Example sentences of "the [noun prp] [noun] [to-vb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's not the business of the TAS squad to prove a community crime . ’ |
| 2 | It grips better than the Corrado on the fast sweepers , but , on tight and bumpy lower-gear corners , the VW leaves the Calibra scrabbling to get a grip on the road surface . |
| 3 | After I married , we took our family across the broken waters of the Pentland Firth to spend a fishing holiday in a caravan by the shores of Loch Boardhouse . |
| 4 | The bank will use the Hitachi software to develop a fund investment system to come into operation from 1994 . |
| 5 | WHEN a man applies to come to the United Kingdom to marry a woman settled here , it is not necessary for him to be able to state specifically whether he intends to settle in this country forever or whether he wishes to marry and return to his own country . |
| 6 | On the assumption that most parties in the House wish to remain in NATO , why is it necessary for the United Kingdom to have a capability of this kind , in addition to the United States capability ? |
| 7 | Leading British political , diplomatic and military figures were confirmed in their belief that it was not in the national interest for the United States to hold a monopoly of this crucial weapon among the Western allies . |
| 8 | ‘ If you turn professional , you have to go to the continent or the United States to make a living . |
| 9 | The scheme involves dredging the main channel of the Medway estuary to provide a storage base for import-export cargoes . |
| 10 | Concern at the contrast of the openness of the UK market to takeovers with that of the rest of the Community led the UK Government to commission a study by Coopers & Lybrand entitled ‘ Barriers to takeovers in the European Community ’ . |
| 11 | He was sufficiently influenced by the Lewisham events to seek a ban on similar marches in the months that followed . |
| 12 | It was due to resume after the CPSU congress to adopt a party programme and to finalize the composition of its leading bodies . |
| 13 | Therefore , should cold war tension heighten , it would not be possible for the US authorities to place a moratorium upon the use of such dollar balances . |
| 14 | The strength of the farm lobby prompted the US administration to operate a price support system . |
| 15 | Fab news : Beatles Story boss Mike Byrne , 50 , expects his Fab Four show at the Albert Dock to make a profit this year , for the first time . |
| 16 | Home shopping held its profits at £13m which could well reflect the use of provisions raised on the Freemans acquisition to meet a net 10 per cent staff reduction . |
| 17 | On the 24th November we leave the Kings Lodge to lead a team of 17 students ( adults ) and 6 children to Hyderabad in Central India to share some of the things we have learned over these last three months of lectures . |
| 18 | The Caledonian Canal cuts through the Great Glen to form a waterway link between Loch Ness at Fort Augustus and Loch Linnhe near Fort William , and in effect cuts off the North-West Highlands from the rest of Scotland . |
| 19 | Scenes like these have lead schools in the Malvern area to invite a group of orphans aged from 10 to 12 to take a break in the English countryside . |
| 20 | Infants and young children of mothers whose husbands are professional and white collar were found in the WFS inquiries to enjoy a survival advantage over those counterparts whose fathers have lower status occupations . |
| 21 | Further to your report ( Echo February 4 ) , I am asking for volunteers from the Spennymoor Ward to form a steering committee to promote activities for the youth of the ward , such as Outward Bound , fishing , youth projects etc . |
| 22 | Anyone who has driven down the Dover Road to catch a ferry might agree . |
| 23 | For instance the government grants made to each of the new British universities in the 1960s , and intended to cover purchase of their basic bookstocks , were estimated by the Parry report to have a purchasing power of 75,000 volumes — less than a third of Parry 's recommended figure . |
| 24 | They discovered that you do n't need to book into the Sheraton Hotel to visit a country . |
| 25 | In 1954 Britain had fostered the Baghdad Pact to create a band of friendly pro-Western states against the Soviet threat . |
| 26 | After overwhelming 202:60 vote in the European Parliament for a ban on cosmetic testing involving animals , fresh negotiations will be held between the assembly and the EC Commission to seek a compromise . |
| 27 | In what might conceivably have been the last chance of a diplomatic settlement , with the encouraging or surreal touches of a personally popular Ho walking up the Champs Elysees to lay a wreath on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and standing beside Bidault on the Fourteenth of July , these were the fundamental issues . |
| 28 | All that was necessary was the purchase of sufficient land on the west side of the Leicester Canal to make a towpath for access to the Grand Union . |
| 29 | But his appeal to the IRA leadership to call a halt to its bloody campaign is likely to be dismissed as promptly as the Loyalists yesterday rejected calls to lay down their arms . |
| 30 | text in German and English with Hebrew summary , DM48 In 1989 the American architect Daniel Libeskind won the competition to design an extension to the Berlin Museum to house a history of the collection of the Museum 's Jewish Department and create a setting for an account of the history of Berlin 's Jews . |