Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [art] [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Sept. 18 Isidore Mvouba was dismissed as Minister of Trade and Commerce after he failed to attend the first meeting of the Cabinet , attending instead a meeting of his own party , the ( formerly ruling ) Congolese Labour Party ( PCT ) . |
| 2 | One of the things that those of us who were involved in local government campaigns were trying to do was to achieve some measure of redistribution in favour of all those lesbians and gays who do not belong to the charmed circles of The Swimming Pool Library — people who have no private income ; people who depend on their jobs and would welcome job security ; people who want council tenancies free of harassment , with friends and lovers of their choice ; people who want to meet others at venues which have disabled access , which are not commercially exploitative and which are run for the benefit of the community ; people who want to display affection or consensual desire publicly without fear of violence or arrest ; people who want to bring up children without intimidation from the courts or social workers ; people who have survived the indoctrination of the education system but do not want to see the next generation of lesbians and gays subjected to the same process ; people who wanted themselves and their lifestyles to be treated with respect by the health services . |
| 3 | Those who tend to see the eighteenth century as above all " the Age of Wesley " usually bring a good deal of retrospectivity to their view of the rise of Methodism over a period at the end of which Methodists were still not especially numerous in the nation as a whole . |
| 4 | President Roh Tae Woo became the first South Korean head of state to make an official trip to the Soviet Union when he arrived in Moscow on Dec. 13 at the beginning of a four-day visit . |
| 5 | As I say , if you by the time you get home and then you got to exercise them erm and then you 've got to get back and feed them and then feed yourself and keep warm and think of you know , what you got to wear the next day the time 's gone ! |
| 6 | No one , of course , would want to compare the first week of school term with the outbreak of a world war , but we are at the beginning of a New Year and a gateway to the future . |
| 7 | She did not want to accept a third coffee . |
| 8 | There was little mirth among the film crew , least of all from Raymond Cusick whose job it suddenly became to pull a last minute rabbit out of the hat . |
| 9 | Beset by mounting criticism at home , and abroad , over the way the issue had been handled , the Japanese government agreed to defer the fifth group of demands and in May 1915 delivered the remainder in the form of an ultimatum . |
| 10 | As soon as Leonard learned to talk he was taught to recite the first words of the Shema , the ‘ creed ’ of Judaism which originated on Sinai with Moses and is recited daily : |
| 11 | ‘ The bad news is that they want to see a first draft script within three weeks . ’ |
| 12 | One drawback of the Masters for married men , who want to see the last putt in , is that it requires them to creep to bed as if they were returning from a night club . |
| 13 | The problem has delayed the second phase by 18 months . |
| 14 | After years of anticipation , the Taiwanese-backed NuTek USA Corp in Cupertino , California has finally come down to the wire with its Macintosh-compatible technology : the company claims that it has developed the first machine that emulates the Macintosh without requiring installation of Apple Computer Inc 's proprietary ROMs . |
| 15 | Ottawa , Canada-based , ObjecTime Ltd , a Canadian Bell Northern Research Inc subsidiary , claims it has developed the first Unix object-oriented CASE tool for real-time applications , ObjecTime . |
| 16 | ENGLAND 'S 1973–74 Test series in West Indies had many things to savour : Sobers became the first man to score 8000 Test runs . |
| 17 | It seems that the professional game , in contrast to our European and world rivals , has revered the second tenet but stifled the first . |
| 18 | What is he going to say when he discovers that he is expected to transmit the first report from an advisory unit in the history of government to include an account of the Director 's domestic arrangements ? |
| 19 | For years , Karl Dersch has flown the Third Reich emblem at his Munich home . |
| 20 | She was alone with the man she believed had killed once and tried to kill a second time . |
| 21 | The Berry-Hill Gallery , in recent years Vicente 's New York dealer , has arranged a ninetieth birthday celebration for Vicente this month in the form of a retrospective spanning five decades of his work and coming right up to and into the Nineties . |
| 22 | WITH a triumphant twang of the zither , the City University of London has filled the first Joe Loss Research Fellowship in Jewish Music . |
| 23 | The team has completed a second survey recently . |
| 24 | He has completed a second marathon as editor-in-chief of a companion volume , the RHS Encyclopedia of Gardening , out this week , which is a guide to designing and a garden and growing flowering plants , fruit , and veg . |
| 25 | Woodbury , New York-based Cablevision Systems Corp says it has completed the first stage of its electronic superhighway to homes , businesses and institutions in the New York metropolitan area : the $300m project , scheduled for completion in 1995 , involves installation of over 3,000 miles of fibre network . |
| 26 | These provide a means for lexicographers to review and amend dictionary material which has completed the first stage of processing , as well as a facility for the transfer of portions of the dictionary material to a typesetting and composition operator . |
| 27 | One of Stephanie close colleagues has been under gun guard , police guard for a week following death threats on the alleged kidnapper , as the net closed on him he phoned estate agent Jane the girl who helped prepare the second artist impression , Jane had met him face to face when he called at the office in Great Bar Birmingham days before the kidnap to collect details on several houses for sale , her blood ran cold when she picked up the phone on Wednesday February the twelfth to hear his voice again |
| 28 | Well , we 're going to try to provide the first steps towards uniformity . |
| 29 | She says it 's hard work having to think of other ways of getting around — having always to take into consideration the bus timetables — I ca n't arrange to meet friends unless there 's a bus at that time and coming home — leaving the pubs — I have to drink up quickly if I want to catch the last bus home . |
| 30 | Working for the Giunti publishing house , Boskovits again has edited the first volume of The Origins of Florentine Painting by R. Offner ( L230,000 ) . |