Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | French petrol suppliers Elf partner Renault as principal sponsors of the £25 million-a-year team . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The Western states had already linked Soviet intervention in Afghanistan with Soviet intentions towards the oil wealth of the Persian Gulf countries . |
| 6 | The body of twenty four year old Martin Ingram was found in Princes Risborough on Friday with multiple wounds to the face and head . |
| 7 | Professionally , he is a chartered accountant , a former senior partner of the energetic firm Coopers and Lybrand with valuable contacts in the City . |
| 8 | While Schimer/Mosel continues to concentrate on its good list of German editions of international books on photography , one German original is Museumsbilder , the first complete publication of a series of fifteen large colour photographs taken by Thomas Struth in leading museums of the world ( DM58 ) . |
| 9 | His late father was a Kyrgyz who proudly served as a border guard for the KGB in far-flung regions of the former Soviet Union . |
| 10 | Even following the assassination in February of the leading Nazi functionary in Switzerland , Wilhelm Gustloff , by a young Jew , the proximity of the Winter Olympics and foreign policy considerations confined him to a single and , in his terms , relatively ‘ moderate ’ , speech at the funeral , attacking Jewry in generalized terms as the stimulus behind practically every political ‘ martyr ’ of the Right since the Revolution of 1918 . |
| 11 | Most of these were recorded by Gabriel Campbell and Tunga Nath Upadaya in various villages in the Jumla area . |
| 12 | That meant , quite apart from anything else , the inevitable combination of Liberalism and Non-Conformity Over successive generations in the Hockin household , Gladstone and Lloyd George , as well as the current line-up of Liberal MPs down in the West Country were names mentioned in almost reverential tones . |
| 13 | He began to redesign and embellish Strawberry Hill on Gothic lines in the 1750s . |
| 14 | Our assets are of high quality , our people are dedicated professionals and I believe , working as a team , we can take LASMO to new heights in the future . |
| 15 | It is also worth noting that correlations between ERPs and behaviour are never perfect , perhaps because of masking of some of the ERPs by random fluctuations of the background EEG . |
| 16 | EVIDENCE was growing last night of a cover-up over a British Airways jumbo jet captured in Kuwait by Iraqi troops as the Gulf War erupted . |
| 17 | I asked Lord King of British Airways about the decision to buy Boeing aircraft and United States General Electric aero engines , giving that company a foothold in Britain at the expense of Rolls-Royce . |
| 18 | Antiochus was used by Thucydides for Sicilian antiquities at the beginning of hi ; book vi , but not for fifth-century history , though he went down to 424 . |
| 19 | It was a series of financial penalties imposed by Washington for manifold breaches of the 1977 Clean Air Act which forced the LA authorities to formulate such an epic approach in the first place . |
| 20 | Seineldin had been imprisoned along with former Lt.-Col. Aldo Rico for leading rebellions against the regime of former President Raúl Alfonsín Foulkes [ see pp. 35560-61 ; 36203 ; 36394 ] . |
| 21 | Atrocities were reported on both sides ; random killings appeared to increase in mid- to late July as basic supplies in the capital ran low , and discipline broke down in the ranks of Army and rebel forces alike . |
| 22 | USPCA officials today promised to track down hundreds of illegally-owned Pit Bull Terriers trained in Northern Ireland for big-money fights throughout the Republic and Britain . |
| 23 | , Josias Christopher ( 1778–1848 ) , chemical manufacturer , was born at Graan Farm , Enniskillen , county Fermanagh , Ireland , August 1778 , the fourth son of David Gamble , whose staunch Presbyterian ancestors had moved from Ayrshire to Ireland for religious reasons during the reign of James VI . |
| 24 | The problems arose over the two-year presidency of the Argentinian , Sarkis Kaloghlian , who was dismissed from his position in July after financial irregularities in the IJF 's Miami bank account . |
| 25 | England of the Nissen hut , the ‘ pre-fab ’ , and the electric fence , of the high barbed wire around some unmentionable devilment ; England of the arterial by-pass , treeless and stinking of diesel oil , murderous with lorries ; England of the bombing-range wherever there was once silence , as on Otmoor or the marshlands of Lincolnshire ; England of battle-training areas on the Breckland heaths , and tanks crashing through empty ruined Wiltshire villages ; England of high explosive falling upon the prehistoric monuments of Dartmoor . |
| 26 | The breakdown in July of all-party talks on the future of the province [ see p. 38356 ] was followed in August by a fresh outbreak of sectarian killings throughout Northern Ireland . |
| 27 | Waite actions were begun both in the English and the Irish courts in respect of breach of a licensing agreement providing for the manufacture in Ireland of bullet-proof vests for the Libyan authorities . |
| 28 | A special category of illustrated book is the ‘ extra-illustrated ’ or , ‘ grangerised ’ work , so called after James Granger ( 1723–76 ) who , in 1769–74 , published a five volume Biographical History of England with blank leaves for the purchaser to add additional illustrative material-portraits , facsimiles , plans , topographical scenes , even original letters and documents . |
| 29 | Romantic dresses with a French feel in a wide range of styles on show are Pronuptia de Paris & Youngs with dashing suits for the groom to hire . |
| 30 | There is a possibility that dun Galloways , which were traditionally fattened on turnips in East Anglia in large numbers in the nineteenth century , contributed to the now extinct Suffolk Dun which was part-originator of the Red Poll . |