Example sentences of "north [noun] [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Mods and rockers fought on the beach at Clacton ; John Steed and Emma Peel joined forces against evil as The Avengers ; West Ham froze out Preston North End to win the FA Cup ; Treasury officials defended the pound by borrowing £1,080m . |
| 2 | The North Koreans whupped the Italians , and actually caused a debate on football in the Italian Parliament . |
| 3 | Note : North Tyneside comprises the areas of the 1971 Newcastle City , Tyne mouth County Borough and Wallsend Borough ( the centre ) , the remainder of the present authorities of Newcastle and North Tyneside ( the inner ring ) , and the areas of Castle Morpeth and Blyth Valley Districts ( the outer ring ) . |
| 4 | It was widely believed that North Korea had the capacity — or was on the verge of achieving it — to produce a nuclear weapon . |
| 5 | North Korea denied the allegation but , since signing the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty ( NPT ) in 1985 [ see p. 34269 ] , had refused to allow an IAEA inspection . |
| 6 | Even so , China has no interest in seeing North Korea get the bomb . |
| 7 | Further pressure for North Korea to sign the safeguards agreement had come from Japan . |
| 8 | A China ready to stand on principle would then have to tell North Korea to accept the help on offer or else — the or-else being China 's acquiescence in , and compliance with , UN sanctions against the North . |
| 9 | But before before I ask North Yorkshire to introduce the matter , can I put H B F on notice that I would like them to follow on from North Yorkshire , when they have made their contribution . |
| 10 | They also agreed to contribute £3,000 towards the costs of consultants appointed by Hambleton and North Yorkshire attending the inquiry . |
| 11 | North Shields became the export base for much of the South East Northumberland coal field . |
| 12 | Discussion of the inter-war years usually centres on industrial change , but North Shields resembles the rest of the North East here in that while it is true that the 1920s saw a good deal of structurally induced unemployment which reflected the position of traditional basic industries , and the 1930s saw the impact of work recession , these same basic industries began to recover in the run up to the Second World War in the mid-1930s and were to remain basic to the area until the early 1960s . |
| 13 | The canon for North Newbald became the rector . |
| 14 | From his experience with the Navy 's Coastal Airships on convoy escort and anti U-boat patrols , Binding was accustomed to the perilous practice of climbing out of the gondola cockpit high above the North Sea to service the airship 's two eight-cylinder 150 hp Sunbeam engines . |
| 15 | ‘ You can make a case that the North Sea heralds the future for our industry . |
| 16 | Despite a very depressed North Sea market the disposals have been made at prices which compare favourably with those achieved for recent industry sales . |
| 17 | Relations had been severed in 1975 after North Vietnam defeated the South Korean-backed South Vietnamese regime . |