Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [prep] [noun prp] [subord] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may be that they have been healed ; it may be that they have known the manifest presence of God as the church has drawn near to him in worship . |
| 2 | Opposed then to collaboration with the communist CCOO , the UGT offered a social pact to González after the Socialists won power in 1982 . |
| 3 | Electricity generator PowerGen Plc said Sir Graham Day is to retire as its chairman and that Sir Colin Southgate , chairman and chief executive of Thorn EMI Plc , will succeed him ; Sir Colin has been a non-executive director of PowerGen since the firm was created in 1990 . |
| 4 | As in a modern context it is immediately clear that students find it hard to combine study with a full-time job ; so , addressing a would-be contemplative , the Cloud-author explains his view that it is impossible for man to pursue the discipline of meditation and study unless he first ceases external activity , and impossible to come to mystical knowledge of God if the mind is engaged in discursive thought . |
| 5 | Mental illness was a foreign concept to Aborigines until the arrival of whites in Australia . |
| 6 | As it happened , the Stewart kings between 1406 and 1542 had married wives of considerable personality and , except in the case of Margaret Tudor , skill ; in the power-sharing between Mary of Gueldres , widow of James II , and the then elder statesman , James Kennedy , bishop of St Andrews , during the early years of James III 's minority , for example , it was the Queen Mother who pursued a much more intelligent foreign policy towards England than the bishop . |
| 7 | There was a gasp from the children and a high scream from Millie as the scissors went snip , snip , snip . |
| 8 | Like any protective grandmother , she keeps a careful hand on Thea-Josephine as the child balances precariously on her father 's shoulders . |
| 9 | Jill grinned , and was handing her empty cup to Lindsey when the door opened and Niall walked in , a harassed expression marring his attractive features . |
| 10 | It 's all hands on deck for the most exciting show in London as the Royal Navy introduces this year 's action packed Royal Tournament at Earl 's Court . |
| 11 | He was stationed in an old chapel in Chuckery because the Americans once they 'd started they were putting them everywhere or anywhere they could just get to be with them before V Day they were even in little chapels , churches , outhouses anywhere they could possibly and there were guns and bits of trucks on every spot of land where they could get them the er , I 'm getting out of context I was just thinking about a tank , a First World War tank that they used to have those as well in the field gun in the er arboretum which were disappeared soon after the war they went for scrap and they came and they used , people used to have a lot of wrought iron railings as well they took those as well they came along with burners and went off to the war effort , but er like I say the Americans and of course as kids they were very generous with kids and we absolutely loved them . |
| 12 | He was going to public school in England after the Christmas holidays were over . |
| 13 | Delegates at the second annual congress of the movement voted overwhelmingly early yesterday to approve a programme designed to build an independent economy and social structure in Latvia before the republic secedes at an unspecified date . |
| 14 | Firstly , the political/social stability of the UK attracts foreign representation in London while the risk of British governmental interference has been almost minimal , so far . |
| 15 | On Feb. 11 Saito restated the belief that Japanese public opinion would prevent the extension of economic assistance to Russia while the territorial dispute remained outstanding . |
| 16 | I wish to explore those proposals , lay bare the dangers which lurk beneath them and identify the threat not only to parliamentary representation from Scotland in this House but to the economic well-being of Scotland if the Labour party were ever in a position to exercise in Scotland the kind of powers that it would give to such an assembly . |
| 17 | Mine were of that last tropical downpour in Samaná when the potential violence had seemed so distant to me . |
| 18 | Access : Possibly the most accessible climb in Scotland once the driving is over . |
| 19 | There was a similar reaction in Hertfordshire when the resignation of the University 's resident tutor in the county , Vivian Ramsbottom , to become Administrative Officer of the Joint Committee , led the District AGM of 1955 to carry a motion expressing ‘ belief that the presence of a Resident Tutor in the County is vital to the growth of the educational work which the WEA and the University do together ’ . |
| 20 | Military leaders in the sixteenth century who could not find wars to fight elsewhere might turn on their own sovereigns and fight at home ; there had been some decades of civil war in England after the English had been driven out of France in the middle of the fifteenth century . |
| 21 | It will be a sad day for Britain if the Union Jack falls to town hall tyrants who are completely up the pole . |
| 22 | While John Paul Jones had been captivating the ladies of Paris the French government had been preparing for the most serious attack on England since the Dutch incursion into the Medway . |
| 23 | Ian Humphreys and Duncan Mitchell were making space down the right wing for Milton as the visitors started to click into gear , searching and probing for a way past the Fairmile defence . |
| 24 | Built next to the Magnox Encapsulation Plant [ MEP ] , which was formally opened in November last year , EP2 will initially take intermediate-level waste from THORP when the flagship plant goes operational in 1993 . |
| 25 | French-trained The Fellow , beaten a short head by Cool Ground in the Gold Cup , is also a likely runner on Saturday unless the ground becomes too soft . |
| 26 | For Youth Allyah , Zionism came before all , an article of faith expressed with terrifying force by David Ben-Gurion , Jewish leader in Palestine when the flow of refugee children was at its height . |
| 27 | Five minutes later Tony and I were trudging through deep snow , wishing we had spared the time to search out the snow shoes and wondering whether there had ever been a previous occasion in Iceland when the approach of a car had been heralded by walkers . |
| 28 | GARETH CHILCOTT , the England prop who was sent off for the fourth time in his playing career with Bath when the champions suffered a League reversal at Gloucester last month , is still awaiting news of his punishment from the Somerset disciplinary committee . |
| 29 | This was a much more comfortable victory for Kelburne than the score suggests for two of Torbrex 's goals were scored late in the game by Gordon Shepherd whose second strike came from a penalty a minute from time . |
| 30 | ENGLAND 'S squash rebels will play in next month 's National Championship in Manchester if the governing body accept a compromise . |