Example sentences of "[art] [noun prp] [verb] [to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | In the end the PLO tried to replace the Patriotic Front with a right-wing alternative of its own . |
2 | the dedication to Huntingtower explains that McCunn can claim descent from Baillie Nicol Jarvie in Rob Roy and that ‘ he can count kin , should he wish ’ with Rob Roy himself through ‘ the auld wife ayont the fire at Stackavrallachan ’ , while a secret fervour for the lost cause of the Stuarts helps to equip the sedentary , fifty-five-year-old grocer of the 1920s for unexpected challenges . |
3 | The Archon rose to address the awaiting masses . |
4 | The Lancasters had to drop the bouncing bomb from precisely sixty feet to hit their target . |
5 | The Lancasters had to drop the bouncing bomb from precisely sixty feet to hit their target . |
6 | In the case of public transport Mackintosh ( 1987 ) shows very clearly for London Transport in the early 1980s that politicians from the GLC had to challenge the market-based arguments of the bureaucrats in order to increase subsidy to keep fares down and maintain services . |
7 | The CEGB agreed to remove the offending rubble . |
8 | As a model , he begins with the Marshall Plan to regenerate the shattered Europe of 1947 on a regional basis , with material assistance from a wealthier region . |
9 | The IPG decided to reclassify the whole section as It was felt that the existing structure would no longer be helpful . |
10 | For 12 weeks they were the most famous ‘ ordinary ’ people in Britain , when the BBC decided to popularise the fly-on-the-wall documentary by discreetly invading the lives of the Wilkins and attendant boy/girlfriends and a key dustman from mum Margaret 's past . |
11 | To protect its younger members the TUC had to sacrifice the economic freedom of working pensioners , while through Beveridge 's rationalizing , the state retained a flexible reserve army of labour in the younger elderly . |
12 | He added that the UK continues to have the highest proportion of people in work than any other EC country except Denmark . |
13 | The UK continued to oppose the complete abolition of border controls after 1992 , on the grounds ( i ) that it would facilitate the free movement of terrorists , drug dealers and illegal immigrants ; ( ii ) that it could increase the spread of rabies and other diseases spread by animals ; and ( iii ) that the UK 's geographical characteristic as an island represented a valid natural boundary . |
14 | Without a detailed analysis , one can not be certain , but it appears as if the Scottish universities , with their significant proportions of general courses , are fairly evenly spread in terms of Figure 3.1 , whereas universities in the rest of the UK seem to emphasize the academic or professional and de-emphasize the general . |
15 | ‘ As for the County Council 's wish for the WHR freehold , we believe the course suggested by the High Court for the Ffestiniog Trust to seek the Amending Order is the best safeguard for the future of the WHR , and we have made it clear to the Council that we would respect their wishes concerning footpaths , cycle tracks and so on . ’ |
16 | The more the CIA tried to investigate the more inconsistencies they turned up . |
17 | The BM tries to find the best settings of all its switches , subject to any restrictions placed on any in V. What counts as ’ best ’ depends on the values of its weights . |
18 | ‘ Firstly , the ARFU wanted to assist the new South African Rugby Football Union 's development fund . |
19 | Boldness triumphed and they moved on towards Perth after sending a detachment of the Camerons to try to capture the fortified barracks at Ruthven , where it was left to stalwart Sergeant Molloy of Guise 's Regiment to give them their first rebuff . |
20 | It was a hard-fought battle on both sides , but eventually the Orcs began to gain the upper hand , and the knights fell back before them . |
21 | SECURITY sources believe that the UFF managed to locate the new safe house of the IRA 's top man in North Belfast within just six weeks . |
22 | In what , the chairman of the working party responsible for it and president of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland , described as ‘ the most fundamental change in audit reporting probably for more than a generation ’ , the SAS seeks to close the so-called expectations gap and bring practice into line with recommendations of the report of the Cadbury committee on corporate governance , of which was also a member . |
23 | In 1975 , the BCA decided to publish the second edition of the scheme in parts , commencing in 1977 with the Introductory volume and Classes J ( Education ) , P ( Religion ) and Q ( Social Welfare ) . |
24 | The NRA hopes to have the first standards in place by the end of this year and does not foresee any complications caused by the setting up of a single environment agency . |
25 | In its promotion of conjoint nationalism and communism the League resembled the Kuomintang at this time : and it lasted only as long as the Kuomintang managed to contain the two movements . |
26 | The ITA decided to split the Northern region into separate Lancashire and Yorkshire franchises , each of which would be large enough to support a network company , increasing the number of these to five . |
27 | Rejecting overtures from the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) , the NRC began to revitalize the agricultural base by guaranteeing prices of basic food crops and promoting the use of local textiles . |
28 | In September , after the central trade union federation had called for an acceleration of the process of democratization , the PCT decided to abolish the one-party system [ see p. 37701 ] . |
29 | Until then , The Smiths appear to have the upper hand . ’ |
30 | At the same time , however , the USA continued to press the Soviet Union to ease the emigration process by starting direct flights to Israel . |