Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] the [num ord] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Sept. 18 Isidore Mvouba was dismissed as Minister of Trade and Commerce after he failed to attend the first meeting of the Cabinet , attending instead a meeting of his own party , the ( formerly ruling ) Congolese Labour Party ( PCT ) . |
| 2 | One of the things that those of us who were involved in local government campaigns were trying to do was to achieve some measure of redistribution in favour of all those lesbians and gays who do not belong to the charmed circles of The Swimming Pool Library — people who have no private income ; people who depend on their jobs and would welcome job security ; people who want council tenancies free of harassment , with friends and lovers of their choice ; people who want to meet others at venues which have disabled access , which are not commercially exploitative and which are run for the benefit of the community ; people who want to display affection or consensual desire publicly without fear of violence or arrest ; people who want to bring up children without intimidation from the courts or social workers ; people who have survived the indoctrination of the education system but do not want to see the next generation of lesbians and gays subjected to the same process ; people who wanted themselves and their lifestyles to be treated with respect by the health services . |
| 3 | No one , of course , would want to compare the first week of school term with the outbreak of a world war , but we are at the beginning of a New Year and a gateway to the future . |
| 4 | Beset by mounting criticism at home , and abroad , over the way the issue had been handled , the Japanese government agreed to defer the fifth group of demands and in May 1915 delivered the remainder in the form of an ultimatum . |
| 5 | The problem has delayed the second phase by 18 months . |
| 6 | What is he going to say when he discovers that he is expected to transmit the first report from an advisory unit in the history of government to include an account of the Director 's domestic arrangements ? |
| 7 | Woodbury , New York-based Cablevision Systems Corp says it has completed the first stage of its electronic superhighway to homes , businesses and institutions in the New York metropolitan area : the $300m project , scheduled for completion in 1995 , involves installation of over 3,000 miles of fibre network . |
| 8 | These provide a means for lexicographers to review and amend dictionary material which has completed the first stage of processing , as well as a facility for the transfer of portions of the dictionary material to a typesetting and composition operator . |
| 9 | Working for the Giunti publishing house , Boskovits again has edited the first volume of The Origins of Florentine Painting by R. Offner ( L230,000 ) . |
| 10 | An all-female catering unit from Hainault , Essex , has won the first stage of a nationwide competition being held by Sutcliffe Catering to find the best Indian theme day at one of its units . |
| 11 | In the Britain in Bloom competitions it has won the first prize in the Village Section successively for Yorkshire and Humberside ( for which it retained the Challenge Shield after winning three times ) , England and the United Kingdom . |
| 12 | England has won the second Test at Wanganui by four wickets : during the match , Carole Hodges became the fifth Englishwoman to score 1000 Test runs . |
| 13 | Since that January night , Hillary has undergone the second stage of her transformation . |
| 14 | The actions taken by both leaders and followers have , at each turn of the wheel of fortune , helped to create the next round of change . |
| 15 | The academic year 1992/3 has seen the first year of fully modularised courses at Napier . |
| 16 | The European Commission has accepted the first set of standards worked out for the EC 's ecolabelling scheme , which aims to inform consumers about the environmental impact of particular products . |
| 17 | He realised , with a thrill of annoyance at himself , that in his haste — his weary haste — to get to the hearing that morning , he had omitted to set the second lock with its automatic alarm connection . |
| 18 | After months of national debate it was reported on Aug. 10 that Miyazawa had approved a proposed state visit to China by Emperor Akihito , in October , designed to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the normalization of diplomatic Sino-Japanese relations . |
| 19 | Factory Records created and organised The Festival Of The Tenth Summer , a series of 10 events designed to celebrate the tenth anniversary of punk . |
| 20 | If I told you I want to install the first tube of the bridge next March or thereabouts , what 'd you say ? ’ |
| 21 | Suppose that the student has answered the first question in the other way ; is he now to answer the second ? |
| 22 | In addition to the third instalment on the Cuyp , the national gallery has made the first instalment on a Cranage painting . |
| 23 | On a personal note , may I say that when I want to hear the Fourth Symphony for pleasure , which is relatively speaking often , I turn not to Munch or Dutoit but to an old tape I have from 1954 of the much underrated Albert Wolff conducting the Swedish Radio Orchestra . |
| 24 | The J. Paul Getty Museum has produced the first volume in a new series of fine quality facsimile editions of volumes from its manuscript collection . |
| 25 | They were working up to the crucial ( as it was then ) question of how and why she had come to identify the first body as Uncle Mossycop 's . |
| 26 | The TOP improvement team at Hunterston considering ways to extend GOMIS from a maintenance planning system to one capable of works resource planning across the station has used the second stage of the ‘ Brown Paper ’ technique described in last months edition of Scottish Nuclear News . |
| 27 | The self-evident gap between fantasy and reality — which is that no government , anywhere , of any political complexion has got the first clue about how to organise society in the post-Cold War world — has led to an aimless disgruntlement , a poisonous mixture of envy and ennui . |
| 28 | ‘ The manager has watched the last couple of games , which has gone in my favour with me doing well . |
| 29 | ‘ The manager has watched the last couple of games , which has gone in my favour with me doing well . |
| 30 | Part of their group , the 60 Artillery Support Squadron , has lead the first convoy of dozens of army trucks taking aid to refugees in central Bosnia . |