Example sentences of "[verb] in [noun] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are not opening in Paris solely to take advantage of the end of trading restrictions within the EC in 1993 , but because the opportunity arose to obtain a suitable area of the Hotel Bristol with our own street window and entrance . |
| 2 | Good afternoon , Celtic say that Lou Macari is expected in Scotland tomorrow to finalise the deal that will confirm him as their new manager . |
| 3 | I stopped in town only to ask about Miss Havisham . |
| 4 | AS Sir Patrick Mayhew and Irish Foreign Minister Dick Spring met in Dublin today to discuss the way ahead , following the local election results , there was no clear path for them to follow . |
| 5 | NATO Defence Ministers , rejecting criticism of a new western policy to contain the conflict in Bosnia , met in Brussels today to discuss how to protect Muslim enclaves designated as ‘ safe areas ’ with troops and air power . |
| 6 | AS the BBC 's board of governors meets in London today to pronounce formally on the future of the corporation 's director-general , and perhaps that of its own chair , BBC Scotland has become preoccupied with pressing problems of its own . |
| 7 | THE Belfast Telegraph today obtained a copy of a letter from US President Bill Clinton to a former Congressman who arrives in Ireland tomorrow to campaign for a peace envoy to be sent to the province . |
| 8 | In the fourth century , Athenian democracy was curtailed in ways harder to resist than a Hyperbolus , who could simply be got rid of : the institutionalized power of the men who administered the various state funds grew in the course of the fourth century , and as such people got above themselves Athens became a less democratic place than it had been in the fifth century . |
| 9 | Leaders of the Councils , none of them Tory controlled , have been meeting in London today to plan a campaign . |
| 10 | The Jockey Club was meeting in London yesterday to discuss the findings of an inquiry led by Mr Justice Connell |
| 11 | A multitude of memos circulate in organizations simply to justify our behaviours in the event of a breakdown . |
| 12 | Er France interv intervened in Spain initially to put down a liberal revolt . |
| 13 | Froissart suggests that Edward intervened in Brittany merely to distract Philip , and there may be something in this ; but it was also important for him to protect the sea route from England to Aquitaine around the Finistère peninsula , and above all the allegiance of the Duke of Brittany would be a great prize in Edward 's campaign to undermine Philip VI 's authority in France . |
| 14 | An electric drill is essential for plumbing work : there are a lot of holes that need to be made in walls either to pass pipes through or to secure pipe clips or to support fittings such as basins , central heating boilers and so on — and making these is much easier with an electric drill fitted with a masonry drill bit . |
| 15 | However , Gen. Lewis MacKenzie , commander of UN operations in Sarajevo said on July 21 that 40,000 UN troops were needed in Sarajevo alone to keep the peace and that all sides were breaking " the international rules of war " . |
| 16 | MacDonald , Glasier and others did attempt to develop an organic view of society which denied justice to its working class , and provide guidance on how it might be transformed in order better to integrate the class into a corporate whole . |
| 17 | FAR FROM the drama of special agents in helicopters swooping over remote Colombian mountainsides , experts from the world 's richest countries meet in Paris today to improve what many consider to be the most effective means of combating the drugs trade — hitting the traffickers ' pockets . |
| 18 | EUROPEAN COMMUNITY finance ministers meet in Brussels today to seek a way out of the impasse over harmonisation of VAT and excise duty rates which , if unresolved , could make the 1992 single market unworkable . |
| 19 | The leading groups meet in Vienna periodically to bring the work together . |
| 20 | Resignations are expected when the DLV meet in Frankfurt today to discuss the aftermath of the Krabbe affair . |
| 21 | Senhor Jose Cutileiro of Portugal , EC special envoy , arrived in Sarajevo yesterday to reconvene talks between the warring parties . |
| 22 | FORMER boxing champion Muhammad Ali , left , arrived in Britain yesterday to see his life story unfold on stage . |
| 23 | A hastily-assembled six-man Iraqi delegation arrived in Turkey yesterday to discuss the plans , which they fear could affect rice and wheat crops in central and southern Iraq . |
| 24 | He arrived in Karaman only to hear of Cemaleddin Aksarayi 's death ; but , having met Molla Fenari , he went off with him to Egypt to study under Shaykh Akmal al-Din . |
| 25 | Two-year-old Rhys , from Epping , arrived in Bristol yesterday to settle in before three days of medical investigations at the city 's Children 's Hospital . |
| 26 | Rhys , aged two , of Epping , Essex , arrived in Bristol yesterday to settle in before three days of medical investigations at the Children 's Hospital . |
| 27 | ARCHBISHOP Desmond Tutu arrived in Bangkok yesterday to start efforts by Nobel Peace Prize winners to win freedom for a fellow laureate , the Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi . |
| 28 | ARCHBISHOP Desmond Tutu arrived in Bangkok yesterday to start efforts by Nobel Peace Prize winners to win freedom for a fellow laureate , the Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi . |
| 29 | A GROUP from education establishments in Norway arrived in Darlington yesterday to view courses at the technical college . |
| 30 | A NEW ‘ shop ’ called Delors 's Deli opened in Edinburgh yesterday to illustrate a consumer watchdog 's claim that the EC 's food policy costs the average family up to £18 a week . |