Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | To help establish a strong UK base to enable participation in the EEC programmes |
| 2 | The management board offers advice to the governing body , but also makes many final decisions itself . |
| 3 | This will release space in the Cottrell Building to accommodate expansion of the other Schools . |
| 4 | One of the earliest defectors to the West was the Russian Igor Gouzenko who with considerable difficulty sought asylum with the Canadian authorities in September 1945 , bringing with him a vast amount of information about Russian espionage activities in North America . |
| 5 | This ongoing assessment side-steps dependence upon the concept of ‘ average ’ . |
| 6 | Even as the armies of Chaos laid siege to the shrine Aenarion stood before the ever-burning flame and begged Asuryan to aid his people . |
| 7 | The practical applications of the work will be to provide information for coastal planning and engineering studies , to identify marine aggregate resources , to give advice on the siting of outfalls , cable and pipeline routes , and to carry out geochemical baseline studies and investigate sediment contamination using information from the geological survey . |
| 8 | MILK producers are well on course to hit quota by the year-end , according to Milk Marketing Board head of quotas Huw Rees . |
| 9 | How far does the writer make use of the emotive and other associations of words , as opposed to their referential meaning ? |
| 10 | Several silk mills were set up around the Chalford Valley , but the majority made use of the then-vacant woollen mills . |
| 11 | She writes : ‘ As a paradigm for encountering terror , this story offers sustenance for the present journey … . |
| 12 | A rough lane goes downriver from the bottom end of the street in Keld and this soon develops into a lovely path amongst trees from which Kisdon Force is reached by a shod detour . |
| 13 | Government environmental and medical authorities in Northern Ireland , Britain , Germany , Holland , Belgium and the US have also been consulted and their advice has been incorporated in building the most modern asbestos using plant in the world . |
| 14 | During the North-East ABA Select v London and Home Counties match , Spennymoor 's Stephen Hodgson will meet London 's Barney Doherty , who pipped Hodgson on a majority points decision for the national schools title in the finals at Derby recently . |
| 15 | The decision to conduct debate on the war in closed session was taken by a majority vote on Feb. 13 on the proposal of the UK . |
| 16 | Secondly , the case became representative of the whole thrift scandal , where the newly deregulated savings and loan industry had been pillaged through ruthless speculation and outright fraud . |
| 17 | However , he was soon busy in Parliament demanding redress against the agents of ‘ popery and slavery ’ , and sat on the committee for the Toleration Act . |
| 18 | Some of the discussion of the informal sector and the Turner thesis suggest that , for a minority , there may be small improvements in housing or occupation , but the majority remain part of the mass of the urban poor . |
| 19 | Born in Istanbul , Pasha became director of the Deutset-Orient Bank there . |
| 20 | The board admitted responsibility for the affair and apologised for any ‘ errors ’ in accepting Mr Birt 's freelance status which gave him tax advantages . |
| 21 | The board admitted responsibility for the affair and apologised for any ‘ errors ’ in accepting Mr Birt 's freelance status which gave him tax advantages . |
| 22 | The story made News of the World . |
| 23 | The second sentence constitutes part of the setting along with the time elements established in the first sentence . |
| 24 | It avoids the pitfall of trying to be too clever , and thanks to its ice-sharp ingenuity offers entertainment of the highest quality . |
| 25 | All the other matches ended in draws but Nottinghamshire wasted an opportunity to go top of the table at Lord 's . |
| 26 | All the other matches ended in draws but Nottinghamshire wasted an opportunity to go top of the table at Lord 's . |
| 27 | Finally , it is notable that the moment of the Newbolt Report is also that of the establishment of the University Grants Committee as the quango for university education . |
| 28 | The universities complained that the replacement of the University Grants Committee by the Universities Funding Council posed a threat to their independence , arguing that whereas the University Grants Committee represented the universities to the government , the Universities Funding Council represents the government to the universities . |
| 29 | France expressed horror at the assassination and appealed for unity to assure peace in the country it once ruled . |
| 30 | She stood there , tall , slim , striking , her hair catching light from the sun , and she told them about history or exotic religions — dramatically , humanly , but cleverly mixing in the dry bits with the drama . |