Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [prep] the [noun prp] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The UN Security Council on Nov. 29 approved Resolution 678 authorizing member governments to use " all necessary means " to ensure Iraq 's complete withdrawal from Kuwait , if by a deadline of Jan. 15 , 1991 , the Iraqis had not already done so and thereby complied with the UN 's previous resolutions . |
| 2 | Widely regarded as the ANC 's most able negotiator , he was expected to play a key role in talks with the government . |
| 3 | Neither of these two men can control with any certainty , however , the factor that will perhaps exert the most influence on the SPD 's election chances . |
| 4 | Veronese 's ‘ Marriage at Cana ’ badly torn after the Louvre 's lengthy restoration |
| 5 | The Commission wished us well in our venture of acting as custodians of material , documents , etc. relating to the Bishop 's Castle Railway . |
| 6 | After the Leeds Congress Maginn was plainly a disappointed man and probably did not altogether approve of the BDDA 's leadership . |
| 7 | He was to sire ten UK champions , a record only equalled by the Elsden 's other great stud dog , Ch. |
| 8 | Apart from the general fitness between what most would see as a hostile and acerbic tale and a bitter and unlovely character , one is constantly reminded of the Reeve 's provincial origins by his own dialect speech — in particular the occasional use of the Scandinavian-derived first person pronoun ik , " I " , against Chaucer 's standard ich — and by the northern speech of his two clerks , Alayn and John of Strother ( perhaps modelled on two northern characters known to the English court ) , which was yet further removed from the London standard of Chaucer 's day . |
| 9 | I became at once possessive about it … there was already talk about the war ending and Sadler 's Wells reopening and it seemed to me entirely fitting for the Sadler 's Wells Company to reopen the theatre at Rosebery Avenue after the war with a new opera by a leading young English composer . |
| 10 | The apostles of Jesus were not merely witnesses to the Lord 's resurrection ( clearly an unrepeatable function in the historical sense ) , but also a source of decision-making or pastoral jurisdiction in the early communities . |
| 11 | It was a further proof of Thomas Carter 's blissful innocence that he evidently had no idea that his swimming-pool , tennis court , fitted kitchen and high-tech appliances were as contemptible to the class whose values he so admired as the Parsons ' van Gogh prints and Dacron three-piece suite . |
| 12 | Each Friday that shy stub is ritualistically lit by the Ekeko 's guardian — in this case a writer , intellectual and left-wing politician . |
| 13 | As Lawler shone the torch outside Maggie listened to the protesting groan of timbers and prayed the hotel was n't going to suddenly collapse as the McPhersons ' house had done . |
| 14 | In the statement Edwards , who has already attracted criticism for placing bolts on Cornish granite , appears to set out his own manifest , which runs entirely counter to the BMC 's adopted policy on bolts and access and forecasts that Land 's End will eventually be seen as having set an example to the nation . |
| 15 | The topic is much neglected in the North 's election campaign yet it is vital to our region . |
| 16 | " They only come to the Tominah 's singing , " they said . |
| 17 | A great wedge of MacIans had driven in to cut off the Macleans ' attacking force ; the few men left fighting by the ships had neither time nor numbers to relaunch them . |
| 18 | There were also two French anthropologists , a raggedly effete group of Dutch and American missionaries , from opposing Christian denominations politely vying for the Toraja 's attentions , and the splendid Werner Meyer , looking like the Cheshire Cat in safari costume . |
| 19 | Second , it is clear from the Report that motorists are not keeping to the Park 's speed limits and are thereby abusing the privilege of vehicle access . |
| 20 | The question of what is significant has been at the heart of much recent discussion , but is not addressed in the ASB 's proposals . |
| 21 | After a childhood in Lanark , Scotland , where he attended preparatory school , Douglas went to Canada in 1819 in the employ of a firm soon absorbed by the Hudson 's Bay Company . |
| 22 | But when it became known that someone ostensibly in the top echelon of the regime was no longer seen at the Ceauşescus ' palace at the nightly film shows or for chess , then whatever the victim 's ostensible rank , his own hangers-on would begin to look for another patron . |
| 23 | The only consequence of the Secretary of State 's admission that the Drum appeal consent , issued in terms of policy HP8 , could not contribute to the Edinburgh HP4 supply , was the ‘ de minimus ’ affect of reducing the land to meet the HP4 requirement by some 129 units . |
| 24 | Aryan woman artists who were not accepted by the Reichskammer der Bildenden Kunste , could still be accepted as special members , but would not be allowed to take part in the exhibitions . |
| 25 | When Pascoe rounded the back of the house , he had already moved across the Fernies ' garden and was clearing the next hedge like a trained hurdler . |
| 26 | Their Soviet-made weapons do not fit with the West 's . |
| 27 | I was not condemned to the Guérignys ' life sentence . |
| 28 | Economic growth in the post-war period has been slow compared with the UK 's neighbours in Europe and one of the objectives of the Conservative Party while in opposition from 1974 was to develop policies to change this . |
| 29 | They have acknowledged that the West German economy is by far the strongest in Europe and that as members of the exchange rate mechanism their interest rates are already affected by the Bundesbank 's decisions . |
| 30 | The first ocean-going ship with a steam engine — Henry Bell 's Comet — was launched from Port Glasgow in 1812 , and the best known of the Clyde 's ships were always the ocean liners , though the yards built merchant ships , warships for the Royal Navy and many other types of vessel . |