Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | Across the Mersey , Wirral 's civic heads congregated in Wallasey for the wreath-laying ceremony . |
| 32 | From Neolithic Stanydale through the Iron Age with the brochs of Clickhimin and Mousa , and Ness of Burgi fort , to the Viking village at Jarlshof , into the Medieval period through Scalloway and Muness castles and closing with 18th-century Fort Charlotte , these monuments act as signposts through Shetland 's long and colourful past . |
| 33 | TUESDAY , November 3 , was an historic day for the Diocese when Pope John Paul II appointed Bishop Crowley as the Sixth Bishop of Middlesbrough Diocese . |
| 34 | Unacknowledged , it 's been that way for several years , as we have regularly tried to point out here as others wrongly gave the crown to Digital Equipment Corp , but both the Wall Street Journal and Datamation magazine have at last come round to agreeing that Fujitsu Ltd is the world 's second-largest computer company — with NEC Corp and Hewlett-Packard Co both now challenging DEC for the third place . |
| 35 | The policies of the Fabians were described by Beatrice Webb during the 1890s as ‘ essentially collective ownership wherever practicable ; collective regulation everywhere else ; collective provision according to need for all the impotent and sufferers ; and collective taxation in proportion to wealth ’ . |
| 36 | By an editor 's mistake we described ( March 17th ) the drug baron Gonzalo Rodriguez Gacha as the Colombian government 's main surviving enemy . |
| 37 | Murray slip : Britain 's athletics selectors were left with red faces again today after picking world indoor champion Yvonne Murray for the wrong event at the European Cup . |
| 38 | In contrast , GP+envAm12-BabePuro cells infected with Psi2-DCNeo virus gave no signal when analysed by PCR for the env fusion gene and expressed virus which did not bind specifically to NIP.BSA . |
| 39 | The track , ‘ Stained And Sinking Fast ’ , was recorded with Pat Collier during the summer . |
| 40 | It appeared to Nizan as the only realistic method of conducting human affairs in a civilised manner . |
| 41 | I still regard ITN as the premier television news operation in this country . |
| 42 | DOUNE Off the A84 8 miles north-west of Stirling , castle built by the Regent Albany in late fourteenth or early fifteenth century , later the home of the ‘ Bonnie Earl o'Moray ’ . |
| 43 | Known in Bolivia as the ‘ minister of cocaine ’ after he allegedly created a paramilitary squad to confiscate cocaine from drug dealers who refused to pay him bribes , Mr Arce Gomez also has a grisly human rights reputation . |
| 44 | Inspection of this helical pattern , together with the distribution in December 1953 of a report by Franklin of her work , gave crucial information to Watson and Francis Crick for the final building of their DNA model in February–March 1953 . |
| 45 | In Turkestan , the issues were at their most stark , for the province was cut off from Moscow during the Civil War . |
| 46 | Maggie was called to see Mr Parnham during the next morning and it came as a great surprise . |
| 47 | Britain 's fight for better budgeting terms dominated much of the debate within the EEC for the first ten years of British membership , masking the more important questions of sovereignty and Federalism . |
| 48 | Therefore to make sure of this important condition he took off his trousers and sat down on the seed-bed , thus testing the warmth of Mother Earth through the most sensitive part of his anatomy . |
| 49 | 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 . |
| 50 | However , there was high praise from Pringle for the Scottish bowlers . |
| 51 | There 's only one fresh face at Kingsholm for the new season … but that 's the all important one … |
| 52 | 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 . |
| 53 | At the same time as the appointment on July 10 , 1989 , of Gen. Isidro Cáceres as the new Army Chief of Staff [ see p. 36810 ] , Rear-Adml . |
| 54 | But while international and long-distance tariffs have been reduced especially in the USA and Britain — the gap between costs and prices remains massive ; the price charged by Intelsat for the transocean telephone call from Paris or London to New York is multiplied by something like ten times when the customer is billed . |
| 55 | The Creation is used as an image here , with Geraldine as the snake , who does not need to tempt Christabel , because she is really willing and eager to explore her sexuality . |
| 56 | Other spellings — Kyese , Keise , Keese — are known to have been recorded in the shires of Gloucester , Worcester and Hereford during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries , but today only the style Keyse is found in that area , and Kease appears nowhere except in the author 's own ancestral bloodline . |
| 57 | He was joined by Richard Van Allan as the Grand Inquisitor , and these two bass-baritones supplied the power and nobility which had been wanting . |
| 58 | Although there was no sign of him on the Moscow march , many of the demonstrators chanted support for Mr Boris Yeltsin , sacked as Moscow party chief but overwhelmingly elected last March as the city 's representative on the new Congress of People 's Deputies . |
| 59 | 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 ’ . |
| 60 | Perched above the main route which runs alongside the River Garry through the mountains separating southern Scotland from Inverness , it commanded the link between the Highlands and the Lowlands , giving a vast strategic advantage to whomever held it . |