Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [art] [num ord] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Iraq , which had been barred from exporting oil since its invasion of Kuwait in August 1990 , was permitted to attend the sixth ministerial meeting . |
2 | ‘ I just now want to win the last two races in Japan and Australia and then it 's a new career for me . ’ |
3 | The principles and example of the Revolution helped to inspire the first successful slave revolt in the Caribbean in Haiti , as well as the political independence movements of South America . |
4 | We 're going to continue with this objective in the coming months in this , the third series , but before we get totally immersed I want to use the first three programmes to stand back to take a more general look at what universities are about today . |
5 | You probably want to use the first few rows of the spreadsheet for a general title plus notes to yourself about the date of creation and date of most recent revision so enter the headings you want in row 9 of the spreadsheet using short labels but ones that you will find meaningful in the reports you will want to create later on . |
6 | Thames Water say they want to build the second biggest reservoir in England on land in South Oxfordshire . |
7 | ‘ It would be great , particularly as Milan is bidding to hold the next Olympic Games after Atlanta , ’ he suggests . |
8 | With the dam wall now standing at 57 metres , this year 's monsoon is expected to flood the first few villages . |
9 | Having kept an unusually low profile throughout the Dewan election campaign , it was now felt that the military might press hard for the election of their choice of Vice-President , while Gen. ( retd ) Suharto , 71 , was expected to seek a fifth consecutive term of office as President . |
10 | So far , another two hundred and thirty had been taken to the nearest hospital , although few were expected to survive the next twenty-four hours . |
11 | The world of everyday experience is three dimensional and to represent it I shall need to add a third basic vector , " out " of the paper . |
12 | ERS-1 is expected to return the first quantitive data on these processes at the poles . |
13 | HEINZ FREI , the world record-holder from Switzerland , is expected to become the fourth foreign winner in five years of the BSAD-ADT London Wheelchair marathon tomorrow . |
14 | SHOULD Portsmouth beat Liverpool in tomorrow 's FA Cup semi-final and reach Wembley , Mike Neasom , football and cricket writer for The News , Portsmouth , will prepare to visit the 95th English ground at which he has covered Pompey . |
15 | However , Walker found that if the BFP algorithm was altered to reflect the first three levels of SPAR 's ordering given above , correct results were obtained by eight of the 21 pronouns resolved correctly by Hobbs but incorrectly by the original BFP . |
16 | The northern gateway , eight miles south of Manchester city centre is already ranked eighteenth in the worlds in passenger terms and plans to open a second international terminal in March . |
17 | And there was also an opportunity for Aberdeen and the surrounding region to look to its future as it prepared to host the next Offshore Europe in 1995 . |
18 | But she refuses to spend the next seven months in hospital — and I ca n't say I blame her . |
19 | And , at the start of the 1940s , a baseball administrator named Branch Rickey began his search for the man destined to become the first black player in a white team . |
20 | But as Navratilova , although looking somewhat shaky , recovered to win the next two sets 6-3 , 6-4 , to complete the victory over Spain , there was no stealing Evert 's thunder . |
21 | Ms Short said the women 's vote could help Labour to win the next general election provided more women could be persuaded that Labour was sensitive to women 's demands . |
22 | Cytoplasmic incompatibility bacteria have been shown to disrupt the first mitotic divisions in fertilized eggs of incompatible crosses in Nasonia , Drosophila simulans and Culex pipiens . |
23 | Ruth drank thirstily because it was her first priority and because she was going to enjoy the next delicious moment and wanted to savour the expectancy of it . |
24 | Significantly , while Philips have been hurrying to launch the first full size CD-I players , Sony — notionally , Philips ' CD-I partners — have made no announcements about CD-I plans other than to show the palmtop device and to speak obliquely about other announcements to follow . |
25 | Option 9.2.0 , Update Offline Parameters , is used to schedule the next Offline run . |
26 | Option 9.2.0 , Update Offline Parameters , is used to schedule the next offline run and details of the parameters required are described below . |
27 | MEANWHILE , if you 're not actually strangling a turkey at the moment then you might like to do the next worse thing and plunge into the unsavoury giblets of the 1990 calendar of the National Association of Conservative Graduates . |
28 | Would somebody like to read the first two verses of chapter three ? |
29 | The Communist SED which , in round-table talks with opposition groups , has agreed to hold the first free elections in East Germany since 1946 — planned for next May — is seriously threatened by a split or even dissolution . |
30 | It was agreed to hold the next ordinary session in Praia , Cape Verde , in 1994 . |