Example sentences of "the [noun prp] [to-vb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | General Dynamics and McDonnell Douglas , builders of the super-expensive A-12 fighter for the United States Navy , want the Pentagon to bail them out of a possible $2.7 billion overrun on the development and production of A-12s . |
| 2 | In what can only be regarded as the ultimate pilot 's ‘ Jim 'll fix it ’ fantasy come true , he persuaded the RAF to let him go through key parts of the four-year course that ends with a posting to an operational fighter squadron . |
| 3 | Presentation Mary and Joseph take Jesus to the Temple to present him to God as required by Jewish law ( Exodus 13:1–16 ) . |
| 4 | Now there is a waiting list of would-be residents for vacancies in existing houses or in new ones , and parents in Providence , Rhode Island , have asked the Wizanskys to help them set up a similar scheme . |
| 5 | The American Lung Association has said it will sue the EPA to get it to revise the standards on particle pollution but many scientists argue that more data is needed before the effects of the pollution is properly understood . |
| 6 | Once he has persuaded a certain colleague in the States to sell it to him . |
| 7 | You got until the Saturday to pay it , but if you paid it then that let you get the turn of the leaf and get more stuff for the next quarter . |
| 8 | He lifted a strong hand , signalled brusquely for the Mercedes to pick them up , and pushed her into the rear seats , sliding in next to her . |
| 9 | There was no reason for the driver of the Peugeot to copy him . |
| 10 | I 'd have cast off in the Angharad to fetch you the minute I knew you were there ! ’ |
| 11 | It would be a record label for their own music and for the struggling artists just waiting out there for the benevolent despotism of the Beatles to pluck them from obscurity . |
| 12 | They can execrate someone whom they decide is a useless clown and they do this by making him a Lord , giving him the chairmanship of a quango and telling the chaps at the Athenaeum to hand him non-executive directorships in 15 companies and a merchant bank . |
| 13 | The extra money is needed by the NHS to treat them . |
| 14 | The changes that are being introduced are all designed to enable those who work in the NHS to give you even better care . |
| 15 | There 's a wide range of services offered by the NHS to help you through every stage of your pregnancy , including regular antenatal classes , designed to keep you well and to prepare you and your partner for the birth and for looking after your child . |
| 16 | There 's a wide range of services offered by the NHS to help you through every stage of your pregnancy , including regular ante-natal classes , designed to keep you well and to prepare you and your partner for the birth and for looking after your child . |
| 17 | He persuaded the CPP to nominate him as one of the two candidates for the Accra double-member constituency . |
| 18 | You need not so much as move a company across the Glen to fetch them down . |
| 19 | The catch is that the Department of Energy has had to offer financial terms for the SSEB and the CEGB to persuade them to take on the responsibility . |
| 20 | However the wily old man gets his way , surreptitiously sabotaging the TARDIS to make it look like mechanical failure , and suggesting the city as the only source of repair . |
| 21 | Thus in 1802 when a group of spahis called on the Serbs to join them in resisting the dayis very few Serbs responded . |
| 22 | The idea , according to one report , was for the capital 's defenders to surrender their arms to the UN , for the Serbs to keep theirs but to pull back from the city , and for the UN to create a ‘ security belt ’ between . |
| 23 | However , Czechoslovakia had continued building a power station at Gabcikovo , and was reportedly considering diverting the Danube to bring it into operation . |
| 24 | The reply came back that the PM was ‘ too busy ’ working on a request for a massive loan from the IMF to meet him . |
| 25 | Had Mr Major lost , the Government would have tabled a motion of confidence and invited the Commons to approve it . |
| 26 | Once or twice she re-issued her invitation to the Carrows to visit them at Four Winds , but it seemed that there were always perfectly valid reasons why they could not accept . |
| 27 | If they wanted the Shah to stay they would already have told him to order the Army to destroy the revolution , not just peck at it , Instead , president Carter has sent over a senior US general , Robert E. Huyserl , to keep the army quiet . |
| 28 | The Secretary General recommends that earmarked forces should be provided for the UN to give it a permanent rapid deployment force with all the requisite logistic and technical support and air and sea lift capabilities . |
| 29 | Plans were at an advanced stage when Hamnett , having vacillated for some time , phoned the BFC to say she had decided in favour of Paris after all . |
| 30 | But undeterred by background or family opinion , I 'd written to the BBC to let them know of my ambitions to be a broadcaster — and was dismissed without benefit of an interview . |