Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] [prep] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rabbani , he said , had violated the Peshawar Accord by using the smaller Leadership Council [ see p. 38915 ] , made up of mujaheddin leaders , as a personal power base . |
| 2 | Was it the 1974 Benson And Hedges Quarter-Final when , as a 15-year-old , he lost two teeth to the fearsome Andy Roberts before hitting the winning six ? |
| 3 | The importer had decided to clear the way for a more profitable relationship with Lever Bros by eliminating the local laundry soap competition entirely . |
| 4 | Motorola Inc hopes to capture a broad market for the PowerPC processor by pricing the first versions well below Intel Corp 's fastest microprocessors , US PC Week reports : preliminary pricing for the PowerPC , due in volume in the third quarter , has been listed at $280 for the 50MHz 601 and $374 for the 66MHz version of the chip in quantities of 20,000 or more , according to sources familiar with Motorola 's plans — significantly below the Pentium and the 66MHz 80486DX2 , although the Pentium will outperform the PowerPC chips ; systems that use the PowerPC are expected to be priced at from $3,000 to $4,000 . |
| 5 | Stewards were appointed to bear the cost of the entertainment and on one occasion Petiver wrote to Dr Sloane about fixing the next Herborising , ‘ and Putney Heath being a place not this year visited , I have determined ye Bowling Green there for ye lecture of Botany , where we shall dine on Tuesday next . ’ |
| 6 | Thatcher ) , who has succeeded in abandoning her resistance to German blandishments and has formed a common front with Chancellor Kohl in demanding the immediate and unconditional recognition of Croatia . |
| 7 | He was educated at Zombodze primary school and at the Lovedale Institute in South Africa before assuming the Swazi throne as paramount chief at the age of twenty-two in 1921 . |
| 8 | The European Communities ( EC ) agreed on Dec. 16 to begin the process of easing sanctions against South Africa by lifting the voluntary ban on new investments in the country . |
| 9 | Hothersall and the members of St Maria Goretti foundation for arranging the lovely Mass and the Rally . |
| 10 | However , it appears that there is no way of reclaiming stolen objects once they have been traced , largely because the UK has never ratified the 1970 Unesco convention on prohibiting the illicit export of cultural property . |
| 11 | In his first race since landing a memorable victory at the Cheltenham Festival in March , Royal Gait collapsed under jockey Graham McCourt moments after crossing the winning line . |
| 12 | MOST VISITORS to Scotland intent on seeing the best of the scenery , and especially those coming from over the Border , tend to travel northwards in stages , halting often to view places already familiar or else recommended in guidebooks . |
| 13 | Pound had been released from confinement in April 1958 , largely as a result of Eliot 's collaboration with Robert Frost and Archibald MacLeish in petitioning the American government , but his exhilaration at his new freedom did not last very long . |
| 14 | Both declarations also called for negotiations on the restoration of their republics ' independence , although the Latvian Supreme Soviet foresaw " a free and independent State of Latvia " being part of a reformed Soviet Union ( the formula favoured by President Gorbachev for restructuring the Soviet Union as a confederation of sovereign states — see pp. 36883 ; 37168 ) . |
| 15 | Many psychologists credit Ed Fleishman with formulating the original concepts . |
| 16 | Michael Schumacher of Germany will start on the front row with his Benetton-Ford Schumacher after producing the second-best time of the qualifications , 1:21 . |
| 17 | Originally a 9-holer by George Fernie , it evolved into 18 with assistance from Old Tom Morris before moving the short distance to its present site in 1911 . |
| 18 | Labour , which in opposition joined our NATO allies in rejecting the Conservative government 's cold war nostalgia , will in government partner the United States in negotiating to reduce the world 's stocks of nuclear weapons . |
| 19 | Local golfer Colin Carnson from Helen 's Bay Golf Club receives his trophy from Irial Finan of Coca Cola for scoring the best net at the Coca Cola Open Youth Team Tournament at Donaghadee Golf Club . |
| 20 | Quoting Godard — ‘ fin du cinéma , fin du monde ’ — she joins with Robert Coover in describing the modern cinema as ‘ a rat-haunted , urine-scented wreck , inhabited only by a lonely projectionist screening reels at random for his solitary pleasure ’ . |
| 21 | The Metropolitan Opera invited me to assist Rafael Kubelík in preparing the same work . |
| 22 | This week Bill Cash persuaded 105 other Tory MPs to sign a motion congratulating Mr Major for resisting the latest proposals for political and monetary union . |
| 23 | The last straw , he maintained , was the education minister 's criticism of Mr Rabin for reciting the Jewish affirmation of faith , ‘ Hear O Israel ’ , at a Holocaust memorial ceremony at the site of the Warsaw ghetto . |
| 24 | Lindsay Moody enlists the expertise of TOM GRAVENEY in advising the taller player in the art of facing short-pitched bowling , drawing on the difficulties encountered by GRAEME HICK |
| 25 | He duped The Sunday Times into believing the Australian tycoon Alan Bond had spied on his rival Robert Holmes a Court and a senior director of Lonrho . |
| 26 | It is the result of conscious planning by multinational corporations and banks and it results from the conscious actions taken by the US and UK governments in building the post-war world . |
| 27 | The argument advanced in section 1.2 would suggest that we can not explain or understand these changes in the UK economy without understanding the international forces that have acted upon it and which the UK has itself shaped . |
| 28 | He angrily denounced Gur ( the Labour Party defector ) , Mizrahi and the Shas party for supporting the new government , having originally agreed in April to support a Labour government [ see pp. 37391-92 ] |
| 29 | Previously the official newspaper of the Central Committee of the Communist Party , it was closed on 24 August by President Boris Yeltsin who accused Pravda staff of supporting the recent coup attempt . |
| 30 | Instead Elizabeth spent a year at business college in St Albans before joining the bright lights of London 's magazine world . |