Example sentences of "[noun prp] [to-vb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | From hospital staff , social workers and relatives alike , the pressures on Judith and Patrick to accept the baby are very strong . |
| 32 | On Nov. 12 , URD-PCT supporters had erected barricades in central Brazzaville , blocking the capital 's two main avenues , as the two parties called on Lissouba to accept the government 's resignation and to appoint a new prime minister from the parliamentary majority ( the URD-PCT alliance ) . |
| 33 | The Punjab had stood firm in 1857 ; the emirs of Northern Nigeria , it was noted with pride , stood firm in 1914 , when the British were forced by the outbreak of war with Germany to denude the area of troops . |
| 34 | ‘ Could you ask Francisco to find the woman who looked after the shop for me last time I was ill ? ’ |
| 35 | It was then that the feeling of utter boredom would assail him and he would be driven to join the crowd for the buses and the queue for a seat in the pictures in Hereford to pass the Saturday afternoon away . |
| 36 | All Bailey had to do was tell the Mossad why you were here and they would have got Al-Makesh to pass the information on to Bernard . |
| 37 | The focus will be on assisting the Employment Department and NCVQ to increase the recognition and penetration of NVQs in the workplace — an are where the Chamber 's Examination Board has real strengths . |
| 38 | The 18th saw Sigel , who in his time has won 15 United States titles , miss the green , miss a little chip and miss a putt , allowing Milligan to halve the hole with a bogey five . |
| 39 | He 'd joined the International Brigade just before Franco 's final victories and been sent back when he was on his way to Cardiff to catch the potato boat to Bilbao . |
| 40 | Princess Margaret was at the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden on Tuesday to support the Paul Hamlyn Westminster Week . |
| 41 | However a grant from the US Center for Marine Conservation enabled Mexico to monitor the Gulf of California fishery in 1988 . |
| 42 | Four months at the mercy of the weather taught Mr Glennie to enjoy the moment . |
| 43 | We are committed to taking small groups of interested people to the Falklands to enjoy the experience of unspoiled wildlife living — in spite of the conflict — in a largely unspoiled environment . |
| 44 | BOTANIST David Bellamy will be in Middlesbrough on Saturday to perform the opening ceremony to mark the completion of Phase I of the town 's botanical centre . |
| 45 | Yet , Empirical Socialism did not have to wait for Keynes to propound the idea of demand-led growth as the solution to the recurrent crises in Capitalism . |
| 46 | The 1944 Education Act laid a responsibility on LEAs to monitor the work of their schools and this has been strengthened in the 1988 Education Reform Act . |
| 47 | Senior Army personnel pressed Bhutto to suspend the state 's civil judicial system and to establish military courts to ensure an unbiased anti-terrorist operation ( the implication being that the state government was being unduly harsh on Muhajirs ) . |
| 48 | We want Annabelle and Steven to enjoy the things we never had , not to take them for granted , but to appreciate how lucky they are to be able to celebrate like this surrounded by their families and friends . |
| 49 | The plaintiff 's action against Mrs. Brammall to enforce the guarantee failed and the Court of Appeal dismissed the plaintiff 's appeal . |
| 50 | ‘ Some leaders are urging Vishwendra Singh to claim the ticket . ’ |
| 51 | I was in Barwick again on Spring Bank Tuesday to see the maypole raised , but before that was the gala . |
| 52 | ‘ Tell Rebecque I 'm riding to Brussels to see the Duke . |
| 53 | On the eve of Whitsunday Joan drove him over to Ely to see the bishop , his first confessor Edward Wynn . |
| 54 | He was also active as a physician and in 1280 went to Flanders to treat the nephew of the count . |
| 55 | He left Kathleen to strap the toes together with a gauze swab between them to maintain the alignment , and then sent them off with a few coproxamol for the pain . |
| 56 | Erm and again I put erm things about putting details in the post although you , although you did try and overcome that one erm but you , you just could n't , you could n't get Steven to realize the benefit of you actually going round with the illustrations rather than you just sending it and you needed to get , to get the appointment out of him rather than because if he got the illustrations in the post he may never read them . |
| 57 | This increased flexibility in the conceptual framework allows Freud to see the Nirvana principle alone as the principle which seeks the reduction , lowering or elimination of tensions , and the pleasure principle as seeking pleasure and avoiding pain . |
| 58 | However , evidence emerged in January that Hekmatyar was under strong pressure from his backers in Pakistan to attend the conference and to abandon his commitment to a military solution to the conflict . |
| 59 | ‘ I took Miss Postlethwaite to see the polo , ’ he explained . |
| 60 | The report , by Jérôme Dourdin , noted in particular how tiring and discouraging it was for visitors to walk all the way out to the Pavillon de Flore to see the sculptures and then have to hike back again to visit the other collections in the Museum . |