Example sentences of "[to-vb] talks [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They showed the Foreign Office keen to encourage talks between the Iraqi and Kuwaiti rulers over their border dispute — but also adamant that Kuwait was the one area in the Gulf where the defence of oil supplies would justify the use of force . |
| 2 | China has so far refused to give any clear response to an offer he made last year to open talks on the basis of new proposals . |
| 3 | Marshal Shaposhnikov said Russia 's foreign minister would be asked to open talks with the Ukrainian leadership on handing over a segment of the 300-ship fleet to Ukraine for a national coastal defence force . |
| 4 | Marshal Shaposhnikov said Russia 's Foreign Minister would be asked to open talks with the Ukrainian leadership on handing over part of the 300-ship fleet to Ukraine for a coastal defence force . |
| 5 | Marshal Shaposhnikov said Russia 's Foreign Minister would be asked to open talks with the Ukrainian leadership on handing over a segment of the 300-ship fleet to Ukraine for a national coastal defence force . |
| 6 | The ministers approved a budget of 192,000,000 ECU for the period to 1992 , more than double the award for the expiring two-year phase ; they also agreed to open talks with the EFTA members with a view to extending the scheme . |
| 7 | In a renewed attempt to revive the so-called " Brooke initiative " to reopen talks on the political future of Northern Ireland , the UK Northern Ireland Secretary Peter Brooke met Irish Prime Minister Charles Haughey on Nov. 26 . |
| 8 | Two of our members also go along to schools to do talks about the association . |
| 9 | I would be more than happy to receive any invitation to take workshops or to give talks on the subject . |
| 10 | It was a personal triumph for Premier John Major , who had been pressing Commission president Mr Delors to re-open talks before the US carried out its threat to impose huge extra duty on EC goods . |
| 11 | It was a personal triumph for Premier John Major , who had been pressing Commission president Mr Delors to re-open talks before the US carried out its threat to impose huge extra duty on EC goods . |
| 12 | THE Government was under pressure last night to re-enter negotiations over the ambulance dispute as unions stripped away all but three elements of their pay and conditions claim in an attempt to force talks at the conciliation service , Acas . |
| 13 | The four wartime allies and two Germanies agree to hold talks on the security implications of unification [ pp. 37259-61 ] . |
| 14 | International pressure on Aoun continued to grow with the arrival on March 5 of a Vatican mediator , Mgr Alberto Sozzi , and on March 9 Aoun announced in an interview with the daily newspaper An Nahar that he was willing to hold talks with the LF to end the fighting and to discuss without preconditions the accord reached by the Lebanese Parliament in Taif , Saudi Arabia on Oct. 22 , 1989 [ see p 36986 ] . |
| 15 | On Nov 20 a spokesman for Gailani had denied reports that he intended to meet Najibullah , and on Nov. 21 Mujjaddedi also denied meeting him , adding that " neither we nor our representatives are ready to hold talks with the puppet Najib or his representative " . |
| 16 | Signalling a partial retreat from the hardline stance which had apparently allowed January 's military crackdown , Gorbachev on Feb. 1 published decrees announcing the composition of delegations to hold talks with the three Baltic republics on " political , social and economic questions " . |
| 17 | He also announced the formation of a committee to hold talks with the opposition [ see pp. 37767-68 ] . |
| 18 | Visiting Gao on July 23 during a tour of the north , Touré called on the rebels to lay down their arms and to hold talks with the government . |
| 19 | An opposition communiqué released on May 20 , however , expressed a willingness to hold talks with the government in order to pave the way for a return to democracy . |
| 20 | A FORMER British Aerospace executive hopes to hold talks with the company this week to keep alive a British bid for the 125 business jet . |
| 21 | Azerbaijan 's Minister of the Interior , Iskender Khamidov , left for Nakhichevan to hold talks over the issue , denying that there had been a conflict . |
| 22 | The Sinn Fein President , Gerry Adams , has said that the IRA agreed to a two-week ceasefire last May to allow talks with the Government . |
| 23 | The Development Minister , Mr Stoffel van der Merwe , and the deputy foreign minister , Mr Leon Wessels , are to have talks with the church leader on the maltreatment of blacks in the Ciskei . |
| 24 | But because they refused for one reason or another to dis you know to have talks with the press or television or the ministers , whoever , I think they they burnt their boats . |
| 25 | The principal , who has already forecast that the dispute could place the future of the school and 50 jobs in jeopardy , said he was anxious to have talks with the strikers ‘ to explore what they hope to gain through possible further strike action and for how long they are likely to continue . ’ |
| 26 | To get talks with the ANC started , Mr de Klerk must do everything possible to free political prisoners and bring home refugees . |
| 27 | The government rejected an offer from the alleged Cali drug cartel leader Jorge Luis Ochoa to mediate their release , but an unofficial " Committee of Leading Citizens " led by former President Alfonso Lopez was reported to be trying to arrange talks between the cartels and the government . |
| 28 | The committee agreed to urge the Scottish Office to progress as soon as possible and to continue talks on the role of the public sector in the new bridge and its future management . |
| 29 | With the impact of Zhelev 's attack still reverberating , the 21-member UDF coalition held a national conference in Sofia on Sept. 18-20 and agreed to establish working groups to conduct talks with the President and the MRF . |
| 30 | Senhor Jose Cutileiro of Portugal , EC special envoy , arrived in Sarajevo yesterday to reconvene talks between the warring parties . |