Example sentences of "[noun prp] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | … a charismatically endowed descendant of David whom the Jews … believed would be raised up by God to break the yoke of the heathen and to reign over a restored kingdom of Israel to which all the Jews of the Exile would return . |
| 2 | There goes the Volvo I the whole car park . |
| 3 | Petty probably died in London soon after the Restoration at the house of a brother in the legal profession , having himself by then settled at a property in Berkshire which the spendthrift republican MP Henry Marten [ q.v. ] had sold to trustees acting for John Wildman . |
| 4 | THREE Belgian fans were arrested after a 38-year-old German supporter was gravely injured by a signal rocket in the European Cup Winners ' Cup semi-final second leg match between Bremen and Bruges which the German side won 2–0 . |
| 5 | Ken loved it all and wrote letters back to Orton which the playwright said reminded him of James Joyce . |
| 6 | He also found service with Peter des Roches , bishop of Winchester [ q.v. ] , a leading political rival of Langton and Poer , whom Elias none the less assisted with the foundation of monastic houses in Selborne and Titchfield , and for whom he subsequently acted as executor . |
| 7 | But er I was saying to Mrs the other day , asked about Scott what the heck ! |
| 8 | What they 've actually done today is announced that they want to put er Calverton into review and at least it tells people at Calverton what the situation 's going to be for the future . |
| 9 | David your the worst for not diverting your telephone when you go out |
| 10 | An example of the latter was Banff in Alberta , and of the former the great gateway to the Orient which the CPR built in Vancouver . |
| 11 | The hostel was a large house in Highgate which the Schlesingers bought with money left by a relative . |
| 12 | They could have filled the cellars of Masham with McEwans 80/ and Youngers No. 3 from Edinburgh or with the new Theakstons-on-Tyne which the locals declare is a far inferior brew . |
| 13 | … in Rugby its the third round of the cup this weekend … |
| 14 | In autumn 1955 the decision was taken to withdraw Soviet troops from the military and naval base at Porkkala which the Soviet Union had leased from Finland under the terms of the 1947 Finnish-Soviet Peace Treaty . |
| 15 | There 's racing all weekend on the Thames at Henley its the women 's rowing regatta … |
| 16 | Remembering that it was Wordsworth whom the Utilitarian John Stuart Mill turned to when he found that his philosophy produced nothing but visions of a grey and empty world , and that Matthew Arnold , after Wordsworth 's death , believed that he alone could heal human nature in the ‘ iron time ’ , the little poem that follows , written in 1833 , seems a convenient summing-up of Wordsworth 's mature attitudes . |
| 17 | Stella Rimington whom the Government , with a fanfare of trumpets , announced as the head of MI5 ? |
| 18 | Ambassador Bonsal states , ‘ I do not believe that the Russians would have taken sugar from Cuba which the United States was prepared to purchase . |
| 19 | Mind you , I suppose it 's useful to know in advance just what lifestyles and sorts of behaviour would be permitted in the Free Ireland which the IRA is fighting to bring into being . |
| 20 | He later produced the Blackburn Report on the reform of Licensing Law in Northern Ireland which the Government implemented throughout the 1980s . |
| 21 | But historians now recognize that for Darwin himself the idea of natural selection arose from a dialogue between his geographical studies and his interest in the process of reproduction by which the species is maintained . |
| 22 | But this was no more than a temporary reversal in the most savage onslaught from England which the Scots had ever experienced . |
| 23 | Severe actions may be sanctioned against Ireland because it is naturally cursed , or because it needs extreme measures to bring it the fruits of reformation ( desired by God ) , or because it holds some particular horror for England which the English will deserve unless they do something about it . |
| 24 | that it appears to my Lords that this space of ground , including property in Downing-Street which the Board of Works has the power to appropriate to the purposes of public offices , will be sufficient for any new buildings which it is at present desirable to commence in that locality . |
| 25 | If the police authority was invited to co-opt people to add to their numbers , making sure that the majority still stayed with the councillors , then I do n't think one should have too much objection to it , but if it 's to be done in this er this way of central er of central allocation er in the form of the answer to the question to my noble friend Lord Lyle from my noble friend the Minister on the 17th of January which the Noble Lord , Lord Carrigan made reference in which these people are to be er i i it staggers me my Lord , I have to stop for the moment , it staggers me the er the insolence , the insolence of the Home Office in writing down job descriptions and personal profiles for people that are going to function locally . |
| 26 | Meanwhile , Jodhi May , in her first American celluloid outing , makes a good stab of portraying the frail but ultimately doomed Alice Munro , one of the daughters of Fort William Henry 's Scottish commander Colonel Munro who the mighty Magua , the wronged Huron war chief , has vowed to destroy . |
| 27 | Within Northern Ireland itself the former separate departments operate but all are technically under the jurisdiction of the Northern Ireland Office . |
| 28 | Very very very briefly Chairman , erm first of all you can see in paragraph two point three and you see the matter that 's being erm the subject of discussion previously erm there was n't to be an issues report as such , but er Stragg itself the advisory group did feel that it would be useful that er er a leaflet be prepared and distributed erm you I do n't think Chairman would have seen it , but hot off the presses is being erm with us this morning er an an and only delivered this morning are some copies of th the leaflet that we have now erm prepared er you will have seen that in draft form Chairman and members of Strang will have seen that draft form so er both Stragg members and other members of the Committee if they would like to take a copy away with them , that there are a number here , but they will be er given wide distribution later on . |
| 29 | To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what the total figure will be for new road schemes in the Antrim , South constituency for ( a ) 1992-93 , ( b ) 1993-94 and ( c ) 1994-95 . |
| 30 | The prominence of some Lettish names in the last days of Soviet communism is a reminder of the days when the Lettish riflemen were to Lenin what the Swiss guards are to the Pope . |