Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] [prep] [noun prp] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Michio Watanabe proposed a new compromise solution on April 21 in an attempt to settle with Russia the long-standing territorial dispute over the four islands known by Russia as the southern Kuriles , and by Japan as the Northern Territories , situated to the north-east of Japan 's northern island of Hokkaido . |
| 2 | Can I interpret what you 've just said as erm representing in effect an aim on the part of the County Council to secure in Harrogate the nineteen ninety one area of employment land plus ninety hectares in two thousand and six ? |
| 3 | To that end I have been instructed by the Committee to explore with ScotRail the scope and costs for providing and servicing a rail halt for Murrayfield . |
| 4 | Although I consider that at the relevant time Lautro 's Rules , and thus its procedure , were defective in the respects I have outlined , for the reasons I have given I conclude that Lautro were not required by law to afford to Winchester the opportunity to make representations as to why an intervention notice should not be served before deciding whether or not to serve such a notice . |
| 5 | On the Gulf crisis , the Council denounced Iraq 's " unscrupulous use " of hostages and agreed unanimously " not to send representatives of their governments in any capacity to negotiate with Iraq the release of foreign hostages and to discourage others from doing so " , while calling on the UN Secretary-General to send a special representative to Iraq to press for the hostages ' release . |
| 6 | Where Mr Winchester 's cross-Pacific connections become less sure is when they become tangible and man-made : the optical-fibre telephone cable that snakes beneath the Pacific from California to Hawaii and then branches out to Japan and Guam ; the AsiaSat satellite and its fellow ‘ birds ’ , sitting on the equator to bounce across Asia the telephone calls of businessmen and the television dramas of Hollywood ; the new Boeing 747–400 , able to fly non-stop from Sydney to Los Angeles ; and , odd as it seems , the Macintosh computer . |
| 7 | I just could n't keep away from her when I got the chance to escape from Rocamar the other day . |
| 8 | In his hurry to return to Italy the magistrate did not allow sufficient time for the necessary light exposure and , despite protests from the technicians , rushed off with the recording . |
| 9 | I wish to explore those proposals , lay bare the dangers which lurk beneath them and identify the threat not only to parliamentary representation from Scotland in this House but to the economic well-being of Scotland if the Labour party were ever in a position to exercise in Scotland the kind of powers that it would give to such an assembly . |
| 10 | In the course of his libel proceedings against Tolstoy , Lord Aldington stated that he had been succeeded as BGS by Brig de Fonblanque on 21 May , in order to return to England the following day ( the last document bearing his personal initials was the " definition Order " of 21 May ) . |
| 11 | The prosecutor wanted the trial to resume on October the thirtieth , but the magistrate accepted Mrs Mandela 's lawyer , Ishmael Eyob 's reasons for a later trial date . |
| 12 | This meant many of the staff could be travelling for days on end , racing against deadlines , and , just when they were at their most exhausted , might receive a summons to fly to France the next day , which usually meant leaving at 5.30 am . |
| 13 | On the one hand , in a certain sense , all the elements which comprise X condition the tribunal 's power to decide upon Y. The statute says , explicitly or implicitly , if X you may or shall do Y. On the other hand , to accept that the reviewing courts should be the ultimate arbiters of the meaning of all the elements comprising the X factor would cause review to become very like appeal . |