Example sentences of "[noun prp] [to-vb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | AN ATTEMPT by management at Devonport to poach the refitting of a destroyer from Rosyth Royal Dockyard has failed , but the unsolicited bid has caused two weeks ' delay to work on HMS Gloucester . |
| 2 | One Friday , I drove out to Cardiff to attend a luncheon , and the Royal Welsh Polo Classic , at Pontcanna Fields in the grounds of Cardiff Castle , for many years the home of the Marquesses of Bute . |
| 3 | Not long afterwards came another request , this time in a slightly more orthodox fashion , for John Ward to paint the Princess . |
| 4 | Such criticisms forced President Jaime Paz Zamora to cancel the sale of two state-owned hotels in La Paz , the capital , when irregularities were discovered on the opening of sealed tenders . |
| 5 | So far fears that West Germany will be too distracted by the rebuilding of East Germany to continue the building of the European Community have been exaggerated . |
| 6 | A few , those who had been last in the line , turned their horses in time and rode for Ruthyn to carry the news , and were not hindered in their going . |
| 7 | The playhouse in the Harlow is about the people in Harlow and about the people that come in from outside of Harlow I 'm very conscious that we do serve a very wide community and I am pleased that people with other sounds come and support the theatre has been rightly said if they did n't come in to Harlow to support the theatre we would have major problems . |
| 8 | Tonight 's winner has until mid-December to agree a purse offer with Lewis , who won the right to fight for the title with his second-round knockout of Razor Ruddock . |
| 9 | The Prince was in Swindon to see the work of local youngsters taking part in the Duke of Edinburgh 's Award Scheme . |
| 10 | I enjoyed the February issue of Canoeist , especially the account and photographs of Lakefield Canoe Club 's recent visit to Costa Rica to enjoy the challenge of some magnificent rivers . |
| 11 | For this , Abbot J. Svitavský commissioned Rubens in 1673 in Antwerp to paint the Death of St Thomas and St Augustus . |
| 12 | And David Lee , spokesman for the Football Supporters ' Association said : ‘ We have asked the PFA to support the protest by asking their members to sit down for one minute on Saturday . ’ |
| 13 | Criticism that the new cars could not operate the town routes , provoked Luff to arrange a demonstration for the Transport Committee on the Marton route . |
| 14 | The European Communities ( EC ) suspended a trade and co-operation agreement which had only been initialled on June 8 , and withdrew an invitation to Romania to attend a meeting of the G-24 nations in Paris in July . |
| 15 | Later in 1054 the king sent him to Germany to arrange the return from Hungary of Edward Atheling [ q.v . ] . |
| 16 | He arranged for Marcus to see a dentist , and took him there in a taxi . |
| 17 | The Mugen-Honda V10 engine , currently used by Footwork , is an evolution of the Honda power-unit which helped McLaren to claim the world championships in 1989 and 1990 . |
| 18 | When Lou 's dead , the law will work it out he made some deal with Rico and the Battler to unload the girl . |
| 19 | To make matters worse , the two men had been ordered to Germany to attend a conference , and had been away for eight days . |
| 20 | Transport minister Steven Norris arrived at Victoria to find no lighting , no heating , no new electronic passenger information and no computer ticketing . |
| 21 | Brynulf Ottar told him the organization , known as XU , involved a secret network based in Oslo , a courier line to Stockholm , and Swedes , Germans and Norwegians in Germany to provide the information from source . |
| 22 | In 1849 a second works was built at Bordeaux-La Bastide to meet the locomotive and rolling-stock requirements of the Midi ( Southern ) railway . |
| 23 | The company also backed Sunrise Television — which outbid TV-am to secure the breakfast franchise — where it has a 20 p.c. stake . |
| 24 | The aim of the 1990 Report was to establish a programme of works improvements within an agreed timescale to allow the River Almond to meet the objective of salmonid fishing quality ie Class 1 . |
| 25 | He was the great great grandson of Sir Randall Mac Donnell , the first of that branch of the Mac Donnells to bear the title Earl of Antrim . |
| 26 | In times gone by Dutch cattle were dual-purpose types , as meat was required from the dairy herd as well as milk , but since the early 1970s there has been an increasing use of American Holstein-Friesians in the Netherlands to increase the milk yields of the Dutch Friesian ( which has lower yields than the Holstein type but a higher proportion of solids in the milk ) . |
| 27 | Nicholson teamed up with his friend and former flatmate Don Devlin to write the script for a film called Thunder Island , a thriller which was to be shot with a tiny budget on a Caribbean island . |
| 28 | In a well-known passage , Alcuin laments the blood shed by Offa to secure the kingdom for Ecgfrith as the kingdom 's ruination . |
| 29 | To consolidate the learning process , workshops are held at Henley to provide a forum for interaction with tutors and other programme members . |
| 30 | From hospital staff , social workers and relatives alike , the pressures on Judith and Patrick to accept the baby are very strong . |