Example sentences of "a bid [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition to the Cabinet changes and the amnesty , Roh also announced several reform measures in a bid to restore public confidence in his government . |
| 2 | A BID to delay 72 job losses in Gwynedd County Council 's road workforce failed yesterday . |
| 3 | The Gulf war could be described as the struggle for control of the post-cold war world order — a bid to retain American leadership , to establish a form of political regulation of the post-Fordist world economy that retains the Fordist political institutions . |
| 4 | POLICE cells in Hastings , Sussex , have been painted pink in a bid to relax violent prisoners . |
| 5 | The withdrawal of Vietnam 's remaining military forces from Cambodia in late September 1989 [ see pp. 36881-82 ] signalled an upsurge in both political and military activity , as forces of the exiled CGDK put pressure on the Phnom Penh regime in a bid to induce power-sharing negotiations . |
| 6 | As an appeal to help stricken flood victims was launched last Police set up road blocks in a bid to stop non-essential traffic reaching Llandudno and hampering emergency work . |
| 7 | A PUBLIC meeting has been called in a bid to curb under-aged drinking and vandalism at Seaton Carew , near Hartlepool . |
| 8 | But now the men managing her money are accusing her father of a bid to take complete control . |
| 9 | I do n't think it 's against the constitution that er it would be a bit unusual to find him involved in handling money to be involved in he went to Majorca or Tenerife or in a bid to see each other it 's a possibility . |
| 10 | Sky are spending £5 million this month on a lavish advertising campaign in a bid to sell more dishes and win more armchair fans . |
| 11 | PRIVATE nursing home owners have come forward with a rescue plan for a doomed old people 's home in a bid to save 21 pensioners from having to move . |
| 12 | DARREN ANDERTON has given Tottenham 's walking wounded a boost by launching a bid to join next week 's Coca-Cola Cup crusade at Nottingham Forest . |
| 13 | WEST Belfast MP Dr Joe Hendron has called on the security forces to step up their patrols in loyalist areas of Belfast in a bid to halt sectarian killings . |
| 14 | Thus in a bid to weaken Arab support for allied action , Saddam turned the bunker deaths of Iraqi citizens into an international photo-opportunity while allied and Iraqi intelligence continue to collude in suppressing images of the dead Iraqi conscripts slaughtered by the bombing of Kuwait . |
| 15 | TOWN residents are being asked to make a last-ditch appeal to the Government in a bid to avert further cash cutbacks . |
| 16 | ROVER is slashing car prices by up to £1,000 in a bid to kick-start stalled sales . |
| 17 | In a bid to boost environmentally-friendly tourism , the Broads Authority and Eastern Electricity have set up the first of a series of recharging points for electric boats on the northern rivers of the Broads . |
| 18 | In a bid to boost foreign trade and modernize the economy the government in November 1990 passed legislation allowing investment by foreign companies and joint ventures [ see p. 37864 ] . |
| 19 | Since then he has been busy working on a medical book about brain tumours in a bid to increase public awareness and raise vital funds for research . |
| 20 | And in a bid to prevent bogus claims , Social Security Secretary Peter Lilley wants tougher medical tests for those saying they are unfit to work . |
| 21 | Cordons , already tight around scores of Ulster towns and cities , were stepped up overnight in a bid to prevent any headline grabbing bombing . |
| 22 | In a bid to defuse local hostility to the scheme , the 150-strong club has offered Braintree District Council a range of conditions it says would be acceptable if planners granted permission . |
| 23 | BRAINTREE District Council 's former direct labour organisation has put in a bid to reroof 27 houses which is £150,000 more than the lowest tender . |
| 24 | At another level , EC policies particularly in the areas of competition and technology seem set to favour further concentration and spatial centralisation of industry ( more likely to be in the most advanced regions ) in a bid to develop European champions capable of taking on US and Japanese competition . |
| 25 | Scientists working on the jet fusion project at Culham in south Oxfordshire have been protesting today in a bid to influence leading figures in the project as they met for the second day of their full Council Meeting . |
| 26 | Durham County Council used several tonnes of grit — and its new snow-blower — in a bid to keep main roads open . |
| 27 | INFRA-RED remote control receivers are to be installed at some of Darlington 's top attractions in a bid to encourage disabled users . |
| 28 | By Anne Harrison THE SKILLS of out-of-work bosses are to be offered at cut-price rates in a bid to encourage local firms to look after their workers . |
| 29 | POLICE are setting up special no-go areas to carnival revellers in a bid to protect frightened shopkeepers and residents — many o f them Asian — at a carnival next weekend . |
| 30 | It suggested that , despite its choice on May 26 of veteran left-wing dissident leader Kim Dae Jung as its presidential candidate , both party and leader were keen to move from the left to the political centre in a bid to garner sufficient votes to win the presidency . |