Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] the [noun] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He also said we should be asked to give a few extra lectures , to a wider group of comrades , viz. teachers who did not have the opportunity to attend the course full time . |
| 2 | Sufficient time needs to be given to listening to the answer and then to prayer and ministry to meet the needs another member has . |
| 3 | Six readers will have the opportunity to meet the BBC Good Food team at the second BBC Good Food readers ' lunch , to be hosted by Perrier at an award-winning Les Routiers restaurant in Yorkshire . |
| 4 | The district council said there was no budget to meet the £900 annual charge for floodlighting the memorials , and someone must accept the cost . |
| 5 | The decision was widely seen as an attempt to support the Sri Lankan government in its war against Tamil guerrillas , and was announced as Foreign Minister Shukla completed a three-day visit to Sri Lanka . |
| 6 | Both the Albanian government and the opposition parties denounced the departures as an attempt to disrupt the March 31 elections . |
| 7 | The circumstance that the employer had left it to the contractor to provide the requisite third party security would not , without more , prevent the employer from enforcing the security . |
| 8 | As a result of a leading loose horse running across the fence after Becher 's on the second circuit ( the 23rd ) , there was a pile-up and Foinavon was the only horse to jump the fence first time . |
| 9 | SIX more Eldorado stars were given the chop yesterday in a desperate bid to revive the £10 million sun and sangria soap flop . |
| 10 | His creator James Driscoll has just returned to Britain after signing a £20 million deal to create the 40-acre fun park in Samara , 600 miles east of Moscow — where Digswell has been made a Freeman of the City . |
| 11 | Liverpool 's Holligan retained his British and Commonwealth light-welterweight titles after barely outpointing the brave Manchester man in the same ring to win the title 15 months ago . |
| 12 | Chapman had put the Town on a firm footing that would see them to a third championship the following year to become the first club to win the title three years in succession ; and two years after that they were runners-up . |
| 13 | At such points , quotation and a slightly closer narrative attempt to give the reader some idea of the reality behind the colourless abstractions of ‘ England ’ , ‘ Germany ’ or ‘ Russia ’ . |
| 14 | ALAST ditch attempt to salvage the £5 billion scheme to redevelop King 's Cross station will be made by British Rail tomorrow , writes Michael Smith . |
| 15 | She officially unveiled a carved plaque to commemorate the centenary last year of the death of poet Richard Watson . |
| 16 | In 1982 the Berlin Philharmonic rebelled over the attempt to appoint the clarinettist Sabine Meyer . |
| 17 | In an attempt to demonstrate the benefits two heads cited improvements in public exam results as performance indicators . |
| 18 | The main activity of the North West region in 1992 was the attempt to convince the Manchester Olympic Bid Committee of the necessity for good design in the infrastructure to be built for the games . |
| 19 | I had already made up my mind to join the South African tour when it happened , so it was fortuitous in a way . |
| 20 | As the recriminations between the brothers become more explosive , and the wounds of jealousy reopen , I 've a horrible suspicion that Harwood wants us to be genuinely moved , but after all the superficial comedy , his attempt to lend the play emotional depth arouses embarrassment rather than pity . |
| 21 | President Clinton 's plan to promote the US National Institute of Standards & Technology-developed Clipper Chip as a way to protect cellular telephone conversations from eavesdropping ( CI No 2,151 ) is causing concern among some users , who are worried about who will keep the key . |
| 22 | In the face of government determination to enforce the February 1911 laws more than eight thousand Aube growers marched through the streets of Bar-sur-Aube carrying on their backs paniers de mannequin ( grape harvesting baskets ) full of tax-forms which they ceremoniously set fire to . |
| 23 | A proposal to accept the draft Russian constitution as a basis for the new Constitution was amended to the more general wording of giving " approval of the general concept of constitutional reforms in the Russian Federation laid out in the basis of the draft constitution " . |
| 24 | The Driver in the case of a light engine then goes to the telephone to inform the Signalman each end of the tunnel and give them all particulars and if blocking both lines . |
| 25 | Much as I would love to see the 1995 World Cup help to kickstart the South African economy as overseas visitors pour in to fill impressive stadia and savour the beauty of the land , the facts are that as things stand rugby will be used as a political pawn . |
| 26 | There will be a requirement to replace the type 42 destroyers from around the turn of the century . |
| 27 | Tony Dobson was found dead in the yard at Roundhill Farm , Roundhill Road , near Hurworth , where he often used steam equipment to clean the Volvo articulated lorry . |
| 28 | STEVE CRAM produced a record-breaking run to win the North Eastern Counties 10-kilometre road running championship at Heaton yesterday in 28min 46sec . |
| 29 | Communications company and networker Relcom expects the Sequent machine to give the node four times the power . |
| 30 | The UK government has announced a plan to give the public freer access to environmental information , in line with a 1990 EC directive on the subject . |