Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [verb] [art] [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leyland agreed to allow the artist to make minor adjustments to the decor , but while the patron was away , Whistler completely transformed the chamber , gilding the shelves and emblazoning the doors with golden peacocks . |
| 2 | Actress Brigitte Bardot has launched a campaign to have France 's 35 million dogs and cats sterilised . |
| 3 | Brazauskas has stressed the need to regain lost markets in the rest of the former Soviet Union . |
| 4 | ‘ We are interested but that 's as far as it has gone because Alex Ferguson has shown no desire to let him go , and that 's despite the fact that Neil has not been in his first team . |
| 5 | DRAG racing star Ian Merryweather has launched a quest to raise funds in a bid to defend his European crown . |
| 6 | Troubled Telecom Eireann has abandoned a plan to build a new headquarters in Ballsbridge , Dublin , and the decision may cost the company more than £6m ; it bought the site for £9.4m in 1990 , but it is now worth only around £5m ; the company may also be required to pay for a government investigation into the purchase , which is also under scrutiny from the Fraud Office . |
| 7 | Scarborough wildlife leader Jim Ward has launched an appeal to create a rescue centre . |
| 8 | Secretary has reserved the right to speak Chair . |
| 9 | As one might expect , West Germany has inherited the ability to maintain vast dossiers on people within its borders and , bearing in mind that some 8,000 spies working for East Germany and Russia are said to be operating in West Germany , there is certainly plenty for them to do . |
| 10 | The DoH has issued the guidance to fill gaps in the Children Act , building on Volume 4 : Residential Care . |
| 11 | DUP leader the Rev Ian Paisley has joined the campaign to save the Downpatrick hospitals . |
| 12 | At its sister hotel , L'Hotel , also in Toronto , $25,000 was saved in one year when it swapped its 40W fluorescent tubes for 30W tubes ; the Hotel Vancouver has installed a computer to monitor and control energy use throughout the building and received a $19,000 rebate from the power company in one month ; and the Hotel Macdonald , Alberta , is saving $1000 a month on waste collection . |
| 13 | Andy has got a job to do and so have I. But if I lose he will be gutted for me at the end and if I lose I will be gutted for him . ’ |
| 14 | Furthermore , ‘ there have been questions about his loyalty ’ , for Alderson has had the temerity to caution the service about an apparent drift towards paramilitarism . |
| 15 | Prince Edward has accepted an invitation to succeed Leslie Crowther as president of the Lord 's Taveners for 1993–94 . |
| 16 | Californian Tamara Rotola has hired a lawyer to fight for maintenance from Albert for her six-month-old daughter . |
| 17 | Men , men , mentioned here by our friend , that Leicestershire has got no business to discuss about fox hunting , we are not elusive , there are other county councils who have banned fox hunting on their land , so do not make this as a sacrosanct and or something that Leicestershire are doing , they are not doing first , there are so many other county councils in this country and for your information , I was listening to radio four few days ago , even in Pakistan , a third world country , is banning hunting in their country , we should be ashamed of ourselves here to discuss , I agree with Councillor when the discussion start and he said move for the ward , because the logical thing was to move for the wards rather than discuss , if we all believe that this is horrible , acrimonious and abhorrent in today 's day and age , as the slavery was abhorred two hundred years ago . |
| 18 | On their way to Lancaster for trial the holiday crowd at Maghull Wakes engineered a riot to secure their escape . |
| 19 | In Germany , by contrast , technical education was well advanced , and Napoleon had had the foresight to create institutions of excellence which would provide France with its future engineers , agriculturalists and the rest ; but many an English self-made man would want to see his offspring succeed in altogether ‘ cleaner ’ and more respectable fields , making their mark as doctors , lawyers , Oxford classicists or even politicians . |
| 20 | SHe had been impressed with how Tammuz had adjusted the machine to behave just like a real counter-girl . |
| 21 | Mandela had urged the EC to refrain from lifting any sanctions for two or three months ; he told the ANC consultative conference that the time had come for a " re-evaluation " of sanctions , but the 1,600 delegates voted to push for their retention . |
| 22 | These days , if Kylie does get a minute to spare in her demanding schedule , she goes shopping . |
| 23 | Panama seemed to many like a re-enactment of Hawaiian history : the States had needed a reason to take over and it had found one . |
| 24 | She goes on to say that the justices came to the view that the justice on the Friday had had no power to remand Mr. Bell in custody until the Monday , as the remand did not fall within the terms of section 7(5) of the Act of 1976 and that , accordingly , they no longer had any jurisdiction to hear the matter . |
| 25 | Nenna felt that she could have made a better hand at answering Louise if only Edward had taken the trouble to return her purse . |
| 26 | On a few occasions Frankie had found the courage to scale the perimeter wall to look for rats in the mouth of the tunnel . |
| 27 | This had brought Nevzorov international media attention because of a suggested link to mafia-style organized crime and public expressions of concern from Gorbachev , but increasingly there were suspicions that Nevzorov worked for the KGB ( State Security Committee ) , and that the KGB had staged the shooting to enhance his reputation as an heroic investigative reporter . |
| 28 | What Penny said persuaded the Princess to unpack her bags and try again . |
| 29 | For the evening Ewen had arranged a dinner to mark the retiral of the Factor of the Stornoway Trust . |
| 30 | The Prime Minister and Pakistan People 's Party ( PPP ) leader Benazir Bhutto had ordered the Army to assist Sind 's PPP government in suppressing the violence . |