Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [adv prt] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Selecting the right personnel to carry out the PR function . |
| 2 | The Master Locksmiths Association has its roots in the early 1950s , when a group of craftsmen set up the Greater London Locksmiths Association . |
| 3 | They are mentioned by name on eighteenth-century maps and referred to in Sir Walter Scott 's The Bridal of Triermain ; they are often supposed to mark the county boundary , which they do not , and the most popular theory is that they were erected at the time of the Border raids to delude Scots advancing up the Eden valley , from which they are conspicuously in view , into the belief that an English army was encamped there . |
| 4 | Anguita had resigned as general co-ordinator of the IU on Nov. 27 , after opposing some PCE members and members of other parties within the alliance who had argued that parties making up the IU should dissolve to form one party . |
| 5 | I like it when when wh it floods in town and you can go down and watch foreigners standing looking at the roofs of their cars floating down the Ouse and you think Yeah ! . |
| 6 | The ordeal is over : the Namibians show off the Sicily Trophy after beating Hong Kong 26–12 in the catania final . |
| 7 | LIFFE was aware of plans to set up the DTB , and moved quickly to pre-empt its business in German long interest rates . |
| 8 | But the dictator needed British craftsmanship for the fine tools required to operate missiles , so the Iraqis checked out the Midlands engineering firm Matrix Churchill . |
| 9 | The Croats drove out the Serbs from Kupres this week and , according to eye-witnesses , wished them well with a few genocidal strokes . |
| 10 | The companies set up the Volta Aluminium Company ( VALCO ) in 1959 . |
| 11 | In January 1990 the UN Security Council agreed to extend the mandate for a further two months of the detachment of 40 officers from 10 countries making up the UN Good Offices Mission in Afghanistan and Pakistan ( UNGOMAP ) , created to monitor the withdrawal of foreign troops from Afghanistan as well as other aspects of the Geneva Accords of 1988 . |
| 12 | TROY AIKMAN threw for three touchdowns as the Dallas Cowboys wrapped up the NFC East title with a 41-17 NFL rout of the Atlanta Falcons . |
| 13 | Public pressure on the Canadian and Quebec governments has resulted in the pledge of more than 2.4 billion dollars over the next 10 years to clean up the St Lawrence and create a marine sanctuary for the remaining belugas . |
| 14 | After determined application of the economic weapon by the Eisenhower Administration had forced a cease-fire as British troops advanced down the Suez Canal on 6 November 1956 , an exhausted Eden flew to Jamaica to recuperate on 21 November . |
| 15 | As their orange balloons float around the Bull And Gate , popping in time with the music , the Lollies inject heart and soul into songs like ‘ Your Sun ’ and ‘ Disinheritance ’ while their enthusiastic following cavort wildly . |
| 16 | As their orange balloons float around the Bull And Gate , popping in time with the music , the Lollies inject heart and soul into songs like ‘ Your Sun ’ and ‘ Disinheritance ’ while their enthusiastic following cavort wildly . |
| 17 | Before Cook 's tours of Egypt , Victorian travellers hired their own boats to travel up the Nile . |
| 18 | In the following year Koops set up the Minerva Universal Insurance Office in Pall Mall , Westminster . |
| 19 | This latter influence became more pronounced when the Britons took over the George Shanks version of the Protocols , entitled The Jewish Peril , in 1920 , and published the Victor Marsden version , World Conquest through World Government , in 1921 . |
| 20 | Perhaps my problem is the way I perceived the first news of the crumbling of the old Europe ; sitting in hospital and festooned in drip feeds and stoned out of my mind on pethidine as I came round from an anaesthetic , I muzzily watched the news on the TV in the corner of my room and truly believed I was hallucinating as I saw kitchen choppers taking down the Berlin Wall ; after such a beginning to the thaw , how can I believe that as well as East Germany 's arrival in the West , Czechoslovakia is almost herself again . |
| 21 | This will be easily demonstrated by watching one of these lorries trundling down the Ormeau Road and through the centre of town . |
| 22 | On 1 April 1990 prisoners took over the Strangeways Prison , Manchester in what was to become the most prolonged protest against inhuman and degrading conditions in penal institutions . |
| 23 | During one of the psychological talks , delivered to an audience of eleven , the members filled in the Wilson-Patterson Scale of Conservatism ( Wilson and Patterson , 1968 ) . |
| 24 | His columnist chums built up the Dillingers and Machine Gun Kellys of America , the small-time hoods , and the G-Men , with some difficulty , took them out . |
| 25 | But Melody ( 6-4 fav ) , feeling the strain of a gruelling season , failed by three and a half lengths to pull back the Isle of Man-owned winner . |
| 26 | On the buses , everything is running smoothly , except for buses heading down the Headington Road out towards the Green Road roundabout because of the accident there . |
| 27 | Material sufficient for three divisions was despatched to the nationalist regime of Mustafa Kemal Pasha in aid of his war against Greece , and the honeymoon period with Sun Yat-Sen and Chiang Kai-Shek ( 1922–27 ) saw the granting of more than $2 million in military aid to the Kuomintang : whilst Soviet advisers set up the Whampoa military academy and trained soldiers of the National Revolutionary Army in the field , Soviet troops performed limited combat missions , including aerial bombardment and reconnaissance . |
| 28 | There was a coal fire in the sitting room and when Ianthe had drawn the curtains to shut out the November evening everybody agreed with John when he exclaimed how ‘ cosy ’ it was . |
| 29 | ‘ Vinny has always claimed the Wimbledon players psyched out the Liverpool team in the tunnel before the 1988 FA Cup final . |
| 30 | For a moment Masklin thought the nome was laughing , and then he saw the tears rolling down the Abbot 's face . |