Example sentences of "[adj] [noun prp] [to-vb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Host of the Unforgiven Dead , also known as the Sluagh , is the term used by people from the Scottish Highlands to describe the spirit world . |
| 2 | The Chearavanont family 's Charoen Pokphand group ( poultry , animal feed , petrochemicals and , most recently , a joint venture with British Telecom to triple the number of telephone lines in Thailand ) is Mr Scott 's favourite to ‘ become the dominant business empire in Thailand by 2000 ’ . |
| 3 | Earlier Sir Bryan 's office had been forced to withdraw an announcement about the shutdown decision because of the legal challenge , but he later issued the formal order to British Telecom to pull the plug . |
| 4 | Attempts by British Telecom to find a partner in America foundered again when talks with Electronic Data Systems , America 's biggest computing-services company and a subsidiary of General Motors , were called off after disagreement on how much control BT would have over EDS . |
| 5 | Sir John , 72 , ordered British Telecom to remove the box from the village green at Rodbourne , near Malmesbury , Wilts , because he was miffed that drivers kept parking by his £250,000 manor house to use it . |
| 6 | Police broke news of the tragedy to their father who was taken to nearby Newhaven to give a statement to detectives . |
| 7 | Louis the Pious seemed to have the situation firmly under control when in the autumn of 829 he took the six-year old Charles to make a kind of joyeuse entrée into his intended realm . |
| 8 | According to an Agence France-Presse ( AFP ) report on March 9 , representatives from the KDP and the Iraqi government held talks in Baghdad in early March to discuss the government 's embargo and the outbreak of renewed fighting in northern Iraq . |
| 9 | This Circular withdrew Circular 10/65 , and affirmed the ( Conservative ) government 's intention to allow individual LEAs to determine the shape of secondary education ( selective or comprehensive ) in their areas . |
| 10 | Some 150 experts in solar energy from across the world met at UNESCO headquarters in Paris in early July to prepare the ground for the second " global solar summit " , scheduled for 1995-97 . |
| 11 | Forced to reply the following July to acknowledge a sum of fifty francs from Theo , he said grimly that he was writing ‘ with some reluctance ’ because ‘ you have become a total stranger to me , and I have become the same to you . ’ |
| 12 | A Vietnamese delegation led by Senior Gen. Vo Van Kiet , First Vice-Premier , visited Malaysia in early February to attend a World Bank seminar on development strategy . |
| 13 | Money is liable to be the main topic of conversation or bone of contention this month , so make the most of a reassuring planetary set-up in early May to reach a settlement . |
| 14 | At least one high-readiness multinational corps is expected to be a rapid-deployment force that could be sent from central Europe to keep the peace or do battle elsewhere . |
| 15 | A march through central London to mark the anniversary of last year 's poll-tax riot passed off peacefully . |
| 16 | He cited recent strikes by railway workers , London Underground staff , North Sea oil workers and steel erectors in central London to bolster the case for legislation . |
| 17 | He was an administrator now as well as a detective , so that in the morning he had a report to write , two interviews to conduct , while in the afternoon he must drive to central London to attend a committee . |
| 18 | The measure used in inner-city Belfast to examine the relationship between language variation and network structure was a six-point scale which measured speaker scores on five indicators of multiplexity and density . |
| 19 | He tells the despairing Moses to strike a rock with his rod , and water will stream forth from it for the people to drink . |
| 20 | The Serbian government called on June 8 for Bosnian Serbs to stop the fighting . |
| 21 | Mr Milosevic , blamed by the West for the fighting which swept the northern Balkans following the breakup of Yugoslavia , helped Mr Vance get the Bosnian Serbs to accept a peace plan during talks in Geneva in January . |
| 22 | But there are reasons for thinking his pleas to the Bosnian Serbs to accept the peace plan were sincere . |
| 23 | Clinton has been under growing pressure to take a tougher stand including NATO air strikes against Bosnian Serbs to end the bloodshed in the 17-month-old war . |
| 24 | Mr Milosevic is urging the Bosnian Serbs to sign the plan because , he says , it would allow them to hold on to almost all the territory they have won by force . |
| 25 | Urban 's pro-French foreign policy during the Thirty Years War had left him in an exposed position when Richelieu joined forces with Protestant Sweden to thwart the restoration of Catholicism in Germany . |
| 26 | The Middle East Economic Digest of April 10 reported that Mohammad Harbah , the Interior Minister , had announced the release of some 600 " mainly political prisoners " in late March to mark the start of Assad 's fourth term . |
| 27 | Another attack of coughing forced Kelly to hold the receiver away from her ear . |
| 28 | And now he 's pestering poor David to make a will . |
| 29 | A promised Mercedes to take the couple to All Saints in Deganwy was sold without Joanne and Maurice being told . |
| 30 | The BBC was stung by the governments decision in late November to back the MAC transmission system developed by the Independent Broadcasting Authority , instead of extended PAL , the BBC 's own system . |