Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [to-vb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | WASHINGTON ( AP ) — Zaire 's President , Mobutu Sese Seko , and President George Bush met to try to prevent the collapse of an agreement between Angola and the US-backed Unita rebels , reached through Zairean mediation in June . |
| 2 | And so they 're laying on this seminar for as many parish councillors who want to go to explain the planning procedures . |
| 3 | OK , so it eventually becomes an obsession , and someone has to kill to get the key , but it keeps the audience alert , particularly when there 's a late night knock at the door . |
| 4 | But of course if one wants to continue to have the capability into the next century , which the present er range of aircraft provides , er then Eurofighter two thousand may be the only available platform for those purposes . |
| 5 | Relations with Taiwan were expected to be downgraded to " representative " status , but Taiwan 's state-run Chinese Petroleum Corporation was expected to continue to buy the bulk of its crude oil from Saudi Arabia . |
| 6 | Hereford MP Colin Shepherd has lobbied to keep the base open . |
| 7 | Emma has arranged to spend the weekend with a cousin , so there 's no possibility of being disturbed . |
| 8 | Under the scheme , forest management and surveillance will be maintained and local people will be permitted to continue to exploit the forest in ways that are supportive of existing ecosystems . |
| 9 | In Piata Universitatii , in central Bucharest , under the looming tower of the Intercontinental Hotel and the glaring neon of a Castrol sign , a crowd has gathered to mark the anniversary and hear political speakers . |
| 10 | Peter White of Midland Bank was less convinced , complaining of the failure of some large firms to adhere to a strict off-limits policy , and described an even worse practice of advancing a candidate who has undertaken to engage the headhunter involved at a later date if he or she lands the job . |
| 11 | The Forestry Commission has undertaken to bear the report 's findings in mind when embarking on future tree-planting programmes . |
| 12 | The institutions are required to monitor their use of the access funds and the Secretary of State for Education and Science has undertaken to review the operation of the funds in due course . |
| 13 | A different possible interpretation of a contract is that , not the buyer , but the seller has undertaken to accept the risk that the goods might not exist , i.e. he has undertaken as part of the contract that the goods do in fact exist . |
| 14 | The developer of the site , Ideal Homes Holdings , has undertaken to reserve the site and provide it free of charge to the school trustees in addition to a one-off payment of up to £150,000 . |
| 15 | I 've visited at least two or three times each year since then and I still hesitate to claim to know the area really well . |
| 16 | He may need counselling to overcome the trauma in the future . |
| 17 | He tried to go to see the family , but the palace was surrounded by Bolshevik guards and Russian soldiers . |
| 18 | The item must be of sufficient quality to be displayed in a public collection whether national , local authority or university , and the owner has to agree to keep the object in the UK , preserve it and allow reasonable public access to it . |
| 19 | A local group has formed to oppose the mining and has held its first public meeting . |
| 20 | Somehow she has to try to extract the information she wants from the information she gets . |
| 21 | Kurt Forster , for the last eight years Director of the Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities at Santa Monica , has resigned to accept the Chair in the History of Art and Architecture at Zurich 's Federal Polytechnic . |
| 22 | Experiments were therefore designed to try to show the existence of bicarbonate secretion by the normal human oesophagus . |
| 23 | If the user now wishes to enter a different Root Package name , he must first BACKSPACE to the Product Title field , press LINEFEED to clear the field , then press TAB to move to the Root Package field . |
| 24 | Dungannon District Council has voted to scrap the Post Office addressing system which insists letters must include house numbers and road names . |
| 25 | Unhappy about EC proposals on waste transport , the European Parliament has voted to stall the Commission 's draft legislation , with the aim of pressing Brussels into framing even tougher controls . |
| 26 | Leeds polytechnic has voted to change the method by which it elects its President . |
| 27 | The Church of England Synod has voted to approve the ordination of women priests . |
| 28 | * Meanwhile , the US Senate has voted to ban the use of large drift nets in US waters up to 200 miles offshore , as well as their use by US fishermen in international waters |
| 29 | We want to try to find the cause of the problem so that we can improve the service . |
| 30 | Although Levi promised to work to unite the party " in order to heal the wound " , commentators claimed that the affair had exposed deep divisions in the party which might have a major impact on the June 23 general election . |