Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] [noun prp] [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He broke off , staring for a moment at the glinting gold balls , then raising his eyes to meet Harriet 's directly , ‘ if you look at the past , it 's quite feasible that she knew Greg . |
| 2 | The 72-year-old Pontiff , celebrating his 15th Christmas as leader of the world 's 950 million Roman Catholics , urged leaders of nations to heed Christ 's yearning for peace . |
| 3 | The other word , kairos , is a word that is used a great deal to describe God 's breaking into our time and history to bring his salvation . |
| 4 | Each man was sentenced to five years for conspiracy to defraud Lloyd 's of London of £1.8 million , five years concurrently for conspiracy to steal £1.2 million from their firm — for which the £533,000 fine was also imposed — and 12 months concurrently for conspiracy to commit false accounting . |
| 5 | A 10% fall in profits to £5m in the six months to end September is pretty bad news , but a 10% jump in sales since sterling left the ERM underpins Parker 's promise that the second half will be better . |
| 6 | A DAY trip to Lapland to meet Santa is being organised by Airtours on December 13 . |
| 7 | HOUSING minister Sir George Young will today be urged to adopt a five-year plan to help London 's homeless . |
| 8 | India 's population to surpass China 's by 2011 |
| 9 | If the need to remove Mark is questionable , then the case conference should not recommend anything which the social worker will view as binding . |
| 10 | the Gloucester team to face Bristol is being kept secret but there 's nothing hush hush about our next guest he 's the man who 'll be riding motor bikes for the Oxford Products Team in the British Championship this season … |
| 11 | He admired Vincent 's refusal to take Kee 's ‘ no , never never ’ at its face value . |
| 12 | The best place to survey Cairo is from the top of the Cairo Tower where one can survey the whole teeming , colourful metropolis built upon the foundations of the legendary city of Babylon . |
| 13 | Compared with Mr Teicher 's disorderly reminiscences , Jeffrey Record 's evaluation of the American-led war to rescue Kuwait is a model of cool analysis . |
| 14 | As they left the beach and walked back across the green lawn Laura did n't have the opportunity to shatter Carole 's totally incorrect , if highly romantic illusions as the other woman called out to Ross . |
| 15 | Are you going to sacrifice the chance to help Chester 's on the altar of your pride and independence , Virginia ? ’ |
| 16 | The latest beauty craze to sweep America is now available here . |
| 17 | CAMBRIDGE made a magnificent effort in the 138th Boat Race to break Oxford 's long run of successes but lost one of the most outstanding duels in the history of the event by 1½ lengths . |
| 18 | ‘ It was my turn to get Marcus 's this year . |
| 19 | He changed his assessment in a Jan. 10 letter to the committee 's chairman Les Aspin , however , with the judgment that " the ability of Iraqi ground forces to defend Kuwait is unlikely to be substantially eroded over the next six to 12 months " and that " economic hardship alone is unlikely to compel Saddam to retreat " within that time . |
| 20 | At least Hobbes was consistent for , as Berkeley noted , ‘ Matter once allow 'd , I defy any man to prove God is not matter ’ . |
| 21 | The raiders smashed their way into the trailer to silence Bob 's barking before forcing the shop door . |
| 22 | They used bogus invoices to fool Lloyd 's into thinking the gems had been bought from the Indian company , said James Curtis , prosecuting . |
| 23 | They then used bogus invoices to fool Lloyd 's into covering their alleged losses , before carrying out the second stage of a ‘ double sting ’ stealing £1.2 million of the £1.8 million insurance pay-out from their company , London-based Inca Gemstones . |
| 24 | ENOUGH electricity to light Basingstoke is being wasted every night by people too lazy to switch off their remote control televisions at the mains . |
| 25 | Samsonov 's westward drive took him even farther from Rennenkampf , who after Gumbinnen had remained stationary in the north to enable Samsonov 's now wider sweeping movement to complete the German encirclement . |
| 26 | The best way to find Diphda is to use Alpheratz and Gamma Pegasi , in the Square of Pegasus , as pointers . |
| 27 | So if that if that 's a right angle only if it 's a right angle cos Pythagoras 's theorem does n't work if it 's not then we 've got the easy way to remember Pythagoras is long equals medium plus short . |
| 28 | The ability to read Braille is still the most important basis of educating blind children . |
| 29 | The local mum said the most effective way to teach Laura is to take her away from whatever she is doing wrong and keep saying ‘ no ’ . |
| 30 | What better way to describe God 's dealing with Israel in the Old Testament , than with the stories of Abraham , the Exodus and the Exile . |