Example sentences of "[pron] [noun pl] [to-vb] [prep] the [noun prp] " in BNC.

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1 Cummins has offered him a senior position with the company and the chance to spearhead its attempts to break into the East European engine market .
2 Disagreements within the FNCD , especially in relation to the Aug. 13 disturbances , led the Movement of the Organization of the Country ( MOP ) to ask its deputies to withdraw from the FNCD parliamentary bloc .
3 Government forces , suffering heavy casualties in their attempts to break through the KNU 's defences , on Dec. 28 , 1989 , finally overran the KNU 's Phalu camp , located 25 km south of the border town of Myawadi , in a loop of the Moei river ( known in Myanma as the Thaungyin river ) forming the border with Thailand .
4 Amid continuing military claims and counter-claims by both sides , there was evidence that the MNR had stepped up its attacks to coincide with the Rome meetings .
5 The centre will offer customers and software developers the facilities and personnel to convert their applications to run under the Stratus FTX fault-tolerant Unix operating system .
6 Stratus Computer Inc has opened a Unix Porting and Technical Center in Dublin , Ireland — it will offer customers and software developers the facilities and personnel to convert their applications to run under the Stratus FTX fault-tolerant Unix operating system .
7 Trinidad and Tobago received a great deal of international support in its efforts to deal with the July coup attempt .
8 In the end , the Colonial Office took the decision to allow the P.N.M. to select two of its members to sit on the LegCo. thereby giving them victory with a clear majority .
9 1979 Act requires the Board to identify seven of its members to serve on the UKCC .
10 Against the background of a broad spectrum of strikes organized on April 21 , April 27 and June 2 , 1989 , by the socialist General Workers ' Union ( Unión General de Trabajadores — UGT ) and the communist Workers ' Commissions ( Comisiones Obreras — CCOO ) , the UGT executive decided for the first time on April 25 to give no recommendation to its members to vote for the PSOE in the European Parliament elections in June 1989 , on the grounds that a trade union could not be expected to support a government which pursued economic and social policies which were hostile to workers .
11 Every year , Europe 's eels leave its rivers to spawn in the Sargasso sea .
12 He wants to talk about getting some of his poets to work on the Alps — he 's looking after one or two o the Romantics for a few months , while a colleague of his is sitting on a commission of inquiry .
13 Retrace your steps to return to the Market Square
14 The British and other European countries knew that this would allow US airlines to fly from the USA , pick up passengers in Britain or in Europe , and fly on to any other destination , which would mean complete US domination of civil aviation .
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