Example sentences of "[art] [noun prp] and [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | That this House urges Her Majesty 's Government to use the decision to postpone the passage of the European Communities ( Amendment ) Bill as an opportunity to make a fresh start with the future development of the EEC and in particular concentrate its efforts on the chosen agenda of the British presidency which is to extend the borders of the EEC and to create a fully competitive Common Market . |
| 2 | Her ultimate aim is to join the RAF and become a jet fighter pilot . |
| 3 | However , J. came to the decision that enough was enough and all he wanted now was to get out of the RAF and pursue a civilian career . |
| 4 | That result spotlighted discontent with Mr Meciar , often accused of being authoritarian , inside the HZDS and prompted a fierce public row between the prime minister and his foreign minister , Ivan Knazko , a party stalwart of long standing . |
| 5 | In June 1982 Israel 's invasion of Lebanon provided an opportunity to destroy the PLO and mould a new Lebanese state free of Syrian , Palestinian and Soviet influence and by implication dependent on the United States . |
| 6 | He was working on the Saturday and took a stroke on the Sunday . ’ |
| 7 | The official Soviet newsagency TASS says Lithuania is ready to compromise with the Kremlin and hold a referendum on breaking away . |
| 8 | The best made by far was the Ricoll and given a set of decently engraved keytops this would rate very highly as a direct replacement system and is also quite attractively priced . |
| 9 | The recognition by IBM Corp that Microsoft Corp products are not going to go away and that it ca n't build its own personal computer world solely on OS/2 — which has led the company to decide to put NT up on the PowerPC and to do a DB2/NT version of its personal computer database is to culminate in a meeting between new IBM chief executive Louis Gerstner and Microsoft chief Bill Gates later this month to discuss areas of mutual interest , the Wall Street Journal says . |
| 10 | That was in 1987 ; now the fad has soft-shoed across from the streets of Brooklyn and the Bronx and become a cult throughout Europe . ’ |
| 11 | To develop a range of profitable ventures to augment the income of the HCIMA and to provide a surplus of 2 per cent of the total revenue . |
| 12 | He made contact with the ANC and struck a deal . |
| 13 | Over confident after their quick victories , the Japanese began an invasion of the Solomons and planned a landing at Port Moresby in south-east New Guinea . |
| 14 | ‘ Members knew about Jenkin 's proposals and the removal of a tier in the NHS and sought a monument to their existence . |
| 15 | Ellie tried to imagine how her mother must have felt as she had left Ireland by boat , to sail the Atlantic and marry a man she had met only a handful of times . |
| 16 | Mobutu resigned as chairman of the MPR and appointed a Prime Minister ( First State Commissioner ) as head of government . |
| 17 | He approached the IMF and got a loan . |
| 18 | But the Springboks cruised to a 32-9 victory over the Midlands and received a warm welcome from a capacity 13,500 crowd , with police reporting no significant incidents . |
| 19 | ‘ In the 19th century , a series of cases forced upon the Commons and courts a comprehensive review of the issues which divided them , from which it became clear that some of the earlier claims to jurisdiction made in the name of privilege by the House of Commons were untenable in a court of law : that the law of Parliament was part of the general law , that its principles were not beyond the judicial knowledge of the judges , and that it was the duty of the common law to define its limits could no longer be disputed . |
| 20 | It would be perfectly possible to recast the system of democratic supervision so as to restore a considerable part of the power of the Commons and to provide a devolved system of regional and local elected councils , which would mean that every important administrative body was subject to checks and examination at one or other of the three levels — national , regional or local . |
| 21 | But Mukhamedov , thank you very much , a few months after another rapturous reception on the 1989 tour , walked into the Royal Ballet and told them he 'd quit the Bolshoi and wanted a job . |
| 22 | Expressing the conviction that the global eco-system would be best protected by turning Antarctica into a world park or nature reserve , it urged all states to cooperate with the UN and to support a ban on mining and prospecting . |
| 23 | I went to the Maly Opera Theatre that night and saw Verdi 's Otello , and with the voices still occupying my mind I decided to take a subway down the Nevsky and have a drink at the Astoria . |
| 24 | I stopped at a pub I used rarely near the BBC and had a ploughman 's and a couple of orange juices , no alcohol , partly because I wanted to keep a clear head and partly to fit in with the cab-driver persona . |
| 25 | She won the 1984 Carlton Hobb 's Radio Award at the BBC and completed a contract with the Repertory Company in July 1985 . |
| 26 | I sat up all night on the Sunday and wrote a nineteen-page document . |
| 27 | Three North Koreans were killed and two South Korean soldiers wounded after a heavily armed North Korean patrol was said to have infiltrated the DMZ and encountered a South Korean unit . |
| 28 | JOHN MULVEY corners stroppy head boy GREG ACKELL on their first visit to the UK and gets a mouthful of arrogance , power-tripping and homesickness . |
| 29 | Education is currently undervalued , under-achieving and under-resourced in the UK and requires a fundamental and radical transformation . |
| 30 | London Open Christmas is the biggest in the UK and requires a great deal of help , but there are a number of others that also need your support . |