Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [prep] the capital " in BNC.
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| 1 | One Tory MP , musing on a possible slogan for the capital , warned of ‘ red tape , red ink and Red Ken ’ . |
| 2 | The hangings were conducted on the anniversary of the 1979 storming by Iranian students of the US embassy in Tehran [ see p. 30150 ] , and were accompanied by an anti-US demonstration in the capital which was addressed by Mohtashemi . |
| 3 | The City of London itself , the square mile comprising the financial and commercial heart of the capital , retained its ancient privileges and independence . |
| 4 | That will give London its first express route across the capital and it will be a boon to many travellers . |
| 5 | Fighting centred on the main barracks , the Balboa port section of Panama City , close to the main bridge leading over the canal , and in the old part of the capital , which is a maze of slums and anti-military feeling . |
| 6 | Should not the Government , in the last few days of their existence , bring to bear upon the Iranian Government the utter condemnation that is felt by the people of the United Kingdom for the disgraceful action in imposing a death threat on a British citizen in the capital of the United Kingdom ? |
| 7 | At a special meeting with the minister , an all-party delegation from the capital 's boroughs will press for urgent action . |
| 8 | There are some gaps in the surviving records , but for no earlier period , and for no later period before the nineteenth century , can the social fabric of the capital be charted in such a comprehensive way . |
| 9 | The decision came against a background of growing public anxiety over the capital 's air pollution levels , which had reached nearly four times the recommended limits as set by the World Health Organization . |
| 10 | The decision came against a background of growing public anxiety over the capital 's air pollution levels , which have reached nearly four times the recommended limits as set by the World Health Organization . |
| 11 | Source of funds Its main source of funds is bonds and loans raised on a commercial basis on the capital markets in the EC and on other international markets also . |
| 12 | Phillips Edinburgh sold the contents of the Fine Art Society 's premises in the New Town on 26 May , ending an era in dealing in a previously long-neglected section of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Scottish art in the capital . |
| 13 | Meanwhile the Petrograd Soviet had voted to establish a Military Revolutionary Committee ( MRC ) to co-ordinate measures both against any German assault on the capital and against any attack on the Left by the Provisional Government . |
| 14 | This was well illustrated by station-building and civic pride outside the capital . |
| 15 | ‘ The staff are fully committed to providing the best possible public service to the capital and will look to the new management in LAS and the inquiry to provide the basis for the most effective emergency service . |
| 16 | Carlos Pizarro León-Gómez , 39 , the leader of the guerrilla April 19 Movement ( M-19 ) and its presidential candidate in the elections scheduled for May 27 , was shot dead by a contract killer on April 26 while on board a commercial flight from the capital Bogotá to the northern Caribbean port of Barranquilla where he was to address an election rally . |
| 17 | Hence the landing of the Imperial Guards to dilute the acid of resistance , and allow over seven hundred Space Marines led by Lord Vladimir Pugh to spearhead a fierce organised drive against the capital and the praetorian troopers , with whom they would cope . |
| 18 | And we will support the vigorous cultural life of the capital , which has seen new galleries , theatres and museums opening over the last decade . |
| 19 | The " National Dialogue for Peace and Development " was formally launched by the government on June 25 , when de la Puente addressed an audience estimated at between 4,000 and 5,000 people packed into the Amphitheatre Civic Centre in the capital , Lima . |
| 20 | The Spanish government may , of course , be hoping in the long term to be able to buy at least part of this collection at favourable rates ; otherwise it must simply be gambling on the Thyssen collection being a sufficiently spectacular and alluring feather in the cultural cap of the capital over the next ten years to make its considerable investment worthwhile . |
| 21 | Moreover , Gorbachev on March 25 decreed that " in view of the need to ensure public order in the capital " a new main police directorate would be established for Moscow city and oblast which would be directly subordinate to the USSR Interior Ministry and headed by USSR First Deputy Interior Minister Ivan Shilov . |
| 22 | If society gains more than the private supplier would gain , the social cost of the capital good is less than the market price that a private supplier would have to charge . |
| 23 | Pan American , like its counterpart Imperial Airways , enjoyed government backing through mail contracts and its powerful political influence in the capital . |
| 24 | In a third segment , blurred by magnification , loomed the coaly bulge of the capital city from which searing threads of light lanced skywards , a shifting vertical mesh of beams issuing from the ground defence lasers . |
| 25 | It was the outstanding plan of the capital in the eighteenth century . |
| 26 | A general strike on May 21 , called by 29 trade unions demanding Aristide 's return , received little visible support in the capital , Port-au-Prince , but seven students and one teacher were reported to have been arrested . |
| 27 | On this basis , the nuclear programmes still accounted for the vast bulk of the capital and turnover and such profits as there were . |
| 28 | Essentially , what the firm is doing is to reap an additional return on the capital already invested at home in developing the product by transferring its know-how across frontiers . |
| 29 | The remains of President Salvador Allende were reburied in the central cemetery of the capital , Santiago , on Sept. 4 , the 20th anniversary of his election to power in 1970 . |
| 30 | The London branches have recently all cooperated to provide extra manpower throughout the capital to deal with the large council jobs that have been undertaken . |