Example sentences of "[vb -s] [vb pp] [to-vb] the [noun prp] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The EC Environment Commissioner , Ioannis Paleokrassas , has threatened to take the UK government to court over its alleged failure to conduct a proper environmental impact assessment over the planned motorway through Oxleas Wood in south-east London . |
| 2 | The Roman authorities intend to refurbish the Casina delle Civette at Villa Torlonia , which already has splendid Art Nouveau furnishings and stained glass , to house twentieth-century decorative arts , whilst the Ministry has decided to allocate the Villino Boncompagni , near Via Veneto , to the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna for a similar museum . |
| 3 | One of the more vigorous RECs , Midland Electricity plc , has decided to enter the CHP business itself , at the small end of the market . |
| 4 | But Sunsoft is not alone in its problems : Next Computer has had to delay the Intel version of its NextStep environment for pretty much the same reason . |
| 5 | IBM Corp has agreed to pay the US government $14.8m to settle that potential False Claims Act civil suit after IBM admitted to providing reconditioned or remanufactured computer equipment to the US government between 1980 and 1990 , contrary to contract provisions — under the contract , IBM was required to notify the government prior to delivery of anything other than new equipment , and the investigation revealed that IBM delivered approximately 15,000 reconditioned or remanufactured machines to the government ; IBM voluntarily owned up that it might not have fulfilled its obligations under the contract after conducting an internal audit . |
| 6 | Up to now , the PAC has refused to meet the Pretoria government or to join the Convention for a Democratic South Africa ( Codesa ) negotiations on a multi-racial constitutional agreement . |
| 7 | The DUP has refused to meet the US visitors because of their intention to speak to Sinn Fein . |
| 8 | All the key people that Reagan has appointed to protect the US environment have had close financial involvement with companies that are polluting and destroying the environment . |
| 9 | The Catholic church , led by Bishop Torukwon has tried to hold the Tren regime in check , but is becoming increasingly isolated , especially with the rise of the powerful Islamic Faction . |
| 10 | One slight problem that Cognos has created for itself with Unix in Europe is its failure to recognise those lucrative government markets where the national champion is often the favourite — to date Cognos has declined to serve the ICL Plc , Compagnie des Machines Bull SA and Siemens AG environments . |
| 11 | Jones ' notes , which he has circulated to show the BYU version of events , do not directly address this issue . |
| 12 | The first warnings of impending disaster arrived in a letter from Clare who wrote , ‘ Poor Father is feeling very down , he 's had to close the Mansfield shop ’ . |