Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] [adj] [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A man has been admitted to hospital after sitting in his Saab for five hours with the motor running and a hose connected to the exhaust . |
| 2 | Born and bred a Land Rover , but crossed with the might and muscle of a Range Rover , it 's just the machine for enterprising City types who at the end of the week want to swap Hampstead and Fulham for ambitious adventures to the ends of Britain 's motorways . |
| 3 | The debate on the moratorium had to be suspended on June 27 in order to allow Landsbergis and Prunskiene to fly to Moscow for urgent clarification of the Soviet position on Lithuania 's status should the moratorium be declared . |
| 4 | Having already written for the NME for several months as the transvestite sex-poet Susan Williams I was nervous , a straw sucker acting brash in a den of sophisticates . |
| 5 | KALAMAZOO GOES TO NETHERLANDS FOR FIRST ACQUISITION ON THE CONTINENT |
| 6 | At the other end , Jones missed a penalty awarded against Jenkins for illegal use of the boot . |
| 7 | Meanwhile , CAR is planning to bring back two more babies from Romania for vital treatment after the success of the operation on tiny Bogdan Ursu . |
| 8 | The Conservatives were to rule for thirteen years , with Churchill as Prime Minister for the first three and a half . |
| 9 | Lita Dowell , prosecuting , said Thomas had been having an affair with Mrs Dean for four months before the attack in August . |
| 10 | Lita Dowell , prosecuting , said that Thomas had been having an affair with Mrs Dean for four months before the attack in August . |
| 11 | At the 1988 tournament , held in Hong Kong , South Korea and Japan emerged first and second respectively and went on to play Western Samoa and Tonga for two berths in the 1991 World Cup . |
| 12 | It was reported on April 7 that acting President Yagub Mamedov had appointed Prime Minister Gasan Gasanov as Azerbaijani ambassador to the UN and made Gasanov 's deputy , Feirus Mustafayev , the new Prime Minister . |
| 13 | The stern warning from Admiral Trost about possible effects on the special relationship between the United States and Britain came as a surprise to British officials . |
| 14 | Unequal struggle : a Somali boy throws a stone at a US Marine assault vehicle in Mogadishu during fierce rioting in the Somali capital yesterday . |
| 15 | Unequal struggle : a Somali boy throws a stone at a US Marine assault vehicle in Mogadishu during fierce rioting in the Somali capital yesterday . |
| 16 | The relatively detailed information in the annals and in the correspondence of Alcuin for this phase of the reign of Eardwulf enables us to perceive more clearly than is usually the case the way in which an attempt to challenge a Northumbrian king could embrace both internal dissent and external interference . |
| 17 | He set aside every Monday and Tuesday for personal ministry of the Scriptures to whole families , listening to them , pastoring them , and teaching them . |
| 18 | It took a foreign observer like Alexis de Tocqueville earlier in the century to describe ‘ the people of the United States as that portion of the English people which is commissioned to explore the wilds of the New World ’ . |
| 19 | Tyneside architects Angus Leybourne has appointed Edward Hill as senior consultant to the practice . |
| 20 | In October 1989 the government announced an agreement with the United States for greater use by the latter of naval maintenance and repair facilities in Singapore and increased visits by US Air Force aircraft . |
| 21 | Disappointment and frustration began to accumulate in criticism of Buxton as parliamentary leader of the cause . |
| 22 | On Dec. 30 the Council elected Burhanuddin Rabbani as first President of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan for a two-year term . |
| 23 | An unexpected announcemt on Oct. 6 confirmed Gen. Guido Sandóval Zambrana as the new C-in-C of the Army ; Gen. Victor Guzmán Bruno as new Chief of General Staff ; and Gen. Alejandro Camponovo Ulloa as new C-in-C of the Air Force . |
| 24 | French petrol suppliers Elf partner Renault as principal sponsors of the £25 million-a-year team . |
| 25 | They were forced into a crisis meeting late on Tuesday after increasing criticism of the way they had allowed their private problems to overshadow their public duties . |
| 26 | In 1534 Dacre was tried before the House of Lords on charges laid by Musgrave of treasonable communications with the Scots during the Anglo-Scottish war of 1532–3 . |
| 27 | Among the book 's central allegations were claims that Mossad had ( i ) failed to inform the United States of prior intelligence concerning the October 1983 suicide bombing of the US Marine battalion headquarters in Beirut , the Lebanese capital [ see pp. 32646-47 ] ; ( ii ) established a secret spy network ( " A1 " ) in the USA ; ( iii ) helped bring about the dismissal of Andrew Young from his post of US representative at the UN in 1979 after secretly recording Young 's clandestine meetings with PLO officials [ see p. 29956 ] ; and ( iv ) caused the downfall of Prime Minister Itzhak Rabin in 1977 by exposing his wife 's illegal foreign currency bank account [ see p. 28533 ] . |
| 28 | Dominic Rymer , 25 , of Willowcroft Road , Wallasey , was remanded in custody until Friday of this week at the request of prosecution solicitor Roger McDonough for further enquiries . |
| 29 | The Western states had already linked Soviet intervention in Afghanistan with Soviet intentions towards the oil wealth of the Persian Gulf countries . |
| 30 | Yeats 's poem , ‘ In Memory of Major Robert Gregory ’ , is centrally concerned with this , as when he associates Robert Gregory with that paradigm of the English courtier , Philip Sidney . |