Example sentences of "[prep] the [noun prp] [noun] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A poll carried out into the reasons why people voted for the SDP candidate in the Warrington by-election of 1981 revealed that only 9 per cent did so because they supported SDP policy ; 8 per cent did so because they admired the well-known candidate ; and nearly 70 per cent voted for negative " reasons — the most frequently cited being their opposition to the extremism of the two established parties . |
| 2 | In recent years , ex-students have achieved rapid prominence : Ian Davenport , Fiona Rae and Damien Hirst were shortlisted for the Turner Prize in the last two years , while enough of the young neo-conceptual artists dominating the scene ( represented in the Saatchi Collection ; for instance ) studied there for the style to be referred to as ‘ the Goldsmiths ’ phenomenon ’ . |
| 3 | The extent of active support for the Khmer Rouge in the countryside is impossible to judge , but interviews with peasants in the provinces of Battambang , Pursat , Takeo and Kampot , in the west and south of Cambodia , indicate widespread passive support allowing the guerrillas to move around and gather food . |
| 4 | The most comprehensive survey of Nicholson 's art since the exhibition held at the Gulbenkian Foundation , Lisbon , and the Fondacion Juan March , Madrid , in 1987 , it is Lewison 's dress rehearsal for the major retrospective of more than one hundred works which he is organising for the Tate Gallery in the autumn of1994 . |
| 5 | Possibly one of the earliest was Miss Robb who had shown a keen interest in the purchase of a new harmonium for the Sunday School in the wooden Tabernacle . |
| 6 | The proportion of good degrees remains larger for the universities in relation to students in the highest A-level score range , but is larger for the CNAA graduates in the other A-level score ranges . |
| 7 | Peasant representatives for the Black-Earth Region in the Dumas had shown ho interest in any political problem apart from the land issue . |
| 8 | Obtain data on gross domestic fixed capital formation , real national income and the number of unfilled job vacancies for the United Kingdom in the 1970s and 1980s . |
| 9 | Malcolm had left Trinidad for the United States in the 1920s and whilst educating himself at Fisk and Howard Universities had developed a temperament of a distinctly militant revolutionary nature . |
| 10 | These spelt out what was " special " for the United States in the relationship with Britain . |
| 11 | During the past year we have continued to play a full part for the UK government in the international research effort which pursues nuclear fusion as a long term energy option . |
| 12 | Villa Park will be the venue for the Birmingham club in the new International League . |
| 13 | Villa Park will be the venue for the Birmingham club in the new International League . |
| 14 | Italian ‘ Green ’ MEP Enrico Falqui quoted a judgement by the Italian Court of Auditors which found that the price fixed by the State-owned energy corporation ENI for the Montedison shares in the Enimont joint venture was ‘ out of all proportion ’ to their average quoted value . |
| 15 | A major prop for the Thatcher government in the 1980s was a strong reaction against central government , the world of the quangos and over-mighty metropolitan authorities — although , ironically , that administration was also to take centralization still further , especially in its crusade against local government and the vested interests of the professions . |
| 16 | This was a major problem for the Thatcher government in the early 1980s , when despite efforts to cut government expenditure the PSBR remained high . |
| 17 | A 5ft 9in point guard out of Oral Roberts University in Tulsa , Johnson played for the Lancaster Lightnings in the Continental Basketball Association before moving to this country to join Newcastle . |
| 18 | The same year , 1958 , Albert Duff , a Belfast Alderman and the superintendent of a small mission hall , stood for the Stormont Parliament in the Iveagh constituency . |
| 19 | THE Conservative candidate for the Lothians seat in the European parliamentary elections next year will be Dr Patrick McNally , a consultant orthopaedic surgeon with South Ayrshire National Health Service Trust . |
| 20 | The outlook for the Spanish beer market and for the Cruzcampo group in the long term remains positive . |
| 21 | A new Herriot ( in this case Every Living Thing , published by Michael Joseph ) does not need to be torn to pieces on the book page of the Times , but there was Robert Crampton trying to make a reputation for himself : ‘ James Herriot did for the Yorkshire Dales in the seventies what Peter Mayle did for the hills of Provence in the eighties . |
| 22 | Photogravure was much in use during the Photo-Secession period in the early years of the 20th century — a time of intense seriousness about photography as a vehicle of genuine graphic art and of intense interest in Japanese aesthetics . |
| 23 | Under the terms of this formula resources in the NHS were distributed in such a way as to favour areas of the country traditionally under-provided with services , such as the Trent region in the Midlands . |
| 24 | The hill masses of Central Scotland , such as the Ochil Hills in the photograph , are mainly over 500 m high . |
| 25 | To decide on matters of compensation or the return of property , the decrees ( i ) established a Property Ombudsman 's office within and subordinate to the office of the Attorney General ; ( ii ) re-established a three-member National Review Commission under the Property Ombudsman 's office ; and ( iii ) expanded the duties of the Office of Territorial Reorganization ( OOT ) to review assignments of state property to Sandinista officials between the Sandinista defeat in the February 1990 elections and Chamorro 's inauguration in April . |
| 26 | Biarritz spreads amply out from its heart , at the Place Clemenceau , but its attractions lie by the sea , above all around the small , domesticated promontory that juts out into the froth and swirl of the Bay of Biscay between the Grande Plage in the centre of the town and the rather humbler Plage de la Cote tea Basques to the south . |
| 27 | In the following spring Sigmar was crowned Emperor of all the lands between the Grey Mountains in the south and the Middle Mountains in the north . |
| 28 | It guarded the gap between the San River in the west and the upper Dniester in the east . |
| 29 | Firstly , I did n't know about the SAS soldiers in the British Embassy , and I am very surprised about it . |
| 30 | What was unique about the BBC governors in the eighties was that you had Rees-Mogg as vice-chairman and Stuart Young as chairman — two open , committed supporters of the present Government . |