Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] the [noun prp] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of us have been taught to see the Davy lamp as a scientific advance in that it saved the lives of miners because it would burn without causing explosions in a methane-rich atmosphere . |
| 2 | ‘ I am fully committed to implement the Panama Canal treaties and turn over the canal to Panama in the year 2000 … |
| 3 | More than 5000 are expected to attend the ASE Conference at the University from 4–7 January 1991 . |
| 4 | As an aside the company announced that when running on an ES/9000 running other appropriately ‘ trusted ’ software , the new VTAM 3.4.2 has been designed to meet the US Department of Defense 's B1 security rating . |
| 5 | Chief Constable Sir Hugh Annesley was briefed throughout the weekend on the latest atrocities and tomorrow is expected to meet the Garda Commissioner , Patrick Culligan , when the intergovernmental conference examines cross-border co-operation . |
| 6 | It was resolved to deposit the Damascus Declaration with the Arab League as an official document . |
| 7 | By now he had come to symbolize the Montparnasse adventure , and even in his worst moments he had a glamour about him , a sense of intensity , that excited envy and admiration . |
| 8 | U2 issue a radically re-worked version of ‘ Who 's Gon na Ride Your Wild Horses ’ as a single at the end of this month and are expected to announce the UK stadium leg of their current world tour next week . |
| 9 | This year , having described Martin Amis 's novel London Fields — at first widely expected to win the Booker Prize — ‘ as a fizzy , spiky , savagely satirical book ’ which was ‘ sometimes so horrible it makes you gag , so funny it makes you fall off your chair ’ , the judges instead gave the prize to Lindsay Clarke for The Chymical Wedding . |
| 10 | Mr Goddard , a former mayor of Phoenix who had been expected to win the November race easily , first lowered the tone by comparing Mr Symington to Charles Keating , the financier at the heart of the Lincoln Savings and Loan disaster . |
| 11 | Josh Gifford has his string in fine form and Harbinger is napped to win the Furguson-Plympton Brewery Novices ' Hurdle . |
| 12 | These guidelines are now considered to supersede the Howie code , and will be used as a reference by health and safety inspectors to indicate acceptable standards . |
| 13 | Prior to announcing his candidacy Bush had on Feb. 6 unveiled a health care package which was designed to overhaul the US health system and to win back the initiative on what was widely perceived to be an important electoral issue . |
| 14 | Armando Guebuza , the leader of the government delegation , as being designed to give the MNR time to consider proposals made by the talks ' mediators . |
| 15 | Youthful Roy Jenkins was recommended to fight the Hillhead election for the SDP and a judge proved that youth was not necessarily an advantage by deciding that a 17-year-old girl , a victim of rape , was guilty of contributory negligence by thumbing a lift at night . |
| 16 | The manufacturing and mining district of north Staffordshire has recently been claimed to share the Lancashire trend . |
| 17 | Shortly afterwards Communists encouraged a series of strikes in France and Italy which were evidently designed to sabotage the Marshall Plan . |
| 18 | A sell-out 40,000 crowd was expected to welcome the Wigan ace for tomorrow 's home game against Balmain . |
| 19 | Former leader Neil Kinnock is expected to top the NEC poll and Shadow Chancellor Gordon Brown , standing for the first time , is also expected to sweep in . |
| 20 | Women receiving donated semen are recommended to have the HIV antibody test by the Dept. of Health . |
| 21 | Other multi-occupied Bank premises in London are expected to join the Save-a-Cup scheme in the near future . |
| 22 | This , after all , is a programme designed to cut the US budget deficit and boost the economy . |
| 23 | No precise numbers were given , but this was expected to bring the US presence to some 400,000 when deployment was completed in January 1991 . |
| 24 | Well situated to serve the London market , the district supported numbers of thriving yeomen and husbandmen , those worth £20 — £99 forming the most prominent group . |
| 25 | I find this a difficult case to understand but I do not think that it can be said to support the Woolwich principle . |
| 26 | These skills , however , are being applied to support the Vance-Owen peace plan on the ground that it contains a concession which Lord Owen says he has not made . |
| 27 | ( 11.32 ) This can be seen to include the Stoyanov factor ( 11.30 ) , and to reduce to a Szekeres solution with when . |
| 28 | It was decided to cancel the Manchester landing and fly direct to Prestwick . |
| 29 | It was reported on March 8 that the USSR Cabinet had decided to rescind the Rbs500-a-month limit on withdrawals from private savings bank accounts . |
| 30 | German officials have repeatedly threatened to leave the EC integration process unless they can have it their way . |