8 | Merchant bank N M Rothschild is trying to put together a consortium of City firms . |
9 | It may be necessary to negotiate with several different agencies , to put together a combination of services to sustain an elderly person at home for a particular period of time . |
10 | The teacher of history needs to learn how to put together a group of sources to target particular historical skills or concepts . |
11 | Advice on continuing education is available from several organisations and these may have to be approached individually in order to put together a picture of opportunities available to you locally . |
12 | They 're doing a , I 've got a piece of paper somewhere with it all written on , I 'll show you , they 're doing a piece of research with a company that does dictionaries and a university , to put together a load of modern usage . |
13 | Therefore , it 's a good idea to put together a box of essentials such as light bulbs , candles , matches , scissors , toilet rolls , cash and a note of important telephone numbers . |
14 | With a month to put together a programme of events for this ‘ Reading Festival ’ , things were n't going well and the organisers approached London club owner Dave Bilk — yep , Acker 's bro — who put them on to B & H. |
15 | But before that , it is possible , using the sources revealed by the 1910 dispute , to put together a sort of group portrait of the women compositors , as they were in 1910 , and as they continued to be over the coming years . |
16 | Denyer decided to put together a mix of landscapes and portraits , images that gave him particular visual pleasure . |
17 | At the very time this highly specialised library of books on the cotton industry was being dispersed , without even being checked against the holdings of the British Library — the book here listed is not to be found in their catalogue — the New Mills Heritage Centre was trying to put together a collection of books which would be of use to students visiting what had been , among other achievements , the home of the British calico printing industry . |
18 | Dawn Groves had hoped to put together a production of Joseph and His Amazing Technicoloured Dreamcoat but the amateur rights have been withdrawn . |
19 | They 're thought to be from an old church , and are helping archeologists to piece together a picture of life in medieval times . |
20 | To the dismay of record-collectors , it now became possible to piece together a collection of imperfect bits to make a complete note-perfect performance . |
21 | The only fair way was to read the transcripts of those who had been there and try to piece together a sequence of events . |
22 | His challenger , Mr Edwin Eisendrath , a city alderman , had tried to stitch together a coalition of young apolitical professionals and ‘ reform ’ Democrats . |
23 | Saxton , a doyen of British headhunting , is Chairman of the Executive Recruitment Association , formed in 1985 to link together a variety of search firms ; as yet , it would appear that few of the largest are interested , but this body could form a foundation for a professional association of headhunting in Britain . |
24 | For our own 25th Anniversary celebrations at the Royal Albert Hall in 1978 Cicely produced a most imaginative programme using the National Display Team to link together a number of items depicting the history of Medau Rhythmic Movement . |
25 | You may find it more pleasing and effective to range together a selection of complementary shapes , rather than just a hotchpotch of squares , circles , ovals and rectangles . |
26 | Then he attempted to bring together a number of small seamen 's societies by organising a conference at the Scottish port of Leith . |
27 | It describes the process whereby oppression and prejudice come about and is therefore , like the term ‘ special needs ’ , an attempt to bring together a number of behaviours such as sexism , racism , disablism and homophobia . |
28 | It would seem that groupings of authorities and academic institutions which are geographically close have much to recommend them in terms of the potential savings on travelling expenses , and this is clearly also true in terms of projects for the creation of teaching materials which need to bring together a number of practitioners from different schools on a regular basis . |
29 | This section serves to bring together a number of practical considerations and pointers for use when carrying out a valuation . |
30 | The wind farm is a joint venture between Tomen , a Japanese trading house , EcoGen , a UK company formed in 1990 to bring together a number of interests working on commercial wind power , and SeaWest , a US company and the world 's largest developer of wind farms . |