Example sentences of "[noun prp] [to-vb] [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although he found that television is far less violent than in Japan , the United States , France or West Germany , Dr Tadecki intends to campaign with Mary Whitehouse to curb violence on the screen . |
| 2 | It was left to the Hercules to unload help to the hungry . |
| 3 | Dundee had received a commission from the deposed James II as his Commander-in-Chief in Scotland , and fled into the Highlands to gather support among the clans . |
| 4 | Talks held on July 23 between the deputy chairmen of the Russian and Ukrainian parliaments , Yury Yazov and Vasiliy Dudinets respectively , ended with a decision to set up a joint parliamentary commission based in Sevastopol to supervise observance of the Dagomys agreement . |
| 5 | EC monitors had extended their activities to Hungary to monitor compliance with the arms embargo on Yugoslavia , having signed a protocol to this effect with Hungary on Jan. 16 . |
| 6 | In July 1989 her party secured a huge electoral breakthrough by causing the LDP to lose control of the upper chamber of the Diet for the first time in its history . |
| 7 | Children are invited again by Anne Blackwell to submit work on the idea ‘ Where is God ? |
| 8 | I am sure you will be interested to know the outcome of the application by Lucy to use part of the North Yard as a temporary training organisation in construction worker skills , for previously unemployed adults . |
| 9 | Sotheby 's B shares carry ten votes each and this , of course , will enable Taubman to retain control of the auction house which he purchased for £80 million in 1983 , unless the bank forecloses on the debt of Mr Taubman 's affiliate ( assumed to be his investments in the troubled retailing sectors ) for which 11 million of his Sotheby 's B shares stand guaranty . |
| 10 | Sheikh Mohammed 's colt ran a cracking race in the Group One Prix de L'Abbaye to finish second to the ill-fated Mr Brooks and it will be a major surprise if he fails to deliver in this Listed contest . |
| 11 | Another thing they have in common , sadly , is violence at screenings ; one kid was shot dead outside the cinema on Juice 's opening night and it caused distributors Paramount to withdraw advertising for the movie . |
| 12 | In 1879 she visited repealers in Plymouth to canvass support for the new bill , which proposed that the courts should remove children living in the society of depraved and disorderly persons and place them in industrial schools . |
| 13 | After five terms I moved into Surrey to become head of the history department in Wallington County Grammar School for Boys and to work away for five years at doing what grammar schools were most proud of : helping boys to win awards at Oxford or Cambridge , urging ever-growing numbers of them successfully through public examinations , encouraging that sense of discipline and order which characterized the traditional Public and grammar school , wearing a gown , sustaining the prefect system . |
| 14 | Participation in the Diamond Syndicate , set up in 1926 , by Sir Ernst Oppenheimer to bring stability to the diamond industry , secured JCI 's interest in this industry . |
| 15 | It was the destruction of thirty churches and monasteries in Bucharest to make way for the Civic Centre which aroused Western criticism of Ceauşescu 's rule on a grand scale . |
| 16 | In April 1914 , Mr. Wray left the S.M.E.T. to become Manager of the Gravesend & Northfleet Tramways . |
| 17 | There were several reasons why Adenauer pursued such a line of argument : it might be a way of helping the new West German state to achieve equality in the international order ; it might placate West German annoyance over the role of the International Ruhr Authority ; and it might in time offer an opportunity for West Germany to regain sovereignty of the coal and steel producing Saar , which still remained in French hands . |
| 18 | When Celtic equalised , bringing about a result that caused Aberdeen to lose ground in the championship race , there was that involuntary twitching movement , spreading from Aitken 's head to his toes , which signals that he is on the verge of doing someone a mischief unless he gets a satisfactory explanation in a very short space of time . |
| 19 | He also came by with old radios and plates , jugs and silver candlesticks , anything he picked up on his roaming trips around South London while he waited for Eva to continue work on the new flat . |
| 20 | On July 20 a group of French inspectors arrived in Ukraine to monitor implementation of the treaty , marking the start of an intensive 120-day period of mutual " baseline inspections " to establish current holdings in each country . |
| 21 | The London governors were by now contemplating extreme measures but they could not persuade the Royal Agricultural Society of England to provide support of the kind Dick was getting in Scotland and their veiled threats in the petition were likewise unsuccessful . |
| 22 | He was consecrated by the cardinal-bishop of Ostia and Velletri before 15 June , returned to England to profess obedience to the archbishop of Canterbury on 1 August , was granted the temporalities of the bishopric on 11 August , and was enthroned in his cathedral church in September . |
| 23 | Mr Brown went to Saudi Arabia last February to increase efficiency at the British-run King Khaled National Guard Hospital , near the Saudi capital , Jeddah . |
| 24 | Mr Brown went to Saudi Arabia last February to increase efficiency at the British-run King Khaled National Guard Hospital , near the Saudi capital , Jeddah . |
| 25 | As pressure grows on Energy Secretary , Mr John Wakeham to increase competition in the privatised power market by breaking National |
| 26 | It 's the first school in Scotland to receive permission from the government to become self-governing and has raised deep concerns in the local community . |
| 27 | It 's the first school in Scotland to receive permission from the government to become self-governing and has raised deep concerns in the local community . |
| 28 | She hesitated , as if expecting Loretta to pour scorn on the suggestion . |
| 29 | And speculation was fuelled in the last 10 minutes of South Africa 's second innings when West Indian umpire Steve Bucknor called up Indian captain Mohammad Azharuddin to discuss damage to the ball . |
| 30 | Ellen Galford joins the queues in Scotland to buy heritage over the counter |