Example sentences of "[verb] [noun pl] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Salvage experts extinguished a fire on an Iranian oil tanker early yesterday and stemmed a leak that had caused a 30-mile oil slick 100 miles off Morocco , a maritime official said . |
| 2 | All four sources also independently confirmed that on 9 December 1988 , Israeli Defence Forces had captured documents in a raid on a PFLP — GC base near Damour , Lebanon , which disclosed plans to bomb a Pan Am flight out of Frankfurt by the end of that month . |
| 3 | In the week leading up to the anniversary pro-US legislators made plans to pass a Diet resolution expressing regret for the action . |
| 4 | Given that there is no universal consensus on the ideal police-community relationship , what sort of policing policies does a community need , and who is to decide this ? |
| 5 | Littlewoods announced plans to open a pilot stand alone restaurant in Blackpool city centre . |
| 6 | DEC announced plans to build a Giga-switch , a network and cluster interconnect , at DECworld in Boston last week . |
| 7 | It also announced plans to build a sports hall and improve playing fields at the Knowsley Park Lane school , once the Lathom Wing on St Helens Road is closed . |
| 8 | Katy announced plans to become a missionary while studying for her A levels and joined the Christian organisation Youth with a Mission . |
| 9 | Paramount supremo Frank Mancuso received death threats as he voiced plans to do a Police Academy -style Star Trek . |
| 10 | Bath/shower mixers have a connection for a shower hose and a diverter so that flow can be directed to the shower ( see Chapter 8 ) . |
| 11 | When we finally make proposals to build a repository we must be confident they will satisfy safety standards that are amongst the toughest in the world . |
| 12 | Nuneaton AC scrapped plans to keep a match booking on the canal when the predators threatened to ruin their 80 peg Open . |
| 13 | The introduction of the steam press after 1810 reduced the price of books , allowing experts to earn a living by writing for the ever-expanding market . |
| 14 | We seem to have gone down rather well at the venues we performed in , and have already received requests to do a repeat performance for Children in Need next year — perhaps I could get LASMO emblazoned on the front of my costume then ! ’ |
| 15 | Several important European trading centres established banks to enable traders to deposit a variety of gold and silver coins then in circulation , in exchange for paper claims , e.g. Bank of Amsterdam , Holland . |
| 16 | Restraining the use of private cars would carry no disadvantages , in the view of 53 per cent , and only 4 per cent thought that discouraging people from using cars represented a loss of liberty . |
| 17 | And more than that , I 'd grown up with divorced parents and I do think kids need a mother and a father . ’ |
| 18 | It would be nice to see manufacturers taking a lead from some of the very fast but seaworthy one-off designs emerging following the reduction in enthusiasm for the IOR , or some of the superb yachts in the BOC and Globe Challenge races . |
| 19 | In a classic experiment in the 1930s , J. Stalnaker and E. Riddle asked subjects to recite a Longfellow poem , The Village Smith , that they had learned years before in school . |
| 20 | Kinsbourne and Cook ( 1971 ) asked subjects to balance a dowel rod on the index finger of one hand . |
| 21 | The new awards , like the current series of general SVQs , will be broadly-based , designed to enable candidates to enter a range of occupations , or to progress to higher education . |
| 22 | Pharmacy chain Macarthy has dropped attempts to have a sales promotion scheme by drugs retailer UniChem declared illegal . |
| 23 | Pharmacy chain Macarthy has dropped attempts to have a sales promotion scheme by drugs retailer UniChem declared illegal . |
| 24 | MULTIPLE sclerosis — a mysterious deterioration of the central nervous system — has long eluded attempts to find a cure . |
| 25 | ‘ Among a welter of brimming ashtrays sits a man in an old black suit . ’ |
| 26 | He has dropped plans to nominate a Washington lawyer , Charles Ruff , for the No2 post in the justice department because of concern over his failure to pay tax for his housekeeper . |
| 27 | The new office is to cover northern Europe , and the company also has plans to open a Paris office to cover southern Europe in the near future . |
| 28 | Sun Microsystems Inc has denied that it has plans to develop a Sparc implementation of Microsoft Corp 's NT operating system , as reported last week in the US paper Open Systems Today : the paper quoted Sun president Scott McNealy as saying ‘ NT needs to be ported to Sparc — if they [ Microsoft ] do n't do it , they are missing the boat ’ ; despite the denials , observers hint darkly that some sort of effort involving Sparc and Microsoft is under way , and will come to the surface over the next few months . |
| 29 | Sun Microsystems Inc has denied that it has plans to develop a Sparc port of Microsoft Corp 's NT operating system , as reported last week in the US paper Open Systems Today . |
| 30 | First , he points out that the process of ostensive definition , whereby the solipsist attempts to give a meaning to the term ‘ pain ’ by pointing ( mentally ) to a sensation , is one which only works when we already have a background of conceptual knowledge , and can not be used to construct such knowledge from a blank sheet . |