Example sentences of "[noun] [noun prp] [to-vb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was Brainsby 's idea for Richard Branson to arrive at the inaugural press conference wearing a brown leather aviator 's helmet , à la Biggles , in an attempt to lend the launching of an international airline something of the savour of a Boys Own adventure . |
| 2 | In the sixtieth minute he burst between Shepherd and Webb before drawing Shepherd before drawing Richardson from his goal to square the ball across the penalty area for Neil Owen to shoot into the empty net . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Of course , I avoided so much work , going out to the bloody square on Tower Hill to gawk at the gore-drenched platform where the Great Ones of the land had their heads cut off . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | His death enabled Mr Beltrami to Apply to the Scottish Law Society for a waiver of the confidentiality he had observed in relation to McGuinness 's admissions to the Ayr crime ; and he enclosed a statement from Mrs McGuinness that her husband had also admitted the crime and Waddell 's Participation in it , to her . |
| 8 | Article 96 of the Company 's Articles of Association requires Mr Blacker , Mr Brown and Mr Walker to retire at the Annual General Meeting since they were appointed by the Board after the 1989 Annual General Meeting . |
| 9 | The company relocated its premises to Huntingdon and asked Mr Rose to move to the new premises . |
| 10 | Mr Takeshita , who subsequently wangled a meeting with Mr Bush to chat about the SII talks , has spent the past couple of weeks trying to get back into the limelight . |
| 11 | There is , to my mind , no doubt that Mr Bloch and his locksmith would not have been permitted by Mr Clayton to interfere with the existing lock if Mr Clayton had been told that that act was intended in any way to interfere with his rights under his existing sub-lease . |
| 12 | At the same time the USA pressed Saudi Arabia to cut off the vital Iraqi oil pipeline to the Red Sea outlet at Yanbu , which the Saudis did on Aug. 7 . |
| 13 | Among Tories , more than three times as many would want Mr Major to negotiate with the Liberal Democrats as with the Unionists . |
| 14 | They were collecting , they claimed , divine energies for Mr Rowse to dispense during the coming week . |
| 15 | Sometimes called the ‘ Jazz Modern ’ style , International Modern was a term coined in the United States to refer to the new architectural style of the twentieth century , which architects like Frank Lloyd Wright and Walter Gropius were creating before the First World War . |
| 16 | And fans of the Paul McCartney sound-a-like have his mum Mrs Cooper to thank for the one-off show . |
| 17 | Although initially the visit revived divisions over attitudes to Garrison and his ideas , so great was antislavery enthusiasm that abolitionists of all kinds took the occasion to publicise the nature of American slavery and raise funds throughout the country for Mrs Stowe to employ against the southern system in the way she thought best . |
| 18 | The Foreign Affairs Ministers met on Nov. 24 and 25 in Abu Dhabi to prepare for the planned summit , but reports said that the session was overshadowed by the absence of Qatar , marking its continuing displeasure with Saudi Arabia following a border incident in October [ see p. 39165 ] . |
| 19 | On this occasion he had , after the expenditure of many millions , built a refinery in Newfoundland , and he telephoned me to ask whether I could persuade Winston Churchill to come to the grand opening . |
| 20 | Mr Bond has pleaded not guilty to a charge he violated the Securities Code by inducing businessman Brian Coppin to contribute to the failed 1987 rescue of merchant bank Rothwells while concealing a £7 million fee . |
| 21 | When God instructs his people Israel to care for the poor , the appeal is invariably on the basis of what he has done for them . |
| 22 | Does not that show that , despite all the promises and pledges , in the past five years the Government have carried out a sorry and tragic charade and have connived at every stage with Black Bob Scholey to sell off the Scottish steel industry ? |
| 23 | He booked a flight for the afternoon of Friday , 24 March with Delta to San Francisco to connect with the British Airways flight for London . |
| 24 | Will the Leader of the House find time today to plan a journey from south Norfolk to north-west Norfolk to look at the local health services ? |
| 25 | Then there were the Paris student riots , the Biafran conflict and scenes of devastating suffering and starvation ; Yasser Arafat became head of the PLO and enlisted thousands of young people into his army ; Muammar Gaddafi threw out the Libyan monarchy and installed himself as his nation 's leader and hero of terrorist factions everywhere ; the streets of Ulster became a battle zone with troops , fire bombs and unbelievable scenes of street-fighting ; Jan Palach , a twenty-one-year-old Czech student set fire to himself in Wenceslas Square to protest at the Soviet invasion of Prague . |
| 26 | The Prime Minister has warned Saddam Hussein to comply with the United Nations ultimatum . |
| 27 | Athletes are summoned rather than invited by the promoter Andreas Bruger to perform under the blazing floodlights , and there is rarely a refusal . |
| 28 | BRITAIN was yesterday accused of undermining international efforts to combat the greenhouse effect , as Mrs Thatcher flew to New York to declare to the United Nations her concern about the environment and reveal a number of British initiatives . |
| 29 | But her desire to be a ballerina was more than just an adolescent fancy and she returned to New York to study at the American School of Ballet . |
| 30 | 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 . |