Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our principal exposure to the public arose from the chance that Her Majesty the Queen became interested and used Motability as the centre for her Christmas address in 1981 . |
| 2 | Clearly , however , the needs we have identified at Stirling for the transmission of documents , images and so on are also arising at other sites — and between sites as well . |
| 3 | Schanberg did n't return to Cambodia until last summer , fourteen years later , when he accompanied Roland Joffé for the première of The Killing Fields in Phnom Penh . |
| 4 | I realized a long time ago why you were so set on Charlie and me marrying , and I 'm very fond of him , and I 'd like to go on living at Lady Mead for the rest of my life . |
| 5 | Braque , on the other hand , although he was only six months younger than Picasso , was slower in his development and had not yet established himself as a particularly original or significant painter ; indeed , Braque subsequently came to feel that the paintings he executed in Antwerp during the summer of 1906 were his first creative works . |
| 6 | Hitler saw Czechoslovakia as the key to breaking Germany 's encirclement while Neville Chamberlain excused his appeasement of Hitler with the excuse that he knew nothing about the Czechs . |
| 7 | It is a little difficult to explain why the 1 January method superseded 25 March as the start of the historical year , although it can be shown that it was in ordinary use early in the eighteenth century , as witness such as ‘ A True and Perfect Inventory of the Goods and Chattells of John Green Deceased the eight day of January 1713/14 ’ . |
| 8 | Mr Maurer cites the deal announced in January that allowed the Texan heirs of an American soldier to collect $2.75m from Germany for the return of stolen medieval artefacts known as the Quedlinburg treasures . |
| 9 | Although ‘ service ’ was in one sense effected in Illinois the purpose of , and assumption behind , it was that the documents would be transmitted by VWoA to Germany for the attention of VWAG . |
| 10 | ‘ Unfortunately they could n't afford to fly over from Germany for the final in Coventry , ’ says Joanne Lunt , ’ but they have played in most of our other big games . |
| 11 | The Commission is also under pressure from the Swedes who blame nations like Britain and West Germany for the acidification of their lakes . |
| 12 | The treaty defining relations between West and East Germany ( 1972 ) represented a rejection of Adenauer on two key issues : first , it accepted the legitimacy and moral equivalence of East Germany , and secondly it saw accommodation with East Germany as the key to peace in Europe , whereas Adenauer 's policy had been to turn his back on East Germany in the name of freedom and democracy . |
| 13 | The Prussian Finance Minister , von Motz , explained to the King in 1829 that he saw the economic union of Germany as the prelude to its political unification ‘ under the protection of Prussia ’ . |
| 14 | The book traces the history of that institution from its break with the Académie during the Revolution to its abandonment by the state in the 1880s . |
| 15 | The applicants , Coventry Newspapers Ltd. , ( ‘ C.N.L. ’ ) , defendants in a libel action brought against them by David Woodley and Roger Clifford , sought ( 1 ) a declaration that C.N.L. were at liberty to receive from Michael Thomas Bromell copies of all such witness statements , notes , notebooks and other documents which had come into existence in the course of an investigation by the Police Complaints Authority into the conduct of David Woodley and Roger Clifford as had been read to or by the Court of Appeal ( Criminal Division ) or had been referred to in open court during the hearing of Reg. v. Bromell ( unreported ) , 22 June 1992 , C.A. , on a reference , dated 10 May 1991 , of his case by the Home Secretary under section 17(1) ( a ) of the Criminal Appeal Act 1968 ; and/or ( 2 ) variation of the implied undertaking pursuant to which Michael Thomas Bromell had received the documents under the order of the Court of Appeal ( Criminal Division ) on 9 July 1991 , so as to permit him to disclose copies of all such documents described in ( 1 ) above to C.N.L. for the purpose of defending the libel action . |
| 16 | Hodge worked to advance the RDC as the coalition of rightist elements that would strengthen the American band in the impending negotiations with the Soviet Union in the Joint Commission . |
| 17 | The singing actress , now 57 , plays Anna with Gandhi star Ben Kingsley as the King of Siam . |
| 18 | From time to time the Tanganyika government proposed excision of parts of Masailand for the use of other tribes , and Masai District Officers could be relied on to oppose these proposals . |
| 19 | The South as an image lives on , and has been given a new elixir with the appointment of Julius Nyerere as the head of the South Commission . |
| 20 | Sir , Your report on 26th March about the appointment of new sales directors at Random House and Orion stated that Random House had announced ‘ the appointment of Mike Broderick to the new position of group UK sales director … ( and ) By a happy symmetry , Orion has now been joined by Dallas Manderson , who has left his post as group trade sales director at Random House ’ . |
| 21 | Has my right hon. Friend seen the excellent proposals tabled by Sir David Williamson for the reform of the bureaucracy running the European Community ? |
| 22 | When Coleman drove to Atlanta airport on 13 June to meet Mary-Claude , Giselle and Sarah off the plane from Lebanon , he had a distinct suspicion that his usefulness as a DIA agent in the Middle East was at an end . |
| 23 | Several companions followed Peregrine through the congestion of officers and baggage . |
| 24 | NC protein is present in the capsid during reverse transcription , as indicated by the fact that it promotes the positioning of the primer tRNA to the PBS for the initiation of reverse transcription . |
| 25 | Fusil chose Costa Rica as the venue for the 1990 Raid Gauloises , held over 10 days in December . |
| 26 | Salinas had forced the resignation of the PRI 's governor-elect for the state of Guanajuato on Aug. 29 following similar protests [ see p. 38385 ] ; both cases were seen as important victories for the country 's fledgling civil rights movement . |
| 27 | Criticism from the Vatican during the papacy of Pope John Paul II had also resulted in one of Arns 's auxiliary bishops , Mgr Luciano Mendes de Almeida , who was also president of the Bishops ' Conference , becoming Archbishop of Mariana in the largely rural state of Minas Gerais , while other progressive Brazilian bishops , including Arns , had lost their seats on Vatican councils and other responsibilities to conservatives . |
| 28 | The family 's alliance with the Annibaldi through the marriage of the pope 's sister with Peter Annibaldi , seneschal of the pope from 1202 and senator of Rome , brought the Conti to the height of their power not only in the city but also in controlling an extensive area of the Campagna , the region to the south and east of Rome . |
| 29 | And that the nobility did not vote in King William for the good of the Commonwealth nor for religion but to preserve their riches and honours ' — a curious speech which combined legitimism with Country Jacobitism and even a sense of class hostility . |
| 30 | The cask is now being repaired by a local funeral director , but there can be no comfort for Mrs. Fieding for the loss of her husband 's ashes ; |