Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun sg] [verb] [to-vb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1864 , the L & NWR Board decided to centralise the Carriage Works at Wolverton . |
| 2 | The judge in the Matrix Churchill case refused to accept the attempt of four Cabinet ministers , acting on the advice of the Attorney-General , to allow three innocent businessmen to face near-certain imprisonment . |
| 3 | Turns out that that Game Genie sold by Lewis Galoob Toys Inc in the US that enables players to alter the parameters of games , and which Nintendo Co failed to persuade the US Supreme Court to declare illegal ( CI No 2,135 ) , is a British product : according to the Mail on Sunday , the thing comes from Codemasters Software Ltd of Leamington Spa , whose share of the $15m award to Lewis Galoob came to $3.4m ; Codemasters now has sights on Japan . |
| 4 | The Dundee club proceeded to win the event with a maximum record . |
| 5 | The United States expert sought to re-assure the Commission that pre-trial discovery procedures in his country were all after the commencement of proceedings ( the relevance of this being , presumably , that it picks up the requirement of Article 1(2) of the Convention ) and were under the control of a judge . |
| 6 | Eventually , the Harter Act helped to shape the text of the 1924 Brussels International Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules Relating to Bills of Lading ( The Hague Rules ) . |
| 7 | More than two years after New York City cut 35% from its funding for the arts , The Brooklyn Museum continues to suffer the consequences . |
| 8 | The students had not only training in teaching methods but in growing their own food , and we had twenty acres of rice land , an acre of garden , a Berkshire boar imported to improve the strength and size of the village pigs , and several pure-bred cocks to convert the village hens from laying two clutches of a dozen eggs each year to something like 150 bigger and better eggs . |
| 9 | HM Inspectorate seem to command the respect of teachers , although as Becher et al say , ‘ Sometimes this respect appears to be based on an assumption that inspectors must ( because many teachers rarely if ever see them ) be very busy and therefore very able people ’ . |
| 10 | In June the Academic Council of the Medical School of Khartoum University decided to defy the Government 's directive to ‘ arabise ’ the medical curriculum , and reverted back to giving instruction in English . |
| 11 | By broadening the base of the pyramid , the Whitburn club hopes to sharpen the peak , with Team Components Bureau reaping the benefits . |
| 12 | In February and March the Menem administration moved to prevent the collapse of the privatized national airline , Aerolíneas Argentinas , sold in November 1990 in a $2,300 million cash and debt-for-equity swap to a consortium led by the Spanish airline Iberia [ see pp. 37608 ; 37773 ] . |
| 13 | This was the last opportunity the Legal Services Committee had to make oral submissions to the Advisory Committee before the latter produced its advice on both the Law Society 's application for extended rights of audience for solicitors and the CPS/GLS submission seeking to remove the restrictions under para 402(1) ( c ) in the Bar 's Code of Conduct on rights of audience for employed lawyers . |
| 14 | They went to Zliten and spent the night in a guestroom ; in the morning the Zliten boy asked to borrow the vehicle for a few moments , drove it away , smashed it and abandoned both the vehicle and his Zuwayi friend who had to find other means to get back to Benghazi . |
| 15 | The NFU plan aims to offer the farmer a choice between setting land aside and receiving the full , subsidised rate for produce , or producing at maximum capacity without support . |
| 16 | Before the start of talks , Federal Defence Minister Gen. Veljko Kadijevic agreed to implement the Oct. 18 ceasefire [ see p. 38513 ] , which included Croatian agreement to lift the blockade of federal barracks inside Croatia by Nov. 8 . |
| 17 | Whether by dint of their boundless imagination or their unquestioned musical integrity , the Purcell Quartet continues to win the admiration of listeners . |
| 18 | ROY KEANE 'S British record transfer to Blackburn Rovers was still on ice last night as the Republic of Ireland midfielder decided to delay the announcement of his new club until after tomorrow 's World Cup qualifier against Lithuania in Vilnius . |
| 19 | People will ask why , given the importance of the single market to our high-volume , low-cost producers and the importance of our country — as a member of the Community — to the companies of the United States and Japan who have invested so heavily with us , we did not grab with both hands the opportunities that the Maastricht summit offered to fashion the Community to our advantage in the future . |
| 20 | The Halflings were cut down to a man , and only a few Knights Panther escaped to warn the Emperor Sigismund of the impending approach of the Orc horde . |
| 21 | Scotland Yard refused to identify the victims of Monday night 's blaze at Earlsfield , south London . |
| 22 | In their response to the report , the Government have said that the Bilsthorpe project failed to achieve the support of the European Commission after an assessment by technical experts . |
| 23 | The acknowledged success by all participants in the Bedfordshire scheme led in 1930 to the Carnegie Trust offering to continue the £500 annual grant for a further three-year period to finance a tutor-organiser appointment in another rural area in the District . |
| 24 | Cadets from Forres , Lossiemouth and Aberdeen Airport decided to research the accident and erect a cairn and plaque commemorating the crash exactly 50 years to the day after the accident . |
| 25 | My right hon. Friend represents a seat in the south and he will know that the Guy 's and Lewisham NHS trust intends to improve the pay of more than 1,200 lower-paid workers by 6 per cent. , and that it will treat some 6,000 more patients than planned . |
| 26 | of food safety in Rennie House needs to cross the road to buy his lunch from the staff shop . |
| 27 | Every Underhill player threatened to boycott the match in protest at his menacing approach if action was taken against anyone , and only the silver-tongued Fry prevented a mass walkout . |
| 28 | The Vickers team working to reconstruct the Vimy in Newfoundland . |
| 29 | ICL Plc aims to bridge the gap between personal computers and dumb terminals with its new network terminal , ErgoClient , for client-server computing , which acts as a half-way house and is claimed to be the only product capable of filling a gap in the market by combining the price-performance of a terminal with the flexibility of a personal computer . |
| 30 | With Amdahl Corp faced with an uphill struggle to adjust its business so that it can thrive in a post-mainframe world , and all its other major investments — things like the former Poqet Computer Corp and HAL Computers Inc still in the development stage and demanding more capital , while its own core business is a victim of the mainframe malaise , Fujitsu Ltd 's 80% of ICL Plc begins to look the company 's most valuable asset , making it increasingly likely that the company will in due course want to float a lot more than the 25% it originally suggested on the London International Stock Exchange : Fujitsu 's biggest problem is the one now facing all big Japanese companies — that the days of cheap capital at home are gone with the bubble economy , probably forever , and many Japanese companies issued convertibles in the 1980s that are coming up to maturity ; with prices on the Tokyo exchange still bombed out , few holders are going to want to convert into shares , which means that issuers will have to raise expensive new capital on the international markets to redeem them . |