Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] of [noun prp] [conj] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since the Third International 's change to a popular front policy in 1935 , groups such as the Jewish People 's Council against Fascism and Anti-Semitism , the International Labour Defence of Britain and the London Ex-Servicemen 's Defence against Fascism were part-Communist party front organizations and part spontaneous working-class resentment against the incursion of the fascists into the East End of London . |
| 2 | Thirdly , the very low level of ICA and the other restrictions on benefit entitlements for carers ( see Glendinning , 1990 ) create a situation in which some carers are financially dependent on the person they are caring for . |
| 3 | Thus , German unification was achieved not by revolution , but by the political ingenuity of Bismarck and the arms of Prussia . |
| 4 | Runners-up were the National Deaf Club of London and the Brighton Branch was adjudged third . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The term ‘ lost continents ’ invokes two quite separate phenomena , which are often muddled through ignorance or deceit by those seeking to ‘ prove ’ the one-time existence of Atlantis and the rest . |
| 7 | Further , the Compacts of Free Association of Micronesia and the Marshall Islands preserve in the United States the subjective power to determine those security and national interests . |
| 8 | and we parked up er the top side of Malham and the car would n't start |
| 9 | Dornier is an old rival of MBB and the latter , in any case , has always been a hard outfit to run — with its mix of brilliant ideas men and bureaucrats used to hefty injections of government money . |
| 10 | And he thought very hard about that broken web of England and the busy spider mending it strand by strand . |
| 11 | A lively portrait of Albert and the literary and musical aspirations of his circle is contained in Günter Grass 's The Meeting at Telgte which also provides an evocative and credible background to the horror of the Thirty Years ' War . |
| 12 | Facts about Lesothan agriculture followed : lack of irrigation and lack of freehold tenure produced the contrast between the brown barrenness of Lesotho and the green fertility of South Africa . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Despite careful inquiry of BUPA and the BMA , no one has been able satisfactorily to explain the astronomical rise in the premium , especially in comparison to the benefits . |
| 15 | In North Wales , sand dunes have affected the new medieval town of Newborough and the old royal estate of Aberffrau in Anglesey . |
| 16 | FOR two performances last week , Headley Holme School wowed audiences with their lively presentation of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | In the fifteenth century Fortescue , too , was a bilingual writer , with the English Governance of England and the Latin De Laudibus Legum Anglie . |
| 19 | He spent five years in the top job , a hectic period which embraced not only the collapse of communism in eastern Europe , but , at the very end , the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait and the Gulf War . |
| 20 | Prime Minister Atef Sidqi told the Assembly 's general committee that the laws continued to be justifiable following the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait and the resultant inter-Arab divisions . |
| 21 | Until the August Iraqi invasion of Kuwait and the ensuing Gulf crisis , the government had sought to reduce military expenditure in accordance with increasing congressional demands for an acknowledgement of the diminishing threat presented by the Soviet Union and east European countries [ see pp. 37646-47 ] . |
| 22 | They suggest that this was because virtually no oil tankers frequented the northern Gulf during the seven months between the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait and the end of the war , when Iraqi and Kuwaiti oil production was subjected to a worldwide embargo . |
| 23 | Far from feeling second best , the Mexicans have taken up the challenge with vigour : ‘ We aim to be a cultural invasion of Frankfurt and the rest of Germany ’ , said the Mexican commissioner , Eugenia Meyer . |
| 24 | But in each case BT is a relatively quiescent member , not seriously challenging the French leadership of EUTELSAT or the US leadership of INTELSAT . |
| 25 | The local papers turned their attention to the German invasion of Belgium and the problems of recruiting while the Board of Education closed its file on the case without any apparent resolution . |
| 26 | Memorable especially are the Victorian rectitude of her mother 's grandfather , a public-spirited and popular governor of Hainaut and the introverted idealism of his nephew , Octave Pirmez , still regarded as the most distinguished Belgian essayist of his time ; and Remo , whose anguished pursuit of justice and truth through Germany and Greece ended with his sublime and absurd suicide listening to Tannhauser on his musical box . |
| 27 | The apocalyptic vision of Bukharin and the Bolsheviks was clearly stated when he wrote : |
| 28 | MEMBERS of the 85-strong Western Youth Orchestra have returned after a two-week tour of Canada and the United States , marking their 21st anniversary . |
| 29 | Cleo eyed the manic grin of Tumblejack , the cadaverous sway of Rattletrap and the imp-like perversity of Malengin 's countenance with qualms . |
| 30 | In the same way , the capacity of the British to accelerate development vindicated their expropriation of India ( the same principle justified the French seizure of Algeria and the North American annexation of northern Mexico ) . |