Example sentences of "mr [noun] [to-vb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a humiliating climbdown , EC president Jacques Delors was forced to reinstate Mr MacSharry to avert a rebellion among fellow commissioners today . |
| 2 | Mr Ritchie has been told by legal counsel that this new evidence in their opinion provides substantial grounds for Mr Lang to order a retrial or a full reinvestigation of the case , but assessment of the appeal documents is at an early stage . |
| 3 | With unemployment spiralling upwards , Mr McLeish said , it was particularly important for Mr Lang to take a grip on training policy , to improve people 's skills and make industry more competitive . |
| 4 | In July the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg ruled that Britain could not extradite Mr Soering to answer a capital charge of murder because he might face ‘ death row ’ . |
| 5 | Mr Mowatt agreed to ask Mr Lawrie to fit a spacer between the cupboards in the Garden Supervisor 's office and the network connection . |
| 6 | Now that the new network connections have been made , it will be possible for Mr Mowatt to prepare a network diagram , showing the position of each piece of equipment on the system . |
| 7 | Separate talks , it was felt , would encourage Mr Hussein to detect a rift between the Europeans and Americans , and so draw the sting of the approaching deadline . |
| 8 | President Christos Sartzetakis asked Mr Grivas to form a government after the main political parties would or could not do so . |
| 9 | In Suffolk , a Tory MP called on Mr Lamont to present a Budget which would allow the party to unite . |
| 10 | Tory backbenchers are also keen for Mr Lamont to unveil a package to tackle unemployment . |
| 11 | It allows Mr Yeltsin to put a reformer into this influential position . |
| 12 | Asked whether , if the Tories lost the vote , the Queen would call for Mr Kinnock to form a government , Mr Heseltine said : ‘ That would be a matter for the Royal prerogative . ’ |
| 13 | Request : Joan Hammell , his secretary , wrote to say : ‘ I am afraid it is not going to prove possible for Mr Kinnock to make a contribution as much as he would love to . |
| 14 | He had a ‘ gut feeling ’ , he said , that the American people were not yet committed to war , and so he urged Mr Bush to pursue a meeting in Baghdad between James Baker , the secretary of state , and Saddam Hussein — as well as finding a date on which Iraq 's foreign minister could come to Washington . |
| 15 | ( He ) said that he considered it was impossible for Mr Asquith to form a Government after what Mr Bonar Law had said about his party . |
| 16 | Mr Wilson 's hopes that the new group of freshmen Democrats would remain immune to the Speaker 's charms have already been dashed ; last month they lined up behind Mr Brown to defeat a Wilson nominee for superintendent of schools . |
| 17 | The Collector went with Mr Simmons to have a look . |