Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [verb] the [noun prp] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Stella Artois Grass Court Championships , the principal Grass Court Championship for men , immediately prior to Wimbledon , will include at least six of the top players who will hope to go on to capture the Wimbledon title . |
| 2 | They concluded the company , which has bitterly contested the Fayeds ownership of the stores group , had ‘ taken the law into own hands ’ but cleared it of contempt . |
| 3 | Any impression of calm and harmony is down to the fact that everyone close to the band has obviously passed the Krypton Factor -sponsored How To Tolerate Courtney test . |
| 4 | In actual fact , the County Council has only provided the Heyford site to date . |
| 5 | Cumani , unlike many of his counterparts in the vanguard of British trainers , has not given the Cheveley Park saturation coverage in the past . |
| 6 | The commission is effectively saying the Government has not followed the UN Convention for Refugees , under which anyone with a well-founded fear of persecution should be granted asylum . |
| 7 | The US International Trade Commission has upheld the ridiculous decision that Japanese manufacturers are dumping active matrix liquid crystal displays on the US market to the detriment of a handful of tiny US manufacturers that could never meet the demand from the likes of Apple Computer Inc and IBM Corp , but that alleged dumping of electroluminescent displays has not hurt the US electronics industry ; the active matrix displays carry prohibitive 62.7% tariffs , which apply to imported screens but not to assembled machines that include them , while the electroluminescent displays carried only a 7% tariff . |
| 8 | Serbia , the only republic that has not signed the EC plan , has not said if it will accept . |
| 9 | The Treasury has finally accepted the Holkham Hall Guido Reni , ‘ Joseph and Potiphar 's wife ’ in lieu of tax . |
| 10 | Accounting software house Sage Plc has finally launched the Macintosh version of its mid-range Sterling +2 package software , along with a revamped version of its MainLan peer-to-peer networking system and enhanced version of its Sovereign high end accounting system : the announcements were accompanied by the news that Sage Sterling +2 has now been included in the IT Recommended Product Scheme run by the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales ; the Bookkeeper version of Sterling +2 for the Mac , available now , is £150 , the Accountant version is £350 ; MainLan 4.0 for MS-DOS and for Windows said to be faster and takes up 20% less memory than its predecessor is either £400 for the 16-bit starter kit boards or £200 with 8-bit boards ; the ‘ super enhanced ’ Sovereign 4.7 now has full EuroVAT reporting and improved profit and loss , stock take and help facilities and costs £350 for single users or £600 for multiple users . |
| 11 | Wilfred White has already added the SDLP representation in the Waterside while Pat Ramsey is on course to be returned with colleagues Jim Clifford and Pat Devine in Cityside . |
| 12 | Sanders has already got the US vehicle divisions lined up against him . |
| 13 | OSF also outlined the DCE roadmap for the year . |
| 14 | Although one government-inspired commentator tried later to dismiss the FBI teletype as ‘ an early memo … that sketched one possible scenario , as of October 1989 ’ , and which subsequent events had rendered ‘ irrelevant ’ and ‘ pointless ’ , it was less easy to reject the categorical denials by Air Malta , the airport staff at Luqa , the Maltese police and the Maltese government that any unaccompanied bag had been sent to Frankfurt on 21 December 1988 , or , indeed , that any Maltese connection with the Lockerbie bombing had been established at all , other than that the clothing in the suitcase bomb had apparently originated on the island . |
| 15 | Webster 's increasing debts pulled him back from a contest , but he again bounced back to contest the Chichester borough elections in 1823 , 1826 and 1831 . |
| 16 | These analyses were carried out using the SPSS package at Manchester Business School . |
| 17 | The CITES Secretariat has now asked the Philippines government to improve enforcement of its own laws . |
| 18 | The promotions business is going through a rocky time , and the Hoover jinx has now hit the Coca Cola Co in the UK , the Guardian reports : customer services at the company 's British headquarters are besieged with callers believing they have won Sega Enterprises Ltd games machines because one batch of bottles appears to make every purchaser a winner ; any bottle cap with the letter M , G or B printed on it wins a Sega prize , but the problem batch have all three letters inside the cap as part of a code to identify consignments , and the company is having to spend thousands of pounds on advertising to make it quite clear that its only caps with only one of the letters that win , and that all three are no good . |
| 19 | With the help of the National Heritage Memorial Fund , the Society of Dilettanti , the Caryatids ( a group of supporters of the museum 's classical collection ) and others , the museum has now purchased the Townley archive , a remarkable collection of 5,500 documents which fall into three categories : the personal papers of Townley and his immediate heirs relating to the collection ; descriptions of the collection by one ‘ Baron d'Hancarville ’ , a colourful character whose career included imprisonment for debt and banishment for pornography ; and the letters to Townley from his contemporaries . |
| 20 | It is why the Commission has accurately described the Maastricht Treaty as an attempt to construct Europe ‘ on a unitary base ’ . |
| 21 | Laz here wants the Presley hoard . |
| 22 | The first sortie on to the Promenade was made on June 6 , and two days later was taken round the whole system to test for clearances. 641 was passed by the Railway Inspector as ready for service on 3 July , since which time it has regularly operated the Fleetwood service . |
| 23 | The Prime Minister has again defended the Maastricht Treaty warning that Britain faces isolation in Europe if it does not go through . |
| 24 | As with the Indus River dolphin , the construction of dams has seriously affected the Ganges susu , both through draw-down of rivers and loss of habitat . |
| 25 | The movement towards indirect taxation has therefore made the UK tax system less progressive than it would otherwise have been . |
| 26 | ‘ The export of plutonium has therefore benefited the UK defence programme , ’ conceded the junior minister . |
| 27 | The hand of fate that has recently dealt the Brandywell club some crushing blows seems intent on turning the screw further . |
| 28 | Government policy and commercial development thus came together to make the Tokugawa period an era of rapid urbanization ; estimates suggest that in the early 1800s around 15 per cent of the population could be considered as dwelling in urban areas . |
| 29 | DEC for its part disassociated itself from statements made by DEC VP of software engineering David Stone as well as its own PR people that DEC had decided not to pursue the OSF/1 path for MIPS . |
| 30 | When I was 12 , my great hero was Van Cliburn because he 'd just won the Tchaikovsky Competition , so he was invited over and played on my spinet . ’ |