Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] the [adj] [noun prp] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Debora Mackenzie may be the only journalist in Europe who does n't want to find the missing Seveso dioxin ( or some such ) … |
| 2 | On a visit to the United States on May 19-21 Kohl , accompanied by Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher , assured his hosts that his government did " not want to see the long-standing Atlantic alliance in any way weakened , still less replaced by a European structure " . |
| 3 | The package , which contained numerous tax incentives , was designed to stimulate the stagnant US economy , and to realize the administration 's prediction that economic growth would resume in early 1992 and would accelerate thereafter . |
| 4 | For years , Karl Dersch has flown the Third Reich emblem at his Munich home . |
| 5 | WITH a triumphant twang of the zither , the City University of London has filled the first Joe Loss Research Fellowship in Jewish Music . |
| 6 | Taylor has given the former Nottingham Forest midfielder 10 caps in his three years without ever finding a niche for the 26-year-old . |
| 7 | The Chinese government has ratified the revised Montreal Protocol , the agreement which aims to cut the use of chlorofluorocarbons ( CFCs ) , which damage the ozone layer . |
| 8 | The garden front , of Bargate stone , brick and tile , shows how Lutyens has exaggerated the local Surrey style to perfectly fitting proportions . |
| 9 | SINCE 1980 Mr Peter Tully has organised the annual Paignton regatta week firework display and all collections made at each of these events , totalling over £9,000 , have been donated to Paignton branch . |
| 10 | EDINBURGH District Council 's Construction Skills Training programme has won the first UK award for the use of new technology in training . |
| 11 | Britain exports , on the wind , more pollution than any other West European country , notably sulphur , which has acidified the southern Norway environment . |
| 12 | And whereas the said John Weston Foakes has requested the said Julia Beer to give him time in which to pay such judgment , which she has agreed to do on the following conditions . |
| 13 | The majority of their team has played the neighbouring Gorleston course on a number of occasions and should make their local knowledge count . |
| 14 | Edinburgh District Council has become the first UK city authority to promote a car-pooling scheme , following the launch of a commercial venture earlier this year [ see ED 55 ] . |
| 15 | Within the last hour , chairman Kevin Kelly has introduced the former Parkhead player he hopes can turn the club around . |
| 16 | The South African Rugby Football Union has appointed the former Zimbabwe coach , Ian McIntosh , as national coach up to and including the 1995 World Cup in South Africa . |
| 17 | Amazingly he was permitted to witness the illicit Luftwaffe build-up of the mid-Thirties , the preparations in East Prussia for the drive on the USSR , and much else . |
| 18 | ‘ The International Intellectual Property Alliance ( IIPA ) has targeted seven countries for particularly egregious abuses of US copyrights and has asked the new US Trade Representative , Mickey Kauber , to designate them as ‘ Priority Foreign Countries ’ under the Special 301 provisions of the trade act . |
| 19 | John Watson tends to regard himself as Mike 's adopted father , but Mike has inherited the substantial Lester shareholding and this gives him a considerable amount of independence ( which is not always to John Watson 's taste ) . |
| 20 | Finally , in infrastructure , the LDDC has promoted the new London City Airport in the Royal Docks , with flights to a number of European cities . |
| 21 | The European Commission wants to change the 1958 Euratom Treaty to end trade barriers within the EEC and to establish itself as a watchdog on deals between member countries and outsiders . |
| 22 | THE CUP success of Middlesbrough Football Club has forced the nearby Cleveland Park greyhound stadium to switch its racenights over the next three weeks . |
| 23 | Although on every side people tried to raise the old Watergate question , ‘ What did the President know and when did he know it ? ’ , it seemed curiously flabby and unsatisfactory ; as Elizabeth Drew wrote in the New Yorker , ‘ When one talks about what Reagan ‘ knew ’ , one could be dealing in metaphysics . ’ |
| 24 | The situation was caused by a conflict between the Peugeot Talbot and Citroën accounts , which has bedevilled the Euro RSCG merger from the start . |
| 25 | At the same time , our cleaning lady , an ex-bus conductress and union member , tried to join the same Streatham branch and was turned away because they were ‘ too busy ’ . |
| 26 | Over the wall , a much-trodden path makes immediate acquaintance with Bar Pot , a large opening ; from here passages and shafts descend to join the Gaping Gill system deep underground . |
| 27 | A close friend and confidant of the Rev. Martin Luther King , Abernathy helped to organize the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott which marked the beginning of the modern US civil rights movement : he was with King when the latter was assassinated in Memphis on April 4 , 1968 , and succeeded him as president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference ( SCLC ) , the organization which the two men had founded in 1957 . |
| 28 | In addition to the ‘ A ’ signal box from Crewe Station which has been rebuilt on site , the centre has acquired the 131-level Exeter West box which has been rebuilt and is currently being refitted . |
| 29 | The fallout was precipitated by an ACE members meet last Friday 24th , at which it was decided to de-emphasise the whole Intel side of the equation — at Intel 's own instigation it now appears ( see feature ) . |
| 30 | The French government has threatened to veto the vital Gatt agreement , aimed at averting a damaging international trade war , if its demands for a better agriculture deal are not met . |