Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun pl] with the [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The European Commission opened talks with the heads of the national telephone monopolies yesterday about its plans to deregulate telephone service across the Community by 1998 : after the two-day discussions , the Commission will decide whether to formalise proposals calling for and end to national monopolies over all call transmission ; the usual row is expected between free traders like the UK , the Netherlands and Denmark and opponents in France , Belgium and Italy , Reuter reports from Brussels ; France Telecom and Belgacom said the plans were too ambitious , the Dutch and British Telecommunications Plc indicated support ahead of the talks . |
| 2 | They locked strings with the kites of their enemies and attempted , by means of the ground glass glued on their strings , to cut their opponents ' kites free . |
| 3 | Having tried out just about all the object-oriented databases out there , and signed agreements with the developers of quite a few , IBM Corp 's Programming Systems Division is phasing out all other agreements and signed a strategic partnership agreement with Object Design Inc ( CI No 2,156 ) . |
| 4 | But by the 1860s Berkeley Hill had become integrated into the culture of London 's professional gentry , where experts rubbed shoulders with the leaders of upper middle-class and aristocratic society . |
| 5 | University lecturers , politicians , trade unionists and showbusiness figures rubbed shoulders with the citizens of Dublin in an attempt to drive home a message of peace to the men of violence . |
| 6 | More recently in May 1987 the Soviet Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs V. F. Petrovskiy held talks with the leaders of Iraq , Kuwait , the UAE and Oman during a tour of the Gulf . |