Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [noun sg] [to-vb] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With IBM UK Ltd now outsourcing that sort of ancillary operation , it is a little surprising that the company bid for the contract to run the UK government 's Citizen 's Charter national help-line , a phone service intended to provide advice on how to go about complaining about the performance of 1,400 government services — but it did bid , and it has won the contract . |
| 2 | I hope that there will be no opportunity for the Government to introduce the Rothschild recommendations and that a Labour Government will be returned . |
| 3 | Koch has a special reason for wanting to beat Dennis Conner for the right to defend the America 's Cup . |
| 4 | ERRORS/ — provides a report of the errors encountered during the attempt to view the DC . |
| 5 | ERRORS/ — provides a report of the errors encountered during the attempt to create the DC in LIFESPAN . |
| 6 | RETURN_DETAIL/ — is a return parameter providing a report of the errors encountered during the attempt to update the DC information . |
| 7 | RETURN_DETAIL/ — is a return parameter providing a report of the errors encountered during the attempt to assess the DC . |
| 8 | ERRORS/ — provides a report of the errors encountered during the attempt to obtain the DC assessors . |
| 9 | ERRORS/ — provides a report of the errors encountered during the attempt to obtain the DC assessment . |
| 10 | Only the occasional public scandal , such as the attempt to sell the Mappa Mundi at Hereford Cathedral , disturbs the calm . |
| 11 | Mercer came back after a while to collect the Unwins and the Youngs , and the general jollifications everywhere wore on without any alarms . |
| 12 | On July 11 Shevardnadze became chairman of the committee to organize the DRM 's constituent conference , scheduled for September 1991 , when participants would decide whether or not to form a political party . |
| 13 | Five minutes before the end of the first-half Danny Kaleopa scored again for the Samoans , but Greg Townsend kicked a penalty in the last minute of the half to reduce the Samoans ' advantage to four points at 12–8 . |
| 14 | This is quite easy with the E6000 as the width of the knitting is programmed into the console , but on the Duomatic 80 , when knitting with the Deco and one colour , watch that the lock passes far enough past the right edge of the work to allow the Deco and arrow keys to do their job properly . |
| 15 | At intervals , all around the park wall , wooden flaps are built into the base of the wall to allow the Berkeley Hunt hounds access into the park during the fox hunting season . |
| 16 | In February this year , Dai Qing was at the forefront of the campaign to stop the Yangtze River Three Gorges Dam Project . |
| 17 | In a debate in the United Kingdom House of Commons ( lower house of parliament ) on Nov. 4 the Conservative government led by John Major narrowly won approval of a motion to resume parliamentary consideration of the bill to ratify the Maastricht Treaty on European Union ( signed by member governments of the European Communities ( EC ) in February 1992 — see p. 38785 ) . |
| 18 | Success followed success for the next few years but no races were held in 1888 and 1890 and the revival in 1891 was the beginning of another era with new builders entering the field although Lee 's still took an interest in events for in 1900 their steamboat " Lee " dressed overall took 80 members of the firm to see the Medway Barge Race . |
| 19 | 1827 " Samuel Lamont is instructed by the Justices of the Peace to survey the Baker 's stock of Bread occasionally , and weigh their loaves , and report the weight and price of each loaf … " |
| 20 | Architect Sam Lloyd , responsible for a skilful conversion of parts of the building to house the Courtauld 's library and teaching space , was commissioned . |
| 21 | British National Collections were made aware of the plan to sell the Turner — and the Constable and Gainsborough — but no proposals to purchase were received . |
| 22 | It is hoped to be able to use the results of the research to improve the OEDIPUS system . |
| 23 | It is surely no more the function of the judiciary to tell the GLC where the public interest lay in its spending of public money than it is the function of the judiciary to make similar judgments about spending by the Departments of the central government . |
| 24 | Stephen Heath argued for MacCabe 's appointment on the grounds of the need to sustain the Cambridge English faculty as the " greatest in the world " . |
| 25 | That is why I am so concerned about the hostile attitude to inward investment taken by the Trades Union Congress and the failure of the Opposition to repudiate the TUC view . |
| 26 | He told of botanising in Sheppey and , excitedly , of a chance to visit the West Indies as physician to the Duke of Albemarle , recently appointed Governor of Jamaica . |
| 27 | Name choice : Karl Reed , a pupil at Dyke House School in Hartlepool , is the winner of a contest to name the Dyke House/Jackson ward community newspaper . |
| 28 | He was asked to survey the possibilities of a canal to connect the Mersey with the Trent , and he began to conceive an inland waterway system that would link the rivers Thames , Severn , Trent and Mersey . |
| 29 | Changes in the longer term included ( i ) the halving of the number of armed forces to about 31,000 over two years ; ( ii ) electoral reform ; ( iii ) land reform ; ( iv ) the creation of a consultative body , comprising representatives of government , employers and workers , to set policy for economic and social development ; and ( v ) the creation of a mechanism to allow the FMLN to contribute to the national reconstruction plan . |
| 30 | They were not , in other words , the leaders of a conspiracy to overthrow the Northern Ireland state . |