Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] [verb] [to-vb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1864 , the L & NWR Board decided to centralise the Carriage Works at Wolverton . |
| 2 | The judge in the Matrix Churchill case refused to accept the attempt of four Cabinet ministers , acting on the advice of the Attorney-General , to allow three innocent businessmen to face near-certain imprisonment . |
| 3 | The LTTE offensive appeared to take the government by surprise , and over 20 police stations were quickly taken over by the LTTE . |
| 4 | Equally , the growth of the personnel function tended to minimise the responsibility of all managers for the effectiveness of staff management , either denying the significance of skills for managing people or delegating personnel issues . |
| 5 | Turns out that that Game Genie sold by Lewis Galoob Toys Inc in the US that enables players to alter the parameters of games , and which Nintendo Co failed to persuade the US Supreme Court to declare illegal ( CI No 2,135 ) , is a British product : according to the Mail on Sunday , the thing comes from Codemasters Software Ltd of Leamington Spa , whose share of the $15m award to Lewis Galoob came to $3.4m ; Codemasters now has sights on Japan . |
| 6 | The present structure of support provision fails to meet the needs of the majority of disabled people , let alone those who may have additional needs associated with ageing ( Beardshaw , 1988 ; Fiedler , 1988 ) . |
| 7 | In the St George , Westminster , by-election in March 1931 the Empire Crusade candidacy seemed to exacerbate the divisions in the Conservative party which the press proprietors had initiated . |
| 8 | Their decision to precipitate a leadership contest only days after Labour 's fourth humiliating general election defeat threatened to plunge the party into a new bout of recrimination and in-fighting . |
| 9 | In their own newsletter , and often in interviews , The Wedding Present seem to adopt the frivolity and amiability of The Monkees . |
| 10 | The research programme seemed to provide the stimulus for improvement around the country , particularly in academic libraries where many working parties were set up to deal with the problem . |
| 11 | What British Coal needs to know now , to enable its investment programme to proceed to meet the threat from coal imports , is the size of the United Kingdom coal market post-1993 . |
| 12 | Those actions could hit Jansher hard if , as seems possible , the Malaysian Squash Rackets Association decides to send the world champion 's prize money to the ISPA to do with as it thinks fit . |
| 13 | It is clear that each Command had a basis for judging tour length ; for example , Bomber Command seemed to feature the number of sorties to establish this . |
| 14 | The Dundee club proceeded to win the event with a maximum record . |
| 15 | A college department wishes to find the views of students who have just completed its first-year course on various aspects such as content , presentation , work load , etc. , relative to other departments . |
| 16 | Another fishing boat tried to tow the Glenmore back to port in rough seas , but it finally sank ninety miles east of Orkney . |
| 17 | The way has been cleared for renewed logging of old-growth forest in Oregon , after a Bush administration committee voted to override the provisions of the Endangered Species Act on 13 tracts of federal land covering 1,700 acres in the Coos and Douglas counties of western Oregon . |
| 18 | If a rule book was not yet available , that was because it was … at the printer's. 64 But the Edinburgh Trades Council refused to recognize the women 's union , describing it as a " bogus association , engineered by women suffragists " and its leaders found themselves beleaguered . |
| 19 | The United States expert sought to re-assure the Commission that pre-trial discovery procedures in his country were all after the commencement of proceedings ( the relevance of this being , presumably , that it picks up the requirement of Article 1(2) of the Convention ) and were under the control of a judge . |
| 20 | Eventually , the Harter Act helped to shape the text of the 1924 Brussels International Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules Relating to Bills of Lading ( The Hague Rules ) . |
| 21 | More than two years after New York City cut 35% from its funding for the arts , The Brooklyn Museum continues to suffer the consequences . |
| 22 | They 've formed an action committee to try to recover the funds . |
| 23 | She was scrapped a year later , when Wallasey Borough Council hoped to get the name back . |
| 24 | Darlington borough council refused to see the South African visitors including diplomat Pierrette Grobler , who has special responsibility for the North-East . |
| 25 | Cheltenham Borough Council wants to save the money to meet government spending limits . |
| 26 | A Department of Trade and Industry Committee met to consider the implications of the service charge in the hospitality industry . |
| 27 | The labour group wanted to overspend the governments limit by eleven million pounds . |
| 28 | Branching in the side group tends to stiffen the chain and raise T m as shown in the series poly(but-1-ene) , ; poly ( 3-methyl but-1-ene ) , ; poly ( 3,3′-dimethyl but-1-ene ) , . |
| 29 | The Paisley MP , Gordon McMaster , who lives in Johnstone , and is chairman of an action group established to oppose the plan , said yesterday : ‘ The massive weight of evidence is stacked against this proposal . |
| 30 | The estimates of operational time — the actual bonus target — will be expressed in individual or gang hours , for example : Quantity of work X Labour constant = Target hours Gang size The labour constant used to calculate the bonus target must represent fairly the average output of the average operative , working under average conditions . |