Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [prep] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | China also ‘ could not tolerate ’ the award given to the Dalai Lama in Paris , and ‘ condemned ’ France for permitting the exiled democracy campaigner , Yan Jiaqi , to ‘ conduct activities against the Chinese Government ’ . |
| 2 | China also ‘ could not tolerate ’ the award given to the Dalai Lama in Paris , and ‘ condemned ’ France for permitting the exiled democracy campaigner , Yan Jiaqi , to ‘ conduct activities against the Chinese Government ’ . |
| 3 | With only one domestic index futures contract for the London Stock Exchange ( the FT-SE 100 ) , the creation of synthetic index futures contracts for the UK is not yet possible . |
| 4 | On 26 June 1991 LIFFE launched a futures contract on the ISE 's new Eurotrack-100 Index . |
| 5 | This policy has been international in scope , as was presaged by LIFFE 's early attempt to use its niche in the European time zone to create a market in US T-bond futures , for which the CBoT had established the world 's most successful futures contract in the US time zone . |
| 6 | The impetus behind this increase was probably provided by a decision given by the United States Supreme Court in 1954 which declared forced segregation unconstitutional in all public educational institutions . |
| 7 | The recurrence of Gough 's injury looks , if the reaction of his team-mates was a reliable barometer , to be a serious one and is the latest blow sustained by the Ibrox captain in a season that has been punctuated by mishaps . |
| 8 | Differences between the studies include the fact that Canadian workers ‘ receive a substantial proportion ( 20–40% ) of their total exposure as an internal dose ( largely due to tritium ) , ’ that workers in Ontario did not have the types of chemical exposure received by the Sellafield workers , and that some of the control fathers with high doses were uranium miners . |
| 9 | As one of its responses to the International Statistical Year , the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development had commissioned a comparative study of national R and D efforts , based on an officially agreed definition of research and development activity ; the so-called ‘ Frascati definition ’ , named after one of a number of pleasant resorts favoured by the OECD for conferences . |
| 10 | Diamant A rockets also placed into orbit three satellites developed by the CNES . |
| 11 | Aunt Margaret brushed her hair with the silver-backed brush which , like Winnie the Pooh , had survived the crash ; she brushed and brushed until Melanie 's black hair swirled like the Thames in flood , and then she floated all the daisies on it . |
| 12 | The Middle East peace talks continued during May with a series of multilateral meetings arranged at the Moscow round in January [ see p. 38740 ; see p. 38885 for fifth round of bilateral talks held in Washington in late April ] . |
| 13 | Work began in January 1991 on the construction at Crotone in Calabria , southern Italy , of the air base intended for the United States F-16 fighter-bombers which were being withdrawn from Spain . |
| 14 | On March 4 temporary permission to remain in the UK was granted to a Sudanese man who fled racist attacks in Germany . |
| 15 | The legal cloak given to the US action by the formal request for US assistance by the new government of President Guillerm Endara is not convincing , since the government was sworn in on a US military base with a US general standing by . |
| 16 | Since then safety work has pushed up that capacity and when the ( New Zealand ) All Blacks play there in three weeks it will be helped to 21,000 by a temporary stand erected over the Tanner Bank wall on the outfield of the adjacent cricket field , adding 2,300 spectators who need not be counted in the official figure . |
| 17 | The leaflets are being distributed to hotels and guest houses registered with the Northumbria Tourism Board and to travel trade representatives and coach operators throughout Britain . |
| 18 | In the short term it might be expected to gain considerably from the actual construction of the tunnel and figures for the period up to March 1989 show that the South East , including Kent , had gained 27% of the £492m worth of contracts placed in the UK by Transmanche Link : Kent , as a single county , attracted a high share of 9% . |
| 19 | The protection given by the Harter Act to shippers and consignees benefited banks and secured creditors . |
| 20 | If that reconstruction is plausible it is likely that the story refers to the Magharba . |
| 21 | He referred specifically to a technique developed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for rendering wastes into harmless salts , which I understand is in its infancy . |
| 22 | The first part of the trail goes through the Brodick Castle Country Park . |
| 23 | The trail goes onto the Derryadd Road and follows a quiet country road for around four miles with lakes on the right . |
| 24 | The neglected , but instructive , sub-text to the passions aroused by the BBC director-general 's financial affairs is the ambitious and contentious agenda of reforms over which he has presided in the run-up to the renewal of the corporation 's charter . |
| 25 | Projects undertaken by the Overholland Foundation have , during its brief existence , been characterised by high standards and a close attention to detail . |
| 26 | There are two different classes of market counterparty : ( 1 ) A counterparty treated as a market counterparty on a transaction-by-transaction basis ; and ( 2 ) A person falling in a particular category listed in the COB Rules ( such as members of SFA ) who is treated as a market counterparty by virtue of his status as such , but ( except in the case of SFA members and inter-dealer brokers ) only in relation to particular classes of investments . |
| 27 | In 1203–4 , 1205 and 1242 these concessions were rewarded by the financial and military support given to the Plantagenets by Bordeaux and other towns against both Castilian and French attacks on the duchy . |
| 28 | Their case was strengthened by the fact that the support given by the Eisenhower administration to the militant anti-communists had succeeded only in intensifying the faction fighting in Laos . |
| 29 | The leader of the UNC , Basdeo Panday , who condemned the support given by the PNM for the government 's extension of the state of emergency was on Sept. 10 confirmed by President Noor Hassanali as the official Leader of the Opposition , a post he had held between 1976 and 1986 , as leader of the United Labour Front ( ULF ) , the then leading opposition party . |
| 30 | Unfortunately for him , the drain led to the River Gradouge and killed the fish in it . |