Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [to-vb] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ For God 's sake , get to sea instantly … , ’ the First Lord of the Admiralty signalled the captain in command of the squadron assigned to blockade the Texel . |
| 2 | Turns out that that Game Genie sold by Lewis Galoob Toys Inc in the US that enables players to alter the parameters of games , and which Nintendo Co failed to persuade the US Supreme Court to declare illegal ( CI No 2,135 ) , is a British product : according to the Mail on Sunday , the thing comes from Codemasters Software Ltd of Leamington Spa , whose share of the $15m award to Lewis Galoob came to $3.4m ; Codemasters now has sights on Japan . |
| 3 | ‘ This is one more example of our ability and willingness to continue to support the UN in the cause of peace . ’ |
| 4 | If the 3rd parameter is set to FALSE access to all information with respect to a DC will be restricted to users who are interested in the DC , ie. the user who submitted the DC , any assessors of the DC and any user asked to approve the DC . |
| 5 | ‘ If an English clerk wants to see the Lord Bruce , then that can be arranged . ’ |
| 6 | Even when that object was not consciously in view most proposals for Masai development tended in practice towards that end , their essential ingredient being some measure designed to move the Masai away from the semi-nomadism they had immemorially practised towards a way of living which would make it easier for administrators to keep a benevolent eye on them . |
| 7 | It is the Company 's intention to continue to regard the AUK Notes as part of its working capital ; they are pledged as collateral for Group borrowings . |
| 8 | Another fishing boat tried to tow the Glenmore back to port in rough seas , but it finally sank ninety miles east of Orkney . |
| 9 | This , after all , is a programme designed to cut the US budget deficit and boost the economy . |
| 10 | Following the Iraqi invasion , the opposition pledged to support the Sabahs fully until Kuwait was liberated . |
| 11 | Under Carters human rights programme , the state Department began to pressure the Shah to restrain his secret police , and Zahedis opulent flamboyance was ill suited for Carters desire for a less pretentious style of government . |
| 12 | The expenditure was justified by the argument that the newspaper industry existed to vilify the GLC and the rest of the left , and that the public was being denied the chance to hear the other side . |
| 13 | The Irish selectors were out in force preparing to pick the Northern Ireland bowls team for the Commonwealth Games in Canada next year and no doubt the young Portrush man could feature in their plans . |
| 14 | If the assault proved successful , Egypt would no longer be vulnerable to attack ( the Turks had already sent a force to attempt to seize the Suez Canal ) and Turkey 's traditional enemies in the Balkans might be won over to the Allies . |
| 15 | All uitlanders , or non-citizens , of British stock had to leave the Transvaal Republic , and in spite of their Dutch antecedents the Crankos had by then become fully anglicized . |
| 16 | The irony is , however , that the economic crisis which might clinch their switch to Labour at the next election — with continuing balance-of-payments problems , punishing interest rates , a sinking pound , inflation and recession — would by definition preclude the heavy public investment required to implement the Kinnock programme . |
| 17 | The Committee has commented to the Health and Safety Commission , directly and through CIC , on draft regulations and an approved code of practice intended to implement the EC Temporary and Mobile Construction Sites Directive , stressing the need for clarity in defining the roles of all the parties with a responsibility for site safety . |
| 18 | On our return to Abergynolwyn we had a half hour wait to allow the Talyllyn 's vintage train to pass through and this allowed us to get a snack in the refreshment room . |
| 19 | In reply to the enquiry asking if there was any order , draft order or scheme for the construction of a new trunk road or special road or any proposals for the alteration or improvement of an existing road involving the construction , whether or not within existing highway limits within 200 metres of the property or construction of a new road or alteration or improvement of an existing road the Council stated no but the County Council intend to improve the Dane Street/Station Road within the next 10 years . |
| 20 | The report outlines how last March the council agreed to sell the Duke Street premises to the club on terms to be agreed by Mr Oak . |
| 21 | The Headmaster was helping prepare for the grand event and was so confident it would be a success , he had contacted a specialist to come to take the Bookman away when caught . |
| 22 | The Grand Union committee tried to persuade the Leicester and Northants . |
| 23 | It was not long before the Joint Committee began to starve the NGC and associated radical elements of financial support , while fostering rival groups and individuals . |
| 24 | The references should be consulted for fuller accounts of experimental work on extensional flow , but present work seems to support the Zimm non-free-draining model ( Chap . |
| 25 | Trouble started when Southwark Council decided to repair the Old Kent Road . |
| 26 | But if I were Ben Hogan , and a Bob Hamilton or Willie Goggin chipped in to beat me in The Masters , a Walter Burkemo holed a sand shot to swipe the PGA , a raw rookie — pick one — holed a 7-iron to beat me somewhere in Florida and then the like of a Bud Holscher or a Shelley Mayfield holed yet another sand shot to steal yet another victory , then I 'd not only be scouring the Fort Worth Yellow Pages looking for the nearest shrink , I might even think of tossing myself under a freight train in the nearest marshalling yard . |
| 27 | When the great British hope , Colin McRae went to work trying to win the RAC Rally , the last thing he needed ; he wanted , was a bad day at the office . |
| 28 | The usual approach to Dentdale is from the town of Sedbergh where two side roads signposted Dent join to cross the River Rawthey at Millthrop Bridge . |
| 29 | Darlington borough council refused to see the South African visitors including diplomat Pierrette Grobler , who has special responsibility for the North-East . |
| 30 | And he warned that any compensation paid to satisfy the Ombudman 's requirements , would squeeze funds set aside to help people with disabilities . |