Example sentences of "agree [to-vb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At a meeting of its environmental committee yesterday , Dunfermline District Council agreed to issue a public health notice against Fife Regional Council . |
| 2 | The AUT 's governing council , meeting in York , agreed to support a National Union of Students proposal for a one-day shut-down of universities in protest at the scheme with teach-ins on campuses . |
| 3 | Then Wim went off and tagged IBM and when IBM and Hewlett agreed to support a common position Sun decided it could n't resist , especially with Novell Inc nudging it on . |
| 4 | Then Wim went off and tagged IBM and when IBM and HP agreed to support a common position Sun eventually found it could n't resist , especially with Novell nudging it on . |
| 5 | A grouping of eight opposition parties , including the Movement for Democracy in Algeria ( MDA ) and the Rally for Culture and Democracy ( RCD ) , met on April 7 and agreed to support a single candidate in each constituency . |
| 6 | This may involve special categories of trader , such as the market maker , who is under an obligation ( by the exchange rules ) to quote a price in a given contract whenever asked ; the designated broker , who agrees to promote a particular contract without giving a binding commitment to deal ; and the " local " , who trades his personal account on the exchange floor . |
| 7 | With the ardour of his age Dick agrees to carry a vital message across the frontier into Flavonia : delighting in unexpected action , he is afraid only of being late and failing in his mission and it is the free resourcefulness of a boy that ensures that in spite of accidents the message does get through . |
| 8 | In October the Supreme Soviet agreed to impose a progressive tax on enterprises which increased their total wage bills by more than 3 per cent a year . |
| 9 | This meeting agrees to provide a reasonable level of financial and logistical and other support to those students who wish to pursue legal action against the CLE , who are not eligible for legal aid . |
| 10 | Mr Clarke said the armed forces would be withdrawn as soon as the unions agreed to provide a normal emergency service . |
| 11 | Portugal agreed to provide a revolving fund credit facility , which would guarantee the conversion into Portuguese escudos of up to US$10,000,000 of local currency remittances . |
| 12 | The congress agreed to establish a closed trade unions ' assets management company in which any union could become a member . |
| 13 | During ministerial-level talks the two sides agreed to establish a joint co-operation commission . |
| 14 | They agreed to establish a working group to formulate an accord of " neighbourliness , friendship and co-operation " . |
| 15 | In another new initiative in 1974 , under Italian and Irish pressure , the EC agreed to establish a Regional Development Fund . |
| 16 | The summit also agreed to establish a regional stock exchange from January 1991 with the cross-listing of the community 's three current exchanges based in Jamaica , Barbados and Trinidad and Tobago . |
| 17 | In 1946 , however , they agreed to establish a Scandinavian Committee for Legislative Cooperation . |
| 18 | The President and I agreed to establish a secure telephone link between our two offices . |
| 19 | The seven countries agreed to establish a permanent structure for annual drug summits and follow-up meetings , to curb the trade in the chemicals used to process cocaine , and to co-operate in the seizing of aircraft used for drug trafficking . |
| 20 | X and the defendant agreed to create a limited company in order to run the defendant 's restaurant . |
| 21 | At a further ministerial meeting in August and after a heads of government meeting in Grenada in September , the four Windward islands agreed to create a regional constituent assembly to discuss unity plans and to prepare for a referendum to be held in mid-1991 . |
| 22 | May 5 : Yeltsin and Kryuchkov agreed to create a separate RFSFR section of the KGB [ see p. 38206 ] . |
| 23 | An innocent purchaser , Mr. Carter , agreed to buy a new Ford Escort XR3i from X , a car dealer . |
| 24 | Under its terms , the seven Efta states and the twelve states of the EEC have agreed to establish a tariff-free area among themselves , in which the free movement of goods , services , people and capital is assured . |
| 25 | Despite initial US reluctance , the conference eventually agreed to establish a Global Fund , on the basis of a proposal by Mostafa Tolba , the executive director of the United Nations Environment Programme ( UNEP ) . |
| 26 | The British Academy and the ESRC have agreed to establish a working party . |
| 27 | It was announced on Dec. 13 that the Trevi Group of Justice and Interior Ministers formed after the Trevi security conference of 1976 ( see pp. 34883 ; 36492 ) , had agreed to establish a joint police database for use primarily against international terrorism and drug dealing . |
| 28 | As a stepping stone towards a regional common market , the Presidents of El Salvador , Guatemala and Honduras , meeting on May 12 in Nueva Ocotepeque , Honduras , had agreed to establish a free-trade zone creating a potential market of 20,000,000 consumers and to boost annual trade between the three from the currently estimated US$600 million to US$4,500 million . |
| 29 | Late last night they were also reported to have agreed to establish a supranational bank to finance the reconstruction of Eastern Europe — a strategy Mrs Thatcher has doubts about . |
| 30 | It was agreed to establish a public inquiry into methods of limiting the concentration of newspaper and magazine ownership . |