Example sentences of "[to-vb] [noun prp] [prep] the [adj] [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 | Failure of arrangements for proper payment had also failed to provide BR with the overall size , structure and quality of workforce needed . |
| 7 | For teaching purposes , writers in the contemplative tradition followed Richard of St Victor in allegorising the process by which the soul comes to know God through the Old Testament story ( Genesis 29 ) of Jacob 's marriage to Leah and Rachel . |
| 8 | I was critical of the plans of the Burma Educational Service and government advisers to absorb Judson into the one system , and I hoped that through Judson Western members of staff might be able to continue to serve students when the process of Burmanising the University inevitably took place . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | In June , the Observer Business pages warned that the Commission was ‘ poised ’ to prosecute Britain in the European Court early in 1990 and this could ‘ effectively wreck the Government 's controversial water privatisation plans ’ . |
| 11 | Marlborough 's campaigns have commanded the admiration of military analysts ; his successes showed that Britain could conduct a war on land , and made it clear that the balance of power would be maintained and Louis XIV would not be able to establish France as the dominant power in western Europe in the way that had seemed probable in the 1680s . |
| 12 | TRANMERE 'S young goalkeeper Danny Coyne was yesterday included in the Welsh under-21 squad to meet Belgium in the European Championship qualifier in Belgium on Tuesday , November 17 . |
| 13 | DEC has packaged a cost-optimised 100-MIPS/10-watt Alpha chip , some DECelx and OSF/1 real-time software and services to attract OEMs in the embedded market . |
| 14 | England were due to meet Wales in the final match of the round robin series today knowing that a share of the honours would give them the crown . |
| 15 | RUGBY LEAGUE chief executive Maurice Lindsay has defended the International Board 's decision to exclude Wales from the 1995 World Cup . |
| 16 | RUGBY LEAGUE chief executive Maurice Lindsay has defended the International Board 's decision to exclude Wales from the 1995 World Cup . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Cooke said : ‘ My motivation for wanting to stay on as manager is to see England as the top team in the world . |
| 19 | His decision in 1967 to support Nasser in the six-day war cost Jordan its western half and ended Arab control of Jerusalem , Islam 's third-holiest city . |
| 20 | Gaunt aroused the opposition of the Church by his attack upon William of Wykeham and his refusal to include Wykeham in the general pardon offered in honour of the king 's golden jubilee . |
| 21 | He remounted immediately and set off in pursuit of the other runners , but as a Gold Cup trial the race was a mess , and the announcement that Jonjo O'Neill was once more to replace Mullins for the big race came as no surprise . |
| 22 | John Gorman , his right hand man for the past two seasons has taken over to lead Swindon into the Premier League next season … |
| 23 | Oates was waiting at the door to lead Patrick down the long corridor to the office opposite the actual mortuary . |
| 24 | In the days when Romanians were still in a mood to tell jokes , they used to ask a rhetorical question : how long would it take for a Soviet expeditionary force to reach Bucharest from the Soviet border ? |
| 25 | Fisher 's next move was to consult Ramsey about the entire problem of the two simultaneous sees . |
| 26 | Mr Mubarak said he had accepted an invitation from President Bill Clinton to visit Washington in the first half of April . |
| 27 | The Oak said , ‘ But we have lent our aid to the Royal Houses of the Beastline in times of extreme danger and we have also fought to regain Tara for the rightful heir . ’ |
| 28 | While men like Thomas Howard , Duke of Norfolk , and Stephen Gardiner , Bishop of Winchester , were prepared to accept the royal supremacy , they baulked at these evangelical reforms , which in their view smacked of heresy and threatened to lead England into the Lutheran camp . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |