Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] [to-vb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It emerged also that air force commander Gen. Yevgeny Shaposhnikov and air force paratroopers commander Pavel Grachev had disobeyed the SCSE , Grachev ordering the Svirskaya paratroop division to withdraw from an attack on the Russian Supreme Soviet building . |
| 2 | If counter-demonstrators determined to thwart the right of a person to speak unpopular opinions resort to force as a result of what he is saying , the speaker is not for that reason alone to be regarded as using threatening , abusive or insulting words or behaviour ‘ whereby it is likely that such violence will be provoked . ’ |
| 3 | To finance the programme the government would allow the federal budget deficit to rise from a projected A$6,800 million in 1992 to A$8,000 million in 1993 . |
| 4 | You 've used , er , er , an underspend from this year rolled over , but you have n't increased the base budget to pay for the projection costs which came from erm , this year 's budget . |
| 5 | The Buchan Meat chairman , Peter McKilligin , argued against change and urged the FASL board to concentrate on the scheme in existence . |
| 6 | If , as now seems certain , that is not possible , then Flushing Meadow , where every regular tennis journalist has his own horror story to tell about the failures of the elevators which carry them to the Press Box in the sky , will remain ‘ the place we love to hate ’ . |
| 7 | So at 18 , she seized her chance to leave her Ilford , Essex home , waving a fond farewell to her parents and sister , and accepted a place at Hull University to study for a degree in Operational Research and Management . |
| 8 | Cromwell allowed Antinomian preachers like Tobias Crisp and John Saltmarsh freedom to preach to the troops with whom this teaching was , naturally , very popular . |
| 9 | If the EEC did wish to go beyond the 1962 agreement on agriculture , the arrangements of which were in any case due to expire in 1965 , if financing was permitted to come from the EEC 's own resources , and if the latter were to be levied on imports , then it was sensible for the EEC budget to come under the control of the European Parliament . |
| 10 | During a quick wander round the accessible parts of the ship at the end of the evening I noticed a wonderful old binnacle , preserved from the former Royal Yacht , Victoria and Albert , and before leaving I rested by the quarter deck rail to listen to the ship 's Royal Marine Band play classical selections on the quayside . |
| 11 | The donkey had been moved from its Exmoor sanctuary to graze during the summer . |
| 12 | I telephoned a man who sells cocoa shell mulch to enquire about the material 's acidity . |
| 13 | We put on the billy and head for a coffee and warm , pausing at the tent entrance to brush off the snow that is heaped on our jackets and hoods . |
| 14 | Negotations are proceeding with a view to obtaining grant aid to help with the considerable setting up costs which will be involved and advice taken with regard to design and layout of exhibits . |
| 15 | They 'd stopped in Port Patrick harbour to wait for the tide . |
| 16 | He discusses the problems which occur in getting the user department and the computer department to agree upon a specification and the prolonged timescales often involved . |
| 17 | Tap the Up direction key to move to the start of the selection . |
| 18 | In the intervening five years the socialists have allowed the national stock of houses to deteriorate gravely , have allowed the building industry to drift into an inefficient and wholly artificial pattern , and have done their best to disorganise the building materials industries . |
| 19 | Dorling Kindersley , publisher of sparkling non-fiction guides to dinosaur , is launching a Dinosaur Club to cater for the large number of junior dinosaur fanatics . |
| 20 | Even without demolition of walls , it may take only 20–30 years for a masonry building to disappear beneath the ground , but less substantial buildings can disappear even faster . |
| 21 | This is good for voice-overs or to push down the level of the rhythm guitar to allow for the lead guitar to come over . |
| 22 | And news of the DoT decision to look at the interchange this week raised the hopes of green campaigners opposed to the cross-town route . |
| 23 | But now with a fifty billion pound deficit to contend with the Chancellor is expected to see VAT on books and newspapers as a useful source of income . |
| 24 | But , undaunted , FitzGerald was back on the right track again last Saturday sending Trainglot out to easily win the £20,000 Tote Jackpot Hurdle at Sandown Park to add to the remarkable haul so far this year . |
| 25 | Conversely , Halliday uses the term function to refer to the formal encoding of meaning within a grammar ( see , for example , Halliday 1985 ) . |
| 26 | There 's Hawaiian Tropic Aftersun Moisturiser , with tropical oils , and aloe rich , Cool Aloe Gel to apply through the long tropical evenings . |
| 27 | There is a small dam to pass , and then it 's plain sailing all the way back to the car park to live with the shame that we failed to live up to the term ‘ fit walkers ’ . |
| 28 | amd next week we 'll be back on the football trail to see in the new season |
| 29 | Mrs Simmons drives to town each Saturday afternoon to shop at the market . |
| 30 | Oh yeah , i in that way er certainly when he produced the bonus contract to go with the saw table , you know we w that was fairly plain , that production would have risen in his estimates quite considerably , and yet our wages in fact would have dropped quite considerably so , yes I mean er it did n't seem quite to tally in the way we would have like to have seen it . |