Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] the [num] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This tactic , described by the Dutch government as " positive opting out " by the Eleven , effectively left the decision on the social policy chapter as an intergovernmental accord to implement the 1989 Social Charter using EC institutions and machinery ( as with the Schengen agreement on border controls — see pp. 38505 ; 38297 ) . |
| 2 | One recent solution to this apparent illogicality was an attempt to reorder the two key events , so that the removal of York from sanctuary preceded the execution of Hastings . |
| 3 | One recent solution to this apparent illogicality was an attempt to reorder the two key events , so that the removal of York from sanctuary preceded the execution of Hastings . |
| 4 | The alliance followed an inter-state meeting in January which Indian leaders interpreted as further evidence of a nationwide attempt to erode the 300 existing treaties between Indian tribes and the federal government . |
| 5 | SEXUAL attraction is to be used in an attempt to draw the six male whales trapped at Scapa Flow in Orkney back out into the Atlantic . |
| 6 | We will actively support Britain 's bid to host the 2000 Olympic Games in Manchester . |
| 7 | Delighted civic leaders said the decision would boost the city 's bid to host the 2000 Olympic Games . |
| 8 | In its first act the Constitutional Assembly denounced the use of violence , calling on guerrillas still fighting to renounce armed struggle , and asking the Medellín cartel to release the three remaining journalists they were holding as hostages [ see pp. 37957-58 ] . |
| 9 | One of the oldest fire engines in the world has gone on display in Edinburgh today , alongside it 's newest counterpart to mark the seventy fifth anniversary of the founding of an organisation that helps fire services across the world . |
| 10 | One of the oldest fire engines in the world has gone on display in Edinburgh today , alongside it 's newest counterpart to mark the seventy fifth anniversary of the founding of an organisation that helps fire services across the world . |
| 11 | The festivities mark the end of a seven-year campaign to build the 32 new houses and six bungalows , under the government 's Housing Corporation scheme . |
| 12 | A key stage in the government 's plan to privatize the five leading banks ( Union , Mizrahi , Discount , Hapoalim and Leumi ) was reached on Nov. 26 , 1989 , when the ministerial economics committee approved a plan to equalize the voting rights of the banks ' shares . |
| 13 | As he ran miserably out of the room , Hindley and his wife laughed loudly , delighted that their plan to separate the two young people seemed to be succeeding . |
| 14 | It is rare for the most prestigious award for architecture in the world to be given to a non architect but the decision to award the 1992 Royal Gold Medal to the structural engineer , Peter Rice , was widely acclaimed . |
| 15 | They 've sent me flowers and choclates , and they 've expressed a desire to accommodate the two young men who 've done this at their own institutions |
| 16 | In Britain the idea of openly partisan broadcasting was pioneered by the Scottish Nationalists ' clandestine and illegal Radio Free Scotland in the 1960s and more recently by Southern Sound , who used a discarded former commercial radio band to set up their entirely open and legal Conference Radio FM to cover the 1990 Conservative Party Conference from an unashamedly pro-Conservative viewpoint . |
| 17 | He returned under a congressional amnesty to contest the 1988 presidential elections , when he narrowly lost the second round run-off ballot to the ID 's Rodrigo Borja Cevallos [ see p. 36097 ] . |
| 18 | Our recent low-key attempts at publicity , the Day to Day programme , the press conference to mark the three hundredth day and a few other interviews — had been fairly successful and had n't offended or worried Pat or Sheila , although Roby had been against them . |
| 19 | Bunny did n't feel it was either the time or the place to mention the half-dozen empty aspirin bottles strewn about the floor of the phone box — their contents were later found heaped like so many loose sweets in the bottom of her handbag — or that she had ‘ popped out ’ in the middle of the scene in Cleopatra 's boudoir . |
| 20 | He shot a larger doe on the run as the little herd began dashing for cover , and the Moi bearers ran out into the plain to hoist the two dead animals on their shoulder poles . |
| 21 | Olympic boost : A leading Sydney official today admitted he rated Manchester as an increasingly serious rival for the right to stage the 2000 Olympic Games . |
| 22 | It pushed the Scot 's earnings from his 19 years as a professional through the £1 million mark to join the five other golfing millionaires on this side of the Atlantic . |
| 23 | There is a new Nelson First Certificate Course to accompany the three other course titles Nelson already has for the same exam . |
| 24 | The first was a decision by the National Electoral Commission to submit the two presidential candidates , Bashir Tofa and Moshood Abiola , to a second round of ‘ screening ’ . |
| 25 | The Russian side had concluded that a 1956 Soviet offer to return the two smaller islands , rejected at the time by Japan , was a basis for future negotiations . |
| 26 | In the past every member of the family would stir the pudding mixture from east to west to commemorate the three wise men 's journey . |
| 27 | At no time could the department justify why they had not allowed a rabbi to visit the two Jewish children in the mainland foster homes , or permitted Quakers to visit the two Quaker children , Can all these refusals really have been in the best interests of the children ? |
| 28 | On Saturday 1st December , your father Marius Steen went to the party on stage at the King 's Theatre to celebrate the one thousandth performance of Sex of One and Half a Dozen of the Other . |
| 29 | There is not enough room at the church for an orchestra to accompany the 50 strong choir so backing will be by organ and string ensemble , led by George Wood . |
| 30 | On June 21 , parliament passed the Internal Security and Intimidation Bill to reform the 1982 Internal Security Act under which the government had powers to ban organizations , to restrict publications and individuals , and to detain terrorism suspects without trial . |