Example sentences of "[to-vb] [noun] [noun] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Should there be a re-run , the Queen would have to decide whether to grant Mr Major a second dissolution or allow Mr Kinnock his chance . |
| 2 | First came the decision to award Esther Rantzen a new contract worth £1.2m when the consensus is that few people can stand the sight of her . |
| 3 | For example , people would rather walk further than have to carry water pots a shorter way uphill . |
| 4 | Writing in PRONED 's 10th annual report , Sir Adrian urges chairmen to adopt a more professional process for selecting NEDs and to give board members a greater say in their appointment . |
| 5 | Now motorists are threatening to give Shell pumps a wide berth . |
| 6 | Ministers have already decided that they will have to give cable operators a free choice on the technology they use , provided it meets the basic requirements already laid down by the DoI and endorsed last month by the Eden Committee . |
| 7 | Mr Sodhi said he intended to give Miss Dixon a final warning but her attitude meant he felt compelled to sack her . |
| 8 | Experts meeting at Thames Water 's Oxford Headquarters today are about to give Farmoor Reservoir a clean bill of health . |
| 9 | Thus it was that I decided to give Edward Young a greater part to play in At Home in Thrush Green for , having burnt down the rectory in an earlier book , it seemed only right that I should hand over the job of replacing my act of arson to the architect I had created . |
| 10 | As the central circle rotates , it causes the rolling circle to give point P a reciprocating action . |
| 11 | She knew that he had some evil plan , but she was too frightened to give Sir Henry a clear warning . |
| 12 | Brokers and investors cite three other devices that some of those investing public-sector funds are using to give share prices a big boost : |
| 13 | The change to a real coalition in 1916 had been occasioned by the need to give Lloyd George a freer hand as much as by concern for structures . |
| 14 | Mike Vessey hit the bar with his effort but Alan Vessey put his chance away with only ten seconds left on the clock to give St Albans a 4–1 win and their second National Cup championship . |
| 15 | At the time there were compelling strategic reasons for making this decision , but its long-term effect — as we shall see , a rather momentous one — was to leave de Gaulle a symbolic leader rather than the head of a partisan movement . |
| 16 | In order to give Love Hearts a fair trial . |
| 17 | AT LONG last there are moves afoot in Switzerland to give stockmarket investors a better deal . |
| 18 | Slowly Troy knelt to give Fanny Robin a gentle kiss . |
| 19 | To call Michael Lawrence a high flyer would be an understatement . |
| 20 | In 1981 the Bank of England introduced monetary control arrangements designed to allow market forces a greater role in determining the structure of short-term interest rates . |
| 21 | ‘ I would undertake to pay Miss Kennedy a generous salary and you could refund any capital she may have put in as your partner . |
| 22 | Bond Media has proposed to repay Mr Packer a reduced amount from a renegotiated bank facility or from asset sales with a rollover of the outstanding sum . |
| 23 | However , the plan also contained the proposal to make Juniper Green a conservation area which is much welcomed and suggested the compulsory purchase order not only of the tennis courts but also the Woodhall Paper Mill site which would then be landscaped and integrated into the Water of Leith Walkway . |
| 24 | The International Fund for Animal Welfare has reached an outline agreement with the government by which sealing will be ended , if the Fund " provides the expertise to make seal tourism a viable proposition " . |
| 25 | The shock of red hair , the puckish , mobile face and preternaturally bright eyes set in an expression of mocking amusement all conspired to lend Malcolm McLaren a Mephistophelean air . |
| 26 | Hence the brief he handed out to his staff was to make TV drama a popular medium , like the cinema , by having it comment and reflect on worlds and situations familiar to mass audiences . |
| 27 | I said , wondering if I was being told to make A. Ng a scarce commodity . |
| 28 | Z-Code Software is to introduce Z-Mail Lite a character-based interface for its Z-Mail Email package which will mirror the look and feel of its standard Motif offering . |
| 29 | A report by the Council for the Protection of Rural England ( CPRE ) urges the government and planners to make energy conservation a top priority in building new housing and other developments . |
| 30 | Fostering local talent , he said later , was ‘ all very well in theory , but in practice it will not pay ’ , because the talent to make Leeds City a successful team did not exist locally . |