Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] [noun sg] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The next day while Andy 's still asleep I take ( a ) some painkillers and ( b ) the car into Kyle of Lochalsh to tell the local police I 'm here . |
| 2 | A report in the Israeli media on Nov. 8 said that following these elections a communiqué issued by the Hamas leadership in the diaspora referred to the importance of a " quiet dialogue " between Hamas and the PLO in order to avoid the violent public clashes between their members . |
| 3 | I make it down to Þingeyri in time to hear the good news that the plane has gone . |
| 4 | The intent is rather merely to summarize the account of his life as given by Taskopruzade and Mecdi in order to convey the general course of his career . |
| 5 | A prominent figure at conferences has been Dr Stafford North , who as Dean of instruction master-minded the elaborate Library Learning Center at Oklahoma Christian College , where every student had his own electronic study-carrel ( with random dial-access to a large collection of audio-tapes and other materials ) in which a large part of his education took place . |
| 6 | The Eighth Council chose Morvael of Yvresse to succeed the assassinated Phoenix King . |
| 7 | He flew to Hamburg at the beginning of May in order to attend the postponed ceremony for the Hanseatic-Goethe prize and to give an address on " Goethe the Sage " . |
| 8 | In the larger nations in the 1980S IBM in effect became the second national champion , and in some smaller countries perhaps even the first national champion computer supplier . |
| 9 | His first posting in 1915 took him to the Toba Batak country in Northern Sumatra in time to witness the Muslim Acehnese rising against their Christian rulers ; an event which made him appreciate the approaching crisis of Islam as a focus for nationalism , and impressed upon him the urgent need for Muslim-Christian accommodation . |
| 10 | RATHBONE Brothers , the quoted private banking and investment management group , will next week declare a second interim dividend to be paid in lieu of its final dividend for the year ended 31 December in order to avoid the adverse impact on shareholders of Budget changes to the advance corporation tax regime , writes Ian Harper . |
| 11 | Micro Focus Cobol for Unix provides the highest level of ANSI standard Cobol syntax , IBM OS/VS Cobol , VS Cobol II , and X/Open XPG4 syntax and is fully compatible with the company 's Cobol 3.0 for MS-DOS and OS/2 . |
| 12 | Merton for example discusses the social role of the intellectual in public bureaucracy — the ‘ technological ’ wing of social science where the social function of the individual introduces a bias which becomes apparent to the objective scientist . |
| 13 | Sedgley was sent on for Walsh in order to protect the two-goal lead , and Hendry was given a couple of minutes at the end so that Lineker could take a well-earned breather . |
| 14 | The technology that supposedly enables you to telecommute from Tahiti to your office in London or Chicago in fact brings the damn office on to your patch of surf-swept sand . |
| 15 | The Bula Hurdle is likely to have a considerable influence on the ante-post market for the Champion Hurdle , for which Beech Road at present shares the 5-1 favourite spot with Kribensis . |
| 16 | The symphonies of Haydn and Mozart of course provide the simplest ( and hence some of the very best ) models since , even when the score contains trumpets and drums , these are nearly always used simply for ‘ noise-making ’ purposes , and the bulk of the work is allotted to strings , woodwind , and horns . |
| 17 | The damming of the River Vyrnwy in 1881–92 to create a reservoir to supply Liverpool with water involved the earliest large-scale masonry dam , 161 feet high and 390 yards long . |
| 18 | In about 1800 , a bull and two heifers from the Duke of Bedford 's herd had been exported to southern Africa in order to improve the weak , long-legged local oxen . |
| 19 | The agreement of 6 March 1946 reached between Jean Sainteny and Ho Chi Minh in effect postponed the basic disagreement between France and the Vietminh . |
| 20 | It remains determined to achieve regional parity with Israel in order to compel the latter to make peace on terms favourable to itself , including a return of the Golan and possibly the 1949 demilitarized zone along the eastern edge of the Sea of Galilee to allow access to its waters . |
| 21 | One of these missing persons was still lying ( lying still , rather ! ) in the police mortuary in St Aldate 's ; the other person , with Morse 's full permission , had that afternoon departed by train for London , not stopping on this occasion ( as he had claimed to have stopped earlier ) at Didcot Parkway , but travelling straight through — past Reading , Maidenhead , Slough — to Paddington , whence he had taken a taxi to the Tour Company HQ in Belgravia in order to discuss the last wishes and the last rites of his erstwhile legal spouse , Mrs Laura Mary Stratton . |
| 22 | Both Bomber Command and the American Air Forces were concentrating on oil refineries and synthetic petroleum plants as well as the usual railway marshalling yards and arms factories all over France and western Germany in order to enable the invading armies to carry on advancing , but air losses were heavy . |
| 23 | Either therefore I am being non-cooperative or I intend to convey something rather different : ( 34 ) Queen Victoria was made of iron The straightforward interpretation is that since Queen Victoria in fact lacked the definitional properties of iron , she merely had some of the incidental properties like hardness , resilience , non-flexibility or durability . |
| 24 | X/Open in turn explained the inner working of its fast track process : a specification that 's very clean and well written takes at least six months , changes after review tack on another 10 weeks . |
| 25 | X/Open in turn explained the inner working of its fast track process : a specification that 's very clean and well-written takes at least six months , changes after review tack on another 10 weeks . |
| 26 | Although the House of Lords in Anisminic affirmed the continued existence of non-jurisdictional errors of law , we have seen that certain other judges are in favour of pushing the Anisminic reasoning to its limit and discarding the dichotomy . |
| 27 | The talks were held under the auspices of the National Unification Commission , a body which had been established by presidential proclamation in early August in order to promote the new government 's policy of encouraging all insurgents to renounce armed struggle in return for an amnesty . |
| 28 | Further west the US XVIII Corps — composed around a nucleus of US airborne troops — together with the highly mobile French forces , thrust deep into Iraq from Rafha , with the objective of reaching the Euphrates at Nasiriyah in order to seal the Kuwaiti theatre of operations and to prevent Iraqi forces from escaping to the north . |
| 29 | The Workshop in Communicative Grammar bore the stamp of its energetic organizer , , who had gone so far as to postpone a Fulbright Fellowship to study with in Pennsylvania in order to bring the planned Workshop to fruition . |
| 30 | The three boys had always assumed , as soon as they reached the age for such assumptions , that Charles had married Liz in order to provide the three motherless babes with a proper family life . |