Example sentences of "[num] [conj] [verb] [to-vb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My right hon. Friend the Minister for Overseas Development is trying to arrange a donors conference to bring further help , but , as my hon. Friend would agree , the best relief of human rights would be if the Iraqis accepted resolutions 706 and 712 and began to sell oil , the proceeds of which could go to the relief of poverty as well as the compensation of those whom they have victimised . |
| 2 | The only problem is , one of them 's still only thirteen and has to get time off school to play gigs . |
| 3 | Euroqualifications from LCCIEB have been developed specifically to meet the needs of those doing business in the European Community after 1992 and to help to promote mobility of labour in the internal market . |
| 4 | Signatories of the nuclear Partial Test Ban Treaty ( PTBT ) signed in August 1963 [ see pp. 19553-60 ] , met in New York on Jan. 7-18 and agreed to achieve progress towards a comprehensive test ban . |
| 5 | I 'm 17 and need to gain weight . |
| 6 | On the assumption that the account of this event in Molla Husrev 's life is at least broadly correct , however , and in the light of the documentary and such other evidence as exists , it would appear that he left for Bursa not earlier than Rajab 876 nor later than Shawwal 877 and returned to become Mufti perhaps as early as 878/1473–4 . |
| 7 | He joined Thompson North Sea in 1977 and rose to become chairman and chief executive , a position he held when LASMO acquired Thompson in 1989 . |
| 8 | As the battle fleet made headway the Japanese government met on December 1 and decided to wage war on the USA , the following day at 0530 the message Niitaka-Yama Nabore ( Climb Mount Niitaka ) was sent in code to the task force , the signal that the Pearl Harbor raid was on . |
| 9 | The Crown then repaid the capital sum with interest from 31 July 1987 but refused to pay interest for earlier periods . |
| 10 | Foreign Ministers from eight Arab countries party to the March Damascus Declaration [ see pp. 38116-17 ] — the six Gulf Co-Operation Council ( GCC ) states and Egypt and Syria — met in Kuwait City on July 15-16 but failed to reach agreement on the formation of a joint security force to defend Kuwait . |
| 11 | A proposal to construct a similar facility in the UK , using the 10 MeV tandem accelerator at Oxford University , was submitted to the SERC in September 1989 but failed to gain support . |
| 12 | Explored initially for sand-dominated assemblages , the methods were refined during the 1950s and applied to thin section analysis of lithified sediments during the early 1960s . |
| 13 | Gates , 48 , joined the CIA in 1968 and rose to become deputy director in 1986 under Webster 's predecessor , William Casey . |
| 14 | Poland restored relations on Feb. 27 , calling the rift a mistake , apologising for an anti-Semitic purge in March 1968 and offering to restore citizenship to about 30,000 Jews forced to emigrate at that time . |