Example sentences of "[noun] [noun prp] [noun] [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They came back from a surprise David Currie opener to level in the second half through Steve Walsh . |
| 2 | In 1487 King John of Portugal sent Pedro da Covilham to search for the kingdom of Prester John . |
| 3 | This approval will allow Rolls Wood Group to compete for the maintenance of the Rolls-Royce owned fleet of Avon , Olympus and RB211 gas turbines which are leased to customers . |
| 4 | In this context , then , it is entirely appropriate for Canon Roger Lloyd to speak of the quietude of Marylebone Station in London : |
| 5 | With no Lamb and no Gower I can see the chance for England 's batting enigma Graeme Hick to go on the senior tour , even if he has not been offered a winter retainer contract . |
| 6 | They were contracted in by Orkney Islands Council to deal with the cases . |
| 7 | The prompt action by South Pacific countries to deal with the drift-net plague provided a marked contrast to the situation in the North Pacific high seas , where the US had been dragging its heels as the Asian drift-net fleets continued to pillage the salmon , tuna , and squid resources , and kill tens of thousands of marine mammals and hundreds of thousands of sea birds , many of them in Alaskan fisheries waters . |
| 8 | On Oct. 31 he said that he had asked PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan to call off the armed campaign , and offered himself as a mediator between the PKK and the Turkish government . |
| 9 | For a few moments , to give Hookum Singh time to get to the hall and ring the bell for the last time , the Collector held the toppling pile of bodies by himself , then he sped across the drawing-room after the Sikhs , his boots crunching broken glass from the cases of stuffed animals ; the Sikhs had bare feet , however , and did not crunch it so loudly . |
| 10 | In mentioning the directive er can I er pause very briefly er Mr Deputy Speaker to apologise to the house that this document was not made available at the draft stage er an unfortunate combination of human error and several failures of communications meant that the select committee was deprived of the opportunity to consider the directive at its draft stage , er I 've noticed the select committee 's report which has been put in the vote office in the usual way and acknowledge the government did not meet its scrutiny obligations with regard to this document in the normal means . |
| 11 | SOMALI warlord Mohamed Farah Aideed has asked former US President Jimmy Carter to intercede in the conflict between Aideed 's Somali National Alliance and United Nations forces . |
| 12 | And fans of the Paul McCartney sound-a-like have his mum Mrs Cooper to thank for the one-off show . |
| 13 | Northumberland had their outside-half Ian Chandler to thank for the late drop goal that led to a 13–11 victory over Alberta on a day when a freak Arctic airflow brought snow and near freezing temperatures to Calgary . |
| 14 | In a belated effort by the United States government to intervene in the conflict , US Assistant Secretary of State Herman Cohen arrived in Monrovia on Sept. 18 . |
| 15 | During the late afternoon others arrived ; some stayed , resting before climbing to the Flammes de Pierre to bivouac before the Bonatti Pillar . |
| 16 | Guernsey granite rather than Purbeck stone brought him wealth and he retired to Swanage in 1944 leaving his nephew George Burt to look after the firm in London . |
| 17 | Ruth Rendell uses the pseudonym Barbara Vine to dig into the dark side of the soul . |
| 18 | In the event of my dying before remarriage , I DEVISE and BEQUEATH all of my real and personal estate whatsoever and wheresoever not already disposed of as to my freeholds in fee simple and as to my personal estate absolutely to the issue of my union with JACQUELINE MYRTLE MITCHELL , the property to be held in trust for the said issue , the trust allowing monthly sum of not less than FIVE HUNDRED POUNDS to the said JACQUELINE MYRTLE MITCHELL to pay for the upbringing of the said issue , this arrangement to cease on his or her attaining the age of twenty-one years , whereupon a quarter of the remaining estate — whether in freehold property , stocks , shares or chattels shall be granted in perpetuity to the said JACQUELINE MYRTLE MITCHELL , and the remainder to be granted to the said issue . |
| 19 | Fletcher 's fine display may prove just too good for manager Ray McHale to ignore with the Seasiders desperate for a return to winning ways . |
| 20 | The debate was on a motion put forward by the Co-operative Resource Centre , a conservative group of councillors , requesting the Hong Kong authorities to convey to the UK government the " views of the general public " on the issue of the next governor . |
| 21 | Convex is building a massively parallel system out of HP 's Precision Architecture RISCs , and under the new agreement , will swap its parallelising compilers for Hewlett 's HP-UX implementation of Unix so that it should be a relatively straightforward task to adapt the 4,000 HP-UX RISC applications to run on the planned Convex machines . |
| 22 | Convex is building a massively parallel system out of Hewlett 's Precision Architecture RISCs , and under yesterday 's agreement , will swap its parallelising compilers for Hewlett 's HP-UX implementation of Unix so that it should be a relatively straightforward task to adapt the 4,000 HP-UX RISC applications to run on the planned Convex machines . |
| 23 | It was the persuasion of the Vice Society that led Lord Chancellor Campbell to push through the Obscene Publications Act of 1857 , an Act which was to remain in force for a hundred years , and this was followed by the establishment of the first ( and short-lived ) Obscene Publications police squad in London . |
| 24 | And the T U C to launch a nationwide campaign probably September October time to tie with the Chancellor 's autumn statement , for a mass rally in London for about the time of the autumn statement . |
| 25 | The Yorkshire Dales National Park committee has joined the growing protest about the Wensleydale rail line and added its voice urging Transport Secretary Malcolm Rifkind to intervene in the controversy , sparked by British Steel 's decision to switch transport of Redmire Quarry limestone from rail to road . |
| 26 | The committee yesterday agreed to urge Transport Secretary Malcolm Rifkind to intervene in the controversy , sparked by British Steel 's decision to switch transport of Redmire Quarry limestone from rail to road . |
| 27 | You cross the Slingsby-Castle Howard road to continue to the village of Coneysthorpe . |
| 28 | The Chairman of the Museums and Galleries Commission , Graham C. Greene , has asked the Attorney General Nicholas Lyell to look into the matter of the permission , finally granted this year by the Charity Commissioners , but applied for in 1988 , to break the Trust of Thomas Holloway . |
| 29 | Mitchel McLaughlin revealed that the party will be nominating former blanket-protest prisoner Cathal Crumley to run for the party in the October poll . |
| 30 | When he arrived in America , Weill did not automatically expect New York ears to take to the music of the Berlin avant-garde in which he had played so prominent a part : instead he set himself the task of learning to write music with an American accent . |