Example sentences of "[art] [noun prp] [conj] [adv] the " in BNC.
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1 | In fact , he claims that his flyingboat course was his last in the RAF and certainly the most fortuitous for himself and subsequently the RAF . |
2 | I am entering the RAF and then the Navy because I believe I can contribute something to this country by so doing . |
3 | It had taken them ages to get back from the Lock and now the evening was drawing in . |
4 | Well , nearly — it appeared game , set and match to the PFA but either the memory , or the shorthand , of the Football League 's negotiators was faulty because in their letter to clubs , describing what had been agreed , they led them to believe that the second principle had not been conceded . |
5 | During its lifetime , both in peacetime and war ( e.g. WW II , Korea , the Falklands and latterly the Gulf ) the railway has carried hundreds of thousands of tons of stores and equipments internally for the RAOC for storage and issue , also to the REME at 34 Base Workshop for repair . |
6 | There was also the undoubted increase in her personal self-confidence and stature as a result of the recapture of the Falklands and then the 1983 and 1987 election victories . |
7 | The race is held on a Sunday , but people travel to the village on the Saturday or even the Friday . |
8 | Anjou was once the home of the Plantagenets and today the tomb of Henri II of England , Eleanore of Acquitaine and Richard the Lion Hart can be seen in the magnificent abbey of Fontevraud near the town . |
9 | Passing new laws was not a common occurrence , and the Commons usually left the conduct of day-to-day policy , especially in foreign affairs , to the King and his council , with complete certainty that this small body was better informed than the Commons or even the average members of the House of Lords . |
10 | Given a large corpse of anything on the bottom of the Amazon or even the Thames , most fish will ‘ attack ’ and gnaw off the odd bit . |
11 | The Bandung communiqué had stressed the urgency of an early solution , and strong Afro — Asian support was expressed for the Indonesian case at the UN though eventually the familiar device of a Good Offices Commission was accepted . |
12 | He had arrived in the late afternoon of a perfect summer 's day , was shortly to go off to the Alps and then the Himalayas and had not touched rock for a couple of years , so the urge for activity was upon him . |
13 | The Government 's Green Paper on the development of radio proposes the creation of national commercial competition for the BBC and also the creation of a new regulatory body to supervise these developments in commercial and community radio . |
14 | Progress has been made in providing clearer signposting in the RCJ and also the provision of meeting rooms and additional telephone points within the building . |
15 | Since boundary changes for the 1983 election , the seat has swung from Labour to the SDP and lastly the Tories . |
16 | This is particularly true of the value of votes for the smaller parties of the centre — the Liberal Party , the SDP and now the Liberal Democrats ; and of the value of votes for Labour in the South and for the Conservatives in the North and in Scotland . |
17 | Barlaston could be described as the Gettysburg or even the Stalingrad battle for preservation in England , the place where against overwhelming and continuous odds an outstanding building has been preserved and revived . |
18 | And there were silver amulets studded with turquoise , bearing the insignia of the Gruagach and also the insignia of Flame 's ancestry . |
19 | If these forecasts are correct , and they of course ignore the inertia of the system , and the immense social capital invested in cities , then the population and employment changes revealed by this chapter are only the precursors of a massive recolonization of the countryside , not only in the UK but also the USA ( Fisher and Mitchelson , 1981 ) . |
20 | Jaguar shareholders will be sent details of Ford 's £1.6billion takeover terms in a circular due to be posted today to shareholders in the UK and also the US , where a simultaneous offer is to be made to investors holding Jaguar shares in the form of American Depository Receipts . |
21 | How those opposing loyalties can be accommodated within new structures involving Northern Ireland , the Republic , the UK and possibly the EC is the big question to be resolved |
22 | He bluntly rejected not only the demands of the Rada but also the claims of Ukrainian nationalism ( and so contradicted Party Policy : ) |
23 | This percentage is an average across the LEA and so the proportion allocated for individual schools may vary . |
24 | An important implication of this is that while a particular situation may give rise to various differing , and sometimes conflicting needs ( the needs of teachers , parents , other pupils , the LEA and indeed the LEA 's professional advisers ) , the conceptual focus upon the child encouraged by the Act inhibits the development of a theoretical framework within which the interplay of needs can be examined . |
25 | I do not remember now how or why I did so , because despite my infatuation I still sometimes thought Dana was a Franco spy , or from the FBI or the CIA or even the CID or the KGB . |
26 | By Nov. 4 Demirel was reportedly contemplating a temporary alliance to this end , to include not just the SHP but also the Islamic fundamentalist Welfare Party ( RP ) . |
27 | We waited anxiously as reports came in of 97-mph gales in the Pennines but thankfully the spire remained firm . |
28 | George Healey was a remarkable man who devoted his whole adult life to the cause of deaf people , both in Liverpool and nationally first through the N.D.D.S. and thence the B.D.D.A. He was born in Gateacre , Liverpool and lost his hearing at the age of three months as a result of brain fever following a fall from the arms of his nurse , although his deafness was not discovered until he was two years old . |
29 | In response the city 's cannons were trained against the Orcs and soon the rock lobbers were silenced . |
30 | It has been detected in a dozen systems in the US and yesterday the Swiss government announced that 75 of its computers were infected . |