Example sentences of "[verb] the [adj] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The long , surprisingly thick mid-mounted wing , a legacy of the Fouga company 's glider-producing background , should endow low induced drag , although the myriad accessory-cooling slots and intakes on the engine casing and odd lumps and bumps of antennas on the aft body must dirty the otherwise-clean tandem configuration . |
| 2 | Two main differences , besides the obvious ones of speed , scale and aspirations , distinguish the French strike waves from the Italian . |
| 3 | The Sir Peter Hall Company premieres the new Stephen Poliakoff play Sienna Road from May 11–16 . |
| 4 | Religious Education should provide the context for and substantially influence the whole school curriculum . |
| 5 | City : Why Tokyo is tumbling The Japanese stock market has halved in value since 1989 . |
| 6 | The many service companies , professional associations and various other firms and organisations host the traditional sausage sizzles , barbecues and Christmas drinks/cocktail parties , and all this corporate hospitality helps to set the Christmas mood . |
| 7 | In other featured games this week , the rejuvenated Phil Simms will be attempting to keep his throwing arm limber after last week 's 227 yard game against Chicago as the New York Giants host the dark horses Tampa Bay Buccaneers ; meanwhile the Green Bay Packers , fancied by many as Superbowl contenders , will be looking forward to clipping the wings of the Philadelphia Eagles before they have a chance to soar . |
| 8 | In contrast to existing local authority plans , LDDC explicitly encouraged mainly private housing to diversify the existing housing stock which was 80 per cent council housing . |
| 9 | His first destination was the headquarters of the ANC in Lusaka ( Zambia ) , where he met the exiled ANC executive committee , and other leaders of the Frontline states and Commonwealth representatives , and was greeted with the ceremony normally reserved for heads of state . |
| 10 | Coming back from the pillar box at the end of Charteris Road , Nurse Rose met the Private Wing sister . |
| 11 | Drawn to socialism by her sister , Eva , she met the Irish labour leaders , James Connolly and James Larkin [ qq.v. ] , and helped the 1913 lockout strike of Dublin workers by running a soup kitchen in Liberty Hall . |
| 12 | To cut a long story short — and I 'd be glad to give the details to anyone who wants — it was in Moers that our force met the Communist Party leadership of the Ruhr . |
| 13 | The authors show that unqualified mature students in their study had some educational or professional qualification and just over half ( 51% ) met the General Entrance Requirement of their particular university . |
| 14 | Most of the students investigated in this study were non-traditional in that they either possessed qualifications which met the general entrance requirements of the institution but had been gained them in non-traditional ways ( i.e. by other than full time attendance at secondary school ) , or they did not meet the requirement but had other qualifications or evidence of attainment acceptable to the institution in question . |
| 15 | He never met the young air force crew , never even saw them , yet he has never forgotten them either . |
| 16 | Talbot Square now became a focal point on the tramway system , where the new town routes met the busy Promenade track , newly relaid and extended to the Gynn . |
| 17 | In 1892 she went with her mother on a visit to South Africa , where she met the feminist Olive Schreiner [ q.v. ] and fell traumatically in love with an unmarriageable man . |
| 18 | In 1900 she met the American collector Samuel Bancroft , who became her foremost patron . |
| 19 | It is while at an Instructor training course at the scouts ' Longbridge centre that they met the infamous Saun Baker and started to paddle with an informal group of Thames weir bashers . |
| 20 | ‘ Direct mail ’ ( often known as ‘ junk mail ’ ) , on the other hand , even though it came through the letter-box dressed up as a personal letter and not as a newspaper , arguably met the mass medium definition of reaching large numbers of people quickly and simultaneously . |
| 21 | To ask the Minister of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food when he last met the National Farmers Union to discuss the MacSharry proposals for the reform of the common agricultural policy . |
| 22 | Britain angered Iran when Mr Rushdie met the Foreign Office minister , Douglas Hogg , on 4 February , his first public meeting with a British Government minister in four years . |
| 23 | It was pointed out that he met the Foreign Office Minister , Douglas Hogg , earlier this month . |
| 24 | At last some passed me with books ; I stopped them , and found the books to be Bibles : it was all clear now , they were going to a week-day preaching , and shortly after , as the road wound down a glen over a burn , I met the Free Church minister on his way to the place of meeting . |
| 25 | In 1764 Angelica Kauffman met the German art lover Joachim Winkelmann , She painted his portrait , showing him casually dressed , holding a quill , seated over an open writing book . |
| 26 | On Sept. 17 the same leaders met the Public Security Minister , Ismaila Nimaga , after which they agreed to suspend a rally planned for the following day . |
| 27 | Santa Anna lost so much time and so many men in a pyrrhic victory , for which he need never have fought in the first place , that when he finally met the full Texan force under General Sam Houston he was utterly defeated . |
| 28 | WDA executive director of business services , Meirion Thomas , together with representatives from the local authorities , met the CSI board members at the factory . |
| 29 | In early 1970 , he met the Italian director Franco Zeffirelli to talk about his playing Francis of Assisi in Brother Sun and Sister Moon . |
| 30 | But — and it 's this sort of complication that makes him I think such a remarkable man — although that did happen then , for the next ten , twelve years , he was entirely preoccupied , almost entirely preoccupied with something else , and this something else erm originates from the other revolution that he underwent at this time , a revolution that occurred after a visit to an international mathematical congress in Paris , where he met the Italian mathematician Peano . |