Example sentences of "the [noun prp] [verb] [vb pp] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now the Pentagon has begun a serious attempt to find out what the future shape of American defence should be , and whether the new shape will in fact save money . |
| 2 | The EEC has taken a direct interest in the problem of acid deposition , and in November 1988 a directive was agreed upon by EEC environment ministers concerning the sulphur emissions of large combustion plants . |
| 3 | The Templemans have had a few anonymous calls as well . ’ |
| 4 | In the light of this worrying development the C.C.P.R. has negotiated a Civil Liability Insurance policy , on behalf of all its members , which gives wider cover , for more people , at lower premiums that our own current policy . |
| 5 | On May 29 , 1990 , the Storting had approved a constitutional amendment to allow female members of the royal family to succeed to the throne as well as males . |
| 6 | A group of leading communicators , scholars and representatives of cultural organisations from throughout Latin America and the Caribbean have proposed a six-year plan to promote the production and use of locally-produced TV , film and video programmes . |
| 7 | The arrest was widely seen as the response of Prime Minister Datuk Seri Mahathir Mohamed to the PBS 's defection from the ruling coalition before the October 1990 elections [ see pp. 37780-81 ] ; the PBS had won a comfortable majority in the Sabah Assembly [ see p. 37612 ] . |
| 8 | Since the Second World War the Sussex has become a stronger colour-marker , much neater of shoulder than the powerful draught type of old , shorter in the leg and better in the hindquarters , and it still produces lean , marbled meat , especially in the prime cuts . |
| 9 | It is celebrating its 800th anniversary this year and to mark the historic milestone the DoE has recreated a magnificent herb garden in the abbey 's grounds . |
| 10 | Both the Blyth and the Farndale have achieved a first class rating from the National Energy Foundation . |
| 11 | The CPRE has published a 12 point charter which it says will ensure that current planning policy will not be undermined . |
| 12 | Since Siegfried Gohr left the Kunsthalle to become Director of the Ludwig , the Kunsthalle has become a mere exhibition space without a director and without a programme . |
| 13 | Almost simultaneously , a general election in the Netherlands had produced a Labour-led coalition . |
| 14 | A team of scientists from China , Britain and the Netherlands have produced a gloomy forecast of the impact of global warming on China by the year 2050 . |
| 15 | To deal with this , the PRS has developed a complex scale of payments for live performances . |
| 16 | One-o-one squadron originally set up in 1917 , was reformed in 1984 as one of only two refuelling squadrons , after the Falklands had shown a strategic use of air-to-air refuelling . |
| 17 | As we have seen , therefore , in the ten years since their inception , the RMCs have made a positive contribution to the provision of management education . |
| 18 | The public relations exercises of the LDDC have undergone a marked change over the past two years . |
| 19 | Over a period of 22 years , the Caldwells have tamed a rough diamond and beaten it into the gem it is today . |
| 20 | To this end the CPL has won a little victory in its efforts to ensure that the cat is not put out with the milk bottles . |
| 21 | Looking to the future the TEC has produced a 1992–1995 corporate and business plan , detailing a host of initiatives . |
| 22 | The WRU has appointed a four-man committee of inquiry to look into the events surrounding the centenary tour of South Africa last August . |
| 23 | The Scotsman disclosed last week that the CRE had begun a formal investigation into the issue , the first of its kind in Scotland . |
| 24 | Over the space of a decade the CNAA had become a different organization . |
| 25 | The CNAA had come a long way since 1964 : ‘ from being a shy bureaucracy it has become an important and an innovatory force in higher education ’ . |
| 26 | Partly because of the volume of this response and partly because of the radical nature of some of these proposals , going well beyond those envisaged in Partnership in Validation , the CNAA has allowed a few of the suggested procedures to be tried out on an experimental basis and while this is happening has virtually declared a moratorium on other ‘ special arrangement ’ proposals . |
| 27 | THE prospect of a rapid merging of the Germanies has provoked a fashionable fatalism about the future of the European Community . |
| 28 | The end might now be in sight , but the Eiger had exacted a grim toll for the right of passage . |
| 29 | The NHS had inherited a gross geographical maldistribution of facilities in 1948 which meant that in practice " equality of access " was a chimera . |
| 30 | However , the unpalatable fact was that the CPP had won a resounding triumph . |