Example sentences of "[to-vb] [art] [noun prp] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1974 , UDA ‘ muscle ’ brought thousands on to the streets to enforce the Ulster Workers ' strike which toppled the power-sharing executive . |
| 2 | This was not the way in which the Iranians came to perceive the Gulf states ' role . |
| 3 | Only last week Davis scored a course record 65 at Knebworth ( unoffical because he enjoyed preferred lies ) to win the Hertfordshire boys ' title at the expense of Hamilton , who also lost out to Davis in 1991 . |
| 4 | The greatest distinction achieved by The Wedding Present , though , was to win the NME readers ' poll for best band of the year , ahead of REM , The Fall and U2 . |
| 5 | The EC responded to some of these concerns by offering to increase the proportion of grants to loans ( in order to ease the ACP countries ' debt commitments ) , to allocate funds to short-term structural adjustment rather than to long-term aid projects ( to help ACP countries overcome acute balance-of-payments and other problems ) , and to relax the regulations on the rules of origin for manufactured products ( with the aim of encouraging industrialization in ACP countries ) . |
| 6 | Hun Sen , the prime minister of Cambodia , has withdrawn an earlier promise to allow the Khmers Rouges ' leaders to stand in any election . |
| 7 | On this evidence , Andrew will have to drown in incompetence while Barnes proves he can walk on water to change the England selectors ' opinion that the Wasps stand-off must remain their No 1 decision-maker . |
| 8 | On this evidence , Andrew will have to drown in incompetence while Barnes proves he can walk on water to change the England selectors ' opinion that the Wasps stand-off must remain their number one decision maker . |
| 9 | When the first attempts had been made to adapt the Wright Brothers ' invention as a lethal instrument , pilots went aloft with steel darts and took pot shots at one another with service revolvers . |
| 10 | She would have something to tell the Highbury Ladies ' Circle at any rate . |