Example sentences of "[to-vb] [noun prp] [prep] [art] [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 He later urged voters to support Lissouba in the second round and , according to sources close to the two parties , on Aug. 11 UPADS entered into a formal electoral alliance with the PCT .
2 Was n't that partly the reason why she had agreed to see André in the first place ?
3 Uniform start date to be Thursdays , and matches to include Saturday as the third day .
4 KEVIN Campbell , Arsenal 's goal-greedy hit man , plans to overshadow team mate Ian Wright and Blackburn 's Alan Shearer in the race to provide England with the next generation of strike stars .
5 Slick catching aided the West Indies effort , Lara setting the pattern by swooping low to his left as the solitary slip to despatch Wessels off the last ball of the day 's third over , and their captain gone , the South Africans never appeared to have the conviction that they could achieve their moderate target .
6 Bates , who beat Byron Black of Zimbabwe 3–6 6–3 7–5 in his first round match , can find comfort , too , in Wilkinson 's victory because he is due to meet Frana in the first round at Wimbledon .
7 To mark the country 's first successful bone marrow transplant involving an un-related donor , Norwegian television arranged for her to meet Janet for the first time in front of an estimated two-and-a-half million viewers .
8 Mr Mubarak said he had accepted an invitation from President Bill Clinton to visit Washington in the first half of April .
9 The reasons for Orchomenos ' special role were geographical : she controlled the northern plain and Thebes the southern ; and also historical : Mycenaean Orchomenos had counted for at least as much as Thebes , and Orchomenos still had pretensions to lead Boiotia in the eighth century .
10 Having been frustrated in her 1988 cruise to Scandinavia , Islander headed north-east once more last summer and this time succeeded in passing through the Limfjord , sailing down the Kattegat and up into the Baltic as far as Stockholm before retracing her steps to visit Copenhagen for the second time on this voyage .
11 Alexander and the non-executives he has recruited , such as Sir Ian MacLaurin , Sir Michael Angus , Hanson 's Martin Taylor , and Sir Charles Powell , have decided to leap a generation in finding a manager to lead NatWest into the 21st century .
12 THE Queen is to visit Lockerbie for the first time since the air disaster there more than four years ago .
13 The gifted 21-year-old midfielder was denied that elusive goal by a brilliant save from County keeper Steve Cherry , but that paved the way for Kevin Sheedy to fire Newcastle into a 47th minute lead .
14 FC Copenhagen , who were due to play Tbilisi in the first round proper , have no doubt that Linfield will now be their opponents — in Belfast on Wednesday week .
15 FC Copenhagen , who were due to play Tbilisi in the first round proper , have no doubt that Linfield will now be their opponents — in Belfast on Wednesday week .
16 Birmingham to support Woking in the next round .
17 Britain 's Ministry of Defence was instrumental in blocking GEC 's first attempt to merge with Plessey — and in extracting concessions in return for allowing GEC , in partnership with Siemens of West Germany , to acquire Plessey at the second bite .
18 Wright continued to dazzle Ipswich in the second half but it was Campbell who completed a brilliant hat-trick .
19 Even though this was Jack 's own tournament , I decided to quit Jack after the last event of 1983 , the Chrysler Invitation , and start fresh with Greg next year .
20 Palacio has won the last two , but I doubt whether he has much ambition left to extend McMillan past the eighth round .
21 LABOUR must fight to put Britain in the First Division of Europe , said Mr Smith .
22 The roughness and sheer wild irrationality of Lewis 's domestic persona were matched by the genuinely warm-hearted impulse which had led him to befriend Havard in the first place .
23 She remembered the fights she had had to keep Eve in the first place , when so many other solutions were being offered .
24 Winners from last year 's northern finals went on to represent Britain in the first world championships in London .
25 The Ibrox side face a potentially hazardous trip to Lanarkshire to face Motherwell in the third round at Fir Park on January 9 .
26 Well … we ( England ) are all rooting for you to beat Holland in the last game : - )
27 Though nothing came of this it is of interest because it anticipates the ‘ Cold War ’ methods by which Persia sought to infiltrate Greece in the second half of the century .
28 Mr Ashdown , campaigning in north Wales , raised the stakes on electoral reform by saying that his precondition for talks would be legislation to implement PR in the first session of Parliament .
29 Suddenly they seemed to notice Brenda for the first time .
30 It is unclear how far this happened locally , although the family of Godwine , Earl of Wessex , had come to dominate Sussex by the eleventh century .
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