Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He played soccer for Middlesbrough in the immediate post-war years and , in 1950 , moved to Portsmouth where he played professionally until 1958 , after which he drifted away from the club never to contact Portsmouth again ( W. J. B. Davis , Portsmouth FC Secretary , personal communication , 1979 ) . |
| 2 | Pablo Riveroll of Baring Securities in Mexico City says the investment could be hugely profitable for Televisa in the long term , but notes that it will bring the firm no net profit until 1996 . |
| 3 | Sarfraz 's solicitor Ash Karim confirmed the writ was in response to Lamb 's allegations about Sarfraz in the Daily Mirror . |
| 4 | When the war ended he sought me out to offer me choice of jabs ; I chose his Transport Wing in Germany , on loan to Sholto Douglas then the C-in-C Germany , to operate the air transport requirements for Germany in the early days after the end of the war , with aircraft baked in the UK . |
| 5 | DAVID KILSBY David Kilsby joined the retail sales force in September as Merchandiser for the Southern area which covers from Cornwall to East Anglia . |
| 6 | Accordingly the ‘ cohort's- including the family , especially Maurice Macmillan and Julian Amery-warmly urged the case for Hailsham at the Imperial Hotel . |
| 7 | Despite writing a pet column for the Daily Telegraph for more than four years , I have been given no information at all about Crufts over the past two years . |
| 8 | Still on the first of these two categories , more can be said about Potidaia from the Athenian Tribute Lists . |
| 9 | It all began for Andy in the mid seventies when he staged international ‘ spectaculars ’ and England matches , mostly at Crystal Palace but also at Gateshead . |
| 10 | Delegates adopted a bill of human rights and agreed on self-determination for Kurdistan within the Iraqi state . |
| 11 | Modified Karplus curve relating the coupling constant J ( Hz ) for H3'-P to the dihedral angle ε ( C4'-C3'-O3'-P ) in degrees . |
| 12 | Dawson made 46 before falling to a well-judged catch by David Hemp and Simon Hinks joined Hodgson to raise the 200 , but was caught behind for 19 off Watkin in the final over of the day . |
| 13 | Saxe-Weimar 's men were mostly German troops in Dutch service who had fought for Napoleon in the previous wars , and not even Saxe-Weimar himself was certain whether they would now fight against their old comrades . |
| 14 | I agree with the remarks of my hon. Friend the Member for Wellingborough about the international entrenching of minority rights . |
| 15 | ( Dvorak devotees can count their blessings for his stubborn spirit ; the composer 's American patron had requested an opera about Hiawatha for the great occasion . ) |
| 16 | The letter also proposed the completion of the demarcation of the disputed border , navigation rights for Ecuador on the Peruvian Amazon and its tributaries , a joint integration zone along the whole border and " confidence-building " measures including a meeting of military commanders in January . |
| 17 | Beyond the joining of the rivers , now called the Tisza , the route turns north towards Russian and eventually becomes the frontier between Hungary on the left bank and the Soviets on the right . |
| 18 | We arranged ourselves in the seats and as we headed for Shellerton in the early dark I told her calmly , incompletely and without terrors , the gist of what had befallen us in Sam 's boatyard . |
| 19 | From Roman 1st century AD to Boldrini after Titian to the New Yorker , 1962 the image of the Laocoon survives . |
| 20 | Carrie had managed to cope with the twofold demands of the business and motherhood by employing a young woman to look after Rachel during the busy days . |
| 21 | The Phnom Penh government and its guerrilla foes continued to issue widely conflicting claims during January about the military situation on the ground [ for battle reports in September and October 1989 see pp. 36882 ; 36976 ] . |
| 22 | Because you spoke about Heather in the present tense , as if you genuinely believe she 's still alive . ’ |
| 23 | On Thursday , some of the Secretary of State 's officials will give evidence about Trident to the Select Committee on Defence . |
| 24 | He also competes for Toyota in the Japanese sports car series and earlier this year headed their team in the Le Mans 24-hour race . |
| 25 | In 1727 he became MP for Strabane in the Irish Parliament . |
| 26 | For some eight years he opened the innings for Hampshire with the great Barry Richards , a daunting prospect for many a young bowler hoping to establish himself — and many an older one who already had . |
| 27 | The threat to British interests had changed , with international Communism replacing the political and military intrigues of predator European powers and Tsarist Russia of earlier centuries , but the policies for meeting the new threat remained traditional : the judicious stationing of garrisons to protect overseas territories from external aggression and from internal subversion ; the deployment of naval forces to maintain the freedom of the seas in areas of British interest ; and the positioning of strategic reserves at key points , like Egypt and Singapore , on the imperial lines of communication through Suez to the Far East . |
| 28 | Waddy had been Australia 's 12th man against England in the fifth Test in 1907–08 , having scored a century and a half-century against them for NSW in the previous match . |
| 29 | This is an alliance of neo-fascists and communists known by most Russians simply as ‘ the reds and browns ’ ( browns after ‘ brown plague ’ , the term for the xenophobic hysteria that swept through Russia in the late 19th century ) . |
| 30 | ‘ He could just be heading for Russia via the Czech border … ’ |