Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] [noun sg] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although he found that television is far less violent than in Japan , the United States , France or West Germany , Dr Tadecki intends to campaign with Mary Whitehouse to curb violence on the screen . |
| 2 | Alongside the organisational changes aiming to improve exchanges between Government , the science base , and industry , the industry departments , supported by the Department of Trade and Industry 's ( DTI 's ) Innovation Unit , intend to scale up their activities to promote awareness of the importance of innovation among senior managers in the business community . |
| 3 | MILK producers are well on course to hit quota by the year-end , according to Milk Marketing Board head of quotas Huw Rees . |
| 4 | The decision to conduct debate on the war in closed session was taken by a majority vote on Feb. 13 on the proposal of the UK . |
| 5 | The proposals to combat discrimination within the profession have not met with the support I would have hoped for . |
| 6 | All the other matches ended in draws but Nottinghamshire wasted an opportunity to go top of the table at Lord 's . |
| 7 | All the other matches ended in draws but Nottinghamshire wasted an opportunity to go top of the table at Lord 's . |
| 8 | France expressed horror at the assassination and appealed for unity to assure peace in the country it once ruled . |
| 9 | The second vehicle will be a former Midland Railway six-wheeled third class brake coach dating from 1884 and , finally , a remarkable opportunity to sample travel in the groom 's compartment of a horse box dating from 1949 . |
| 10 | Caroline has a full length EVA midsole to absorb shock during the game . |
| 11 | It also calls on the government to act on the relevant commitments it made at the UNCED summit [ see ED 59/60 ] , and on the major supermarket chains to provide information on the biodiversity of the foods they stock . |
| 12 | teachers in ‘ feeder ’ middle schools were invited to read the study and two schools subsequently redesigned their humanities course to provide continuity with the curriculum at Sir Frank Markham ; |
| 13 | By eligible bills is meant any instrument which the Bank is prepared to buy as part of its money market operations to adjust liquidity in the banking system . |
| 14 | When the library opens in 1995/6 there will be 100,000 volumes accessible digitally , but there are also plans to provide access by the year 2000 to a wide range of multimedia resources from sound recordings , to moving pictures , to radio programmes , to television programmes , to still images ( Fresko 1993 ) . |
| 15 | If the defendant is successful in the RSC Ord 14 proceedings , the court may make various orders , including allowing the defendant to defend the claim , which means that the plaintiff 's next opportunity to obtain judgment against the defendant will not arise before the end of a full trial . |
| 16 | De Luca , alleged to be a member of the BR , was wanted by the Italian authorities to stand trial for the murder of a DC senator Roberto Ruffilli in 1988 [ see p. 35989 ] . |
| 17 | ‘ So there will have to be some block contracts to provide predictability for the provider , ’ says Stephenson . |
| 18 | In particular , the extension of the select committee system has meant that more civil servants have attended Parliament to provide information about the work for which they are responsible . |
| 19 | It troubled Alexei that the failed assassination seemed about to be dismissed as an effort at the removal of some imagined stain on family honour , and he wondered if Jotan truly believed the explanation he had offered , or if he was acting at Burun 's direction to distract Artai from the truth . |
| 20 | Against this , it was argued that government bodies which use public money to provide information to the public are under a special public law obligation to ensure that the information is accurate ; and this obligation , being a public law one , was properly enforceable by judicial review . |
| 21 | Not only , therefore , was William party to the decision to request continuation of the supervision order , but he now looks back and agrees it was the right decision . |
| 22 | Doubt and ambivalence are transmuted into clarity and certainty , and any attempt to reintroduce complexity into the debate is rejected as ‘ mere nitpicking ’ or ‘ a deliberate attempt to muddy the issue ’ . |
| 23 | The Far Eastern Economic Review reported on Sept. 28 that Myanma sources and diplomatic observers had dismissed these allegations as an attempt to discredit the NLD and as an attempt to bolster unity in the Army which had fought the insurgent CPB for many years . |
| 24 | For those who have never been involved in the arts the exchange offers a wide range of opportunities to invest money with the aim of obtaining hard currency under a transfer deal system . |
| 25 | CRYSTAL PALACE face a battle with the FA over their intention to claim compensation for the injury John Salako sustained on England duty last month . |
| 26 | Birds usually have an elongated fovea to see detail on the horizon , and most have an additional circular fovea straight ahead . |
| 27 | RETURN_DETAIL/ — is a return parameter providing a report of the errors encountered during the attempt to grant/deny approval to the package . |
| 28 | The difficulty is that although sometimes it is possible to point to an intention to compel action on the part of the target , as when the aim is to prevent employees from working , or to force a local councillor to vote differently , or to stop another organisation from marching that intention is not invariably present . |
| 29 | So as you come in raise the daggerboard , lift the rudder and then when you come into shallow water , turn the boat up towards the wind to lose power for the sail and stop before you hit those rocks . |
| 30 | Badly born , poorly educated as I am , how do I have the nerve to pass comment on the society I live in — let alone marry a professor of economics and co-author with him — the publisher 's term , not mine — a book on Darcian Monetarism ? |