Example sentences of "the [noun prp] [verb] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The storage and preparation of food took place on the north side , where the Eastons have made a studio out of the old pentice , called the tempting shed , which ran along that side . |
| 2 | The Taylor reports got a lot to answer for really |
| 3 | Later when we were enjoying a beer with the station commander were we nearly disposed of when it was announced that the Stirling had clobbered a Coles crane , an ambulance , several minor vehicles and the CO 's Humber . |
| 4 | The previous day the Pentagon had issued a statement claiming that the photograph had passed through the hands of a " ring of Cambodia opportunists led by a well-known and admitted fabricator " of information about MIAs . |
| 5 | The EEC has evolved a mechanism for raising revenue known as ‘ own resources ’ . |
| 6 | In memory of the fallen , the RAF decided to rebuild a London church — St Clement Danes — but more of that later . |
| 7 | The RAF has convened a board of inquiry into the crash … which , in an unprecedented move , will include two Russians . |
| 8 | The RAF has convened a board of inquiry into the crash … which , in an unprecedented move , will include two Russians . |
| 9 | The RAF have issued a warning after anti-chemical warfare equipment was stolen from an airman who served in the Gulf . |
| 10 | Whilst I had changed into my second set of wedding clothes Margaret had explained that the Remington-Harts had bought a country house in Downshurst in the last year . |
| 11 | The CPC had released a statement from its three-day conference at the end of May strongly condemning corruption and excessive expenditure and promising to tackle these problems . |
| 12 | In 1990 , the AfDB had funded a 190km road in nearby Sierra Leone , running through one of West Africa 's few surviving stretches of coastal rainforest . |
| 13 | Andrew Lloyd Webber ) half inched the composer 's Rondeau as their election theme , the Dean has advised a period of diplomatic silence at services . |
| 14 | It was admitted that while the IIRS had prepared a report on the factory itself , it had not surveyed and reported on the Knockanemore dump site as it had not been commissioned to do so by either the IDA or Cork County Council . |
| 15 | IN THE FACE of the millions of people who have become displaced from their homes and their countries , and are refugees , the Vatican has published a document last month to ask Western governments to deal effectively with the ‘ tragedy of forced exile . ’ |
| 16 | But Brightness has become a money-spinner ; the Russians have become capitalists ; and the Beluga has become a pawn in an international game . |
| 17 | The DOE continues to support a study of the migration of the natural decay-series radionuclides of uranium and thorium in a variety of sedimentary settings in Cornwall and Scotland in order to test our ideas and modelling capabilities with a view to applying them to the geological disposal of radioactive waste . |
| 18 | The DoE has served a notice on the nomadic inhabitants , pointing out that they are breaching by-laws and that legal action may be taken against them . |
| 19 | Despite their efficiency and high productivity , farming organisations in the Netherlands had declared a preference for free trade . |
| 20 | The Netherlands has contributed a lot on the side to Hollywood in recent years , what with the success of Paul ( Robocop ) Verhoeven and , of course , Rutger Hauer . |
| 21 | Philips in the Netherlands has claimed an efficiency of 30 per cent with an engine it built from conventional materials . |
| 22 | As credits proliferated , the EPA decided to establish a banking or brokerage network through local governments for selling the credits from one firm to another , with the result that Louisville , San Francisco and Seattle initiated banking programmes . |
| 23 | The KGB managed to infiltrate an agent into the British factory who was discovered by MI5 ( a rare achievement indeed ) . |
| 24 | Panama seemed to many like a re-enactment of Hawaiian history : the States had needed a reason to take over and it had found one . |
| 25 | The DoH has begun a programme of child protection inspections which will cover interviews with children , but nothing specific on the memorandum is planned . |
| 26 | The CPV had made a number of errors in the past ; it had taken too much time setting forth the initial stage of the transitional period to socialism and had made " many mistakes " in reforming prices , wages and money and in ideological and organizational tasks . |
| 27 | The challenge came when the Regional Land Ownership Task Force , established by the Appalachian Alliance to work specifically on land and taxation issues , discovered that the ARC intended to conduct a study on land in Appalachia . |
| 28 | Moves under the aegis of ECOWAS to consolidate the fragile ceasefire were reported on Jan. 21 to be deadlocked over the issues of disarmament and confinement of troops , with the NPFL refusing to sign an agreement . |
| 29 | THE ROCKINGBIRDS have scheduled a pair of Irish dates and added further shows to their current British tour , which now includes . |
| 30 | During the morning we had passed the remains of an Adoimara village which the Asaimara had obliterated a month earlier , killing sixty-one people , including women and children . |