Example sentences of "[verb] the [noun] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On July 30 , Talabani met the UK Prime Minister John Major in London , on the first leg of a European tour , before holding talks on July 31 with French officials in Paris . |
| 2 | In 1988 he was elected to the National Assembly on behalf of the main opposition party at that time , the Party for Peace and Democracy , and in August of that year he made an unauthorized visit to North Korea where he reportedly met the North Korean President Kim Il-sing and other officials . |
| 3 | I met the Manchester Olympic bid committee some weeks ago when we discussed the proposed bid that Manchester wishes to make . |
| 4 | Twenty four foreign students from the Darlington College of Technology , Queen Elizabeth Sixth Form College and Polam Hall met the Darlington Rotary Club for an International Day lunch . |
| 5 | Lord Carrington travelled again to Belgrade on Nov. 22 , and met the UN special envoy to Yugoslavia , former US Secretary of State Cyrus Vance . |
| 6 | Acheson met the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on 24 March to discuss the proposals for Greece and Turkey and to answer questions on Korea . |
| 7 | The teachers in our study did use strategies which came into the first category , but it was the second which was the key to understanding the all-pervasive quality of the collaboration and the self-sufficiency of the children which had so impressed us , allowing the teacher uninterrupted periods of time for working with individuals and groups . |
| 8 | Sharing the humanist outlook of the continental reformer , Desiderius Erasmus , they were in favour of allowing the laity easy access to English translations of the Bible , placing a greater emphasis on preaching , and instituting simplified forms of worship , stripped of superstitious practices such as the worship of relics and images . |
| 9 | a paper size in the series of ISO international paper sizes slightly larger than the A series allowing the printer extra space to bleed . |
| 10 | In Brussels yesterday , EC transport ministers took a step towards allowing the executive European Commission to negotiate transport accords on behalf of EC states , when they agreed to set up a working party to see when and how the Commission could negotiate . |
| 11 | have successfully completed the HCIMA professional certificate . |
| 12 | Student members who have successfully completed the HCIMA Professional Certificate Programme , including the Case Study and who have gained appropriate work experience in the industry are eligible to apply for Licentiate Membership . |
| 13 | The original condition appealed to buyers and it quickly doubled the £8,000-£10,000 pre-sale estimate . |
| 14 | Just 12 minutes had gone when Stuart Barlow pierced the Chelsea offside trap and chipped a perfect centre to Peter Beardsley . |
| 15 | He thinks I 'm a tramp , she thought , almost dispassionately , and he hates what he 's done , hates the way sexual desire 's lured him , tricked him . |
| 16 | To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what is now the estimated total cost of acquiring and maintaining the Trident nuclear weapon system . |
| 17 | We have already seen that failure satisfactorily to surmount the Oedipus complex results in pre-Oedipal fixations , notably at the anal and oral stages , and it may be here that we can find the primitive , rudimentary superego elements which can , and indeed must , remain when the mature superego does not develop . |
| 18 | In a letter dated Aug. 14 , the Iraqi President Saddam Hussein informed the Iranian President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani that Iraq had agreed ( i ) " to adopt the 1975 agreement " ( i.e. the Algiers accord , which divided the Shatt al-Arab waterway between Iran and Iraq ] ; ( ii ) to withdraw as of Aug. 17 an estimated 100,000-250,000 Iraqi troops from Iranian territory officially totalling 2,600 sq km ; and ( iii ) to begin the immediate repatriation of an estimated 30,000 Iranian prisoners of war . |
| 19 | Building the Lifeboat illuminated car in 1926 , demanded some knowledge of boat-building , as seen here . |
| 20 | An Herefordshire company , Border Oak , is building the oak framed houses . |
| 21 | Also with Government loans , another company is building the Lear-Fan light executive aircraft near Belfast . |
| 22 | He also confronts the Rhodesia Front men — whom his family know well — with a few fresh ideas . |
| 23 | Eliot , who lent the circle considerable prestige , found himself in congenial assorted , and in some cases strange , company . |
| 24 | The diversity of the spirits thus directly parallels the Akawaio social order . |
| 25 | We passed the Porthreath disused aerodrome . |
| 26 | The NPC session approved these reports with minimal alteration , and also passed the Draft Basic Law for what would be the Hong Kong Special Autonomous Region [ see pp. 37248 ; 37376 ] . |
| 27 | To visualize the positions of all efferent neurons that exit via the vii/viii nerve , we therefore applied the retrograde axonal tracer DiI to the exit point in r4 . |
| 28 | On July 31 , the Afghan government had criticized the ICO Foreign Ministers ' decision in Riyadh in March 1989 [ see p. 36537 ] to allocate " the Republic of Afghanistan seat … to the Afghan opposition based in Pakistan " . |
| 29 | The southern Italian peasant , he said , acts as if following this rule : ‘ Maximise the material short-run advantage of the nuclear family ; assume that all others will do likewise . |
| 30 | The owner of ‘ The Hollybush ’ at Elstree proposed to infill an original coach arch in the pub 's facade and to demolish the timber framed side walls of the passageway behind in order to form a larger and open interior , even though it was this feature that distinguished the building as an historic inn . |