Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] the [noun prp] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before the start of talks , Federal Defence Minister Gen. Veljko Kadijevic agreed to implement the Oct. 18 ceasefire [ see p. 38513 ] , which included Croatian agreement to lift the blockade of federal barracks inside Croatia by Nov. 8 . |
| 2 | Needless to say , before the actual commissioning I got to know the Brooke Marine Yard and staff very well , and made many friends there . |
| 3 | The Presidential Council initially appeared designed to supplant the CPSU central committee politburo as the main centre of political decision making in the Soviet Union . |
| 4 | At the 1989 Annual Conference in Bournemouth it was resolved to support the RAF Benevolent Fund 's 50th Anniversary of the Battle of Britain Appeal , and Branches were asked to provide support at local level for what became known as the ‘ Reach for the Sky ’ Appeal . |
| 5 | ‘ I hear you tried to swim the Severn last night ’ he chortled . |
| 6 | At about the same time he helped to found the Liverpool Medical Library and the Liverpool Blind Asylum . |
| 7 | We will seek to privatise the Docklands Light Railway during the lifetime of the next Parliament . |
| 8 | The anti-Hoxha demonstrations were put down by the police and troops with increasing force , and on Feb. 23 it was officially reported that two demonstrators and a policeman had been shot dead when a crowd reportedly tried to storm the Tirana military academy ( the opposition claimed up to 30 dead , and attributed some of the shooting to clashes between rival pro- and anti-reform factions within the army ) . |
| 9 | The three types of codons UGA , AUA , and CUN were modified to fit the E.coli genetic code and the corresponding ORF , cloned in the bacterial expression vector pDR540 ( Pharmacia-PL ) , was expressed under the control of the tac promoter . |
| 10 | There ca n't be many hill-lovers who want to climb the Cairnwell seven times . |
| 11 | It has had to soften its stance on separatism to try to convince the Sri Lankan Government and the Sinhalese people that it sincerely wants a negotiated settlement . |
| 12 | Responding to growing public pressure , the Ukrainian parliament has voted to close the Chernobyl nuclear reactor , the site of the world 's worst nuclear accident in 1986 , two years ahead of schedule . |
| 13 | Yes … the company appointed to sell Robert Maxwell 's shares in the second division club have announced they intend to adjourn the Oxford United AGM at the Manor Ground tomorrow night almost as soon as it starts . |
| 14 | Analysts suggested that Celli 's announcement was intended to counter the May 11 claim by opposition deputies and AD dissidents that they had collected more than 100 signatures from congressmen in favour of reducing the current term of President Carlos Andres Pérez and that of the legislature by one year ( to four years ) , and also in favour of the use of the referendum as a permanent formula to guarantee the public 's participation in political affairs . |
| 15 | Two of the trio who walked and cycled to promote the Trans Pennine Way |
| 16 | It was reported on Aug. 5 that three of Nepal 's smaller communist parties had merged to form the Nepal Communist Party ( United ) in order to " strengthen the left movement " . |
| 17 | ‘ When we came to leave the Lamb that afternoon , Mr Barnett , we were all in similar states of intoxication , but Jack had become as maudlin as only an Irishman in liquor can . |
| 18 | By the time Zahedi rejoined his king in Morrocco at the end of January 1979 , he had decided that by refusing to give the Shah unequivocal support , the United States had betrayed him . |
| 19 | The four major opposition parties reportedly decided to boycott the Nov. 29 elections in protest at alleged unfair election conditions . |
| 20 | The ministers agreed to take " co-ordinated action " to combat the menace of terrorism which they said threatened to destabilize the South Asian region . |
| 21 | During my last year at Oxford I had applied to join the Sudan Political Service . |
| 22 | Their choice to negotiate for them over the property group 's restructuring is the American financier who , after a colourful career in the more maverick corners of the Euromarkets , agreed to buy the Marshalls money-broking business from British & Commonwealth but failed to find the cash . |
| 23 | The Soviet Union , with which South Korea had established full diplomatic relations in 1990 , had previously promised to support the South Korean application . |
| 24 | The Ministry of Defence had its continuing missile special relationship with the United States , whose Department of Defense had agreed to substitute the Trident submarine-missile system for Polaris . |
| 25 | Both men have plumped for the cricket final in Dublin in which they will be key men in the Brigade team which is attempting to win the Schweppes all-Ireland final for the first time . |
| 26 | THE Norwich goalkeeper , Bryan Gunn , says that if anyone is going to win the FA Premier League apart from his own club , ‘ I 'd love Manchester United to do it . ’ |
| 27 | It was alleged they had helped to organise the Castlemorton free festival . |
| 28 | Hassan claimed that the extension was needed to give the UN more time to organize a referendum on the future of the disputed Western Sahara . |
| 29 | The attacks were motivated by the belief that the depot had been used to supply the Bougainville Revolutionary Army ( BRA ) in its secessionist war against the PNG government . |
| 30 | These same principles seem to underpin the Essex Secondary Schools Education/Library ( ESSE/L ) Project at the local authority level . |