Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun sg] [verb] [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The LTTE offensive appeared to take the government by surprise , and over 20 police stations were quickly taken over by the LTTE . |
| 2 | The US Senate voted on Nov. 25 to ratify the CFE treaty , and it also approved , by 86 votes to eight , the allocation of $500,000,000 from the US defence budget to help finance the destruction of tactical nuclear weapons in the Soviet Union , as proposed on Oct. 5 by President Mikhail Gorbachev [ see p. 38553 ] . |
| 3 | The present structure of support provision fails to meet the needs of the majority of disabled people , let alone those who may have additional needs associated with ageing ( Beardshaw , 1988 ; Fiedler , 1988 ) . |
| 4 | Sunnyvale , California-based massively parallel systems builder MasPar Computer Corp has put the Prism video compression software from Prism Interactive Corp , Wheaton , Illinois up on its machines , and claims that the combination is the first system capable of producing broadcast quality Motion Picture Experts Group-compatible video output in real time . |
| 5 | In the St George , Westminster , by-election in March 1931 the Empire Crusade candidacy seemed to exacerbate the divisions in the Conservative party which the press proprietors had initiated . |
| 6 | The impending end of halon production is forcing the fire protection industry to consider recycling the halons already in use . |
| 7 | The US Agriculture Department has proposed the use of irradiation to kill salmonella and other bacteria in raw poultry , some 40 per cent of which is believed to be contaminated with salmonella . |
| 8 | The election result has diminished the fear of an asset ‘ meltdown ’ as middle-class mortgage-payers became forced sellers of their houses after Labour 's confiscatory tax plans . |
| 9 | The election result has given the Conservatives five years in which to press ahead with the changes . |
| 10 | Mulroney accepted that the referendum result had consigned the Charlottetown agreement to " history " , but rejected suggestions that , in the face of such a personal reverse , he might step down as Prime Minister . |
| 11 | Their decision to precipitate a leadership contest only days after Labour 's fourth humiliating general election defeat threatened to plunge the party into a new bout of recrimination and in-fighting . |
| 12 | In their own newsletter , and often in interviews , The Wedding Present seem to adopt the frivolity and amiability of The Monkees . |
| 13 | Its Toraja driver had left the job to the attendants , and had sat down at our warong for a meal , when I witnessed a carelessly tossed cigarette-butt from a passing cyclist ignite the concrete floor surrounding the pump and the petrol-truck with flickering blue flames , like those on a Christmas pudding . |
| 14 | The increasing incidence of the full-time lawyer chairman has narrowed the gap between judicial appointment as a judge and as a tribunal chairman . |
| 15 | An international consortium led by the Wigan-based company Carbon Link has acquired the East German Activated Carbon Company from the German Truehandanstalt . |
| 16 | As a bachelor , Adeane had no concept of the intense pleasure fatherhood had brought the Prince , and no understanding of why he should want to spend so much time at home . |
| 17 | The Legal Aid Board has accepted the standards as one of the criteria for the grant of a franchise , in place of earlier proposals for its own management standards . |
| 18 | His own rise to fame at club level had demonstrated the superiority of management by one man over management by a group , but the England team was still selected by a dozen officials ‘ expressing their views as to the merits of players without proper regard to blend and balance ’ . |
| 19 | This implies that signals from HeLa cell cytoplasm have entered the chick nucleus and brought about this gene activation . |
| 20 | An executive , , was engaged on a short term contract to help get the committee established and to assist in the coordination of a survey jointly commissioned by the Bar Council and the Lord Chancellor 's Department to determine objectively whether discrimination exists against women at the Bar and , if so , the extent of such discrimination . |
| 21 | Weight loss does lower the metabolism in that every time you lose one pound , you will need to eat about 18 calories a day less to stay at a stable weight . |
| 22 | The research programme seemed to provide the stimulus for improvement around the country , particularly in academic libraries where many working parties were set up to deal with the problem . |
| 23 | The research programme has involved the creation of a full-time postgraduate post at Napier Polytechnic and occupies a substantial part of the studies of BFRC 's new technical officer , Jim Hooker . |
| 24 | What British Coal needs to know now , to enable its investment programme to proceed to meet the threat from coal imports , is the size of the United Kingdom coal market post-1993 . |
| 25 | Interestingly , it was a man 's leg that was shown in the police demonstration photograph to avoid offending the decorum and susceptibilities of the time . |
| 26 | It is clear that each Command had a basis for judging tour length ; for example , Bomber Command seemed to feature the number of sorties to establish this . |
| 27 | The build-up of the Binbrook Canberra Wing in 1951 meant that Bomber Command had entered the jet age ; the Lincolns and Washingtons were being replaced by an aircraft of very different character and performance . |
| 28 | Car crime has plagued the John Radcliffe Hospital for years . |
| 29 | A college department wishes to find the views of students who have just completed its first-year course on various aspects such as content , presentation , work load , etc. , relative to other departments . |
| 30 | The research department has followed the lines set by that review . |