Example sentences of "the [noun] [verb] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Today 's tour will give you the opportunity to see the Taj Mahal , the tomb built as a testament to love by Shah Jahan for his wife Mumtaz . |
| 2 | Visitors will also have the opportunity to view the Goetz collection in its entirety next April when an exhibition opens at the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus in a new suite of galleries being built under Königsplatz . |
| 3 | A similar statement was issued by the Ringaskiddy Residents ' Association ( RRA ) , which took the opportunity to inform the IDA , Cork County Council and the IIRS that they were opposing applications to dump asbestos both at Currabinny and Ringaskiddy . |
| 4 | The selectors have the opportunity to strengthen the England side with three World Cup reserves — Rob Thompson , Rupert Welch and Don Williams — who were unavailable previously because of World Cup training . |
| 5 | He had brought three British Labour MPs to Derry and may have thought that the opportunity to expose the RUC should not be wasted . |
| 6 | Six readers will have the opportunity to meet the BBC Good Food team at the second BBC Good Food readers ' lunch , to be hosted by Perrier at an award-winning Les Routiers restaurant in Yorkshire . |
| 7 | And braving the elements … the crowds enjoying the Henley Regatta |
| 8 | If you venture past the crowds to see the Poussins , you find yourself alone with a collection which is as lamentably hung as ever . |
| 9 | In Europe , the Milanese bank The Credito Valtellinese is showing a group of works including blackboards given by Beuys to the museum Satuki in Lodz , Poland , in its exhibition space Refettorio delle Stelline on Corso Magenta until 28 February . |
| 10 | The writers ' chart in the NME gave The Smiths a fair to low hearing , concentrating , as usual , on more obscure artifacts . |
| 11 | The prince compared the King James version of ‘ Harken to my words ’ with its modern equivalent ‘ Give me a hearing ’ . |
| 12 | The prince compared the King James version of ‘ Harken to my words ’ with its modern equivalent ‘ Give me a hearing ’ . |
| 13 | They came forward eagerly , offering what skills and abilities they had ; farmers , a conservation adviser , a photographer , a botanist , a medical practice manager ; most of them parents themselves , all of them becoming part of the support surrounding the South Ronaldsay families and determined to fight for them . |
| 14 | This allows the writer to join the PRS as a publisher member when he or she has enough qualifying works , to end the administration deal , and to sign the rights in his or her songs into a personally owned published company . |
| 15 | The trial follows the Antares tragedy in which four fishermen drowned after a submarine snagged its nets in the Firth of Clyde . |
| 16 | It grips better than the Corrado on the fast sweepers , but , on tight and bumpy lower-gear corners , the VW leaves the Calibra scrabbling to get a grip on the road surface . |
| 17 | The award covers the UK 's 42,000 full-time firefighters and 17,000 part-time fire men and women . |
| 18 | Because I know the scouts do the Tesco one and whenever they are put in these cardboard boxes they have to be sorted so somebody must sort them . |
| 19 | The former screened Red Alert , a TV movie about a full-scale alert at a nuclear reactor , a plot related to that of the cinema hit The China Syndrome . |
| 20 | Sotheby 's then heard from Michael Hebecker , Director of Schlossmuseum Gotha , informing them that , while the auction house had behaved fairly and correctly in offering the picture to the museum first , the permission to sell the Wtewael had been granted in his absence and with neither his knowledge nor consent , and asking them if the picture could be withdrawn for the time being . |
| 21 | Not only does the winner get the Hamlet tickets but also two seats for Much Ado , which runs until November 14 . |
| 22 | In polyethylene crystallites , the close packing achieved by the chains allows the van der Waals forces to act co-operatively and provide additional stability to the crystallite . |
| 23 | News of the donation reached the UK press by June 6 and prompted a hostile reaction , as it was interpreted as an attempt to compensate for the killing of a policewoman , Yvonne Fletcher , outside the Libyan People 's Bureau in London in April 1984 [ see pp. 33004-05 ] . |
| 24 | The image of the Swastika accompanying the Yagna is either drawn or formed on the ground . |
| 25 | And certainly Wildman found that the hedges outlining the Glastonbury Zodiac are significantly older than others in the vicinity , dating from early medieval times . |
| 26 | After playing only a handful of games for Celtic , Docherty moved south to Preston North End , where he made his debut on Christmas Day 1949 , eventually displacing his mentor Bill Shankly and rising through the ranks to captain the Preston side . |
| 27 | City Profile : Action Man at the action bank Derek Wanless , with a ‘ classic C2 ’ background , has made a meteoric rise through the ranks to become the NatWest 's chief executive at 44 |
| 28 | The twin city of Ankh-Morpork , foremost of all the cities bounding the Circle Sea , was as a matter of course the home of a large number of gangs , thieves ' guilds , syndicates and similar organisations . |
| 29 | This view has been expressed by , amongst others , the Member of the Folketing , Pia Kjaersgaard , leader of the progress party , which was one of the two in the Parliament to oppose the Maastricht Treaty . |
| 30 | The US Federal Trade Commission is reviewing a new staff report on the anti-trust allegations against Microsoft Corp , but a decision on the matter probably is still weeks away , lawyers familiar with the case told the Wall Street Journal : with a two-to-two vote in February , the commission did n't accept staff recommendations to seek an injunction preventing the company from using its market power to engage in allegedly unfair competitive practices ; after the tied vote , the commissioners asked for more information in an effort to resolve the deadlock ; the status report , which was delivered to commissioners last week , provides additional support for the staff 's call for action . |