Example sentences of "the [noun prp] [unc] [noun pl] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Christie 's pictures have been consigned by a European private foundation which is apparently intending to purchase more works with the proceeds , a surprising reason given the importance of the present group . |
| 2 | After the theft a number of the Tretyakov 's curators condemned the gallery 's exhibition policy , calling it ‘ unworthy of a prestige gallery ’ , leading the Ministry of Culture to audit the foreign exhibition activities of all Soviet museums . |
| 3 | ‘ Such freedom for Britain and France would stymie the EEC 's efforts to ensure equitable shares of fuel if shortages occur in future . ’ |
| 4 | Last year the EEC 's member-governments decided to double the size of the structural funds in the five years 1988-92 to 50 billion ecus ( $55 billion ) to offset ‘ imbalances ’ likely to be caused by the 1992 project . |
| 5 | His primary task as chairman , he says , is to ensure that the IASC 's efforts do come to fruition . |
| 6 | In normal usage the Dodge stops acceptably , the spongy pedal and ‘ grabbing ’ only occurring under duress , while the Vauxhall 's brakes feel mushy but are stronger and more consistent in their behaviour . |
| 7 | Despite my luck with the Harlequin ducks the Barrow 's goldeneyes declined to come close enough and I had still not got a good shot when , with reluctance , we left Mýatn . |
| 8 | The ASA 's rules mean that companies must check with the MPS to ensure its lists are up to date before they are used . |
| 9 | This allowed the AP1-88 's designers to use a heavier structure . |
| 10 | The van Gogh and Walter-Guillaume suits , started last September and December respectively , could take three to four years and the Walters ' lawyers fear French authorities could divert the former case to an administrative Tribunal which could take a further three to four years to judge it . |
| 11 | The CPRE 's figures show a dramatic change in the landscape . |
| 12 | Two of the Schubert D899 impromptus followed . |
| 13 | Meanwhile , President Clinton has abolished the Competitiveness Council , a White House agency which , under the chairmanship of former vice-president Dan Quayle , had often blocked the EPA 's efforts to implement environmental protection regulations . |
| 14 | It is difficult to decide how much nitrogen and phosphorus is too much ; the EPA 's scientists have n't settled on the outer limits of acceptability . |
| 15 | Birmingham and the Fitzwilliam 's watercolours have been to Japan , the Victoria and Albert 's to East Germany , and the British Museum 's to Cleveland and North Carolina , a tour which resulted in the book under review . |
| 16 | While the force inside the stockade could batter the attackers from behind its stout fence , another detachment of men could steal out and close in on the attackers ' flank on the landward side ; the Rebecca 's guns covered the beach below the settlement , so they would not be able to make their approach from the beach , unless they discounted major losses of life . |
| 17 | The three-year inquiry into Fife 's child care policies is hindering the SWD 's efforts to recruit social workers , director Allan Bowman admitted last week . |
| 18 | In September 1989 a Rural Solidarity spokesman described the re-emergence of the PSL as a front for the ZSL 's efforts to regain identity . |
| 19 | And it is surely in keeping with the Kremlin 's efforts to win trust abroad , to remove once and for all an issue which intrudes into every high-level encounter with Sweden . |
| 20 | The Moorings ' holidays offered through Caribbean Connection range from fully crewed charter to combined hotel and sailing holidays where you stay at an hotel on Tortola or St Lucia , either learning to sail or combining the pleasures of a beach holiday with sailing . |
| 21 | The Newleys ' acquaintances spoke well of the dead in order to think ill of the living . |
| 22 | The list of the Chesapeake 's problems begins , then , with nutrients . |
| 23 | A right-hand fork appeared suddenly ; Volkov took it , the Renault 's tyres screeching . |
| 24 | The Friday 's rehearsals followed the pattern of the previous day . |
| 25 | Nevertheless , the fact that Kaifu did not lead any of the LDP 's factions meant that he could never be entirely secure , as he remained vulnerable to the will of the party 's factional power-brokers . |
| 26 | This is , I think , one of the nicest villages in the North York Moors , not least because the Blacksmith 's Arms sells possibly the finest pint of Bass bitter in the country . |
| 27 | The Brussels ' supporters went wild . |
| 28 | The French Captain Landolphe had previously noted that leading members of the Oba 's councils wore two necklaces as well as anklets and bracelets of coral , whereas lesser untitled officials were allowed only one necklace each . |
| 29 | The CDP had welcomed the broad direction in which the CNAA 's discussions had been going in 1975 , but liked little or nothing in the Partnership in Validation document . |
| 30 | While the major policy-making and orientation roles rested with the members of the Council and its multiplicity of committees , the search for promotional roles in association with the institutions was inevitably a key part of the activities we have seen the CNAA 's officers playing . |