Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] a [noun sg] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can see why he did n't want to acknowledge a family connection with someone who was convicted of murder . |
| 2 | However , she also agreed to attend a conjoint session with her parents the next week . |
| 3 | It came after Benn failed to attend a press conference at London 's Bloomsbury Crest Hotel to publicise his WBC super-middlewight title defence against Nicky Piper at Alexandra Palace on Saturday . |
| 4 | US Secretary of State James Baker and Israel 's ambassador to the USA Zalman Shoval met for a third round of talks in Washington on Feb. 21 but failed to arrange a compromise agreement on the terms of Israel 's request for loan guarantees worth US$10,000 million to be used for the absorption of new Jewish immigrants . |
| 5 | Or is it all an illusion , a phantasm derived from mere figures , a figment of journalistic imagination , an evanescent creature of dream and the wishful thinking of those for whom history is proceeding too slowly , and who would prefer to see an era change during their lifetimes rather than to live within the dulling envelope of merely one ? |
| 6 | Basque pelota looks like being this year 's corker as it involves catching a tennis ball in a fruit bowl and throwing it at a wall ( below left ) . |
| 7 | So the project was expanded to include building an expert system for another , similar circuit board using exactly the same technique . |
| 8 | AN X-ray doctor failed to spot a three-inch piece of glass lodged in a patient 's chest . |
| 9 | Branson had arranged to see an advertising agency about Oldfield producing music for a commercial for Dulux paint . |
| 10 | In the summer UNFDAC managed to secure agreement from aid agencies operating in mujahedin areas to agree to support an anti-poppy clause in all future aid projects . |
| 11 | ‘ Who would want to drive a car bomb at the cordon ? ’ shouted Cardiff above the sound of the storm . |
| 12 | Secondly , business studies tend to affirm a consumer passivity in response to marketing initiatives . |
| 13 | This strikingly different budget was clearly intended to spearhead a monetarist assault on cost inflation . |
| 14 | People who had travelled to find a vantage point near RAF Marham , where the air force was enjoying its 75th anniversary celebrations , were forced to make their way home again . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Later in 1947 he spent three months in the Information Research Department , which was formed to launch a propaganda counter-offensive against Russia . |
| 17 | Shares will be allotted or transferred within 28 days of the exercise of an option and the Directors will endeavour to obtain a waiting list for any shares which are issued . |
| 18 | It is not intended to provide a pedestrian crossing of the Bypass at the location of the severed Baberton Mains Terrace if the low level option is adopted . |
| 19 | Among the more significant changes , prompted in part by criticism of the government 's handling of events leading up to the Iraqi invasion of August 1990 [ see pp. 37631-41 ] , was the replacement of the Foreign Affairs Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Shaikh Sabah al Ahmad al Jabir as Sabah , who failed to obtain a Cabinet post for the first time in almost three decades . |
| 20 | As previously mentioned , if the buyer indicates that he does not intend to make an offer for the company he will not be permitted to post an offer document for 12 months unless a third party announces an offer during that period . |
| 21 | ‘ I want to see a health service at ease with itself — optimistic and confident about its essential work . |
| 22 | He was supported by David Buckley , who did n't consider using a consultant accountant as a weakness of management but as a strength . |
| 23 | Orlando Aravena , the national team coach , has received a life ban from international soccer and a five-year ban at domestic level . |
| 24 | Mooney has received a onematch suspension for reaching 21 disciplinary points this season after picking up a booking at Carlisle 12 days ago . |
| 25 | Terms were not disclosed , although the tabloid did say that it has received a capital injection from Duna , which will be used for investment purposes . |
| 26 | For the UK we are informed that the Public Record Office ( PRO ) has developed a computer output to laser disc ( COLD ) system for the storage of electronic records , yet we have no idea of how many or what categories of records are being preserved ( Higgs 1992 ) . |
| 27 | Stockport District Health Authority has developed a locality model of purchasing with extended outposts in localities . |
| 28 | He has developed a control system for a wheelchair . |
| 29 | Some of that research was provided by a sub-division of Milward Brown International which has developed a track record in analysing arts audiences . |
| 30 | Menlo Park , California-based Objectivity Inc has developed a Kanji version of its object database management system in combination with Mitsui Computer Corp and the Osaka Gas Information System Research Institute : it 's currently in beta and will become available on HP 9000s and Sparcstations next month . |