Example sentences of "[prep] the [noun prp] de [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Emperor has done wonders for Paris , and for the Bois de Boulogne . |
| 2 | Lionel Salter writes : I am indebted to Dr Lionel Sawkins for pointing out that the version of Delalande 's Te Deum recorded by William Christie is not , as stated ( page 31 of the March issue ) the original ( of 1684 ) but the second surviving version made by Philidor l'aîné for the Comte de Toulouse in 1704–06 , which is ‘ as different from the original as it is from the version recorded by Colléaux ’ . |
| 3 | Entries are invited for the Minda de Gunzberg prize for an outstanding exhibition catalogue on Western art from the middle ages to the twentieth century , in any language , published in 1992 . |
| 4 | That evening we left Fort St Nogent on a coach for the Gare de Lyons where we embarked for the south of France on an overnight express . |
| 5 | SUAVE Dancer was taken out of the betting for the Arc de Triomphe yesterday . |
| 6 | In Dering Street , leading Spanish artist Susan Solano is showing new sculptures at Anthony Reynolds ( to 10 April ) , coinciding with her impressive retrospective survey organised for the Palacio de Velazquez , Madrid , and currently showing at the Whitechapel Art Gallery ( to 2 May ) . |
| 7 | Testifying as an expert for the Violette de Mazia Trust , an organisation that opposes the current board of trustees of the Barnes Foundation , conservator Wendy Hartman Samet reported that yellow paint on the surface of Henri Matisse 's renowned 1906 ‘ Le Bonheur de Vivre ’ has the consistency of a moth 's wing . |
| 8 | Three watercolours depicting Kora-kora from Gebe , North Moluccas by Alphonse Pellion , a warrior from Gebe by Jaques , and a cuscus by A. Prevost were executed for the Louise de Saulces de Freycinet 1817 voyage of discovery and were subsequently published as illustrations to the official account Voyage autour du monde entrepris par ordre du Roi execute sur les corvettes de l'Uranie et la Physicienne ( Paris , 1824–44 ) . |
| 9 | Their fame began innocently enough in 1893 when an enterprising baron founded a lottery to pay for the Rio de Janeiro zoo . |
| 10 | Censored Madame Bovary for the Revue de Paris . |
| 11 | It was never quite so successful an undertaking as the Bois de Boulogne , because the army insisted on retaining part of the area as a training ground and artillery range , but it had lakes , waterfalls , grottoes and cafés in the same way as its more chic counterpart . |
| 12 | W. de Brail' is almost certainly identifiable as the William de Brailes named in five Oxford property deeds of c .1230–60 . |
| 13 | They were known as the Garonnais de plaine and the Garonnais de côteau , respectively , until 1922 when the Quercy , which had Limousin blood at the turn of the century , became separate . |
| 14 | Two bison , painted 15,000 years ago in a cave known as the Grotte de Mayrieres near Bruniquel , France , were virtually erased when Boy Scouts decided to give them a spring clean under the impression that they were graffiti . |
| 15 | From about 1205 onwards , the Plantagenets began to exert tighter control over them by granting them the constitutions known as the Etablissements de Rouen . |
| 16 | One of these , which you can go round , is known now as the Maison Louis XIV , because that remarkable king lodged there in 1660 when he came to Saint-Jean to be married to Maria Theresa , the Infant a of Spain ( the bride stayed across the road in a charming pink brick and stone house known ever since as the Maison de l'lnfante ) . |
| 17 | To the right of the cirque there is a large indentation or cleft in the rim known as the Bréche de Roland ( see Plate 3 ) . |
| 18 | Leaving Lake Como via the Porlezza Pass we soon reach Lugano , often referred to as the Rio de Janeiro of the Alps . |
| 19 | But this volcanicity also testifies to the great tensional stresses that were still affecting Europe , producing vast fissure eruptions and long straight lines of volcanic cones , such as the Chaine de Puys near Clermont Ferrand ( plate 8.2 ) and the puy-like volcanoes in the " Czech Auvergne " on the west side of the Bohemian Massif ( plate 8.3 ) . |
| 20 | Educational courses run by these religious groups , such as the Sociedad de Senoras de la Caridad de San Vicente de Paul ( founded 1892 ) , place great emphasis on the need for social integration and obedience to God 's will . |
| 21 | The Imperial family lived in the southern wing of the Tuileries , that is , between the Pavillon de l'Horloge and the Seine facing the Pont Royal . |
| 22 | You are here to write about the Hacienda de Nieve , the countryside around and the horses . |
| 23 | ‘ Unless you re-tell the story of Felipe de Santis and his blind sister as you write about the Hacienda de Nieve , ’ he pointed out stiffly , his warmth gone at the cold look on her face . |
| 24 | George 's last years were spent in Paris , the tedium of exile relieved by the pleasures of music ; he died there suddenly 12 June 1878 , after a drive through the Bois de Boulogne . |
| 25 | It was late afternoon as we drove across north eastern France through the Pas de Calais , past the fields and along the poplar-lined avenues where twice in one century the German Army had invaded . |
| 26 | The new ranges acquired through the Louis De Poortere relationship were also presented . |
| 27 | I have named it after the Comte de Courchamps , author of the first of the three books in which I found the recipe . |
| 28 | The other members are Professor Michel Meslin , president of the Université de Paris IV , who manages the Doucet fund , an essential part of the new institution ; the Rector of Paris 's universities ; and representatives of the Musées Nationaux , the Délégation des Arts Plastiques and the Direction des Bibliothèques Universitaires . |
| 29 | The Bibliothèque 's spokesman is the linguist Pierre Encrevé , supported by Françoise Cachin , director of the Musée d'Orsay , Pierre Rosenberg , General Curator of the Département des Peintures at the Louvre , and many other leading figures from the academic world including Yves Alain Bois of the University of Harvard , Professor Pressouyre of the Université de Paris I , Professor Francis Haskell from Oxford , Professor Castelnuovo of Pisa , Hubert Damish , William Rubin and Jean Starobinskia . |
| 30 | The speakers are drawn from various countries and include Maria Teresa Escohotado , who teaches at Madrid 's Complutense University , on the restoration of Spanish mural paintings ( 7 May ) ; Christian Lahanier , of the Laboratoire de Recherche des Musées de France , on the analysis of high-definition images ( 21 May ) ; Raul Enriquez , of the Institute of Chemistry at the University of Mexico , on the application of nuclear magnetic resonance to the study of organic fixatives in pre-Columbian wall painting ( 11 June ) ; and finally Cristina Sànchez del Real , of Mexico 's National Institute of Anthropology , whose subject is a project to save the archaeological site of Cacaxtia ( 25 June ) . |