Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] [conj] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Europe is the main campaign issue for Jim because of the overseas outlook of his company . |
| 2 | However , having overcome that obstacle we headed down the major road for Arad and despite the large pot holes which had to be avoided and the need to keep your eyes skinned for mobile hayricks ( horses and extremely overladen carts with no lights ) doing approximately 2 miles per hour , we arrived at our friends ' home in Arad at around 8.30 very relieved that we had reached our first destination . |
| 3 | Large numbers of Kuwaitis were reported to be leaving the country during March because of the high level of pollution caused by the fires . |
| 4 | She had been feeling so very proud of her adventure in Horsfall Woods , which had turned out so well , not only for Rosalind but for the poor gardener . |
| 5 | Another significant absence was that of Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi , leader of the mainly Zulu Inkatha Freedom Party , who withdrew from the Inkatha delegation because of the refusal of the CODESA steering committee to allow separate delegations for Inkatha and for the Zulu King Goodwill Zwelethini . |
| 6 | British Rail remains convinced that , the appraisal tests that we have set can be met ; that is to say , for InterCity and for the international services , an 8 per cent . |
| 7 | As regards ‘ imperial greatness ’ or ‘ world power status ’ , the Tories made a brave job of trying to patch this up after Suez but in the early '60s Labour leaders were able to ridicule the so-called ‘ independent British deterrent ’ which had run into the now familiar conflict between resources available and military pretensions ; the attempted re-orientation of British trade towards Europe was ignominiously thwarted by the rejection of Macmillan 's application for EEC membership ; the process of ‘ decolonisation ’ was becoming increasingly uncontrollable and chaotic as many British-established federations of post-colonial states fell apart . |
| 8 | It will mean a significant boost for Strathcarron and for the Tufting Department — their efforts will have doubled the effect . |
| 9 | For the social services , that is for Thameslink and for the underground services in London , wider social benefits are taken into account , such as road decongestion , social regeneration and economic benefits to the City of London through such construction . |
| 10 | Joy retold how the problem of how the mobile coffin in transit was resolved , and Alan spoke movingly about his feelings for Nigel and about the whole concept of a DIY funeral . |
| 11 | The development of neutralist tendencies in Asia , along the lines of Malaysian policy , could act to nullify any defence component of regional organisations such as ASEAN and in the medium term reduce their resistance to the Soviet collective security scheme . |
| 12 | From these debates crystallized , eventually , the doctrine of grace and merit , finally in a form which fell short both of the teaching of Pelagius and of the extreme views ( ruthless predestination , divine election irrespective of human merits ) propounded by Augustine in his old age . |
| 13 | Now that oil is the main fuel for ships and other transport , the export of coal has almost ended but it was the reason for the early growth of Cardiff and for the long ribbons of terraced houses in the valleys of the coalfield . |
| 14 | At the same time the general level of wealth in this unremarkable corner of the East Midlands , peopled entirely by peasant farmers , with a leavening of yeomen and only a handful of rich squires , was lower only than on the fertile cornlands of Norfolk and in the opulent Stour Valley manufacturing district — higher not only than in other , similar regions but also Berkshire , which the yield of the loans , 1522 — 3 , placed fifth jointly with Suffolk , and Gloucestershire which shared fourteenth place with Rutland itself . |
| 15 | The ball flew high and wide of Judy and over the high wire fence behind her . |
| 16 | On Thursday they would continue through the remainder of Germany and over the Czechoslovakian border . |
| 17 | This new housing brought inevitable changes to the life of the village , and many of those who live here now work in the city of Hull or at the nearby installations at Saltend and Easington . |
| 18 | Representatives of the Serbian Republic of Bosnia-Hercegovina and of the self-proclaimed Serbian Republic of Krajina ( RSK ) in Croatia met on Nov. 1 in the north Bosnian town of Prijedor to unite their territories politically , establishing a joint army , legal system and citizenship as the first step towards the unification of the whole Serbian nation [ see p. 39103 ] . |
| 19 | Brave as could be in the cocked-up invasion of Crete and in the Yugoslavian mountains with Tito , he was still just the sort of awkward squaddie no army likes . |
| 20 | Driving across the flat and prosperous farmlands of Picardy and through the shabby industrial suburbs of Charleroi and Liège to the German/Belgian frontier on which Aachen sits , the first thing you notice is its novelty . |
| 21 | On both occasions she had been struck by the contrast between on the one hand the beauty of the Bay itself , the islands , the fine buildings towards Posillipo and on the other the cramped and jumbled desperation of the mean and bustly streets immediately below her . |
| 22 | The Beastline were interested in all she could tell them of Tara and of the exiled Court . |
| 23 | The report , the result of a three year survey and third in a series named Seabirds at Sea , found that more than half of the world 's total number of breeding pairs of Manx shearwater , puffin , gannet and black guillemot live off the west coast of Scotland and in the Irish Sea . |
| 24 | … To every foreign country , whether it were numbered among our allies or among our rivals , the federalisation of Great Britain would be treated as a proof of the declining power alike of England and of the British Empire . |
| 25 | 126ff ) — but there are also marriage links between the Kypselids of Corinth and both the families of Miltiades of Athens and of the Egyptian king Psammetichos . |
| 26 | Their plans included an attempt to enlist the support of the Vladika ( Prince-Bishop ) of Montenegro and of the Austrian military command in Vojvodina . |
| 27 | The examples of Denmark or of the other members of the Community may in some respects be encouraging , in others not ; but certainly to look into classrooms beyond the Channel , however superficially , is to be reminded that written curricula and centralised administrations do not have to be unwieldy , dictatorial or reactionary . |
| 28 | Where the peasantry remained ‘ pre-commercial , ’ as in large parts of Russia and among the emancipated slaves of the Americas who returned to subsistence peasant agriculture , the estate retained this advantage , but without the physical compulsions of serfdom or slavery it now found it more difficult to obtain labour , unless the former slaves or serfs were landless or so short of land as to be obliged to become hired labourers — and unless there was no more attractive labour for them to take . |
| 29 | The best conjecture , backtracking the path of this cloud , is that it originated from an unobserved eruption either in Zaire in the middle of January or in the northern Pacific during the first half of January 1982 . |
| 30 | A second limitation is that the duration of the effect with standard doses is confined to only a few minutes before the drug diffuses around the circle of Willis and into the opposite hemisphere . |