Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [prep] [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Present chairman Sean Hollywood said Mr Mooney succeeded in making the festival one of the best in all Ireland . |
| 2 | Despite all the obvious practical difficulties that Edward encountered in maintaining the siege , its abandonment after so short a time must raise questions about the extent of his commitment , even at this stage of the war , to the French throne . |
| 3 | The first telephone call Derek Fairfax received after reaching the office on Wednesday proved what he had begun to suspect : that the death of Maurice Abberley amounted to rather more than the newspapers had revealed . |
| 4 | The thoroughness which marked his teaching was matched only by that which he and his wife Eleanor showed in preparing the School Plays . |
| 5 | Within a year the policy of the ECRS focused on having the sign languages of the member states officially recognised as a minority language in each of the respective countries . |
| 6 | Durkheim took for granted the existence of nation states ; indeed he emphasized the role of the state as the ‘ organ of moral discipline ’ , and the importance of national education as a moral education of the young generation , preparing them for their future tasks in the collective life of the nation . |
| 7 | Owing to fears of the anaesthetist 's incompetence , Dustin insisted on having the operation the following morning . |
| 8 | Peter Sheldon was giving evidence at the Trial of Paul Archibald and David Bobby accused of murdering the student at the City 's Whitehouse Loan in February this year . |
| 9 | Baker and Shevardnadze also examined progress on , and expressed support for , the talks mediated by Portugal aimed at settling the conflict in Angola [ see pp. 37643 ; 37702 ; 37842 ; 37910 ] . |
| 10 | The Indian Prime Minister , V. P. Singh , stated in an interview on June 3 that a set of new proposals had been sent to Pakistan aimed at reducing the risk of war over Kashmir . |
| 11 | What de Pomiane did by explaining the cause , was to banish the fear of failure . |
| 12 | The government on Dec. 27 announced that negotiations with the United States aimed at allowing the withdrawal of US forces from Subic Bay naval base to be phased over a three-year period had broken down . |
| 13 | Neil responded by lifting the cane high , ready to defend himself from a man who he saw was bigger , and probably stronger , than himself . |
| 14 | Technically , says Mr Nearn , it was not a big step for Caterham to move into manufacturing the car it had been selling and marketing for years . |
| 15 | Sabrina intervened by taking the poniard from Graham 's hand and slipping it down the side of her boot . |
| 16 | ‘ There 's no mention of Balashikha here , ’ Rust announced after scanning the screen . |
| 17 | Taking you through garden planting step-by-step , Nigel starts by planting the backbone of the garden , and moves on to the star performers that take the stage just once a year . |
| 18 | There are even bigger issues : the role which Lenin played in preparing the ground for Stalin , an objective assessment of Trotsky 's contribution , and the feasibility of alternatives to industrialisation at the end of the 1920s . |
| 19 | Miranda taller , with her bushy hair and colouring that the Italians whose paintings she 'd been looking at in the Louvre rendered by priming the canvas with a copper-based green paint , creating a complexion that draws light in rather than gives it out ; Xanthe beside her with her candy radiance of pink and gold , and rounder too , more neatly assembled , wrist to hand , neck to shoulders , ankle to foot . |
| 20 | Alexander insisted upon chasing the French all the way back to Paris . |
| 21 | North Korea responded by emphasising the extent of its existing co-operation with the IAEA , and demanding an early inspection of South Korea , and in particular an examination of the nuclear capability of the US forces stationed south of the 38th parallel . |
| 22 | Harmon 's loss , when Oldham were leading 18–10 , spelled the end of any real hopes Warrington had of pulling the game out of the fire . |
| 23 | Producing colours beyond these eight basic ones ( red , green , blue , cyan , yellow , magenta , black and white ) on a DeskJet works by fooling the eye . |
| 24 | After much trying , FlyPast succeeded in getting the Ministry of Defence in Whitehall to talk about the future . |
| 25 | On Sept. 7 Prime Minister Khaleda Zia reciprocated by ordering the dissolution of the central committee of the Jatiyabadi Chattra Dal ( JCD , or Nationalist Student Party ) , allied to the ruling Bangladesh Nationalist Party ( BNP ) . |
| 26 | The main reason that Marslen-Wilson and Tyler give for rejecting the idea that context can operate before any sensory information is received is one which has been used by many other theorists , including Fodor ( 1983 ) . |
| 27 | But Lancaster replied by attacking the government for extravagance and oppressively burdening the people , saying that he would come armed to parliament and seek to remedy these matters unless the king granted him a safe-conduct . |
| 28 | Katharine concentrates on getting the feel of Benji , as they work in . |
| 29 | Do be constructions crop up relatively infrequently in spontaneous speech , a difficulty which Kallen addressed by obtaining the bulk of his data from rapid and anonymous observations ( see 4.2.3 ) . |
| 30 | No doubt this is the truth on which Hume relied in denying the existence of the Self as commonly conceived . |