Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] [adj] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The patronage of Sir Edward Phelips [ q.v. ] probably brought him admission to the Middle Temple ( 1614 ) , James I gave him fee-farm rents in sixteen counties ( 1619–24 ) , and he became clerk extraordinary to the Privy Council ( 1624–40 ) . |
| 2 | Applications should be made using forms available from the honorary secretary of the MSG and returned by 20 May 1992 to Dr D. L. Andrews , honorary secretary , MSG , School of Chemical Sciences University of East Anglia , Norwich NR4 7TJ . |
| 3 | London Underground is planning to invest £3,500 million over the next three years . |
| 4 | And of course Oxford supporters do n't need reminding that last season they led Fulham 1-0 after the first leg and they lost 5-3 at home . |
| 5 | When Sir John Anderson ( later first Viscount Waverley , q.v. ) , the former head of the Home Office , was put in charge of a hastily improvised London civil-defence organization during the Munich crisis , he appointed Scott as his chief staff officer ; and when Anderson became minister for civil defence , he made Scott responsible for the urgent task of accelerating London 's civil-defence arrangements , with the title of chief administrative officer for the London civil-defence region , as from February 1939 . |
| 6 | The report also states that the university is to borrow £20 million over the next 25 years to finance the provision of 2,000 extra bed spaces for students by 1995 . |
| 7 | Britain , too , favoured the association of the proposed Arab state with Transjordan , but backtracked in the face of widespread hostility which made Abdallah unpopular throughout the Arab world . |
| 8 | The latter class has received a great deal of attention recently because homologous sequences have been found as domains contained within larger DNA binding proteins such as the nucleolar transcription factor hUBF ( 3 ) , mitochondrial transcription factor 1 ( 4 ) , sex-determining region Y ( SRY ) ( 5 , 6 ) , lymphoid enhancer binding factor I ( LEF-1 ) ( 7 ) , a T-cell specific transcription factor TCF-1α ( 8 ) , and the yeast autonomously replicating sequence factor ABF2 ( 9 ) . |
| 9 | GREAT BRITAIN 'S team of Mark Petchey and Chris Wilkinson yesterday beat Czechoslovakia 2-1 in the first round of the European men 's team tennis championships in Trieste , Italy . |
| 10 | Tonight England will play the world champions Sweden , who beat Germany 4–1 in the other semi-final . |
| 11 | Scottish Action on Dementia have recommended proposals similar to the Scottish system of Children 's Hearings , for those with mental impairment , to improve the situation ( Boyd , 1988 ) . |
| 12 | There is a minor triumph for British tennis when Jo Durie , Clare Wood and Anne Hobbs beat Indonesia 3-0 in the first round of the Federation Cup in Tokyo . |
| 13 | Two years later Pitt claimed to have added £1 million to the annual revenue from customs duties , £1 million from new taxes , notably on windows , and £2 million from additional excise rising from increased domestic consumption of excised goods . |
| 14 | It was all becoming depressinglv similar to the mournful experiences of every Allied offensive on the Western Front . |
| 15 | By far the greatest number of responsibility centres , trading organizations such as the nationalized industries excluded , can be described as ‘ expense centres ’ . |
| 16 | Right okay log on to the network , get into Microfit , call up Q M four FIT and say data last of the finished testing for structural change and then we 'll move on to and diagnostics |
| 17 | There is wind-surfing equipment available on the adjoining beach in high season ( charge payable locally ) . |
| 18 | After three years , Mexico would be considered North American under the Corporate Average Fuel Economy Act ( Cafe ) , which currently discouraged US manufacturers from importing small cars from Mexico . |
| 19 | Meanwhile , England retained the Dobbing Cup when they defeated Scotland 83-34 in the British Gas-sponsored under-17 schoolgirls international at Musselburgh Sports Centre yesterday . |
| 20 | It has become usual that there should be a generally drafted indemnity against all taxation liabilities arising from trading transactions prior to the last balance sheet date and which were not provided for in such accounts , or which arose from transactions outside the ordinary course of business since that date . |
| 21 | Portugal , who beat England 1-0 in the last World Cup , need to do a bit more than that next Wednesday to deny the Czechoslovakians a place in next year 's finals — they need to win by four goals . |
| 22 | In the women 's event at Perth , Jean Miller , Sandra McLeish , Agnes Melrose and Jeanette Conlon gave Scotland their only success when they beat England 25-18 in the fours final . |
| 23 | But he has already said to employees and investors that the option he finds most attractive is keeping IBM intact as the biggest , and hopefully mightiest , firm in its industry . |
| 24 | Captain Kendrick ( centre ) , displays the World Students Shield after New Zealand beat Argentina 30–21 in the 1988 final . |
| 25 | The victory over the Galatians consolidated the state of Pergamum and probably provided Attalus I with the right occasion for declaring himself king . |
| 26 | A LATE Steve Pennington hat-trick was the pick of a great all-round team performance by St Helens Town , who beat Darwen 5-1 in the Bass North West Counties League . |
| 27 | At its centre stands labourism coterminous with the Labour Party , from which we move out successively to trade unionism , the working class and finally bourgeois society . |
| 28 | The Guardian , The Observer and The Sunday Times are seeking a ruling that temporary injunctions handed down by a 3-2 House of Lords majority in 1987 , banning publication of details from the memoirs of an ex-MI5 officer , Peter Wright , were unnecessary prior restraints on free speech that breached Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights . |
| 29 | Lawyers for the relatives have spent the last two years arguing that the Government breached Article 2 of the European Convention on Human Rights , which guarantees the ‘ right to life ’ . |
| 30 | In Peru the TTG suite lies 300km inboard of the present trench and volcanic arc , and directly above the thickened keel of the Andes . |