Example sentences of "the [noun prp] [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Firebird set the example fur many nationally styled ballets such as Petrushka , The Rake 's Progress and Rodeo . |
| 2 | His appearance in his new guise in the Gesta pinpoints the process by which the house of Anjou built up its own chivalric myth . |
| 3 | Lothar 's biographer in the Gesta makes the point that following Celestine 's death he did not immediately join the cardinals assembled in the Septizonium , but attended first the exequies , or funeral rites , for the dead pope , which were taking place in the Lateran basilica . |
| 4 | The Daurog pushed the boat upright . |
| 5 | The Milanese used the event to reset watches and clocks at a time when there was no acceptable absolute measure of time . |
| 6 | The NME led the way in this shift of attitudes . |
| 7 | The NME encapsulates the spirit of an era — reflecting youth culture , addressing issues , documenting movements — and is undoubtedly the wittiest , most credible , intelligent weekly music organ around . |
| 8 | As well as simple copying , assemble editing can be carried out on a stop-start basis under manual control of the machines provided that the VCR has the backspace edit facility . |
| 9 | The Kayes gave the industry the Golden Egg , Strikes , Garfunkels and several other concepts we have now probably forgotten about . |
| 10 | The Whitehouse says the meeting on Thursday with the country 's Prime Minister does n't signal a change in U S foreign policy . |
| 11 | Institutions participating with the Department of Town Planning , University of Wales College of Cardiff in the WSWRRL include the South West Universities Regional Computer Centre at the University of Bath , the University of Southampton and the Polytechnic of Wales . |
| 12 | In order to get a message to the President , without anyone in the Government or the Pentagon seeing the message before the President , he elected to bypass the Pentagon and all the standard avenues of communication . |
| 13 | Sixteen hours after the first assault , the Pentagon said the invasion force had ended ‘ all organised resistance ’ by the Panamamian Defence Force , although scattered soldiers were still fighting . |
| 14 | Sources inside Panama insist that the Pentagon used the invasion to test new high-tech weaponry , including lasers , under battlefield conditions . |
| 15 | The Manor forms the focus of a group of stone buildings which include a fine 16th century Dovecote and an archaeological exhibition . |
| 16 | At the Manor Ground the crowd would have settled for just one goal ; the 0-0 scoreline does the game justice . |
| 17 | ‘ The IOD welcomes the evidence in this survey of the degree of responsibility companies are now accepting for the effective management of redundancy situations and the high level of concern and care which they evidently feel for employees . ’ |
| 18 | IT IS arguable that successive British Governments , although paying lip service from time to time to the notion of being able to change the institutions of the EEC ‘ from within ’ , have never in reality held out much hope of doing so ; rather , perhaps , has it been their true intent to use the institutions of the EEC to shape the policy of Europe in their own image . |
| 19 | It was also true that the France of de Gaulle was trying to reverse her military defeat in 1940 by winning hegemony in post-war Western Europe by political means ; and her partners in the EEC lacked the unity needed to stand up to her . |
| 20 | In a section dealing with support for the upland economy , CC recommends that ‘ MAFF assist both small and part time farmers … by reducing the minimum employment criterion to 150 smds for capital grants and press the EEC to reduce the threshold of eligibility for AHDS grants ’ . |
| 21 | The third proposal before the EEC involved the finalisation of the financial regulations concerning the adjustment of the several national agricultures , on which the Six had agreed in principle in 1962 . |
| 22 | Last year in its official report the EEC confirmed the failure of set-aside . |
| 23 | The note-against-note style of the Canzonetten suggests the allemande , that ‘ heavie daunce ’ , as Morley calls it , ‘ fitly representing the nature of the people whose name it carrieth ’ , though sometimes gravely beautiful , as ‘ Jungfraw dein schöne Gstalt ’ is . |
| 24 | Touches from the Orient include the buddha figure seated on a bathroom windowsill and a colourful Indian cotton bedspread in the main bedroom . |
| 25 | Two Noblemen of Scotland , Macdonald of the Isles , and the Thane of Cawdor , conspired to set up a rebellion in the Highlands to draw the King 's army to quell it , whilst Sweno , the Norwegian King , appeared with his own army , and started to march across Scotland . |
| 26 | The LA has the power to revoke , suspend , curtail or prematurely terminate a licence if the holder has ( a ) broken any conditions attaching to his licence , or ( b ) been convicted of any offences which are of the type relevant to determination of the applicant 's fitness to hold a licence in the first place , or ( c ) been made bankrupt or gone into liquidation . |
| 27 | During the evening , the Central Band of the RAF entertained the assembly with their marching display , and Dame Vera Lynn enthralled all present with songs from the war years . |
| 28 | Such a memorial , however , was not likely to satisfy Catholics , Jews and members of other denominations so the RAF sought the help of the CWGC . |
| 29 | Are they expecting the RAF to plaster the city tonight or what ? ’ |
| 30 | Shaped like an Intercity 225 , the 2ft long cake had been made by the RAF to mark the naming of an Intercity train The Royal Air Force Regiment at a ceremony in London . |