Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] [vb -s] [vb pp] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dr Colin Wringe of the University of Keele has analysed the ambiguities in the active citizenship concept . |
| 2 | The new republic of Hungary has become the first eastern European government to commit to open systems and will use X/Open 's XPG brand in procurement . |
| 3 | I am aware that the President of Ukraine has made the point that he would like his republic to be a non-nuclear state and that he would like the west to assist with the process of dismantling and destruction . |
| 4 | The collapse of Drexel has drawn the public 's attention to over-borrowed companies struggling to service high-yield debts . |
| 5 | Unless the Church of Scotland has redefined the meaning of ordination , I remain a minister in function although I chose to demit status . |
| 6 | THE Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland has welcomed the decision by the Chancellor to ease the penalties on value added tax offences . |
| 7 | The Bank of England has cut the base rate by one per cent to eight per cent , its lowest level since June nineteen eighty-eight . |
| 8 | By creating the Redundant Churches Fund , the Church of England has ensured the preservation of some of its very finest buildings . |
| 9 | The Church of England has declared the 1990s to be the Decade of Evangelism ; but some people think evangelism is already doing too well . |
| 10 | Even the ever-cautious Bank of England has acknowledged the ‘ stirrings of a recovery ’ . |
| 11 | Since 1990 the Bank of England has dropped the term ‘ monetary sector ’ preferring to refer to the institutions in it as ‘ UK banks ’ . |
| 12 | President Collor of Brazil has announced the establishment of a new national park , the Serra Gera , between the Rio Grande do Sul and the Santa Catarina rivers . |
| 13 | Since then , the House of Commons has considered the matter on two subsequent occasions , on the latter resolving to leave things alone . |
| 14 | The Senate of Hamburg has given the go-ahead for the redevelopment of the museum area near its central station . |
| 15 | The First Bank of Kazakstan has bought the software element only of the same system . |
| 16 | THE Isle of Man has become the first British authority to issue plastic identity card driving licences with tamper-proof colour photographs , using a £30,000 digital imaging system developed by Hitachi and NBS Card Systems of Weybridge , Surrey . |
| 17 | The acquisition of Martindale-Hubbell has cost the British publisher $303million ( £194million ) and takes its spending on magazines and directories this year to £847million . |
| 18 | Worldspan Travel Information Services , owned by Delta Air Lines , Northwest , TWA , and Abacus Distribution Systems Pte Ltd of Singapore has bought the Pars Service Partnership airline reservation system from Northwest Airlines and Trans World Airlines , paying $25m for it . |
| 19 | Yet not a drop of Guinness has passed the McEniff lips . |
| 20 | THE Bank of China has attacked the proposed takeover of Midland Bank by Hongkong and Shanghai Bank , claiming Midland is ‘ one of the four worst-performing clearing banks in Britain ’ . |
| 21 | And at the same time there came before him Ximena Gomez , the daughter of the Count , who fell on her knees before him and said , Sir , I am the daughter of Count Don Gomez of Gormaz , and Rodrigo of Bivar has slain the Count my father , and of three daughters whom he has left I am the youngest . |
| 22 | Air pollution in the Thai capital of Bangkok has reached the point where it is " a serious threat to public health " , killing 1,400 per year , according to a new report for the US Agency for International Development ( USAID ) , Ranking Environmental Health Risks in Bangkok . |
| 23 | Ever since then — and especially since the US politician and writer Ignatius Donnelly published his Atlantis , the Antediluvian World in 1882 — the legend of Atlantis has captured the public imagination . |
| 24 | Although the House of Lords has allowed the BBC and ITN broadcasters a fairly free hand when filming their House , the 1988–89 Committee was much more cautious and imposed rules almost as restrictive as those in Canada ( despite , one might think , its own visit there ) . |
| 25 | As this review was going the House of Lords has permitted the citation of Hansard ; Mr Bennion will have to start on his next edition . |
| 26 | Nonetheless , the avoidance of the country ever again being ‘ held to ransom ’ by the National Union of Mineworkers has provided the nuclear industry with yet another political toehold . |
| 27 | THE STORY of the legendary Lawrence of Arabia has fascinated the media for many years , not least director David Lean , who made it into a famous feature film with Peter O'Toole in 1962 . |
| 28 | He publishes the recipe in a book ; and another of the myriad village dishes of France has entered the repertory of la cuisine classique . |
| 29 | PRESIDENT Ibrahim Babangida of Nigeria has blocked the creation of 13 new political parties . |
| 30 | The initial grove of Merlin has lost the capping overhang , and the short slab to the foot of the layback groove is now a little more difficult . |