Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [verb] [adv] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Selecting the right personnel to carry out the PR function . |
| 2 | Success came when he defeated the SDP in 1987 by a slim majority to take up the Stockton South seat . |
| 3 | After determined application of the economic weapon by the Eisenhower Administration had forced a cease-fire as British troops advanced down the Suez Canal on 6 November 1956 , an exhausted Eden flew to Jamaica to recuperate on 21 November . |
| 4 | Will the right hon. Gentleman explain why the CBI is wrong and he is right ? |
| 5 | When Yu Teng-fa , 87 , the patriarch of the Taiwanese opposition , was found dead in mysterious circumstances in October 1989 , different theories implicated both the KMT old-guard and the anti-KMT separatists in his presumed murder . |
| 6 | In what might conceivably have been the last chance of a diplomatic settlement , with the encouraging or surreal touches of a personally popular Ho walking up the Champs Elysees to lay a wreath on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and standing beside Bidault on the Fourteenth of July , these were the fundamental issues . |
| 7 | When the first English settlers sailed up the Chesapeake Bay on America 's eastern coast , they found an estuary worthy of Samuel Taylor Coleridge 's fable — vast , limpid and dense with marine life , sustained by the unique mix of brackish water and nutrients that make estuaries the richest marine incubators in the world . |
| 8 | More typically , the Unionist belief in the Empire was set against the Liberal plans to break up the United Kingdom , as in the leaflet Under which flag ? of July 1914 : this made the comparison between Unionists who had fought in South Africa and Liberals who had been pro-Boer and who would now shoot loyal Ulstermen . |
| 9 | Some of the contracts have been straight business deals whereby the Provisionals and the property owners split the profit from the government compensation . |
| 10 | It is notable that the US Congress has recently granted President Bush fast-track authority to negotiate both the Uruguay Round and the North American Free Trade Area , showing the importance they attach to a favourable outcome in both . |
| 11 | Daniel Digby , provost of the G-Mek Orbital , has issued a formal denial to allegations by Ayatollah Bakhtiar that fugitive graphic novelist Neil Gaiman has been in hiding in the facility , and has requested that the Pan-Islamic congress stand down the Inter-Satellite Ballistic Missiles currently targeted on them . |
| 12 | He left no natural successor to take on the Nehru mantle . |
| 13 | Christie 's Old Masters sale on Wednesday has lost its sparkle slightly since the National Gallery squirrelled away the Holbein , but there are still two stars in the sky — discussed in Round-Up , below . |
| 14 | The Pigeon Club beat the Cock ‘ N ’ Hens 7–2 and Cosy Jolly Boys finished off the Blades with a 7–3 victory . |
| 15 | Just a quick note to inquire how the HC conference went ? |
| 16 | In 1878 Frobenius showed that relinquishing the commutative law of multiplication adds only the quaternions to the list , and using algebraic topology Bott , Milnor and Kervaire showed , in 1957 , that relinquishing in addition the associative law adds only the Cayley numbers . |
| 17 | They had just experienced the utterly fruitless meeting with Nehru and Jinnah : it was not a good moment to turn down the Burmese . |
| 18 | It is important that you should recognise the legal obligation incurred once the Auctioneer 's hammer has fallen in the sale room . |
| 19 | There was still an urgent need for an international effort to clean up the Gulf and to study the long-term effects of the spills and the burning , the organization said . |
| 20 | The Pack also contains helpful inserts describing clearly the Barclays services which we offer to new and growing businesses . |
| 21 | The Caribbean islands present a slight complication to this simple picture of a single volcanic chain running up the Americas . |
| 22 | If it does end up in the museum however , Blakeslee said that the co-operation of advanced design , advanced engineering and production engineering departments on the Activa II will pave the way for more efficient Japanese-style simultaneous engineering to fight off the Orientals , whenever Monsieur Calvet allows them to arrive . |
| 23 | The dying ripples of its massive tidal wave lapped up the English Channel , and the volcanic debris , wreathing the planet , altered weather and harvest patterns around the world for years afterwards . |
| 24 | Thus re-established Gehlen returned to Germany on the winning side to head up the CIA 's new Cold War against Russia . |
| 25 | GRAHAM Gooch 's double dream flowed down the Grace Road drains yesterday as Leicester clinched a NatWest final with Northants on September 5 . |
| 26 | As their orange balloons float around the Bull And Gate , popping in time with the music , the Lollies inject heart and soul into songs like ‘ Your Sun ’ and ‘ Disinheritance ’ while their enthusiastic following cavort wildly . |
| 27 | As their orange balloons float around the Bull And Gate , popping in time with the music , the Lollies inject heart and soul into songs like ‘ Your Sun ’ and ‘ Disinheritance ’ while their enthusiastic following cavort wildly . |
| 28 | Town and canton rose in importance after the early thirteenth century when the bridging of the Schollenen gorge opened up the Cotthard . |
| 29 | In 1979 widespread disruptive action led the then Labour government to set up the May Inquiry , intended to be a major review of the entire prison system ( May , 1979 ) . |
| 30 | The separatist Eritrean People 's Liberation Front ( EPLF ) , which had co-operated with the EPRDF in a strategic alliance to bring down the Mengistu government , announced on May 29 that it was to set up its own provisional government in Eritrea , although it would recognize and co-operate with the EPRDF administration in Addis Ababa . |