Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [to-vb] the [noun prp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Presidential Council initially appeared designed to supplant the CPSU central committee politburo as the main centre of political decision making in the Soviet Union . |
| 2 | During my last year at Oxford I had applied to join the Sudan Political Service . |
| 3 | The ministers agreed to take " co-ordinated action " to combat the menace of terrorism which they said threatened to destabilize the South Asian region . |
| 4 | It was reported on Aug. 5 that three of Nepal 's smaller communist parties had merged to form the Nepal Communist Party ( United ) in order to " strengthen the left movement " . |
| 5 | The government of President Roh Tae Woo , who since his election in 1988 had promised to free the South Korean political process from corruption , was undermined during February by the revelation of several scandals . |
| 6 | It was alleged they had helped to organise the Castlemorton free festival . |
| 7 | The Ministry of Defence had its continuing missile special relationship with the United States , whose Department of Defense had agreed to substitute the Trident submarine-missile system for Polaris . |
| 8 | The former phrase was coined by Thoreau to indicate his resistance to the laws of the state , and it was the title of an essay by him which Gandhi read after he had started to resist the South African authorities . |
| 9 | But it did explain a lot , especially how Stubbly had managed to keep the Mimosa trouble-free over the years . |