Example sentences of "[to-vb] a [noun] [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | If initially money wages and prices were rising at 10% per annum , insiders attempt to reach point B by restricting their money wage claims to , say , 5% per annum , that is , they are willing to accept a 5% cut in real wages . |
| 2 | The EC 's decision to establish a Relay Centre in Glasgow follows a successful bid by a consortium of four companies : the Glasgow-based EuroInfo Centre and Technology Transfer Centre , Business Information Source of Inverness , and RTC North of Sunderland . |
| 3 | The United States presented this as a quid pro quo for the Soviet failure to establish a missile base in Cuba . |
| 4 | In light of this appeal it was ironic that a superpower crisis developed from subsequent Soviet efforts to establish a missile base in Cuba . |
| 5 | In Women , Power and Politics part of our argument was that legislation is not enough to establish a gender order in which women are seen as the equals of men . |
| 6 | It proposed to establish a printing office in Edinburgh , " with eventual auxiliary branches in Glasgow , Aberdeen , Dundee , Perth , etc … for the instruction and employment of women in the art of printing " . |
| 7 | With adverse publicity about the failure to establish a development programme in the black townships and a renewal of sanctions from the ANC now inevitable , Botha believes that the time has come for ageing administrators like Danie Craven to step down . |
| 8 | They agreed to establish a US office in Hanoi to gather information about some 1,700 MIAs . |
| 9 | The money will go to establish a scholarship fund in the memory of Dr Clyde Tull who taught her while she was a student there in the early Twenties . |
| 10 | Recent moves to establish a world standard in memory cards suggest that this kind of publishing may soon extend to desktop computers of all kinds as well as handheld reference devices . |
| 11 | Those firms who did not have one strong business driver building the operation were often unable to establish a business base in the late 1970s . |
| 12 | But they decided to establish a study committee in Brussels to look at both a common market and the possibilities for ‘ sector ’ co-operation . |
| 13 | After his own area , the Pan-American Union , had failed to support him , he claimed to suffer a heart attack in the middle of the meeting and was taken to a local hospital . |
| 14 | LABOUR ‘ deadbeats ’ must carry the can for failing to secure a jobs bonanza in Darlington , it was claimed last night . |
| 15 | When new occupiers lease these properties , Control Securities will have to absorb a £7m loss in the value of these assets . |
| 16 | Duvalier , the power to grant a Mareva injunction in respect of assets outside England and Wales , both before and after judgment , was declared to be established law . |
| 17 | The vagaries of currency exchange rates provide a good example of interdependence — given the tendency for changes in value of the American dollar or the German mark to provoke a sterling crisis in Great Britain . |
| 18 | Mosley 's comments suggest that he has managed to supervise a compromise deal in the corridors of power involving Frank Williams and Flavio Briatore , the boss of the Benetton team , who had firmly opposed Williams 's late entry for the championship . |
| 19 | using IBM terminology , the SETL macro can be employed to indicate a starting point in the file and the ESETL macro to set a finishing point . |
| 20 | Over 70,000 members of the Public Service Alliance of Canada ( PSAC ) held a nine-day strike ending on Sept. 18 to oppose government plans to impose a pay freeze in the current year and to place a ceiling of 3 per cent on pay increases in each of the following two years . |
| 21 | No hospital order will be made where the defendant is said to have recovered , and the courts often feel it necessary to impose a prison sentence in such cases . |
| 22 | The Mental Health Act of 1959 enables a judge , with the approval of two doctors , to impose a hospital order in place of a prison sentence . |
| 23 | George Dempster , the member of parliament for Dundee burghs , whose election at St. Andrews would ‘ certainly turn on a single vote unless I am able to provide a Councillors son in a Kirk ’ , urged nothing more than political consequences when pressing for the settlement of the St. Andrews clergyman , and many presentations were indeed political bribes . |
| 24 | At the Treaty of Amiens , designed to provide a half-time interval in the Napoleonic War , Britain gave up this rather theoretical claim ( but incidentally got Ceylon , Trinidad and a few other colonial gems ) and dropped the fleur-de-lis . |
| 25 | The civil service in 1909 reduced the retirement pension from two-thirds to half salary in order to provide a lump sum in addition . |
| 26 | Juan and Pepe , who run the bar , luckily need little sleep and it is not uncommon for revellers returning from the star club at 4.00am to find a bar party in full swing . |
| 27 | The excellent weather had brought out more sun-seekers and it was harder than before to find a parking space in Nice . |
| 28 | Those few that escape being eaten form pairs and go off together to find a nest site in a crevice in the ground or a crack in a tree . |
| 29 | In 1940 I was fortunate to find a summer job in the local tomato factory , one of the innumerable similar factories scattered in the Parma province . |
| 30 | I am going to trade up from my Hunter HB31 soon , but I am hard pressed to find a production boat in the 37–40ft ( 11–12m ) range that I would really like to buy , even given the money . |