Example sentences of "the [noun prp] [to-vb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Spencer Chapman , designing for ‘ The Dalek Invasion of Earth ’ , managed to bring back the tricycle idea for getting the Daleks to move on rough terrain . |
| 2 | It called on the Defence and Interior Ministries and the KGB to present within three months draft proposals for reforming political cells in military and state security bodies so that they would " pursue state policy " . |
| 3 | Recognition of this fact led Jordan and the PLO to co-operate despite frosty relations . |
| 4 | The letter is about the vexed question of ‘ unmet need ’ and whether to record it and employ extra solicitors or whether to ignore it and allow the DoH to remain in blissful ignorance . |
| 5 | In a letter published in the Bogotá daily El Tiempo on Nov. 22 , some 50 prominent academics , artists and journalists , including the famous writer Gabriel García Márquez , called on the CNGSB to search for political solutions to the country 's problems . |
| 6 | Against that background , what assurances can the Minister give that contracts are not being pursued with other east European countries such as Bulgaria and the Ukraine to take in spent fuel and nuclear waste — given that the Iraqi contract was shrouded in secrecy for four months ? |
| 7 | In 1978 Moscow 's imports from the area outweighed exports by a ratio of four to one , obliging the USSR to pay in hard currency for most of its Latin American purchases . |
| 8 | A spokesman said UN authorities had lodged a strong protest with the Belgrade authorities over the Yugoslav military war games in mid-March when troops crossed the Danube to land on Croatian territory . |
| 9 | The end of the Cold War has enabled the UN to act with new unity and authority . |
| 10 | In an appeal on June 11 Iran called on the UN to protect between 500,000 and 900,000 Shias who were reportedly trapped in the marshes of southern Iraq surrounded by 100,000 Iraqi troops and airborne units [ see pp. 38081-82 ; 38211 ] . |
| 11 | He was part of a delegation that went to the BBC to complain about proposed cuts to the Third Programme , the " cultural " channel of the broadcasting service ; he was working on the Commission for the Revised Psalter ; he was asked to give evidence to the Parliamentary Commission on Obscene Publications ( he had had very little experience of pornographic literature , he told the members of that commission , and his own work was " quite anodyne " ) . |
| 12 | His rather peremptory and often harshly critical letters sought to bring the diplomatic influence of the king of the Franks to bear on Anglo-Saxon political and ecclesiastical circles to act in accordance with Frankish desires . |
| 13 | ‘ What have the CIA to do with this ? ’ |
| 14 | In November 1991 the conflict between Laurel , Eduardo Cojuangco and Juan Ponce Enrile caused the NP to disintegrate into competing factions amidst a series of coups and mutual expulsions . |
| 15 | Concern about the escalating crisis in Yugoslavia prompted some Western Foreign Ministers to call for broader powers for the CSCE to intervene in internal conflicts . |
| 16 | He also managed to secure the transfer of Mike Sadler from the LRDG to act as chief navigator . |
| 17 | He went down on the Thursday to go through some business things with Marius , then came back on the Friday late afternoon — just after you came round about your play . |
| 18 | On Oct. 9 the government refused a US extradition request for Salomom Shourter Benitez , and on Oct. 19 Gonzalo de Jesus Rincon Perez was the first drug trafficker wanted in the USA to surrender under these conditions . |
| 19 | To avoid such effects it is considered necessary for the EC to engage in co-ordinated macro-economic policy of a Keynesian type . |
| 20 | The West German plan , which has been agreed in outline by President Franois Mitterrand , will fix June 1994 as the final date for the EC to move to full monetary union , including a supra-national central-banking system . |
| 21 | The Directive also provides for the EC to enter into bilateral agreements with non-member states for mutual recognition of listing particulars . |
| 22 | The legislation empowered the G.L.C. to take such action as was necessary and appropriate in order to enable the L.T.E. to comply with this obligation ; the G.L.C. also had power to make grants to the L.T.E. for any purpose . |