Example sentences of "[vb pp] an [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | President Bush was said to have addressed an appeal to Mengistu in April and to Prime Minister Tesfaye Dinka on May 21 concerning the Ethiopian Jews , and press reports focused on the role of US envoy Rudy Boschwitz . |
| 2 | Joe does earn some money on the after-dinner speaking circuit , and has addressed an assortment of lawyers , writers and bankers since his release . |
| 3 | One night in 1962 Kurdish rebels entered a Kirkuk cinema disguised as policemen and silently surrounded an officer known to be torturing opponents of the government . |
| 4 | To help , Tarantino took Roth on a tour of places like In And Out Burger , and gave him a crash course in the kind of trash culture that would have surrounded an LA child of the Seventies — old TV copy shows , cartoons like Speed Racer , Fantastic Four comics , bubblegum pop . |
| 5 | Fitzwilton Public Limited Company have similarly disclosed an interest ( 9.40% ) in the Company . |
| 6 | he 's disclosed an interest |
| 7 | He 's disclosed an interest |
| 8 | China 's initial response was that the speech could not be considered as a basis for talks " because it has not at all relinquished the concept of the independence of Tibet " , but on Sept. 23 disclosed an offer to hold direct negotiations to which the Dalai Lama responded positively . |
| 9 | Three out of four of these accidents fix on the properties of individual men as decisive variables directing the course of events : had Churchill been a less charismatic politician Britain might have given up her fight against Germany ; had Franco permitted an assault on Gibraltar it would probably have fallen ; and if Mussolini had not ‘ taken it into his head ’ to invade Greece , Hitler would have moved into Russia . |
| 10 | MacArthur deemed it vital that ‘ if and when the Japanese are permitted an army that it not be run by the ‘ old crowd ’ and in the old way but that , as Colonel Babcock put it , be a ‘ democratic army ’ . |
| 11 | It might be understood in advance that the proportion of women who would be permitted an abortion would be fixed by the ratio of votes for permitting all abortions to total votes . |
| 12 | The farm has won an ADAS marketing award and was featured in FARMERS WEEKLY in March . |
| 13 | Kawasaki Heavy Industries recently won an order from British Aerospace to supply skin panels for the A321 Airbus , Japan 's first big order from the Airbus consortium . |
| 14 | A CONSORTIUM led by GEC Alsthom , the Anglo-French turbo-generating manufacturing , has won an order worth more than £550m for a 1,310-megawatt coal-fired power station in Guangdong province , China . |
| 15 | The Kingswinford , West Midlands , company has just won an order for 200 of its light and rapid open two-seaters in petrol form from Japan . |
| 16 | Mr Bedi , from Brentwood , Essex , had won an order preventing BT from cutting off his phone in a row over an unpaid bill . |
| 17 | L M Ericsson Telefon AB has won an order from the Guangdong Mobile Communications Corp for a digital Groupe Speciale Mobile system to serve the burgeoning Pearl River Delta region in south China ; the value of the order was not given . |
| 18 | Hitachi Ltd has won an order from Belgium 's an Bank Krediet for its Object IQ artificial intelligence software . |
| 19 | They have also just won an order to supply the scout shops . |
| 20 | A company that makes replicas of Victorian bathrooms has won an order from Japan . |
| 21 | Valley Bridge firm 's award WARDS of Sherburn , near Scarborough , the company which stepped in to finance and build the £130,000 barriers on the resort 's notorious Valley Bridge , has won an accolade from the Civic Society . |
| 22 | Lord Dervaird , has won an apology and undisclosed damages over allegations in the Sun newspaper that he resigned and fled to Cyprus in the wake of an alleged gay legal ring scandal . |
| 23 | Lord Dervaird , has won an apology and undisclosed damages over allegations in the Sun newspaper that he resigned and fled to Cyprus in the wake of an alleged gay legal ring scandal . |
| 24 | It hardly augurs well — especially as none of them have won an international in Paris . |
| 25 | Northern Telecom Ltd , Mississauga , Ontario has won an $8m contract with the Czech public telecommunications operator , SPT Telecom : the deal covers the upgrading of operator services for the international and trunk phone network in Prague . |
| 26 | The star was the world-famous Emil Jannings who had won an Academy Award in 1928 . |
| 27 | IBM Canada Ltd and Apple Canada Ltd say they have won an education technology supply contract from the New Brunswick government : the province is to invest $12.7m in education technology in the next three years with the first phase starting immediately with $2m investment . |
| 28 | Trisha has won an Oxford in Bloom prize every year since 1985 … this year she 's up against her neighbour in the all-winners category . |
| 29 | He had not won an election , sung an aria , or even built up a business empire . |
| 30 | They argued that when a party had won an election on a given programme , it showed that the public wanted these measures to be passed . |