Example sentences of "[noun prp] [to-vb] the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It took four years for Edouard to discover the one aspect of his life the columnists had never suspected : he was lonely . |
| 2 | Faldo sank a worthy putt for a birdie , but Norman 's victory still looked a formality until his tiny effort , similar to that which Scott Hoch missed for Faldo to win the 1989 Masters , hit the hole and ran past . |
| 3 | His East German counterpart Lothar de Maizière ) , who was in Hungary to commemorate the 1989 East German exodus through the open Austria-Hungary border which had helped topple the East German communist regime , promised trilateral Hungarian , East German and West German talks on the issue . |
| 4 | In 1760 the Royal Society chose Charles Mason [ q.v. ] to go to Sumatra to observe the 1761 transit of Venus , and , probably on Bird 's recommendation , Mason suggested Dixon should go as his assistant . |
| 5 | The Diet on May 22 approved by 153 votes to four a new treaty on good-neighbourliness and mutual co-operation with Russia to replace the 1948 Treaty of Friendship , Co-operation and Mutual Assistance with the former Soviet Union [ see pp. 38444-45 ; 38587 ] . |
| 6 | The refugee issue prompted the Hungarian government in February to abrogate the 1979 treaty with Romania which prevented dual citizenship , which meant that refugees could maintain dual Hungarian-Romanian citizenship [ see also below for relations with Hungary ] . |
| 7 | The Prince and Princess of Wales came to a lonely hilltop in South Korea to honour the 900 men of the Gloucestershire Regiment who held back the Chinese Army pouring across the Imjin River in January 1951 . |
| 8 | I spent a few hours at house in Delhi , before leaving on Sunday 28th November to catch the 03.45 flight to London . |
| 9 | We have Remembrance Sunday each year in November to remember the two World Wars and the men who fought in them . |
| 10 | During the Nov. 7 parade through Moscow 's Red Square to mark the 1917 October Revolution anniversary , a man fired two shots from a hunting rifle in what police claimed was an attempt to assassinate Gorbachev . |
| 11 | R.S. used Hill and Knowlton to research the five counties and to help it produce the relocation documentation . |
| 12 | Number One , would you tell McKenzie to warn the four seamen who were with us tonight that they are on no account to mention the fact that we were on the Delos . |
| 13 | Select a set of starting vectors Yo , arbitrary except that they must be linearly independent ; then evaluate the ( n × p ) matrix unc and use Wo to form the two square matrices of order p unc Now solve the eigenproblem ( any suitable method from this chapter may be used ) unc for its modal matrix Mo ; the spectral matrix Ao which emerges is ( see below ) a first approximation to Ay . |
| 14 | Was it a case of KLM bringing pressure , for commercial reasons , on the RLD to accept the DC-10 , or did they feel unable to challenge the validity of the FAA certificate of airworthiness ? |
| 15 | The UDF allied with the RPR to contest the 1988 legislative elections as the Union du rassemblement du centre ( URC ) . |
| 16 | Then came Willie 's first career milestone : taking Roberto de Vicenzo around Hoylake to win the 1967 Open . |
| 17 | A plan put forward by Singapore to invite the five permanent members of the UN Security Council to accede to ASEAN 's 1976 Treaty of Amity and Co-operation ( TAC ) was rejected . |
| 18 | What made the Sydney fiasco even more ludicrous was the fact that when the umpires halted play , there was still time for South Africa to face the two overs which were stolen from them ! |
| 19 | He added : ‘ A plastic tube production line was moved from Betts Colchester to augment the six already at Stevenage . |
| 20 | An American note was sent to the Soviet Union on 11 August 1947 requesting a report from the Joint Commission by 21 August to enable the two governments to decide on the next step . |
| 21 | Two advance parties , including Lt Col Neame , have already flown to Nepal to organise the 500 sherpas and scores of yaks who will carry nine tons of supplies to the south face base camp . |
| 22 | The Duke of Bedford sent Philip Miller to value the thousands of rare trees and to purchase those he thought suitable for Woburn . |
| 23 | The coup was crushed when Turkish troops invaded from the mainland and occupied northern Cyprus to protect the 150,000 Muslim Turkish Cypriots . |
| 24 | It calls on Iraq to accept the 1963 border with Kuwait and threatens it with ‘ all necessary means ’ — diplomatic jargon for war — if this is breached . |
| 25 | THE European Community will agree today to implement limited United Nations sanctions against Libya , in the first stage of a process British diplomats hope will force Col Gaddafi to surrender the two Lockerbie bombing suspects for trial in the West . |
| 26 | It was opened in 1803 , and was a horse-drawn tramway built by William Jessop to cover the nine miles between Wandsworth and Croydon . |
| 27 | The child could not decide whever he wanted a chocolate bar or a scoop of ice cream : it occurred to Nelson to combine the two . |
| 28 | The decision of the EC and the US to recognise the three former republics of Yugoslavia — Slovenia , Bosnia-Herzegovina and Croatia — as sovereign states coincided this week with air raids in Bosnia which left six dead . |
| 29 | An enchanting list emanates from the publisher of WHO 'S WHO to promote the 1993 edition . |
| 30 | All this explains the rather unusual haste of New Zealand to secure the 1994 South African tour at the expense of the announced short tour to the Republic this summer which triggered off considerable controversy . |