Example sentences of "[vb -s] [vb pp] the [adj] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Radio Production Centre ( CEPRA ) in Cochabamba , Bolivia , has received the 1992 Silver Condor award from the Communication Commission of the Bolivian Episcopal Conference and the Bolivian Radio Education organisation in recognition of its outstanding work in the service of the Bolivian people . |
| 2 | For years , Karl Dersch has flown the Third Reich emblem at his Munich home . |
| 3 | Sponsored by the Japanese division of American Express , a team led by the Director of the Institute of Asian Studies at Sophia University , Tokyo , have conducted a survey at Banteay Kdei temple at Angkor , while the New York-based World Monument Fund ( Wmf ) has examined the nearby Preah Khan monastic complex . |
| 4 | WITH a triumphant twang of the zither , the City University of London has filled the first Joe Loss Research Fellowship in Jewish Music . |
| 5 | It 's the sort of performance that has placed the gentle West Indian giant at the top of the bowling averages . |
| 6 | This glaciation has given the Outer Hebrides a complex relief of rock knobs , and small , peat- or water-filled hollows , and intersecting linear grooves or valleys often occupied by lochs and lochans . |
| 7 | Taylor has given the former Nottingham Forest midfielder 10 caps in his three years without ever finding a niche for the 26-year-old . |
| 8 | The Chinese government has ratified the revised Montreal Protocol , the agreement which aims to cut the use of chlorofluorocarbons ( CFCs ) , which damage the ozone layer . |
| 9 | The switch has surprised Wembley , who expected a home game against Spain , and has disappointed the Spanish FA , who hoped they were being invited to London for only the second time in 20 years . |
| 10 | The garden front , of Bargate stone , brick and tile , shows how Lutyens has exaggerated the local Surrey style to perfectly fitting proportions . |
| 11 | SINCE 1980 Mr Peter Tully has organised the annual Paignton regatta week firework display and all collections made at each of these events , totalling over £9,000 , have been donated to Paignton branch . |
| 12 | EDINBURGH District Council 's Construction Skills Training programme has won the first UK award for the use of new technology in training . |
| 13 | EMMA Joyce , 12 , has won the prestigious Unilever Young Environmentalist of the Year award for her project entitled Wildlife around my home . |
| 14 | For the second year running , Land Securities has won the annual Stoy Hayward Property Accounts Award . |
| 15 | Meanwhile Ruth Hollinger from Ballyclare High School has won the 1993 Ulster Schoolgirls Championship . |
| 16 | WALES , captained by 1988 veteran Ian Buckett , of Swansea , have been sorely hit by the ankle injury which has sidelined the highly-rated Llanelli , England Students , England ‘ B ’ and Wales reserve scrum-half , Rupert Moon . |
| 17 | ‘ It was , perhaps , appropriate that the bereaved fiancee and husband should find mutual consolation although no one who has seen the beautiful Barbara Berowne could suppose that the marriage was merely a matter of fraternal duty . ’ |
| 18 | Clinton has also promised a renewed American effort to end the crisis that has turned the former Yugoslavia into a horrific centre of conflict and atrocities . |
| 19 | Britain exports , on the wind , more pollution than any other West European country , notably sulphur , which has acidified the southern Norway environment . |
| 20 | ‘ Serbia has helped the Bosnian Serbs enormously and now it must look after itself , ’ he claims . |
| 21 | And whereas the said John Weston Foakes has requested the said Julia Beer to give him time in which to pay such judgment , which she has agreed to do on the following conditions . |
| 22 | CITIZENS Financial Group has bought the failed New England Savings Bank for £32 million . |
| 23 | LEX Service , the vehicle dealer and automotive components group led by Sir Trevor Chinn , yesterday announced that it has bought the 62 Lucas Autocentres from Lucas Industries for £13 million . |
| 24 | The majority of their team has played the neighbouring Gorleston course on a number of occasions and should make their local knowledge count . |
| 25 | Francis Maude has replaced the unimpressive Lord Glenarthur as the minister in charge of Hong Kong affairs . |
| 26 | Edinburgh District Council has become the first UK city authority to promote a car-pooling scheme , following the launch of a commercial venture earlier this year [ see ED 55 ] . |
| 27 | Within the last hour , chairman Kevin Kelly has introduced the former Parkhead player he hopes can turn the club around . |
| 28 | Littlewoods has hired the prestigious Jack Barclay Rolls-Royce showroom in Mayfair for the event . |
| 29 | He is now a poststructuralist and has abandoned the great Jane Austen project , as he disbelieves in the possibility of any kind of definite textual meaning or interpretation : ‘ every decoding is another encoding . ’ |
| 30 | The South African Rugby Football Union has appointed the former Zimbabwe coach , Ian McIntosh , as national coach up to and including the 1995 World Cup in South Africa . |