Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] the [adj] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yasmin 's brother brought her to London from their home in Bradford for the day , but meeting at the tube station proved nearly impossible , as we each had only a telephone description of the other and had unfortunately arranged to meet the same Saturday as a huge poll tax march . |
| 2 | The package , which contained numerous tax incentives , was designed to stimulate the stagnant US economy , and to realize the administration 's prediction that economic growth would resume in early 1992 and would accelerate thereafter . |
| 3 | Mr Zhu has been tipped to replace the cautious Mr Li eventually . |
| 4 | In Washington , Morton Stannard had listened to the rage of Zack as the spools unwound on the conference-table in the Situation Room , to which the committee had repaired to avoid the Long Tom cameras constantly peering at the windows of the Cabinet Room . |
| 5 | At a private hearing at the High Court in London next month , Mr Justice Ognall is expected to extend the original February 2 deadline for joining in the legal action for children under 16 . |
| 6 | Amazingly he was permitted to witness the illicit Luftwaffe build-up of the mid-Thirties , the preparations in East Prussia for the drive on the USSR , and much else . |
| 7 | Camilo Gonzalez Pozo was appointed as the new Health Minister on Oct. 26 to replace Antonio Navarro Wolff who had resigned to head the left-wing April 19 Movement ( M-19 ) list of candidates for the new 70-seat Constituent Assembly due to be elected in December [ see p. 37650 ] . |
| 8 | External funding would be sought to recapitalize the Treasury-owned Banco Nazionale del Lavoro whose subsidiary Efibanca would be sold , and some loss-making industrial sectors would be restructured before privatization . |
| 9 | The fallout was precipitated by an ACE members meet last Friday 24th , at which it was decided to de-emphasise the whole Intel side of the equation — at Intel 's own instigation it now appears ( see feature ) . |
| 10 | It is one of the works of Sir John Rennie , built to cross the New River Ancholme , and has a span of 130 feet . |
| 11 | The French government has threatened to veto the vital Gatt agreement , aimed at averting a damaging international trade war , if its demands for a better agriculture deal are not met . |
| 12 | The cash will be used to support the newly-opened Tokyo office . |
| 13 | Dessie was used to promote the first Sunday meeting at Doncaster last month along with Red Rum . |
| 14 | Dr A.J. Watson , former chairman , has offered to arrange the next Burns Supper . |
| 15 | She had had to work the first Sunday . |
| 16 | Once the function G(s) is expressed in the form of equation ( 11.36 ) , equation ( 11.32 ) can be used to find the inverse Laplace transform of each partial fraction . |
| 17 | Bought to replace the ageing Clemence , he was in turn ousted ( ’ a real kick in the teeth ’ ) by the Norwegian Erik Thorstvedt . |
| 18 | This should not be confused with the later usage of Slavonia , which , in a geographical sense , refers to a region of south-east Croatia centred on Slavonski Brod , but in a wider context is used to cover the historic Habsburg province of Slavonia , which lay between the valleys of the Sava and the Drava . |
| 19 | In 1789 , for example , an unsigned letter received by Sir Thomas Dundas advised the member of parliament that a Mr. Glen , a freeholder of Stirlingshire , would be greatly obliged if he could obtain introductions to colonels of regiments who might be induced to give the enterprising Mr. Glen the clothing contracts for their units . |
| 20 | Some of the money was to be used to finance the new UDCs . |
| 21 | Was most often used to describe the original IBM PC , but is now more widely used to describe any computer . |
| 22 | He is persuaded to teach the talented Marin Marais but when he detects the young musician has little sympathy for his belief music is only an expression for sorrow , he returns to his hermit 's existence . |
| 23 | The bulk of the new funds would be used to assist the poorer EC countries ( Greece , Ireland , Portugal and Spain ) in meeting the conditions for EC monetary union as set out in the Treaty of Maastricht [ see p. 38658 ] . |
| 24 | Namibia has agreed to join the Southern Africa Centre for Ivory Marketing , along with Malawi , Zimbabwe , Botswana and Zambia . |
| 25 | His cows produce 1,400 gallons of milk a day , of which all but 300 gallons are used to make the traditional Lancashire cheese . |
| 26 | But the amount of paper needed to produce the obese Sunday edition can cost three times its $1.50 cover price . |
| 27 | With passenger figures for 1992 up 66% on the previous year following the reopening of the railway from Bitton to Oldland Common , the £30,000 legal costs of obtaining the Light Railway Order have been all but cleared , and now a £10,000 loan has been taken out to purchase half-a-mile of rail which will be used to relay the former Midland Railway line south towards Bath — the flat-bottom rail being laid on concrete sleepers already in store at Bitton Station . |
| 28 | ACTOR Charlton Heston has agreed to become the new US Chairman of the Duxford-based American Air Museum in Britain Campaign . |
| 29 | County councillors have agreed to make the former Stockton and Darlington Railway into a public bridleway between Haughton Road and McMullen Road , Darlington . |
| 30 | I 've got to water the busy Lizzies . |