Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But that was in 1976 , a black year for British sprinting when no one was selected for the 100 metres at the Montreal Olympics . |
| 2 | I lined up for the 100 metres at the AAA Championships and , lo and behold , everybody came out in similar outfits ! |
| 3 | In 1915 the New South Wales Swimming Association invited Duke Kahanamoku to the Domain Baths in Sydney where he beat his own world record for the 100 yards with a time of 53.8 seconds . |
| 4 | There is a much appreciated personal escort for the 100 yards to the hotel , for the price of a handful of Marlboro . |
| 5 | Antinomians taught that since Christ died for the actual sins of His people , they are justified even before they are born . |
| 6 | Firstly , Baxter could not see how it was possible to avoid Antinomianism if it was accepted that Christ died for the actual sins of His people . |
| 7 | For the committed exponents of Nazi rule , Hitler 's public statements on the destruction of the Jews provided sanction and legitimation for their own ‘ private initiatives ’ taken against Jews , backing and support for their own involvement in the escalating criminality of the regime . |
| 8 | Thus the headman had a veto over criminal prosecutions for the petty offences over which village tribunals had exclusive jurisdiction . |
| 9 | One of these , intriguingly , was the non-existent Board of Magistrates for the Petty Sessions of Heaton Norris : the Charity Commissioners had been rather concerned , during the drafting of the Scheme , that letters addressed to this body were never answered , but pressed on with its inclusion regardless . |
| 10 | Be that as it may , there were still those in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries who still continued to look on Siberia as an exploited colony whose population and resources were recklessly plundered and despoiled by the central government , whose merchantry continued to suffer under the ‘ economic yoke of Moscow ’ and the commercial interests of the centre , whose native peoples were many of them doomed to extinction , where such civil and political rights and modern judicial institutions as existed in tsarist Russia were largely denied to the population of Siberia , where the cultural and educational infrastructure was inadequate for the region 's needs , and which was still used as a distant dumping ground for the criminal sweepings of the rest of the empire . |
| 11 | For the first time , to anything like that extent , parents are liable for the criminal activities of juveniles . |
| 12 | Quantitative material is also used as evidence for the criminal proclivities of persons with certain social characteristics . |
| 13 | For the Roman ruins of Tyre , a few of the old Ottoman harbour warehouses , the little Christian streets near the port , are still there . |
| 14 | The admiration which churchmen such as Cardinal Arthur Hinsley and Bishop G. K. A. Bell of Chichester [ qq.v. ] had for Dawson involved him actively as vice-president in the Sword of the Spirit , a proto-ecumenical movement which , to his disappointment , proved to be too visionary for the Roman authorities of the time . |
| 15 | For the odd shifts of emphasis |
| 16 | By the next day , hundreds of Chinese students gathered at the Nanjing campuses calling for the African students to be punished and marched on to the municipal offices . |
| 17 | The background screen for the African transparencies in ‘ The Dawn of Man ’ was 40 x 90 feet ( 12 x 27m ) . |
| 18 | Even as a match for the Tatar warriors of the Crimea , who were similarly equipped , their value declined when in the 1630s and 1640s a strong line of fortifications was built in the south . |
| 19 | ( 3 ) For the quarterly meetings of a licensing board , see s.4(1). 5.13(2) enables a hoard , if it thinks fit , to adjourn an application where there has been a failure to comply with the requirements of the Act , or where an applicant has died . |
| 20 | There were no books in the room so all I could do was look out of the window and wait for the quarterly chimes from the Cathedral Clock . |
| 21 | Some fifteen years ago , it was extended and now goes around the northern tip of the peninsula before turning south for a straight run down the west coast in bleak country , featureless except for the sad ruins of abandoned crofts yet relieved by glorious views across to Skye and the islands of the Inner Sound . |
| 22 | Churchill agreed and decided that , regardless of the outcome of the talks about continuing the coalition into peacetime , ‘ any decisions which are needed for the supreme objects of FOOD and EMPLOYMENT in the years immediately after the war must be taken whether they involve legislation and whether they are controversial or not ’ . |
| 23 | Here Haydn was the principal pioneer , but Mozart expanded the form , pushing it to its limits within the Classical framework he inherited , and laying the foundation for the supreme achievements of Beethoven . |
| 24 | There is a poem by his friend Philip Larkin , entitled ‘ Letter to a Friend about Girls ’ , which was never published during Larkin 's lifetime but was retrieved for the Collected Poems of 1988 . |
| 25 | It was tempting to think that he might live down there for ever , occasionally emerging to dodge through the empty quiet streets ; watching for the armed patrols of the faceless men in black . |
| 26 | The 53-year-old seating — installed when the school was built in 1938 had done a sterling job for the armed forces during the war and pupils alike over the year . |
| 27 | Donor states are aware that by providing support for the armed forces of one superpower their territory could become a target in the military operational planning of the other superpower . |
| 28 | After the Egyptian leader , Sadat , granted the United States rights to use certain of Egyptian military facilities at the beginning of the 1980s , notably at Ras Banas on the Red Sea , Soviet writers described his ‘ preparedness to allow military bases for the armed forces of the United States of America on his territory ’ as being ‘ in violation of the basic principles of the Non-Aligned Movement ’ . |
| 29 | The Nov. 28 Bamako agreement , concluded at the end of an extraordinary ECOWAS summit , had been signed by ( i ) Charles Taylor , leader of the National Patriotic Front of Liberia ( NPFL ) , ( ii ) Noah Bordolo , for the breakaway Independent NPFL led by Taylor 's rival , Prince Yormie Johnson , and ( iii ) Capt. Wilmot Diggs , for the Armed Forces of Liberia ( AFL ) , the relics of the army of former President Doe . |
| 30 | That was covered in the letter sent to the hon. Gentleman by my noble Friend the Under-Secretary of State for the Armed Forces on 28 August . |