Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [to-vb] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Responding to growing public pressure , the Ukrainian parliament has voted to close the Chernobyl nuclear reactor , the site of the world 's worst nuclear accident in 1986 , two years ahead of schedule . |
| 2 | The EC Environment Commissioner , Ioannis Paleokrassas , has threatened to take the UK government to court over its alleged failure to conduct a proper environmental impact assessment over the planned motorway through Oxleas Wood in south-east London . |
| 3 | Norway has threatened to leave the IWC , as Iceland has already done , if the commission opposes its plans to resume whaling . |
| 4 | The Roman authorities intend to refurbish the Casina delle Civette at Villa Torlonia , which already has splendid Art Nouveau furnishings and stained glass , to house twentieth-century decorative arts , whilst the Ministry has decided to allocate the Villino Boncompagni , near Via Veneto , to the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna for a similar museum . |
| 5 | As their national borders are currently defined , and as this book has decided to define the Pacific , thirty-three countries lie around the margins of the Ocean . |
| 6 | Despite the extra size and weight of the new body , Suzuki has decided to retain the Vitara 's existing sohc 16-valve engine with EFi , which , in Japanese tune , pumps out 100bhp at 6000rpm . |
| 7 | The Bank of England has decided to make the IMF 's new index the UK 's ‘ official ’ exchange rate index . |
| 8 | One of the more vigorous RECs , Midland Electricity plc , has decided to enter the CHP business itself , at the small end of the market . |
| 9 | The well-rounded rib — the barrel chest that has helped to give the Suffolk the name of Punch — is a distinctive feature , as is the deep carcase . |
| 10 | Reaction 's high energy approach and commitment to producing a visual and musical spectacle has helped to make the Shakespeare in the Park a festival favourite . |
| 11 | But Sunsoft is not alone in its problems : Next Computer has had to delay the Intel version of its NextStep environment for pretty much the same reason . |
| 12 | After a considerable delay , the government has agreed to implement the Griffiths ' recommendations , but in the meantime health services have remained overburdened and unable to care for many older people , and there is a question mark over the future of geriatric care as a result of the 1989 White Paper on health services . |
| 13 | IBM Corp has agreed to pay the US government $14.8m to settle that potential False Claims Act civil suit after IBM admitted to providing reconditioned or remanufactured computer equipment to the US government between 1980 and 1990 , contrary to contract provisions — under the contract , IBM was required to notify the government prior to delivery of anything other than new equipment , and the investigation revealed that IBM delivered approximately 15,000 reconditioned or remanufactured machines to the government ; IBM voluntarily owned up that it might not have fulfilled its obligations under the contract after conducting an internal audit . |
| 14 | Up to now , the PAC has refused to meet the Pretoria government or to join the Convention for a Democratic South Africa ( Codesa ) negotiations on a multi-racial constitutional agreement . |
| 15 | The DUP has refused to meet the US visitors because of their intention to speak to Sinn Fein . |
| 16 | Only Britain has refused to sign the EC social charter , offering rights to part-time and full-time workers . |
| 17 | All the key people that Reagan has appointed to protect the US environment have had close financial involvement with companies that are polluting and destroying the environment . |
| 18 | The Catholic church , led by Bishop Torukwon has tried to hold the Tren regime in check , but is becoming increasingly isolated , especially with the rise of the powerful Islamic Faction . |
| 19 | The user logged onto LIFESPAN has tried to submit the DC listed . |
| 20 | One slight problem that Cognos has created for itself with Unix in Europe is its failure to recognise those lucrative government markets where the national champion is often the favourite — to date Cognos has declined to serve the ICL Plc , Compagnie des Machines Bull SA and Siemens AG environments . |
| 21 | In the church of the new literary criticism , he has also prayed and mocked , publishing critical books of his own but satirising the gurus of metafictional inquiry in his novels : Nice Work 's laconic demolition of Lacan has survived to reach the BBC . |
| 22 | Writing of the Salon des Indépendants of 1914 , Apollinaire saw another influence at work : ‘ This year Futurism has begun to invade the Salon , and whereas from the reproductions they publish , the Italian Futurists appear to be ever more strongly influenced by the innovators of Paris ( Picasso and Braque ) , it would seem that a certain number of Parisian artists are being influenced by Futurist theories . ’ |
| 23 | Jones ' notes , which he has circulated to show the BYU version of events , do not directly address this issue . |
| 24 | The SAAF will name which turboprop trainer it has chosen to replace the Harvard with the CFS ( which itself will move from Dunnottar to Langebaanweg in 1993 ) , ideally from 1995 . |
| 25 | Under the new procedure BR sent us , plus two Americans we 'd persuaded to visit the Ffestiniog , by taxi to Blaenau Ffestiniog . |
| 26 | But Sally was so good , Luckily I 'd remembered to pack the Farley 's Rusks and she had those mixed up with boiled water the guard got for me from the restaurant car . ’ |
| 27 | If we knew she 'd gone to climb the Himalayas , we would n't care . |
| 28 | And he 'd meant to watch the God slot . |
| 29 | The attacks , all using an explosive base of fertiliser rather than Semtex , seem designed to prove the IRA 's ability to infiltrate even the most protected areas . |
| 30 | President Carter should have sought to spring the US hostages from Iran in 1980 as the only logical outcome of his life as a peanut farmer in Georgia or a president of the United States . |